Frans, I presume you already know about this; but just in case, put you in Cc.
You suggested doing babelbox a while back. Do you still want to make that happen, or should I find another volunteer? On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:10:06AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > "interesting" for visitors to have a look at. Frans Pop already > > suggested to set up a babelbox (d-i installation looping through each of > > the available languages that d-i supports), which I think is great, but > > > I will have made a testbed of babelbox at Solutions Linux in Paris > (Jan 31st-Feb 2nd). Recent news are: the thing now works as of > yesterday and has good chances to be quite attractive to the eye, > especially if you can manage to have it display on a large screen of > with a projector. Hmm. Getting a projector at the booth might be problematic, due to the fact that there's not going to be much space to do that (booths are traditionally placed in a hallway, which isn't much more than 3m wide anyway...) Does anyone have a largish monitor? > Please note that babelbox needs another machine to run. The other > machine will host the DHCP/TFTP/WWW server needed for the installation > process (it uses a netboot ISO). I presume it's going to be faster with a local mirror, too? Or can the installation use a local CD-ROM for the .debs? > I recommend setting up a dedicated network between both machines, if > possible a 1GB network. > > The 2006 babelbox runs with the graphical version of the installer so > it's a bit fancier than 2005 babelbox...:-) Cool :-) > Of course, I'll made the material available on my home page on gluck > as soon as it'll be ready. These are basically two tar files and one > conf file: one tar for /var/lib/tftpboot, one for /var/www and a > dhcpd.conf. > > I do not use the sounds anymore: this has proven a false good idea as > noone hears them and it really complicates the setup (getting an > out-of-the-box working sound on Debian is.....ahem...tricky)..:-) > > Last year, the babelbox installed a full desktop system, then opened > the GDM session automatically, left it opened for a few minutes before > rebooting in another language install. > > I'm not sure I will reconduct this this year. This complicated the > setup quite a lot and installing a full desktop system is quite long, > even with a 1GB connection. We'll see. -- .../ -/ ---/ .--./ / .--/ .-/ .../ -/ ../ -./ --./ / -.--/ ---/ ..-/ .-./ / -/ ../ --/ ./ / .--/ ../ -/ ..../ / -../ ./ -.-./ ---/ -../ ../ -./ --./ / --/ -.--/ / .../ ../ --./ -./ .-/ -/ ..-/ .-./ ./ .-.-.-/ / --/ ---/ .-./ .../ ./ / ../ .../ / ---/ ..-/ -/ -../ .-/ -/ ./ -../ / -/ ./ -.-./ ..../ -./ ---/ .-../ ---/ --./ -.--/ / .-/ -./ -.--/ .--/ .-/ -.--/ .-.-.-/ / ...-.-/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
