Accessing LTSP from Pure Linux Box
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* sorry for my poor english :)


HISTORY:	
I working as system administrator on securities company, over 30 
workstations (diskless) running with LTSP, and some of them have own 
hdd with linux inside. They want running LTSP and also want working 
under their own X too, 

If using any boot media or even lilo, they just run LTSP and not
run their own X. 

This is different from sending display like using xhost, what we talk
here is pure working with LTSP 100% inside LTSP.


STEP BY STEP:
1. editing the inittab
inittab usually locate under /etc folder, this file used by sysv for
controlling init process.

now take alook the last line of your inittab you will see like this:

x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

That mean on init 5 (GUI MODE) X will auto respawn if they die by some
reasons, this is give me some idea to put my own respawning proccess.

XFree86 have pretty feature about where we want put display, by giving command
:<display> so i put this under it

ltsp:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 :1 -query ip.number.of.your.ltsp.server


2. restarting init
After editing inittab done, now restarting your init, not need for restarting
whole system, just restaring your init following this command:

init q

now original X is on F7 and LSTP on F8, just try to swicth between X and LTSP
with ctrl+alt+F7 for X and ctrl+alt+F8 to LTSP. im sure if you correct editing
inittab you can swicth between X and LTSP.


CREDITS:
Jim McQuillan - master of LTSP.
Adi P.Y - Postmaster of satunet.
and ppls on KPLI (Indonesian Linux User Group).

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