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Channel log from 2 September 2024 (all times are UTC)

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12:11	<Jonas___fr> Hi. I have a technical question : the booting from network part is a solved problem for LTSP. I'd like to know whether the commit from client's RAM to client's local-disk (i.e writing an active OS in RAM to the local disk) is solved too if on the radar of ideas at all? The goal wouldn't be to do a PXE install straight from the hosted image on the
12:11	server (which is easy) but to let users play with a generic image served from a central server, and when they're happy with it (new packages installed, tweaks done by and for the user etc...) they commit this now custom OS from their RAM to their local disk (which is by default totally empty/blank)
12:11	Would that be possible with LTSP or it hasn't been done before?
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15:37	<quinox> hi
15:38	I don't think it has been done so far
15:38	there are people that put the bootable image on a harddrive so it doesn't load it from the network on startup
15:39	but that's a different scenario than what you describe
15:41	it might be easy to build, but it could be trickyt
15:42	for one LTSP is a bunch of different filesystems mounted on top of each other
15:42	also, there's the booting itself: for grub (as an example) you need stage 1, 1.5 and 2 which require some special fiddling compared to LTSP
15:44	not too difficult mind you, it used to be if you dual-booted Windows on the same harddrive you often had to repair grub
15:44	but it's not simply a matter of dumping the bytes of a running LTSP to a harddrive and it works
15:46	is it a usecase you often encounter, or more of a idle speculation?
15:47	if they were my users I'd tell them to simply redo their work on a normally installed Ubuntu. Forces them to document their work :-)
15:58	<Jonas___fr> It's a usecase, and other alternatives don't work so I'm thinking about scripting all of this and starting with a simple PoC, but before that I wanted to know whether I wasn't reinventing any wheel
16:01	<quinox> if you stick around someone else might chime in with details on how difficult it will be to do this with LTSP
16:01	I'm merely a user of LTSP with Linux knowledge, I don't develop LTSP
16:10	<Jonas___fr> Thanks for your answer anyway : )
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