Re: Live CD?

2005-07-13 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 13.07.2005, 22:52 +0200 schrieb Jane Weideman: On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 21:20 +0100, Miles Berry wrote: It was really great to meet folks over the weekend, and I'm sorry now that I missed the Friday sessions. Miles thanks for taking the time to be there, thanks too for

Re: Can't login from thin clients.

2005-08-26 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fr, 2005-08-26 at 10:39 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: Reiner Schmid wrote: /Does anyone have experience with this problem? /I took GNOME under session at the login screen. And I was able to log in. Perhaps this could help you? No. Thank you for trying though. But the problem

edubuntu CD testing

2005-09-05 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, I'm happy to announce that a new CD for testing is up, its completely possible to install the English version without network access now (other languages need Internet access at install time). Due to two small bugs in the install process (one to be solved today, the second hopefully before

Re: edubuntu workstation test - install first impressions

2005-09-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2005-09-07 at 19:39 +0200, Philipp Schröder wrote: Install went fine on IBM Thinkpad T30. Problems with S-ATA disks ? - Also, I tried on an AMD64 with a S-ATA Harddisk, but the installation hangs during installing 'Grub' (The same is the case with an

Re: edubuntu workstation test - applications 1: making sense of names / missing menu structure

2005-09-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2005-09-07 at 19:51 +0200, Philipp Schröder wrote: Hi, I briefly played with all the education applications. Nice! Although, in Breezy+1, I'd say we definitely need to improve the menu, e.g. with categories such as Maths, etc. something along that line is planned... we'll have

Re: edubuntu workstation test - applications 2: no help in KDE edu apps

2005-09-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2005-09-07 at 19:51 +0200, Philipp Schröder wrote: The package 'khelpcenter' is missing, therefore all KDE apps, such as Kturtle, Kig, KEduca, etc., don't have any 'help' screens available! it'll be added soon (after ubuntu preview release) ciao oli signature.asc

Re: edubuntu workstation test - Localisation problems 1: changing keyboard layout difficulties

2005-09-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
On Mi, 2005-09-07 at 20:12 +0200, Philipp Schröder wrote: (Oliver, do I need to report these two to Ubuntu upstream? Where? The user mailing list? Wiki? Bugzilla?) for all stuff that is on the CD or installed by the installer, you can use http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/ :) ciao oli

Re: edubuntu workstation test - Localisation problems 2: 'Language Selector' (minor difficulties)

2005-09-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2005-09-07 at 20:14 +0200, Philipp Schröder wrote: I installed the German language packs, via the new 'Language Selector' under 'System Administration'. This works well, except that the 'Ok' button in the dialog box doesn't react - you simply need to close it with the 'x'. i

Announcing the Preview Release of edubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)

2005-09-10 Thread Oliver Grawert
on FreeNode, and /or on our Edubuntu-Devel mailing list: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel --- We'd like to thank everybody who has contributed to getting Edubuntu to this point. Mark Shuttleworth who started everything, Oliver Grawert who has contributed blood, sweat

Re: Live CD customization (Announcing the Preview Release ... )

2005-09-10 Thread Oliver Grawert
On Sa, 2005-09-10 at 17:37 +, André Millet wrote: hi i would like to know if there is some way for me to remake a ubuntu live cd with other application installed, such as quanta and bluefish... abraços!! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveCDCustomizationHowTo sure there is ;) ciao oli

Re: No ethernet autoconfiguration during installation

2005-09-13 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2005-09-13 at 16:17 +0200, Ricardo Pérez López wrote: I'm trying to install Edubuntu Preview 5.10. I know Ubuntu try to autoconfigure ethernet connection using DHCP during installation. But Edubuntu doesn't try to find out a DHCP server to autoconfigure. Instead, it ask me to

Re: Memory usage under Ubuntu + LTSP 4.1

2005-09-13 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2005-09-13 at 19:40 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: This particular computer lab has brand new, 2.5ghz Celeron computers with 256MB RAM, and they're being used as thin clients. What I'm going to look at this week, is to install Edubuntu, and try to convert the LTSP chroot environment

Re: Screensaver

2005-09-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2005-09-15 at 00:35 +0100, Rick Fitzsimmons wrote: Just noticed the screensaver kick in on a thin client. Gobbles bandwidth on the LAN. Imagine a room full of them :-( Should the default be changed? Either disabled or blank? the default behavior for xscreensaver run from a thin

Re: Missing path in thin client

2005-09-16 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2005-09-15 at 14:29 +0100, Rick Fitzsimmons wrote: Hi, Just noticed I can't run certain games on thin client :-( PATH on the thin client is missing /usr/games (On the server, /usr/games is the last entry in PATH.) Is this just my set-up? (Surprised no-one else has reported it.)

Re: Schooltool Schoolbell won't run on Edubuntu (workstation) ?!

2005-10-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 07.10.2005, 10:51 +0200 schrieb Philipp Schröder: Hi, After installing schooltool (Version 0.11.2-1) with synaptic on Edubuntu, I am slightly confused as to what comes next. There is no schooltool icon in the 'Applications' menu. I try to start schooltool from the

Re: [schooltool-dev] Schooltool Schoolbell won't run on Edubuntu (workstation) ?!

2005-10-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 07.10.2005, 19:06 +0200 schrieb Philipp Schroder: Erm, is this documented somewhere (more or less prominently) for the unsuspecting Edubuntu newbie? i planneded to add some hint (with link) to the firefox startpage :) ciao oli signature.asc Description: Dies ist

Re: [Fwd: GIS and Edubuntu]

2005-10-12 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 12.10.2005, 12:10 +0200 schrieb Jane Weideman: A Geography tool suggestion - for the next release. For teaching Geography , how about including the FreeGIS CD and a translation and update of the manual? http://freegis.org Or, our own GIS collection with detailed,

Edubuntu 5.10 Released

2005-10-13 Thread Oliver Grawert
Edubuntu 5.10 Released 13 October 2005 http://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuReleaseAnnouncement The Edubuntu team is proud to announce the first Edubuntu release Edubuntu 5.10. The Edubuntu 5.10 release consists of an Install CD for the PC (Intel x86) ad 64-bit PC (AMD64) architectures. Edubuntu

Re: server / nfs server

2005-10-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 17.10.2005, 11:14 +0100 schrieb oly: hi, i installed edubuntu and it works fine on the server, the thin clients start to boot however at a certain point they stop booting saying the nfs server is not responding quoting the ip of the server. and fails on trying to

Re: LTSP-Edubuntu

2005-10-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 18.10.2005, 16:44 -0400 schrieb Jim McQuillan: Willem, I'm thinking you didn't follow the ThinClientHowto on the Ubuntu site. if you really use edubuntu please dont follow the ThinClientHowto, 90% of the stuff described there is already done in a edubuntu default

Re: Etherboot

2005-10-19 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 19.10.2005, 12:28 +0200 schrieb Edward Holcroft: Hi list Does Edubuntu 5.10 include Etherboot support as part of a default installation? I don't seem to be able to find it. Please tell me it's so obvious that I'm looking right past it. yes, edubuntu works fine with

Re: thin client how to

2005-10-19 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 18.10.2005, 23:20 -0400 schrieb Josiah Johnston: I feel silly for asking, but how do I get thin clients to work? The whole network boot thing is still new to me. I think it would be very helpful to include a diagram like these folks have: i quickly made some diagrams

Re: Screen resolution

2005-11-13 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On So, 2005-11-13 at 14:03 +0100, Reiner Schmid wrote: Another question: Can someone tell/inform me and also others edubuntus which entries in lts.conf (opt/ltsp/i386/etc) are read and are processed by the ltsp-MueKow-version? I made a wikipage listing the parameters (to be found in

Re: Edubuntu Artwork for Edubuntu 6.04 - Dapper Drake

2005-11-13 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On So, 2005-11-13 at 15:02 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: Hi Edubuntu team! We need to get cracking on a high-quality default theme for Edubuntu. nope, we'll need more than one. at ubz one of the most upcoming questions was what we'll do about the themeing in dapper... during several

Re: Color depth

2005-11-16 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2005-11-16 at 08:46 +0100, Reiner Schmid wrote: Is the usage of memory (lower limit 100 MB?) a consequence of ssh? nope, its the consequence of choosing one of the big desktop environments, both, KDE and GNOME have such big memory footprints. but since i'm still alone with development

Re: [Fwd: TeacherTool]

2005-11-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
On Fr, 2005-11-18 at 13:52 +0100, Jean-Francois CLEMENT wrote: Hi, Ogra can you explain in few lines how install on breezy ? put the link in sources.list ? you can get the package here, it should work on breezy (since its simple python/pygtk):

Re: Welcome screen

2005-11-25 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fr, 2005-11-25 at 10:34 +0100, Willem van der Most wrote: - Always displays the same wrong date and time - does not react to the Enter key after filling in username and password (you are forced to grab the mouse and click) - always speaks English - does not react to the menu choices

Re: [Fwd: option for visually impaired ...]

2005-11-29 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2005-11-29 at 11:35 +0200, Jane Weideman wrote: Forwarded Message From: Transcription [EMAIL PROTECTED] is it a version including vocal synthesis tools ? I expect for this in English but also in French we are working very tight with our accessibility team to get

Re: Edubuntu Status Update Meeting Notes - 7 Dec 2005

2005-12-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 07.12.2005, 23:06 + schrieb John RIdge: Why Drupal rather than Moodle? Moodle is more accessible to educators than Drupal. How many educational institutions use D? How many use M? Both use php, but I don't want to bankonline, I just want to share information and keep

Re: Edubuntu for libraries

2005-12-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 14.12.2005, 16:40 -0500 schrieb Zeb Smith: Hello all. I work for the Newton Falls Public Library as Systems Administrator. I’m very strongly considering using Edubuntu on the public computers here. I have already switched to OpenOffice and various other open source

edubuntu flight 2 CD

2005-12-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
/CurrentEdubuntu Bug reports should go to Bugzilla for now (although we intend to switch over to Launchpad's bug tracking facilities soon): https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/ Have fun with testing and bugfiling, Oliver Grawert signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: no free leases

2005-12-19 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 19.12.2005, 12:56 +0100 schrieb manu: It's very good solution, I use DHCP server with ip address fix and webmin for configuration, I manage one vlan /24 without problem http://www.webmin.com/ http://www.webmin.com/screens/dhcpd.gif can you make it use the default dhcp file

Re: Limiting video ram to save system ram? From: ThinClientMemoryUsage wiki spec page

2005-12-21 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 21.12.2005, 11:34 -0500 schrieb Phillip Susi: Moving this discussion to the mailing list from the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientMemoryUsage: Could someone explain to me how telling X to limit the amount of vram it can use could possibly effect the amount of

Re: Edubuntu Daily Install/ Testing daily build iso 2005-12-30

2006-01-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 02.01.2006, 09:46 -0300 schrieb Mauricio Hernandez Z.: Oliver, if you think I should be testing Flight's instead of Daily's, please let me know ;) happy new year as well ... testing dailies is generally fine if you follow the development process very close, then you'd have

Re: Edubuntu: some observations.......contd

2006-01-12 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 12.01.2006, 09:41 + schrieb raj kumar sarkar: While availability of internet connection solves a lot of problems, the absence of it totally changes the scenario. No internet connection means no apt-get-ing. So installing new application becomes almost impossible for

Re: A game called Dasher

2006-01-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Mittwoch, den 18.01.2006, 09:32 -0800 schrieb Corey Burger: Dasher is a resource pig. On my home machine, it eats all of my CPU and a good chunk of memory, so not ideal for a thin client. that doesnt matter for the thin client at all, in ltsp *all* apps run on the server. That being

Re: LTSP help...can we change it from Gnome to Xfce?

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 13.02.2006, 18:42 -0300 schrieb Mauricio Hernandez Z.: Just remember that any change on user interaction it must be done at the server side, because users from clients are just that, users in front of a monitor, nothing they can do at a config levels. FYI, the session

Re: Initial experiences with edubuntu

2006-03-01 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Mittwoch, den 01.03.2006, 08:40 -0600 schrieb Gary Cziko: Dear Edubuntu Community: I am a Linux newbie and just starting playing with edubuntu a few days ago. I must say that I am quite impressed by edubuntu, the programs it contains, its ease of use and the ease of adding programs

Re: Edubuntu Flight CD 4

2006-03-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 02.03.2006, 07:46 -0700 schrieb Paul Dickson: On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 05:59:12 -0800 (PST), plougher wrote: As the author of Squashfs I'm concerned that people are saying the oops is due to Squashfs simply because Squashfs occurs in the stack trace. I'm currently trying

Re: startx in lts.conf causes X in middle of screen

2006-03-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 04.03.2006, 17:33 -0800 schrieb Gary Taylor: my client sits with an X in the middle of the screen. If I comment out the line with SCREEN_01 = startx , then my client starts fine and I can login but then none of the changes I make to the file take affect. It doesn't appear

Re: Testing questions

2006-03-06 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 06.03.2006, 11:36 -0800 schrieb Matt Zimmerman: On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 02:25:22PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Sonntag, den 05.03.2006, 14:35 +0200 schrieb Jonathan Carter: 1. After installing, I had to run ltsp-update-sshkeys before I could log

Re: Dapper LTSP login

2006-03-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 09.03.2006, 11:05 + schrieb Alistair Crust: Hi, I'm trying out edubuntu dapper and I've come along a few problems. Firstly the image 20060303 failed on building LTSP Chroot I checked the md5sum, verified the cd its self, checked my burner hadn't over-sized

Re: Dapper Sound

2006-03-13 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 13.03.2006, 12:40 + schrieb Alistair Crust: Well I'm still banging my head against a brick wall. still no sound out the box. The part that is really confusing is that I can't get a shell on SCREEN_02. I have not a clue where to go from here. Once I have that I

Re: [Fwd: Re: Dapper Sound]

2006-03-13 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 13.03.2006, 17:27 +0100 schrieb Oliver Grawert: - [Default] SERVER = 10.35.191.30 XSERVER = auto SOUND = Y SCREEN_02 = shell SCREEN_07 = startx - is there any particular reason that you set

Re: Dapper Sound

2006-03-13 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 13.03.2006, 20:14 + schrieb Alistair Crust: as part of the above referenced post i found that setting SCREEN_02 = shell for troubleshooting didn't work, setting SCREEN_01 to startx gave GDM but I could not type to the screen. I found a link to a possible bug, hence

Re: Initialize edubuntu dapper

2006-03-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Dienstag, den 14.03.2006, 12:48 +0100 schrieb Trond Mæhlum: I have just installed Edubuntu Dapper Flight 4. After install, I have an /opt/ltsp directory. One of the networkinterfaces has been started. But there must be some kind of script that has not been run. Dhcpd.conf is not built as

Re: Initialize edubuntu dapper

2006-03-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 14.03.2006, 15:00 +0100 schrieb Trond Mæhlum: Thank you. I got the terminal to boot. But got a commandprompt login. After hitting ctrl+alt+F7, I got the graphical login. This should be default, should it not? yes, and you are the first one reporting this, if it happens

Re: Proposed topic for next week's Edubuntu meeting: status of dist-upgrade to Dapper

2006-03-23 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 23.03.2006, 01:05 + schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All, I was wondering if we could have a brief report on the status of dist-upgrade from Edubuntu Breezy to Dapper early in next week's meeting? Does it work now? Thanks! jeff elkner i dont exactly

Re: null password and screen lock issue

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 24.03.2006, 12:01 -0500 schrieb Jonathan D. Proulx: I would like to have a screensaver though so any further insight is most welcome. luckily the next release will use gnome-screensaver, there you can easily set a gconf key to en/disable locking systemwide ... in

Re: Mailing list name

2006-03-27 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 27.03.2006, 13:27 +0200 schrieb Jane Weideman: 1) Be slip into 'edubuntu-devel' and 'edubuntu-users' lists 2) Subscribe all current subscribers to edubuntu-users - those that wants to be on devel as well/instead will need to explicitly subscribe there. That ok? i'd vote

Re: Mailing list name

2006-03-27 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 27.03.2006, 13:56 +0200 schrieb Edward Holcroft: This is an artificial distinction. Are developers not users? Can a user not be a developer? How would you expect the content of mails to differ between these lists? sure he/she can, but edubuntu is the only ubuntu distro

Re: Mailing list name

2006-03-27 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 27.03.2006, 14:47 +0200 schrieb Edward Holcroft: If there just has to be split for some reason, then I would suggest a technical list, and a chat list. A discussion about whether the list should be split for example, would fall under chat. thats exactly how lists are

Re: Edubuntu and CS Education using Python

2006-03-29 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 29.03.2006, 17:03 + schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All, The Dapper release of Edubuntu still lacks a beginners IDE that works out of the box. Here are the problems: i was planning to get pida to main for the next release, we talked about it several times already (in

Re: Student Lab Project: Some Dapper Questions

2006-04-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Sonntag, den 02.04.2006, 14:32 +0200 schrieb Jonathan Carter: 4. Is there a source of documentation besides the wiki? I don't seem to be able to find much documentation on Edubuntu at all (especially the LTSP part and how it differs from standard LTSP). What would be the best

Re: My cool introduction

2006-04-19 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 19.04.2006, 16:08 +0200 schrieb Jane Weideman: I think Dapper is in pretty good shape now, and as of the Beta release on Thursday it will be basically done. lets rather say it will be technically done ... docs and artwork are still missing and bugfixing will go on until

Re: Edubuntu Hispanoparlante/ Hola mundo! Hello world! (for spanish speakers)

2006-04-24 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 22.04.2006, 19:46 -0400 schrieb doug vega: is there a way to obtain the complete edubuntu (ubuntu)official repository in cd's or DVD's , same as debian ?? I am showing an edubuntu server to a group of non profit organizations in El Salvador and most of them do not have

ubuntu membership now through edubuntu and new meeting schedule

2006-04-26 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi all, as it happens the community council wants to give some of its responsibilitys away to the derivatives (kubuntu, edubuntu). this means some changes for us all: * change the meeting to a new time schedule (we want to keep the wednesday as our meeting day, but to be able to approve

Re: Dapper Beta Installs - Some Thoughts

2006-04-30 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Sonntag, den 30.04.2006, 00:13 +1000 schrieb David Symons: Hi all, After a (text-mode) dapper beta install: 1. I wanted the LTSP Server install so, without having read any other information (at the time), went for the Install a server option on the cdboot screen[1]. The wrong choice.

Re: etherboot?

2006-05-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 02.05.2006, 14:16 +0900 schrieb nigel barker: sorry if this question is amiss, but I can't find an easy way to search the archives Does edubuntu support etherboot? I have several old laptop clients booting via pcmcia, using the wireless ltsp etherboot floppy, but they

Re: Edubuntu Council

2006-05-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, i'd be really happy to have someone involved in university stuff in the council. out of the following reasons: a) when we started the edubuntu summit back before our first release, mark made a rought roadmap of goals he'd like to see for edubuntu: 1) classroom 2) school 3)

Re: searchable archives and lts.conf

2006-05-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Mittwoch, den 03.05.2006, 11:20 -0600 schrieb James Call: Does someone have an example of a lts.conf that I could look at?? I have some compaqs, and some dells in our school lab and I want to configure xserver for the different video cards. Can someone point me in the right direction? the

Re: Application menu

2006-05-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 09.05.2006, 09:06 -0700 schrieb Jonah Brown: I want to know how Edubuntu uses its application menu. I want to recreate a interface similar to gcompris to be used on start up to make it easier for kids to access the programs they need to use. edubuntu sticks to the

Re: Loggin in LTSP client

2006-05-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 17.05.2006, 12:13 +0200 schrieb Mattias Hemmingson: Hi !! A have installed edubuntu on my server and sett upp the dhcp server for booting clients on the network. I start the client and it worked fine booting from the network. The grafic interface start and a tried to

Re: LTSP clients unable to login

2006-05-26 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 26.05.2006, 14:41 -0400 schrieb Jason Dixon: I have successfully booted a LTSP client off a test Edubuntu 6.06 server. However, users are unable to login. After typing in the credentials and hitting enter, I see a console screen, then it loads the login screen

Re: download

2006-05-28 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Sonntag, den 28.05.2006, 12:09 +0200 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi all, Can some repair the link to download at the Edubuntu web-page.Thank alot in advance. whats broken with it ? http://www.edubuntu.org/Download points you to http://releases.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/5.10/ which is the

Re: Update?

2006-06-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 02.06.2006, 09:15 -0400 schrieb Simón A. Ruiz: So, how is one meant to update an existing Desktop system from 5.10 to 6.06? Would it be simplest to just reinstall and manually set everything back up again? or is there a package I can download to update what needs

Re: [Fwd: PXE is proprietary - what the heck is it doing as the default LTS install in Edubuntu or Ubuntu?]

2006-06-05 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, From: C. CatherineCapers [EMAIL PROTECTED] So - when are you going to release a default kernel fix to Edubuntu and get rid of the proprietary PXE stuff? Soon I hope. we offer etherboot support as an optional choice, if you dont like its integration please file a whishlist bug. ciao

Re: Cookbook meeting changes and S-C-P meeting

2006-06-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 09.06.2006, 15:26 + schrieb Mario Đanić: Hi, due to some changes, Cookbook meeting will be wednesday 20:00 UTC at #ubuntu, cookbook. The student control panel meeting will be at 20:00 UTC at #student-panel. please try to hold meetings in #ubuntu-meeting in the

Re: CD OK. Boots, runs but won't install. Hangs after keyboard selection?

2006-06-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 15.06.2006, 09:35 -0400 schrieb Richard/g: That is basically the problem: On a P3 w/128MB RAM. The hard disk is already partitioned. The edubuntu-6.06-live-i386.iso burned to CD at 12X tested OK. Md5 OK. Boots fine and runs but when run install, it hangs after

Re: network cards (2 or 3) not staying put..

2006-07-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 04.07.2006, 08:10 -0400 schrieb Alfred: has anyone had trouble with dual or triple network cards switching positions? Example one bootup and card #1 is eth0 and the next it is eth3 have a look at /etc/iftab and man iftab you can bind them fixed to a interface name by

Re: Edubuntu Edgy Eft Knot-1

2006-07-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2006-07-20 at 19:20 -0400, Mauricio Hernandez Z. wrote: Hi Edubunteros and friends, Yes, Edubuntu Edgy Eft Knot-1 is ready to play with. just another big fat warning even though it is mentioned in the official announcement: THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE please treat it like that. there

Re: Can't install Edubuntu on a new PC

2006-07-23 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On So, 2006-07-23 at 10:12 +0100, Mariana Curado Malta wrote: I do have an Intel integrated Exterme Graphics card on my motherboard. I supose the problem is here. What else can I do? try to select a different video mode for the installation at the first screen of the CD (its the F4 key

Re: India Enquiry - 1. Localising the Software - Tamil

2006-08-01 Thread Oliver Grawert
On Di, 2006-08-01 at 13:38 +0200, Richard Weideman wrote: Hi, I am following up a call for some help from India. Can anyone comment on whether there is any translation work in this direction for Ubuntu / Edubuntu ? 1. Localising the Software = The medium of instruction in government

Re: India Enquiry - 2. Old Hardware - Low Spec

2006-08-01 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2006-08-01 at 13:39 +0200, Richard Weideman wrote: Hi, I am following up a call for some help from India. Can anyone comment on whether this is possible or feasible for Ubuntu / Edubuntu? The LUG has plans to prepare a live CD based on Edubuntu that runs on old hardware (32MB

Re: India Enquiry - 3. Teaching Requirement C C

2006-08-01 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2006-08-01 at 13:39 +0200, Richard Weideman wrote: 3. Teaching Requirement C C++ The other part of the syllabus is Star Office and C. star office is the commercial variant of openoffice it adds minor differences to the basic openoffice (clipart etc), i'd suggest to use openoffice

putting a default lts.conf in edubuntu edgy

2006-08-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, whoops, that should have been gone to -devel, not to -users :) as discussed in teh edubuntu meeting in #ubuntu-meeting on IRC yesterday, i would like to put a default lts.conf in the next edubuntu, so we have some things set to sensible default values and the users will find a lts.conf file

Re: Xen source

2006-08-23 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2006-08-23 at 17:20 +0100, Trevor Grove wrote: I have a Ubuntu desktop system and am trying to run a Xensource live demo CD. thats not the appropriate list for such a question, this list is about edubuntu development/testing, try the ubuntu-users mailing list for ubuntu support :)

Re: LTSP without Edubuntu

2006-08-24 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2006-08-24 at 01:55 +0100, Steve Smith wrote: Hi I'm going to be setting up LTSP on Dapper but I don't want the Edubuntu desktop, etc. Should I follow the instructions here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThinClientHowto), which haven't been updated since Breezy, or is there

Re: LTSP without Edubuntu

2006-08-24 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi On Do, 2006-08-24 at 08:10 -0400, Robert wrote: I too, would like to run LTSP on Dapper without the Edubuntu Desktop. I like the quick install guide. I am confused about DHCP. My DSL modem/router handles dhcp upstream on the network before getting to the Dapper box. I have two ethernet

Re: Edubuntu Installation freezes

2006-09-05 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 05.09.2006, 09:50 -0400 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 3) The installation froze part way through the installation. the CD has a self test option in the menu, did you run that ? 3) Is ftp install available for Edubuntu? there s a netinstall image available for ubuntu, you can

Re: Bulgarian Phonetic

2006-09-06 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 06.09.2006, 23:36 +0300 schrieb Иво: In previous version work fine... what can i do to corect this? which version are you running ? ciao oli signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- edubuntu-devel mailing list

Re: Edubuntu Installation freezes

2006-09-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 06.09.2006, 21:27 -0400 schrieb James McDermott: I finally got a good install, but I am wondering if the problems I had doing the normal install (with the install CD) was caused by the video card in the Dell Optiplex GX260 computers. yes, they are. the installer runs in a

Re: users-admin doing lots of (apparently needless) work

2006-09-26 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 26.09.2006, 08:57 +0100 schrieb Gavin McCullagh: I asked on the IRC channel for gnome-system-tools and am told that this bug has been fixed since users-admin v2.15. Hopefully this fix is in Edgy then. yup, there are a lot of drawbacks in g-s-t but its currently the best we

Re: introduction

2006-09-29 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 29.09.2006, 16:59 +0200 schrieb Edward Holcroft: Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Freitag, den 29.09.2006, 12:53 +0200 schrieb Edward Holcroft: basis cannot succeed in any ongoing way. btw even for a thin client 32MB RAM is a bit tight. not with the edgy

Re: [Fwd: Re: Edubuntu: Gallium vs. Kalzium]

2006-10-01 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Sonntag, den 01.10.2006, 16:33 +0200 schrieb Edward Holcroft: Oliver Grawert wrote: this mail is one of the morte ffiendly ones ! i was voting for having kdeedu in edubuntu from the beginning and was fighting for having the best of both worlds on our CD (even though i moan about

Re: [Fwd: Re: Edubuntu: Gallium vs. Kalzium]

2006-10-01 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Sonntag, den 01.10.2006, 17:45 +0200 schrieb Anne-Marie Mahfouf: Hi Jonathan, I have the same sentiment of disappointment towards these KDE developers. KDE has built a good reputation for being collaborative and working well with others. I would actually think that they'd be glad

Re: Edubuntu CD size, was:[Fwd: Re: Edubuntu: Gallium vs. Kalzium]

2006-10-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 02.10.2006, 11:19 +0200 schrieb Edward Holcroft: from this, it's no longer a useful converstaion. More importantly: right :) Is it possible to have a multiple CD version that will install a basic working system off one disk, but the more disks you have, the more apps you

Re: [Fwd: Re: Edubuntu: Gallium vs. Kalzium]

2006-10-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 02.10.2006, 14:30 +0200 schrieb Edward Holcroft: Is the same thing possible for Edubuntu? Ideally of course, official support for something like this is needed. as i pointed out in my answer to william, we're bound to launchpad with the CD building, we use the debian-cd

Re: Testing edubuntu edgy beta

2006-10-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 03.10.2006, 10:48 +0100 schrieb Reiner Schmid: Hello I have tested the new functions of edubuntu edgy beta It is now very comfortable to use the local devices of a client, specially usb-sticks. Also the possibility to start and to stop programms on all clients

Re: Testing edubuntu edgy beta

2006-10-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, indeed i forgot the download link for the beta iso :) http://releases.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/edgy/ ciao oli signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: administration

2006-10-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 07.10.2006, 08:49 +0100 schrieb Gavin McCullagh: Alternatively, if ltsp-utils works on edubuntu thin clients, the server can send a message to the thin client to shutdown: ltsp-utils isnt working with ubuntus ltsp, its written for ltsp 4.X while we have the ltsp5 version in

Re: So...

2006-10-10 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 10.10.2006, 16:55 +0100 schrieb Gavin McCullagh: On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Simon Ruiz wrote: So, any ideas? How can I be useful to Edubuntu? Or should I just stick with vanilla Ubuntu? There is such a thing as diskless clients which run all of their own applications.

Re: Some testing

2006-10-21 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 20.10.2006, 22:44 +0200 schrieb Jonathan Carter: 1. Installer warns that it could not use a network card for dhcpd, and that it should be manually edited. I think this is a result of my pc getting an ip address from the network that isn't in the default settings range. I

Re: Another idea-Re: Edgy+1 : Planning for the next Edubuntu version

2006-10-21 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 21.10.2006, 02:31 -0400 schrieb David Trask: As schools begin to adopt things like Edubuntu, K12LTSP...etc on a large scalebeing able to set up multiple servers and centralized authentication is a big point. I already do this using Samba/LDAP. I have multiple K12LTSP

Re: Dual LAN card installation

2006-10-31 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 30.10.2006, 18:37 + schrieb John Ingleby: I think the wording on the installation screen could be made much clearer. This isn't a bug in the normal sense, it all worked out after a couple of tries, but a change in the wording would make installation much smoother. the

Re: Another idea-Re: Edgy+1 : Planning for the next Edubuntu version

2006-10-31 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 31.10.2006, 14:48 + schrieb Stuart Ellis: Hi, I was just going back through mail, and I thought that I'd pass this on, in case you weren't already aware of it: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/easy-ldap-server The Ubuntu Directory Services Team is a

Re: Another idea-Re: Edgy+1 : Planning for the next Edubuntu version

2006-10-31 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 31.10.2006, 16:17 +0100 schrieb Nicolas Pettiaux: 2006/10/21, Oliver Grawert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi, Am Samstag, den 21.10.2006, 02:31 -0400 schrieb David Trask: As schools begin to adopt things like Edubuntu, K12LTSP...etc on a large scalebeing able to set up

Re: getting started with LTSP

2006-11-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 02.11.2006, 10:33 +0100 schrieb Dries Desmedt: Hey folks, I would like to set up a LTSP network. How can I do this with edubuntu its done for you by default, if you have a server with two network cards just use the deault installation method (enter at the CD bootscreen)

Re: how to upgrade??

2006-11-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 02.11.2006, 15:38 +0700 schrieb quantro: can i upgrade the software from cd or from file??not from the server?? if it can be, how can i do it?? if you put in a newer CD tan the one the distro was installed from, it should offer you to ugrade with a popup box ...

Re: Edubuntu and UDS MountainView (was: Re: Edgy+1: Edubuntu for Secondary Schools Edubuntu for Universities)

2006-11-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Donnerstag, den 02.11.2006, 10:33 +0100 schrieb Anne-Marie Mahfouf: Hi all, As KDE-Edu maintainer, unfortunately I cannot come to UDS due to lack of visa and/or adequate passport. However I am always available to discuss with Edubuntu people any issue regarding KDE-Edu integration in

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