X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/66c7ebe69a70988a5af3284c488d8fc2759e75f2..b69b92b7550f55c3baf85587855c52265f944d87:/blog/archive/2012/01/01.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2012/01/01.rss b/blog/archive/2012/01/01.rss index 49eaafcecb..f6a20d70e5 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2012/01/01.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2012/01/01.rss @@ -226,14 +226,14 @@ 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 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 -<tt>sitesummary2ldapdhcp</tt> in the <tt>konsole</tt> to use the +<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 +% 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. @@ -259,6 +259,113 @@ 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> + + + + + Skjermbilder fra nordsamisk installasjon av Skolelinux/Squeeze + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skjermbilder_fra_nordsamisk_installasjon_av_Skolelinux_Squeeze.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skjermbilder_fra_nordsamisk_installasjon_av_Skolelinux_Squeeze.html + Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0100 + <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> + + + + + Handling non-free firmware in Debian Edu/Squeeze + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html + Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:30:00 +0100 + <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>