X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/66c7ebe69a70988a5af3284c488d8fc2759e75f2..035c19c46c9f78dc6adf515b8418f9d0b55c709d:/blog/archive/2012/01/index.html diff --git a/blog/archive/2012/01/index.html b/blog/archive/2012/01/index.html index 05b0961b9f..74b4a2bd7d 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2012/01/index.html +++ b/blog/archive/2012/01/index.html @@ -292,14 +292,14 @@ summary on how to use it to set up a new school.

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 report their existence to the central server. When +allow the clients to report their existence to the central server. When this is done, log on to the central server and run -sitesummary2ldapdhcp in the konsole to use the +sitesummary2ldapdhcp -a in the konsole to use the collected information to generate system objects in LDAP. The output will look similar to this:

-% sitesummary2ldapdhcp 
+% 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.
 
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We plan to release beta3 with the updated version of this feature
 enabled this weekend.  You might want to give it a try.

 
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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.

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+        Skjermbilder fra nordsamisk installasjon av Skolelinux/Squeeze
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For morro skyld har jeg gjennomført en nordsamisk installasjon for
+neste utgave av Skolelinux
+(Squeeze) og knipset skjermbilder av resultatet.

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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. :)

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+debian installer for detaljert status.  Jeg har tipset
+epostlisten for samiskoversettelser,
+men det har vært veldig liten aktivitet der de siste årene.

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+        Handling non-free firmware in Debian Edu/Squeeze
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With some computer hardware, one need non-free firmware blobs.
+This is the sad fact of todays computers.  In the next version of
+Debian Edu / Skolelinux 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.

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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.

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For non-network devices, we provide the script
+/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/auto-addfirmware which
+search through the dmesg 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
+#655507), 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.

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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
+/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/pxe-addfirmware script is
+provided.  Again, just run it as root on the command line to fill the
+PXE initrd with firmware packages.

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Last, some LTSP clients might also need firmware to get their
+network cards working.  For this,
+/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/ltsp-addfirmware is
+provided to update the LTSP initrd with firmware blobs.  It is used
+the same way as the other firmware related tools.

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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.

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We plan to release beta3 this weekend.  You might want to give it a
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