[FreeNX-kNX] Re: Run NX client off of CD

Diego Torres Milano diego at pxes.org
Thu May 12 01:25:35 UTC 2005


PXES 1.0 [pxes.sf.net] PREBUILT images (live cd or network bootable)
feature an NX session ready to go.

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 19:14, John Nicholls wrote:
> I am thinking of putting a bootable Linux credit card sized CD together
> with the latest NX client, I would then make the ISO available for
> download either from my site or NoMachines (assuming Gian is happy with
> that)
> 
> I suppose using thinstation would be a good place to start, but before I
> spend any time messing around with this has any one else done it?
> 
> I intend supporting NX, floppy and USB file support, also printing
> capability.
> 
> John
> 
> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 05:35, Ben Sheron wrote:
> > Hi Derrick
> > 
> > I've tried running the client off of a USB flash drive, so as to make it
> > portable.  From what I can tell, the current version of the NX client
> > for Windows (1.4.0-92) has too many dependencies to make it portable; I
> > cannot take the flash drive and use it on a different computer.
> > 
> > I would think it would be the same for the CD; the client looks for a
> > certain directory structure.  However, I've heard that they plan to
> > change these issues in 1.5.
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> > On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 14:30 -0400, Derrick Hendricks wrote:
> > > Is there any way to run an NX client off of a CD so that it has a
> > > pre-configured and doesn't need to create any files (such as logs and
> > > PID files)?
> > > 
> > 
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Diego Torres Milano <diego at pxes.org>
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