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Ikke and myself did some new efforts to get the stateless-snapshooter to work, but it was no use. First, I'll post the error that started it all:

[root@ftwlinux /]# stateless-snapshooter --list
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/stateless/stateless-snapshooter.py", line 22, in ?
import gtk
File "/usr/src/build/435489-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",
line 37, in ?
RuntimeError: could not open display
[root@ftwlinux /]# stateless-snapshooter --new --protosystem LVStateless1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/stateless/stateless-snapshooter.py", line 22, in ?
import gtk
File "/usr/src/build/435489-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",
line 37, in ?
RuntimeError: could not open display

First I tried to adjust the old stateless-snapshooter.py file, by deleting all but one 'gtk' commands/calls/whatever :-P . This is the 'best' output I got:

[root@ftwlinux snapshooter]# sh stateless-snapshooter --list
Protosystems:
LVStateless1
[root@ftwlinux snapshooter]# sh stateless-snapshooter --new
--protosystem LVStateless1
[root@ftwlinux snapshooter]# ( 0%)

The snapshooting started, but failed immediately. No errors, however. So I changed everything back to the way it was, and left for class. XX(

After class, Ikke joined me, and we spent some time updating the entire system to Fedora Core 3 (stable, as it should be on a server). Again there were a few problems though. First some 404-errors (Ikke's fault :-P ), and then header errors, until we adjusted the /etc/yum.conf file so it would download everything from the Belnet server. That did the trick :. .

No luck with the snapshooting though, even with an up to date system. We got a could not connect to display error. In the mean time, we're starting to worry about the (very) low activity of the Fedora Stateless project...

To create the whole system, we follow the Stateless Linux Tutorial. Our server is already installed and configured by ikke, so chapter 2 is ready. Be-ing a real LDAP-dummy, I've made some syntax mistakes while creating the prototype system image (chapter 3) but this is also ready now. So, next step is chapter 4, Creating a snapshot of a prototype system, but that doesn't seem that easy. OK, tutorial is clear, just a few commands, but we have a little problem. More info in the problems-topic. Please, help if you're able to do.

Whoo! The first message on this blog and also my first message on a blog. Thanks to ikke for creating this.

Maybe it would be nice to give a short introduction in our FS@U project. I am a student at Ghent University in a nice town called Ghent, located in Flanders, the dutchspeaking part of Belgium. I study engineering at the (du-uh) Faculty of Engineering. There I am active at the student organisation called VTK wich stands for "Vlaamse Technische Kring" or "Flemish Technical Board" in English. Last year, we (me and a couple of friends) founded a new organisation, WVS, Workgroup Free Software, to let our co-students, professors, assistants,... know about the existence and possibilities of free software and to point their attention on the fact that not everybody uses the standard proprietary (MS-) software and the importance of open standards etc. We already organised a few workshops like linux installation, linux desktop use and LaTeX. We also have a deal with the sysadmin of our building for installing free software on the computerfarm. So we installed Mozilla Firefox, Thunberbird, OpenOffice.org, Gimp,... Now it's time for the crown on the work: a complete dualboot configuration with Linux next to MS Windows. It's for this linux-installation that this blog is created.

To provide a quick and easy installation and management, we've chosen for The Fedora Stateless Linux project. We recieved a computer to create the server on, so that 's already OK. On the client computers there will be a PXE-boot system that lets you chose between the local windows installation and our Linux installation. The harddisk of those clients will be partitioned in two partitions, one for windows and on caching partition for Fedora.

Not everything is as easy as it seems, so we have a few problems. I'll post them in the problems-topic. If you can help us find an answer on them, please let us know, we'ld really appreciate it! Thanks a lot.