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