[Tech] New client machine up at Ascend

Amo Kaci akaci at efcps.net
Thu Apr 16 22:11:49 PDT 2015


Thanks Christian for the updates.
Amo

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have successfully installed Lubuntu from Abigail's Lubuntu 12.04 disk on
> a machine that I called partimus603309234, which is the name of our org
> plus the name of the serial number on the top of the machine.  I used
> monitor 14, which was donated by David Eisenberg, along with the
> partimus603309234 and 14 other machines and monitors (thanks, David!).
>
> I had an issue getting even a bios to appear on two of the other machines
> that I looked at.  I got no display at all on the other two machines.
> David Eisenberg had done some spot checking of these machines when he
> acquired them, so I am assuming that it is some operator error on my part,
> although Sean Castro was also in here yesterday looking at the machines and
> had a similar problem, so not sure what the issue is.
>
> Our primary goal at this point is to make sure that Abigail has a backup
> for the machines that are in her lab, so that if a client machine goes
> down, Abigail can simply swap out another machine.
>
> I don't know what your password schema is.  I chose to call the superuser
> "administrator", because I saw that on the machine next to me.  I chose
> "ascend" as the superuser password.  I created a student account, because I
> saw that account on a machine next to me.  The password for student is
> student.  The machine's specs are documented on the lab summary google
> spreadsheet here:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_s0E7w40zs80yZNrVRqupml6jqADKjD9XoJ3uFkhQMw/
>
> If you are on this email and have not been invited to the spreadsheet,
> please let me know and I will invite you.
>
> We are still working on a server, so that Abigail will be able to mass
> install over the network, and she will have iTalc and other network tools
> available to her.
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Christian Einfeldt
>



-- 
Regards,

Amo Kaci
IT Manager
Education For Change
akaci at efcps.net
415-216-3364
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