| dashohoxha | Has anybody tried to install edubuntu using FAI: http://fai-project.org/ ? | 10:52 |
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| dashohoxha | I would like to install automatically a class of computers with edubuntu, but also preserving the existing windows, which is on the first partition. | 10:54 |
| dashohoxha | I have tried it and in general it works well, however there are still some problems. | 10:55 |
| alkisg | Shouldn't those questions be asked in the #fai irc channel instead of here? | 10:55 |
| alkisg | Or those problems are edubuntu specific? | 10:55 |
| dashohoxha | Has anybody tried such an installa | 10:55 |
| dashohoxha | FAI is debian specific | 10:55 |
| dashohoxha | in debian it works like a charm (as I hear from the others) | 10:56 |
| alkisg | You had some problems. Are *those* problems, edubuntu problems, or you think they are fai problems? | 10:56 |
| alkisg | If they are edubuntu problems, then you're right to ask them here | 10:56 |
| alkisg | If they are fai problems, why not ask in their irc channel instead? | 10:56 |
| dashohoxha | Probably they are not edubuntu problems, but if somebody has experienced such a thing before and could help to solve them, why not? | 10:57 |
| dashohoxha | I have asked on fai mailing lists as well. | 10:57 |
| dashohoxha | But probably they have not tried it on ubuntu. | 10:57 |
| alkisg | Of course you're free to ask, but if noone here knows fai, then surely noone will answer, while in #fai I'm sure everyone knows it | 10:57 |
| alkisg | From their site, they say: Installs and updates Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, SuSe, ... | 10:58 |
| alkisg | So that means they tried Ubuntu | 10:58 |
| dashohoxha | If nobody answers that's not a problem, I just tried to get help. | 10:58 |
| alkisg | OK | 10:58 |
| dashohoxha | Actually I would prefer that some day edubuntu has built in support for FAI, just like it has for LTSP. | 11:00 |
| dashohoxha | So that it can be used without problems out of the box. | 11:01 |
| dashohoxha | Their concepts are very similar, they both use DHCP, LFTP, PXE, etc. | 11:02 |
| dashohoxha | I even had a problem while configuring DHCP, because I didn't expect the configuration file to be /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf | 11:04 |
| alkisg | You mean that you want a "fai-server" package in Debian/Ubuntu? File a "Request for packaging" in one of those 2 distros. | 11:06 |
| dashohoxha | No, would like better support of edubuntu for fai-server. | 11:07 |
| alkisg | I don't think distros need to support FAI | 11:07 |
| alkisg | FAI supports distros, not the other way around | 11:07 |
| alkisg | Does FAI require changes in the distros in order to support them?! | 11:07 |
| dashohoxha | For example, at the beginning of installation, there are two checkboxes: [ ] Install Unity, [ ] Install LTSP. There can be a third one which says: [ ] Install FAI Server | 11:08 |
| dashohoxha | The example configuration files provided by the fai-server package probably work well for Debian, but I would like some example config files that work well for edubuntu, and for the scenario that I described above: installing alongside with windows, which is on the first partition. | 11:11 |
| alkisg | And debian can't be installed alongside windows? | 11:11 |
| alkisg | I understand about the installer option you said before, but not why edubuntu would be different than debian or ubuntu | 11:12 |
| dashohoxha | I am sure it can, but probably nobody has tried to do it. | 11:12 |
| dashohoxha | I don't say that edubuntu would be different from ubuntu. | 11:12 |
| dashohoxha | But I am interested on installing edubuntu, not ubuntu. | 11:13 |
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