Happy New Year 2012
One year ago we had this weather at the same time:
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LTSP 5 much easier now with Debian Etch
Forget all of my previous postings, LTSP 5 is much easier now with Debian Etch.
Simply follow the instructions in this howto:
http://wiki.debian.org/LTSP/Howto
(look for: “If you want to use newer LTSP related packages …”)
Scanning with LTSP 5 and Debian Etch
The next challenge is how to get my scanner working with LTSP 5 and Debian Etch.
Here is a step-by-step solution that work’s for me.
Note: This is a description for a scanner physically connected to a terminal (not to the server).
Printing with LTSP 5 and Debian Etch
If you have a printer connected to a terminal with LTSP 5 and Debian Etch you will be disappointed. It will not work. If, as me, you used LTSP (<= 4.2) for years with no such problems you can get really mad. Nevertheless I honestly like LTSP & Debian.
I googled around and found that there maybe is a licence problem with the print server application “lp_server”. I also found this statement from Vagrant Cascadian: “… as we had to remove lp_server due to unclear copyright licensing …” (see http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-ltsp-devel/2006-November/000462.html).
For me it looks like that lp_server is a fork from p910nd (author: Ken Yap, see http://www.etherboot.org/p910nd/), but I am not really sure.
<edit 2007/04/10: I am wrong with that. Both applications have nothing in common.>
There are some debian lp_server packages around but nothing created for etch (so far as I can see).
I tried to use cups at the terminal with no success (you need rw access and I want to keep my terminal file system as small as possible).
I have to get my printer working as soon as possible. Here is my (very dirty) solution (ONLY for i386 clients):
LTSP 5 and Debian Etch
After years of using LTSP (<= v4.2) I decided to try LTSP 5. I built a new server with the upcoming Debian Etch release. Therefore I bought some pretty nice hardware: a amd64x2 cpu, a asus m2n-sli deluxe mobo, 2 gigs DDR2 – RAM and two harddisks with nearly 1 TB space.
The Debian installer runs smooth and after that I started to go for LTSP 5. The basic LTSP 5 installation worked perfect. Thanks to the LTSP people!
After all, the combination of Etch and LTSP 5 needs some make-up. Here is a solution that works for me (everything is stolen and nothing is mine, sources/references at the end):