- <title>Handling non-free firmware in Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>With some computer hardware, one need non-free firmware blobs.
-This is the sad fact of todays computers. In the next version of
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> based
-on Squeeze, we provide several scripts and modifications to make
-firmware blobs easier to handle. The common use case I run into is a
-laptop with a wireless network card requiring non-free firmware to
-work, but there are other use cases as well.</p>
-
-<p>First and foremost, Debian Edu provide ISO images for DVD and CD
-with all firmware packages in the Debian sections main and non-free
-included, to ensure debian-installer find and can install all of them
-during installation. This take care firmware for network devices used
-by the installer when installing from from local media. But for
-example multimedia devices are not activated in the installer and are
-not taken care of by this.</p>
-
-<p>For non-network devices, we provide the script
-<tt>/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/auto-addfirmware</tt> which
-search through the <tt>dmesg</tt> output for drivers requesting extra
-firmware. The firmware file name is looked up in the Contents-ARCH.gz
-file available in the package repository, and the packages providing
-the requested firmware file(s) is installed. I have proposed to do
-something similar in debian-installer (BTS report
-<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/655507">#655507</a>), to allow PXE
-installs of Debian to handle firmware installation better. Run the
-script as root from the command line to fetch and install the needed
-firmware packages.</p>
-
-<p>Debian Edu provide PXE installation of Debian out of the box, and
-because some machines need firmware to get their network cards
-working, the installation initrd some times need extra firmware
-included to be able to install at all. To fill the PXE installation
-initrd with extra firmware, the
-<tt>/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/pxe-addfirmware</tt> script is
-provided. Again, just run it as root on the command line to fill the
-PXE initrd with firmware packages.</p>
-
-<p>Last, some LTSP clients might also need firmware to get their
-network cards working. For this,
-<tt>/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/ltsp-addfirmware</tt> is
-provided to update the LTSP initrd with firmware blobs. It is used
-the same way as the other firmware related tools.</p>
-
-<p>At the moment, we do not run any of these during installation. We
-do not know if this is acceptable for the local administrator to use
-non-free software, and it is their choice.</p>
-
-<p>We plan to release beta3 this weekend. You might want to give it a
-try.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Skjermbilder fra nordsamisk installasjon av Skolelinux/Squeeze</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skjermbilder_fra_nordsamisk_installasjon_av_Skolelinux_Squeeze.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skjermbilder_fra_nordsamisk_installasjon_av_Skolelinux_Squeeze.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>For morro skyld har jeg gjennomført en nordsamisk installasjon for
-neste utgave av <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>
-(Squeeze) og knipset skjermbilder av resultatet.</p>
-
-<p>Som en kan se der er det noen oversettelser som mangler. Det hadde
-vært hyggelig hvis alle tekstene som vises i Skolelinux-installasjonen
-ble oversatt til nordsamisk, men for å få det til må noen som forstår
-språket melde seg til dyst. Det er mangel på nordsamiske oversettere
-av fri programvare. Hvis noen starter raskt, så bør en rekke å
-fullføre Wheezy-utgaven før den gis ut. :)</p>
-
-<p>Se <a href="http://d-i.debian.org/l10n-stats/">oversetterstatistikk for
-debian installer</a> for detaljert status. Jeg har tipset
-<a href="https://lister.ping.uio.no/mailman/listinfo/i18n-sme">epostlisten for samiskoversettelser</a>,
-men det har vært veldig liten aktivitet der de siste årene.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/01-isomenu.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/01-isomenu.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/02-sme-lang.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/02-sme-lang.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/03-sme-place.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/03-sme-place.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/04-sme-keymap.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/04-sme-keymap.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/05-sme-profile.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/05-sme-profile.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/06-sme-autopart.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/06-sme-autopart.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/07-sme-popcon.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/07-sme-popcon.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/08-sme-rootpw1.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/08-sme-rootpw1.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/09-sme-rootpw2.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/09-sme-rootpw2.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/10-sme-firstuser.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/10-sme-firstuser.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/11-sme-firstusername.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/11-sme-firstusername.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/12-sme-firstuserpw1.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/12-sme-firstuserpw1.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/13-sme-firstuserpw2.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/13-sme-firstuserpw2.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/14-sme-part.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/14-sme-part.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/15-sme-debootstrap.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/15-sme-debootstrap.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/16-sme-tasksel.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/16-sme-tasksel.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/17-sme-wordlist.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/17-sme-wordlist.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/18-sme-tasksel.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/18-sme-tasksel.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/19-sme-ltsp.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/19-sme-ltsp.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/20-sme-grub.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/20-sme-grub.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/21-sme-finish-install.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/21-sme-finish-install.png" width="40%"></a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/22-sme-finish-message.png"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/22-sme-finish-message.png" width="40%"></a></p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Setting_up_a_new_school_with_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>The next version of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu
-/ Skolelinux</a> will include a new tool
-<tt>sitesummary2ldapdhcp</tt>, which can be used to quickly set up all
-the computers in a school without much manual labour. Here is a short
-summary on how to use it to set up a new school.</p>
-
-<p>First, install a combined Main Server and Thin Client Server as the
-central server in the network. Next, PXE boot all the client machines
-as thin clients and wait 5 minutes after the last client booted to
-allow the clients to report their existence to the central server. When
-this is done, log on to the central server and run
-<tt>sitesummary2ldapdhcp -a</tt> in the <tt>konsole</tt> to use the
-collected information to generate system objects in LDAP. The output
-will look similar to this:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-% sitesummary2ldapdhcp -a
-info: Updating machine tjener.intern [10.0.2.2] id ether-00:01:02:03:04:05.
-info: Create GOsa machine for auto-mac-00-01-02-03-04-06 [10.0.16.20] id ether-00:01:02:03:04:06.
-
-Enter password if you want to activate these changes, and ^c to abort.
-
-Connecting to LDAP as cn=admin,ou=ldap-access,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
-enter password: *******
-%
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>After providing the LDAP administrative password (the same as the
-root password set during installation), the LDAP database will be
-populated with system objects for each PXE booted machine with
-automatically generated names. The final step to set up the school is
-then to log into <a href="https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/">GOsa</a>,
-the web based user, group and system administration system to change
-system names, add systems to the correct host groups and finally
-enable DHCP and DNS for the systems. All clients that should be used
-as diskless workstations should be added to the workstation-hosts
-group. After this is done, all computers can be booted again via PXE
-and get their assigned names and group based configuration
-automatically.</p>
-
-<p>We plan to release beta3 with the updated version of this feature
-enabled this weekend. You might want to give it a try.</p>
-
-<p>Update 2012-01-28: When calling sitesummary2ldapdhcp to add new
-hosts, one need to add the option -a. I forgot to mention this in my
-original text, and have added it to the text now.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Paul_Reidar_L_snesl_kken.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Paul_Reidar_L_snesl_kken.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:30:00 +0100</pubDate>