[Tech] Update Abigail's lab

Tai Kedzierski dch.tai at gmail.com
Mon May 25 15:22:19 PDT 2015


It's Europe, it's late, I'm tired.

1TB = 1024GB not 10GB

Download to heart's content.



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Tai Kedzierski

IT Services Specialist
http://helpuse.com
+44 (0) 7526 963 612 (portable GB)

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*"Open Source Free Software is a matter of liberty, not price."*
https://bitly.com/1gXkUcc


On 25 May 2015 at 23:17, Tai Kedzierski <dch.tai at gmail.com> wrote:

> The image is now downloadable!
>
> If it can be shared on other Partimus servers that'd suit me well :-)
>
> The password for the live user is [ *let's share* ] without the brackets.
> The same live user and password carries over to the installed instance. I
> recommend using that user as the regular user (it does not have admin
> privileges) and using the account created during installation as the
> administrator account.
>
> Pretty much all software requested in the earlier email thread has been
> included. A creative commons rainbow themed desktop was set; as a demo of
> ability to customize the desktop.
>
>
>
> Download is here: http://helpuse.com/download/partimus19.iso
>
> I only have 1TB of bandwidth on this server. Downloading this ISO about 6
> times will likely max that out...............
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Tai
>
>
>
>
> ===
> Tai Kedzierski
>
> IT Services Specialist
> http://helpuse.com
> +44 (0) 7526 963 612 (portable GB)
>
>   I use www.libreoffice.org
>
> *"Open Source Free Software is a matter of liberty, not price."*
> https://bitly.com/1gXkUcc
>
>
> On 25 May 2015 at 16:07, Tai Kedzierski <dch.tai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ===
>> Tai Kedzierski
>>
>> IT Services Specialist
>> http://helpuse.com
>> +44 (0) 7526 963 612 (portable GB)
>>
>>   I use www.libreoffice.org
>>
>> *"Open Source Free Software is a matter of liberty, not price."*
>> https://bitly.com/1gXkUcc
>>
>>
>> On 7 May 2015 at 17:05, Sean Castro <scastro at efcps.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Christian, I appreciate that.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> IT Support
>>> Sean Castro
>>> scastro at efcps,net
>>> Education for Change
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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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