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How to create a custom thin client Knoppix boot CD with the Citrix ICA client |
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Written by Hans Straat: source www.brainmadden.com,
Saturday, 08 April 2006
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A few months ago I was asked to create a bootable CD which would allow a few PCs in a special purpose lab to access our Citrix environment. The hard drives in these particular PCs had failed, but were in working condition otherwise. We had talked about experimenting with thin clients, so this was a good opportunity to test the concept without actually purchasing real thin client hardware
Our Citrix applications are delivered through our Web Portal, so all the bootable CD really needed was a web browser and the Citrix ICA client, although a few productivity packages wouldn't hurt! For this project I decided to use Knoppix. Knoppix is probably the most popular Live Linux CD at this time and rightly so; Knoppix works on all sorts of hardware, it includes everything you need to get going (in most cases), and is freely distributed. Of course due to licensing restrictions, the Citrix ICA client cannot be included with the default Knoppix distribution. However, through a process known as remastering, you can create your own custom Knoppix CD that includes the Citrix ICA client |
