[Tech] Partimus / PXE unattended install solution

[Christian Einfeldt]

What about skype?  Could you do some kind of voice call at that time as
well, or just IRC?

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:06 PM, <ledworldwide.solutions at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm good with IRC at 10:30 am PST
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> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com>
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>> It really is amazing how fast this whole process is moving.  I was just
>> reading about Clonezilla when Mike Rojas' email came in:
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>> http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-SE/
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>> Mike, thanks for those tips about Clonezilla.
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>> More comments in line below
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>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:28 PM, LEdWorldwide!> <
>> ledworldwide.solutions at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Wow Tai! You've really managed to get a lot accomplished in a short
>>> time. Thanks for getting all of this rolling!
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>> +1
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>>> sticking with our plan and planning for a partimus.org member to visit
>>> the site (1-2 times per year?) to reimage the lab so the network can be
>>> manually isolated (also check-in and answer questions.)
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>> Sorry, Mike, I didn't understand if this was a question or a statement.
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>>> Christian, is visiting sites by Partimus members potentially an option?
>>> I know that I could donate some time.
>>>
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>> That is great, Mike!  And yes, we do go to the sites a couple of times
>> per year, if possible.  Jim Stockford and David Eisenberg and I are going
>> to deliver 15 machines to the ASCEND school in Oakland on Wednesday.  We
>> are just going to deliver them at that time, and wait until we have the PXE
>> boot ISO done.  Once we have that ISO done, we can then strategize about
>> creating a server from one of the desktops that we have either there or in
>> the basement of the KIPP school.  Once we get the server built (or
>> re-purposed) we can then take the server to the ASCEND lab and deploy the
>> iso across the network.  If you can be available for any of those things,
>> that would be great!
>>
>> Also, Tai mentioned wanting to have a skype call or something like that
>> for all of us involved in this project to talk via voice, as opposed to
>> just emailing.  At the same time, we could have an IRC session in our
>> partimus channel on Freenode.  The advantage of a skype call is that it
>> allows us to get a more human connection, due to the power of voice
>> communications.  The advantage of IRC is that it creates a log which we can
>> then refer back to for memory purposes and follow up.
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>> What are your thoughts on that?  We can set up a doodle.com calendaring
>> event as soon as we get general availability from people.  For me, it is
>> best to start mornings at about 10:30 San Francisco time.
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Christian Einfeldt
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