[13:16] <jocarter> stgraber: where do I get python3-lxc these days? I notice it's not on your experimental ppa anymore
[13:19] <stgraber> jocarter: ?? it's still in my experimental PPA
[13:19] <stgraber> (built by lxc)
[13:20] <jocarter> stgraber: hmm, indeed, apparently I'm drunk :)
[13:20] <stgraber> though if you're using quantal you'd need to pin that version as I haven't yet rebased on the new version from the archive
[20:11] <TheProf> Good afternoon.  I hope everyone is doing well today.  My question is in regards to how to retain /home when doing a format and clean install of Edubuntu 12.04?  Is it enough to tar.gz, move to external drive, install, and then untar into /home?
[20:16] <jocarter> for the data, yes. if your users are created on the local machine it wouldn't hurt to copy along /etc/passwd too
[20:16] <jocarter> (and their passwords are in /etc/shadow if you'd like to preserve that, if they're local users)
[20:17] <jocarter> TheProf: it's also possible to choose to preserver the /home directory during installation. so you could make that tarball backup for the worst-case scenario that something goes wrong
[20:17] <TheProf> jocarter, that's an interesting option.
[20:18] <TheProf> For the user information I usually use webmin to export the users (UID, GID, etc) and then I import it again after installation and it seems to work each time.
[20:18] <TheProf> Now if I wanted to make the question more confusing for part II : ) - I currently have a 1 TB drive on the ltsp server set to /home.  I bought a new 1 TB drive to install to make it a Mirror Raid (RAID 1).
[20:19] <TheProf> So I don't think I can add the second drive AND retain /home correct?
[20:19] <jocarter> you can convert an existing disk to a raid 1 setup... but doing raid over USB sounds a bit dodgy to me
[20:20] <jocarter> (/home on use is already something I'd avoid for performance reasons already)
[20:29] <TheProf> jocarter, I'm sorry I wasn't being clear. The 2nd drive is an internal one.
[20:30] <TheProf> the external drive was for backing up /home.
[20:57] <TheProf> I think the ideal situation would be to add the second drive internally, convert the setup to RAID 1, then clean install and ask it to leave /home as is.  I'm a bit nervous with adding the second drive and converting to RAID 1.
[20:57] <TheProf> I found these instructions online -- does anyone see any issues with them please? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1703904
[23:55] <jott_> I'm having problems with my new install of edubuntu
[23:55] <jott_> 12.04 and having problems with the NIC
[23:58] <jott_> is anyone available that knows how I can get my Network card working properly?
[23:58] <jott_> I'm stuck here