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During the time of Debian Wheezy being Debian's stable release, we started developing a new ThinClientEdition (TCE) - one that is based on Debian-Live and thus does no longer rely on NFS. Instead, the entire image is loaded into the RAM of the ThinClient machine.
The disadvantage is that your ThinClient now needs at least 1 GB of RAM.
However, the huge advantage is that there no longer is a need for any high-availibility setup concerning NFS. All you need is an HTTP or FTP server with a dedicated IP, if you want to use netbooting. It is also possible to deploy the image to the ThinClient's local storage, if present, and have it update in the background.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core live-build live-config-doc live-manual-html live-boot-doc
Change to a directory where you want to save your builds, and run the following commands:
DIR=./live-build-x2go-$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S") # this will create a timestamped subdirectory mkdir -p $DIR cd $DIR # Select ONE of the following ARCH lines and comment out the others #ARCH="-a amd64 -k amd64" # for 64-Bit builds #ARCH="-a i386 -k 686-pae" # 32-Bit, larger memory footprint, but faster performance on i686 and newer ARCH="-a i386 -k 586" # 32-Bit, smallest memory footprint lb config ... lb build lb clean # optional command to clean up afterwards -> saves some space