See my notes inline below Matt Oquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >We've got a pair of Edubuntu servers handling somewhere between 80 and >100 thin clients (TCs). > >The following are some notes I've made on setting up Edubuntu (edgy). >I know lots (if not all) of these points are covered on the wiki, but >I had to find each one out after some trial and error so I put this >list together for my co-workers (hence all the links to my own >website -- I'm sending this almost exactly as I sent it to them). > >I don't recommend so much that others exactly DO everything as >I recommend to my coworkers here, but I hope that others can learn >from this list and/or emulate some of these things (such as the >ubuntu-media script) for their own environments. (I make no promise >that these URLs will remain valid.) > >I've been very satisfied with Edubuntu (after #3 was discovered >a couple of days ago), and I'm hoping to switch to it (from other LTSP >servers) soon at our HS, which has a few hundred TCs. I'll send >another report if/when we make that transition. > >1. Install using the edubuntu-install CD; it sets up more-or-less > everything automatically. >2. The driver necessary for the broadcom ethernet adapters in some > servers is not included on the install CD; this shouldn't really be > an issue, but if you care you can grab the broadcom driver for the > 2.6.17-10-386 kernel from a running Ubuntu system and copy it (I > used a USB drive) into your system, and then insmod it. (You could > also grab it ATM from http://majen.net/misc/bnx2.ko.) >3. Immediately after installation, apt-get install linux-image-generic > and make sure it's the default kernel in /boot/grub/menu.lst > (otherwise you'll only use one of your CPUs).
Did you contact Oli (ogra) about this? Just curious as many of us use dual-porcessor servers for LTSP servers. > >4. Set up /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf for your network. >5. Go to http://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats to get media > working (gstreamer is recommended over xine); you can just execute > http://majen.net/misc/ubuntu-media if you prefer (it does all that > stuff automatically). >6. Grab http://majen.net/smbldap/smbldap-installer-latest.tgz and > follow the instructions on http://majen.net/smbldap/ to set up > a Samba/LDAP server OR to configure Edubuntu to authenticate to > another LDAP server (talk to me if you sent up an Edubuntu server > to authenticate elsewhere). > THANKFULLY, this will no longer be necessary when Feisty is > released, as smbldap-tools will be integrated into the installer > and ajmitch's authconfig tool will be included for LDAP client > configuration. Yay! > >7. Add all users to the fuse group so they can use USB thumb drives > (talk to me and we can do this with a simple script instead of > manually). If you're lazy (and don't have a reason NOT to do so), > then you might just use GID 115 (fuse) as your default group. Then > every user will automatically be able to use USB drives. >8. We're using DHCP failover (see > http://www.madboa.com/geek/dhcp-failover/) to split the load > between our two Edubuntu servers, but I'm hoping to implement > a scripted mechanism of splitting among more application servers. > >The only thing this doesn't provide (to my knowledge) is Flash WITH >SOUND on TCs. Flash itself works fine, but you can't hear it. Other >media formats all play fine, AFAIK. Contact Gadi (Gideon Romm) on this....he has a script to take care of that. I have it working fine on my installation. David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School [EMAIL PROTECTED] (207)923-3100 -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
