Embedded Ubuntu

Please help

Websearch found:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/using-ubuntu-thin-client

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThinClients
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=20718

http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/03/08/wyse-technology-preparing-ubuntu-linux-thin-clients/
http://www.golod.com/2007/01/going-thin-client-with-ubuntu/

Dear Sam,

All of this links talking about PXE booting from server ,and someting like RDP(Remote Desktop Protocol) in windows

I am Talking about customizing Embedded linux to put it on a Compact Flash OR USB Flash to boot with it,
and i am talking about thin client because there is some tools dose not support my thin client processor (VIA Eden esther 1200)

i am talking about something like windows xp embedded studio (give you some resources to customize your own windows xp)
i need someting like that but to customize Ubuntu..

thanks very Much..

Sorry, only found this.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EmbeddedUbuntu

:-( Any Other help please.

Hi,

If I understand well your problem:

You want to install Ubuntu on a Flash Card or an SD card, customize Ubuntu so that you can use that card to boot a thin-client (diskless computer). Right ?

What you need to do is

1) get a USB drive of at least 4 GB (I would go for 8 GB), or a Compact Flash card of 4-8 GB.
2) Get the iso of the Ubuntu system you want to use (10.04 ?), preferably one version you know for sure will run on your thi-client
3) Burn the iso to a CD
4) Boot one computer with the live CD and proceed with installation of the system to tha SD card/Compact Flash card/USB key (if you are not at ease with partitioning and installation, I advise you to open your computer case and disconnect the internal drive first, before proceeding with step 4, thus you won't be able to install Ubuntu at the wrong place)
5) Once booted to the desktop, plug-in your USB device and unmount it (right click and select unmount).
6) Start the installation process as usual (if you have not disconnected your internal drive and only in this case, at the last stage, before actually starting the installation, you'll need to install grub on the USB device - like /dev/sdb - and not let the default which is to install on /dev/sda)
7) after installation, you can customize your Ubuntu system and use it to boot any supported thin or fat client computer.

Hope that helps.

Thank you Vu Do Quynh,

That's good but the part of customizing ubuntu , i want to make ubuntu contains my thin or fat client drivers but dose not contain any drivers for any other PC or machine,, (Embedded Linux : designed for my thin or fat client )

i m talking about ubuntu on a compact flash and it's size not more than (400 MB) as a maximum

Hi,

What you want to do needs probably compiling a customized kernels with specific drivers, then including the packages you want to run on the thin client : those under command line (like gnu tools) and if you wish a graphical window manager, something small enough for everything to hold on a 400 MB card.

For small systems based on Ubuntu you can look for Lubuntu or even Lucid Puppy (based on Ubuntu 10.04 packages) which holds on something like 128 MB. Thus you may wish to have a look at how they did build their systems.

I'm not enough advanced in using these techniques to be able to help you. Somebody else has to step in.

Best wishes.