I’ve spent a good portion of my year tinkering every so often with thin clients and in particular the Edubuntu environment. One of the things I notice is that although there is a wealth of community documentation out there to engage with and use; there isn’t actually much written about the initial installation, especially within a virtualised environment.

With enterprise level virtualisation now within the hands of any user who cares to take the effort to download and install it, there has never been a better time to experiment with operating systems in general, and in particular Edubuntu.

Perhaps you have some older machines in your house, or just want to experiment with the great possibilities available due to the Linux Terminal Server Project. Either way, I have compiled a guide to installing the Edubuntu 8.10 LTSP Server, replete with images. It takes you from the end of the last tutorial straight through to getting a working thin client, and after that, you’re more than welcome to revert to the aforementioned community documentation for more extensive configuration.

We’ll pick back up at the point of installing a netbooted fat client.