[Tech] Update Abigail's lab

Mon May 25 18:00:28 PDT 2015

Hi Tai,

Thanks very much for this!  We are getting more volunteers on this list all
the time.  Scott Dubois brought two new Linux sys admin students to the
EBLUG meeting last Thursday, and so they are going to benefit from your
work!  Mike Rojas has gone a long way to getting the Clonezilla mass
install feature worked out, or at least so it seemed to a simple end user
like me.  Dave Sterry, an admin friend of Scot Dubois was at the EBLUG
meeting, as was Linux developer Steve Zawadzski.  Once we get a working
example of the server, we can then create a back-up server as Steve
suggested, as well as prepare a server for a homeless shelter in San
Francisco with which we are in talks to prepare a lab.  So the good work
that you are all doing is going to have great effect in the community!

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 8:07 AM, 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
>
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> On 7 May 2015 at 17:05, Sean Castro <scastro at efcps.net> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Christian, I appreciate that.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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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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