Five different ways of accomplishing the same thing.
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Cloud
Hardware: 6x Servers
Software: MS Windows Hyper-V cluster, or Ubuntu Linux Cloud
Dual 3.5″ and 2.5″ SATA with offline clone feature USB 2.0 SATA USB 3.0 SATA For your 9mm laptop optical drive. Sometimes they’re 12mm.
Computer: HP Elitebook 2760p i7 quad core 2.70GHz 16MB DDR3 OS: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial Internet: Spiral Internet DSL 3Mbps/512Kbps on ATT Browser: Google Chrome w/ SpeedDial2 Plugin Website host: Hang Left Hosting Website CMS: WordPress Google services: Voice, Mail, Calendar, Drive, Cloud Task manager: Asana Invoicing: Harvest Communications: Slack
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I ended up switching to Thinstation instead of Tiny Core Linux How To : Remaster Tiny Core Linux http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:remastering http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=17423.0 Download the iso ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/ mount the iso copy contents
How to mount a qcow2 disk image on Ubuntu
From: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/ISOBoot#grml-rescueboot grml-rescueboot A very simple way of creating a GRUB menuentry for a bootable ISO file is to use grml-rescueboot. The package does the following: Creates a /boot/grml folder. Automatically adds menuentries to the GRUB menu for any ISO files located in the /boot/grml folder. This is accomplished whenever the update-grub command is executed. The Read more about Run LiveCD’s from your Grub2 Boot Menu automatically in Ubuntu 16.04 xenial[…]
toram <– proc command is added to either grub2 of Hard drive or LiveCD. Works with Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Xubuntu/Kubuntu 11.04 and up.
UPDATE: BoXenbaby is simply Ubuntu 18.04.1 Desktop minimal install with OpenVPN, FreeRDP-nightly, and other modern clients. This document describes how to: Automatic Install Part 1 – PXE Install BoXenbaby to a computer plugged into a BoXenbrain network. Manual Install Part 2 – USB Install BoXenbaby with a USB drive. Download the usb image here: Check Read more about Wireless thin client using Ubuntu 18.04.1 named BoXenbaby[…]
Sweet new open source project: https://github.com/Seitanas/kvm-vdi It is required to run the installation readme above to use KVM-VDI. KVM-VDI does not come with a built in LTSP (client) script. So, I created one. This is useful if you want your thinclients to be able to remote into a KVM-VDI, and want full control using lts.conf. Run the Read more about KVM-VDI Session Screen Script for LTSP thin clients running under Ubuntu 16.04 xenial[…]