Installing LTSP on Gentoo

Read the Gentoo - LTSP Guide, it's very good.

-- CarlosUrbieta - 05 Jan 2005

Installing LTSP on Gentoo the Lazy Way

For a quick and hopefully painless installation under Gentoo feel free to check out CorysInstallScript.

-- CoryOldford 22 Jun 2005

If you have information about issues related to installing LTSP on Gentoo, please edit this page and add your notes.

Installing the Gentoo Way

Please note the following instructions are grossly over-simplified and will not provide a working LTSP server. The LTSP ebuild has nfs-utils, portmap, tftp-hpa and dhcp part of the dependancy tree therefore the emerge lines 2-3 are redundant. Also Gentoo Bug 39809 is still open therefore /opt/<LTSP>/{dev,oldroot,proc} will need to be created. xorg, tftp-hpa, xinetd, xdmcp(xdm,kdm,gdm), dhcp, and nfs will need to be configured and tested prior to booting a client. I'm sure I missed a few things however that should give a better idea as to the minimum required work necessary to get LTSP functional under gentoo.

emerge ltsp
emerge -av dhcp tftp-hpa
emerge net-fs/nfs-utils
emerge portmap

ltspcfg <- self-describing

vi /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf <- look at /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf.sample
vi /etc/conf.d/in.tftpd
vi /etc/exports
vi /etc/hosts.allow

/etc/init.d/dhcp start
/etc/init.d/in.tftpd start
/etc/init.d/nfs start

rc-update -a dhcp default
rc-update -a in.tftpd default
rc-update -a nfs default

-- HeikoWeber - 11 Aug 2005

USB Printer Notes

If you find your USB printer is not recognized and you are running an emerged LTSP 4.1.1, add the following to lts.conf:

For all workstations:

[Default]

USB = Y

For a specific workstation:

[ws001]

USB = Y