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+               <title>How to test Debian Edu Jessie despite some fatal problems with the installer</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_test_Debian_Edu_Jessie_despite_some_fatal_problems_with_the_installer.html</link>        
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+                <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+project&lt;/a&gt; provide a Linux solution for schools, including a
+powerful desktop with education software, a central server providing
+web pages, user database, user home directories, central login and PXE
+boot of both  clients without disk and the installation to install Debian
+Edu on machines with disk (and a few other services perhaps to small
+to mention here).  We in the Debian Edu team are currently working on
+the Jessie based version, trying to get everything in shape before the
+freeze, to avoid having to maintain our own package repository in the
+future.  The
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie&quot;&gt;current
+status&lt;/a&gt; can be seen on the Debian wiki, and there is still heaps of
+work left.  Some fatal problems block testing, breaking the installer,
+but it is possible to work around these to get anyway.  Here is a
+recipe on how to get the installation limping along.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;First, download the test ISO via
+&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-edu-testing-nolocal-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso&quot;&gt;ftp&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-edu-testing-nolocal-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso&quot;&gt;http&lt;/a&gt;
+or rsync (use
+ftp.skolelinux.org::cd-edu-testing-nolocal-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso).
+The ISO build was broken on Tuesday, so we do not get a new ISO every
+12 hours or so, but thankfully the ISO we got is able to install with
+some tweaking.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;When you get to the Debian Edu profile question, go to tty2
+(use Alt-Ctrl-F2), run&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+nano /usr/bin/edu-eatmydata-install
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;and add &#39;exit 0&#39; as the second line, disabling the eatmydata
+optimization.  Return to the installation, select the profile you want
+and continue.  Without this change, exim4-config will fail to install
+due to a known bug in eatmydata.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;When you get the grub question at the end, answer /dev/sda (or if
+this do not work, figure out what your correct value would be.  All my
+test machines need /dev/sda, so I have no advice if it do not fit
+your need.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you installed a profile including a graphical desktop, log in as
+root after the initial boot from hard drive, and install the
+education-desktop-XXX metapackage.  XXX can be kde, gnome, lxde, xfce
+or mate.  If you want several desktop options, install more than one
+metapackage.  Once this is done, reboot and you should have a working
+graphical login screen.  This should no longer be needed once the
+education-tasks package version 1.801 enter testing in two days.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I believe the ISO build will start working on two days when the new
+tasksel package enter testing and Steve McIntyre get a chance to
+update the debian-cd git repository.  The eatmydata, grub and desktop
+issues are already fixed in unstable and testing, and should show up
+on the ISO as soon as the ISO build start working again.  Well the
+eatmydata optimization is really just disabled.  The proper fix
+require an upload by the eatmydata maintainer applying the patch
+provided in bug &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/702711&quot;&gt;#702711&lt;/a&gt;.
+The rest have proper fixes in unstable.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I hope this get you going with the installation testing, as we are
+quickly running out of time trying to get our Jessie based
+installation ready before the distribution freeze in a month.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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                <title>Suddenly I am the new upstream of the lsdvd command line tool</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Suddenly_I_am_the_new_upstream_of_the_lsdvd_command_line_tool.html</link>