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[school-discuss] LTSP report from Goa, India (by Animesh N Nerurkar)
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Animesh N Nerurkar <banduji@symonds.net> wrote:
> Hi anurag,
>
> On Monday 07 April 2003 01:59, Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote:
>
> > Animesh, Could you please help with this? Tks, FN
>
> ok, here goes as much as i can remember...
>
> > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Anurag Phadke wrote:
> >
> > > It will be nice if the techies from Goa can mail me their email addresses
> > > and a short description of the kind of work they are doing.
>
> 1) customise RHL 7.2 for deployment in schools
> a) remove unwanted s/w
> b) add the reqd s/w that wasn't in the orig RHL CDs
> c) customise anaconda to install 3 ways:
> i) GSCP workstation (for standalone PCs)
> ii) GSCP server (for LTSP server)
> d) customize anaconda's default partition scheme for available h/w config.
> e) customize anaconda's default time region to calcutta/india
> f) coded and added some shell scripts to automate some admin jobs like creating/deleting student+staff login accounts with some default password patterns
> g) coded some shell scripts to partly automate LTSP install (rpm install was not possible as LTSP and something in RHL 7.2 disagree with each other, leading to breaking the install proc half way)
> h) generated a whole stack of remote boot images for a variety of LAN cards that can be dumped on a floppy with "dd" or burnt on a CD.
> i) wrote some Readmes and HOWTOs for volunteers that would use these CDs for installing + configuring the s/w.
>
> 2) thought of updating all packages in the first step but were unable due to lack of time. these updates ultimately went out on a diff CD at a later date.
> 3) i think a 3rd docs CD was also issued.
>
> > > We at Netcore
> > > are trying out various stuffs and may be one can work on ideas instead of
> > > simply starting from scratch.
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