From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 18:08:56 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Bedre tekst. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/222c40324521496c68c509079d583abbfe0859e3 Bedre tekst. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2010-08-09-edu-autoconf.txt b/blog/data/2010-08-09-edu-autoconf.txt index 6c1c0ee84f..0557ffc00b 100644 --- a/blog/data/2010-08-09-edu-autoconf.txt +++ b/blog/data/2010-08-09-edu-autoconf.txt @@ -4,33 +4,35 @@ Date: 2010-08-09 20:00

As reported earlier, the last few days I have looked at how Debian Edu clients are configured, and tried to get rid of all hardcoded -configuration settings on the clients. I believe the work mostly -done, and the clients seem to work just fine with dynamically +configuration settings on the clients. I believe the work to be +mostly done, and the clients seem to work just fine with dynamically generated configuration.

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What is the point, you might ask. I'll answer by describing what -happen when installing a Debian Edu client here at the university of -Oslo using PXE. With the PXE installation, I am asked for language -(Norwegian Bokmål), locality (Norway) and keyboard layout (no-latin1), -Debian Edu profile (Roaming Workstation), accepting to reformat the -hard drive (yes), if I want to submit info to popcon.debian.org (no) -and root password (secret). After answering these questions, the -installer go ahead and do its thing, and after around 50 minutes it -reports that it is done. I press enter to finish the installation, -and the machine reboots into KDE. When The machine is ready and kdm -ask for login information, I enter my university username and -password, am told my kdm that a local home directory have been created -and that I must log in again, and finally log in with the same -username and password to the KDE 4.4 desktop. At no point during this -process did it ask for university specific configuration, and all the +

What is the point, you might ask? The point is to allow a Debian +Edu desktop to integrate into an existing network infrastructure +without any manual configuration.

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This is what happens when installing a Debian Edu client here at +the University of Oslo using PXE. With the PXE installation, I am +asked for language (Norwegian Bokmål), locality (Norway) and keyboard +layout (no-latin1), Debian Edu profile (Roaming Workstation), if I +accept to reformat the hard drive (yes), if I want to submit info to +popcon.debian.org (no) and root password (secret). After answering +these questions, the installer goes ahead and does its thing, and +after around 50 minutes it is done. I press enter to finish the +installation, and the machine reboots into KDE. When the machine is +ready and kdm asks for login information, I enter my university +username and password, am told by kdm that a local home directory has +been created and that I must log in again, and finally log in with the +same username and password to the KDE 4.4 desktop. At no point during +this process did it ask for university specific settings, and all the required configuration was dynamically detected using information -fetched via DHCP and DNS. Without any university specific -configuration being asked for by the installer, the roaming -workstation is ready for use directly after installation.

+fetched via DHCP and DNS. The roaming workstation is now ready for +use.

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How as this done, you might wonder. First of all, here is the list -of things to configure on the client to get it working properly out of -the box:

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How was this done, you might wonder? First of all, here is the +list of things that need to be configured on the client to get it +working properly out of the box: