[K12OSN] Re: edubuntu

[pogson]

Edubuntu has a very slick installation. For me it is lead, follow or get
out of the way. Some points that may help:

      * select server installation
      * When it asks the meaningless question, "What is your primary
        network device?", they should ask, "Through what network device
        do you connect to the Internet?"
      * You should have at least two ethernet devices and they should be
        plugged into something that will turn on your link lights, like
        routers, switches or thin clients. The device connecting to the
        Internet needs to be live to finish the installation and to
        download. You can select a local mirror if you do not have live
        internet access.
      * If your primary device has IP address 192.168.0.x you need to
        manually configure stuff.
      * if your device connecting to the lan can be 192.168.0.254 and
        your thin clients, 192.168.0.x, you are laughing. My record was
        20 minutes from power on to booting the first client by PXE with
        no special configuration. It was all automatic... Slick.  In
        nework terms you want the local subnet with thin clients to be
        192.168.0.0

My advice is that you should conspire with your router to make eth0 some
other subnet than 192.168.0.0 and EdUbuntu will do everything
automatically. It is much easier to hack the one DHCP setting on the
router, or setting a fixed IP address for eth0 than reconfiguring all
the networking for the lan. Think hours of time saved and perhaps doing
it again sometime.

> From: Mark Gumprecht <gumprechtm at msad3.org>
> Subject: [K12OSN] edubuntu
> I'm probably dense on this one, but .... Does Edubuntu (dapper) work
> out 
> of the box for booting clients? I've tried to follow the many howtos, 
> but seem to come up short in a different place every time. Is there a 
> straight forward howto some one has?
> Thanks for any help.
> Mark
> 

-- 
A problem is an opportunity.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/attachments/20060718/722fb056/attachment.htm>