Excellent work. On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Milind Oka <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all Members, > > Here is a small update of St Mary Linux Migration. > Today we reached exactly at 1 o clock to the St Mary school. Purpose of > our visit was to have trial installation and testing for Saturday's > Migration. > > Father Jude was talking to a group of parents near the gate. He welcomed > all of us and instructed the non teaching staff to open the labs.. Also he > gave us his laptop for Linux installation. > > We have decided to install Fedora-25 build, customized by our member > Rajeev specially for Schools. Thanks to him for such a wonderful job done > in a small amount of time. > > Rajieev's live image booted successfully but the installer had a > permission issue and was not starting. Then we tried Ubuntu 16.04.2 and > Fedora 25 plain image. Both got installed successfully on the lab machines. > > After that we got Rajeev's on-call support and we were able to diagnose > and install the same on Fr Jude's laptop. > Finally every thing is working and the laptop is ready. > > This means that Rajeev's image can now be used for Saturday's installation. > > Observations : > > 1. Fedora's partitioning tools in the default installer was confusing for > us. As a workaround we used gparted.manually partitioned the disk. > > 2. There seems to be an error Notification about boot image crash but the > system is working correctly. > > 3. We saw few errors during shutdown. > > Few suggestions : > > 1. Put Gparted in live image.. > 3. Put gnome tweak tool. > 2. Request to add some extensions by default namely top icons, dash to doc > application menu. > 3. Put some educational games. > > Today we had a special guest - Latif. > Latif is from Osmanabad. He is well acquainted with Linux. He teaches > Edu-BOSS in School. He is about to start this mission in nearby schools. We > all will support him. All best wishes to him. > > Mostly Raghu and Tayyab performed all experiments, helped by Benoy. Benoy > was busy but still managed to find some time and came for support. > > Latif and me were only testing different packages such as gimp, libre > office etc. On Saturday we also can take part in installation, since 30 > machines are to be switched to Linux (Fedora). > > To help us, Principal Fr Jude's Fernandes had called a Lab maintenance > person Mr Dilip. Dilip curiously watched the installations and is ready to > learn the skill in future. > > So let us tighten our belts for Saturday Installation Festival. This is > really a proud moment for all of us here in GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai. > Please do join us on Saturday at about 1:30 pm. We can complete all > installations upto 4:30 - 5:00 pm > All are welcome. > > http://www.mediafire.com/view/8o5mg00ac12nrys/SM01 > http://www.mediafire.com/view/snk6dnjo5p7u2j9/SM02 > http://www.mediafire.com/view/err4o1sp1sc6e0f/SM03 > > Thanks and Regards > Milind > > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
