Thin client installation: Running commentary, part 1

I've finally settled on using Ubuntu Linux for my LTSP installation. Let's just say my interest has been piqued by Debian (I'm a Red Hat/Fedora user) and I wanted to try it out.

I'll be doing a step-by-step howto later on, once I've consolidated my notes. For now, this is a running commentary only, so sorry for the sentence fragments and grammatical lapses — I'm posting as I go. :) Here goes...

• Downloaded and burned Ubuntu WartyWartHog and LTSP 4.1.


• Installed Warty on the brand-spanking-new server (dual Xeon, 2GB RAM, 3x 200-GB SATA HDD). Well, tried to install Bayanihan Linux 3 first, but hit snags — bad media — so Ubuntu it was. Installation was a breeze.


• Logged in to the server. Gnome! Ack! Still cool, but I prefer KDE. Hmmm, maybe later on.


• Installed SSH and nfs-kernel-server. apt-get is so cool. Well, I'm familiar with it since I use that — and yum — on my FC box.


• Damn! apt-get can't retrieve sources from the net when I changed sources.lst. The firewall's acting up again.


• With apt-get a no-go, I'm building and tracing all dependencies from the ground up. Aaaaahhh! This can go on forever...

To be continued...