[Tech] Update Abigail's lab

Mon May 25 08:07:11 PDT 2015

Hi all

Apologies for the long silence - got caught up in things happening my end.

So I finally managed to fix the kinks in my procedures and scripts to make
something, hopefully, fool-proof, such that anybody could build their own
custom installable Lubuntu ISO, pre-loaded with all the software of their
choice, custom desktop, Firefox bookmarks, etc.

    https://github.com/taikedz/our-pxe/blob/master/customization-steps.md

I wrote the above instructions such that anybody should be able to follow
them. Yes, Christian, even your modest self! The instructions

The bulk of the work was refining *partimus-setup.sh*, *dtopspin.sh* and
*respin.sh* to fix issues: https://github.com/taikedz/our-pxe/tree/master/
; the hardest part was to make the procedure as command-line-less as
possible; I still have to include 2 commands there that might be a bit
off-putting. If anyone can go ahead and make the final fix to bring this
completely away from CLI, that would be great.

I am now testing my final image which should be good to go. Can someone
please give the above instructions a go and tell me if they end up with a
totally customized, installable and usable ISO?

I will upload my final image (partimus-hu-01.iso) in a bit, after testing,
but I'm 99% confident it works as I intended it to :-)

At this point the image can be used for schools, it's prepped and ready. A
burned copy or 3 can be given to Abigail. It shuold work fine as a LiveCD
as well.

What is left is to be able to build a PXE server that can serve the image
over the network, then to make an unattended installation.

I'll email a URL to the downloadable ISO in a bit.

Tai

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On 7 May 2015 at 17:05, Sean Castro <scastro at efcps.net> wrote:

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> On May 6, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Abigail Rudner <arudner at efcps.net> wrote:
>
> Thank you AMAZING CHRISTIAN ~ you are so kind, we really appreciate it!
> ~ all the best  and be safe till I see you again :-) ar
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sean and I updated Abigail's Linux lab today.  The changes are reflected
>> in the lab spreadsheet, to which you all have access.  If you don't have
>> access for whatever reason, just let me know, and I will give you access.
>>
>> Essentially, we installed Lubuntu 14.04 on two new machines today and
>> used them to replace the machines that were in positions 5 and 24, because
>> those machines only had 500 MB of RAM and were very slow as a result.
>>
>> Abigail thought that machines 19 and 20 were slow, but I am going to have
>> to speak with her about that again, because those machines are actually 2
>> of the faster machines in the lab.  The spreadsheet shows that they have 3
>> GB and 2 GB of RAM, respectively, and I tested both machines, and found
>> them to be fast.  I was not able to reproduce the problem that Abigail was
>> seeing, and so I left those machines in place.
>>
>> Position 24 now has 2 machines in place.  One of them is merely a
>> pedestal, namely, the old pizza box style machine that was there, but it is
>> unplugged and just sitting there.  Beside it is one of the Partimus
>> machines donate by J. David Eisenberg, which is working and has 1 GB of RAM.
>>
>> Abigail now has 2 machines installed and ready to serve as back up
>> machines if other of her machines go down.  Those are the two machines
>> sitting on the counter behind her desk, and those machines have been
>> labelled accordingly.  Abigail, if one of your production machines goes
>> down, all you have to do is unplug the bad machine and plug in the good
>> machine and you are ready to go.
>>
>> The machine that was formerly sitting in position 5 is now sitting
>> unplugged behind Abigail's desk.  It could either be end-of-lifed or
>> donated, or kept as an emergency back up machine.
>>
>> There is now only 1 more machine that is running 500 MB of RAM, and it is
>> in position 3.  I ran out of time to test it today, but next time I come, I
>> can test it and replace it, or Abigail could replace it with one of the
>> machines behind her desk.  Those machines both have 1 GB of RAM, and both
>> are fully installed and tested and ready to go.
>>
>> --
>> Christian Einfeldt
>>
>
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