plain lenny integration

2009-08-14 Thread nigel barker
Dear All I have some dell minis that I want to upgrade from ubuntu to lenny. The skolelinux lenny workstation install seemed OK, but on first boot display went blank and I couldn't even get into a TTY. So I installed plain lenny and used a bit of Philipp's howto [1] to integrate into the skolelinu

Re: Widen LTSP uplink / Re: ltsp hardware again

2009-08-14 Thread nigel barker
[Jose] > > > With current LTSP version, using localapps for flash and vlc works like > a charm. Obviously, using localapps you need a thin client able to > reproduce video and flash. But that's something that a seven years old > PC can do perfectly. > > For java, I don't see the need to use localap

First version of Planet Skolelinux/DebianEdu

2009-08-14 Thread Arnt Ove Gregersen
Dear all, I have the pleasure to announce the first version of the Skolelinux/debianedu Planet : http://planet.skolelinux.org/ Thanks to Anders Kringstad Hansen for putting it together. Some bloggs have already been added, but please let us know if you wish to add your blogg as well by sending

meeting 090812

2009-08-14 Thread Kurt Gramlich
dear Skoletuxe take time to read this summary from our IRC meeting 2009-08-12 Protocol debian edu meeting 2009-0812 Our meeting startet at UTC 19:06:10 and was joined by * danielsan = Daniel Hess * h01ger = Holger Levsen * k4x = Kurt Gramlich * finnarne = Finn-Arne Johansen, BzzWare AS * p

Re: Experiences upgrading LTSP

2009-08-14 Thread Patrick Willam
RalfGesellensetter wrote: Thanks Pere and Itais ;) I second that! Best wishes, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Widen LTSP uplink / Re: ltsp hardware again

2009-08-14 Thread L. Redrejo
El jue, 13-08-2009 a las 23:53 +0200, RalfGesellensetter escribió: > Am Donnerstag 13 August 2009 schrieb José "L. Redrejo" Rodríguez: > > 34 Mbps x No of LTSP clients > > oops, this means, max. 3 clients with conventional 100 Mbit NICs? We > have been running 14 all the time, and only with gimp

Re: Widen LTSP uplink / Re: ltsp hardware again

2009-08-14 Thread L. Redrejo
El jue, 13-08-2009 a las 23:03 +0200, Knut Yrvin escribió: > Onsdag 12. august 2009, skrev RalfGesellensetter: > > I ascribe this to > > - new TFT screens with higher resolution (more X data to serve) > > - increasing use of Flash videos > > - increasing use of animations all over the web > > - pos

[Bug 1371] installation of ltspserver stops, then dhcpd fails

2009-08-14 Thread drift
http://bugs.skolelinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1371 --- Comment #6 from t...@hiroshima-is.ac.jp 2009-08-14 16:17 --- (In reply to comment #5) > Therefore: Is your tjener a new-style lenny one? No, my tjener is etch. Not having access to an etch ltspserver, I took a dhcpd.conf from Philipp

Experiences upgrading LTSP

2009-08-14 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Dear list, just a short remark on our trial upgrading an Debian Edu 2.0 LTSP to Lenny. Step by step we had been upgrading groups of packages, until at one point thin clients wouldn't start any more. We realized that dhcpd.conf had been rewritten to use LDAP (so we restored the old version), th

[Bug 1371] installation of ltspserver stops, then dhcpd fails

2009-08-14 Thread drift
http://bugs.skolelinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1371 --- Comment #5 from p.wil...@gmx.de 2009-08-14 15:10 --- > ltspserver00:/var/log/installer# /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart > ... > Connecting to LDAP server ldap:389 > Successfully logged into LDAP server ldap > Error: Cannot find LDAP

[Bug 1371] installation of ltspserver stops, then dhcpd fails

2009-08-14 Thread drift
http://bugs.skolelinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1371 --- Comment #4 from skili...@gmail.com 2009-08-14 13:40 --- What are all these 'in-target: Use of uninitialized value in numeric ge (>=) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Priority.pm line' during the ltsp client build? It's not normal, is it?

[Bug 1371] installation of ltspserver stops, then dhcpd fails

2009-08-14 Thread drift
http://bugs.skolelinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1371 --- Comment #3 from t...@hiroshima-is.ac.jp 2009-08-14 11:21 --- (In reply to comment #2) > Can you reproduce this consistently? How? just performed ltspserver install twice. same thing happened both times. This is the same machine tha

[Bug 1371] installation of ltspserver stops, then dhcpd fails

2009-08-14 Thread drift
http://bugs.skolelinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1371 --- Comment #2 from p...@hungry.com 2009-08-14 10:57 --- I believe this is the old problem with ltsp-build-client passing garbage to stdout and thus confusing debconf. I find this in the log: Aug 14 07:34:46 in-target: info: LTSP clien

[Bug 1371] New: installation of ltspserver stops, then dhcpd fails

2009-08-14 Thread drift
http://bugs.skolelinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1371 Summary: installation of ltspserver stops, then dhcpd fails Product: Skolelinux Version: lenny-test Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priori

Re: Widen LTSP uplink / Re: ltsp hardware again

2009-08-14 Thread Oded Naveh
On Friday 14 August 2009 08:16:14 nigel barker wrote: > so if I follow the howto on the wiki, will my resulting server be serving > diskless on the 192. NIC? (And thin clients not at all?) Then that will > make cabling difficult. (and also means that the howto needs updating) I wonder if it would s