Thank you for the help you have been posting. Your replies are all very helpful and clear.
Our school decided to install the 8.04 Edubuntu from scratch - I believe a clean install will be a better choice (our first installation was the Edubuntu 6.06 which worked perfectly). It has been almost two weeks of some failure on my part with the 8.04. After installation (including the add-on cd) , the computer SERVER works with a GUI - but the problem is that the thin clients do not have the GUI. The LTSP works, the fact that the thin clients boot. This is surprising, the server may not need the GUI but the students in their thin clients need the GUI. Did I miss something in the installation? How do I configure the thin clients to have a GUI? The GUI appears in the thin clients of both 7.04 and 7.10, so I think the thin clients should also work with the 8.04. We expect to have over 40 thin clients (our target is 48) connected to the server and I believe I need more than 4 GB or usable RAM. Using the generic linux kernel, the computer recognizes only 3.5GB RAM but with 8GB installed. Interestingly, the swap file is 9+ GB or almost 10GB which means the installation may have recognised the 8GB (is it mem size=default swap file?). Up to this point, the generic-flavor works well. The problem starts after installing the server-kernel: every time the server kernel is installed, the whole thing freezes during the boot process and the OS needs to be re-installed again. I believe that the 8.04 is really great, only I (could have) made some mistakes in the installation of the system or misunderstood the server kernel installation - (I belonged to the generation of programmers who used line numbers in FORTRAN in the IBM S/360). In the GRUB boot process the optional 'esc' key shows linux-server-normal, linux-server recovery, linux-generic normal, and linux- generic recovery modes which means the server flavor was installed (though I believe incorrectly because the system does not work). It is selecting the server mode (either nornal or recovery) that causes the system to grind into a very slow movement - I tried waiting for more than three hours and server was still booting-up. By the way, the server kernel I used is the one found in the server cd of 8.04, because I could not locate the server flavor neither in the alternate installation cd nor in the add-on cd. Should I use this, or should I use another kernel - direct from the internet? Any help will be appreciated. Classes in the Philippines resumed two weeks ago, and our computer laboratory is still not running - but for sure, the promise of the 8.04 is worth all the wait. And thank you a million indeed for all the help. More power to people like you. Cheers, Butch Arias Saint Philomena School Lucena City, PHILIPPINES
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