Diskless Terminal Building

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To build or QC diskless Terminals, you have to do the following steps, in addition to the normal build.

Boot from the Live CD

  1. Choose English as the Language
  2. Choose "Try Ubuntu from the Live CD

Add the Free Geek Keyring

  1. Open up a terminal and copy the following lines into it.
    1. get http://web.freegeek.org/freegeek-archive-keyring.gpg
    2. sudo apt-key add freegeek-archive-keyring.gpg


Add Free Geek Repositories to the Software Sources

  1. Go into System->Administration->Software Sources.
  2. Click the checkbox that says "Community-maintained Open Source software (universe)" (Second one down on the list)
  3. Click the "Third Party Software" Tab"
  4. Add the following software sources to the reposititories.
    1. deb http://apt.freegeek.org freegeek public ubuntu
    2. deb http://apt.freegeek.org/ubuntu dapper main
  5. Close the program, and press reload.

Download and install the Freegeek-extras package

  1. Go to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager
  2. Scroll down until you see the package: freegeek-extras
  3. Right click on that package, and "Mark for installation"
  4. Say Yes to the other packages that it will install.