Re: [Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay

2008-06-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony's will be much closer to a full blown XS. It wont be a school > gateway, cache, jabber, wireless or filtering box. Its mainly a web > server but it should include Moodle and everything else needed for > EduBlog.

Re: [Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for

2008-06-05 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi All, We have a disconnect about the target OS! Its my fault for not having tighter synch with tech leads in Uruguay. Sorry. I'm forking a private thread and I'll get it ironed out ASAP. Please hold the XS bring up until I can nail down the correct target XS. If Uruguay is on a non-standard O

Re: [Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay

2008-06-05 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Martin et al, Yes Tony is building an XS for use on the EduBlog project. We're loosely coupled to Ceibal. Pablo Flores is the main interface and he is a lead in the Ceibal team coordinating internation volunteers and Ceibal web sites. He helped write and approve the requirements and he has assu

Re: [Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay

2008-06-05 Thread Stefan Reitz
Tony, trying to make the XS do raid (which it does (/did?) not support by default) I learned the following: Linux softraid (aka dmraid) is 'better' / 'more stable' than mother board vendor's fakeraid, so disable raid in bios and let linux dmraid take care of it. I don't know enough about ah

Re: [Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay

2008-06-05 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 5, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Tony Pearson wrote: > Uruguay = EduBlog/Ceibal/Greg Smith. I am building the server to > Greg's request, so whatever he is now calling this project that is > what it is. Uruguay == Ceibal Uruguay != EduBlog Uruguay != Greg Smith Your statement worries me, as Ce

Re: [Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay

2008-06-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Tony Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin, > I'll try the "lspci" commands to see what it says. > > What "dmesg" should I look for? -- when I do: dmesg | grep "sd"[ab] I get > that it finds both /sda and /sdb individually, so not detecting the RAID > mod

Re: [Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay

2008-06-05 Thread Tony Pearson
Martin, I'll try the "lspci" commands to see what it says. What "dmesg" should I look for? -- when I do: dmesg | grep "sd"[ab] I get that it finds both /sda and /sdb individually, so not detecting the RAID mode. The "autoinstall' fails either because of the Radeon X1200 or the "clearpart" c

Re: [Server-devel] Help on the School_server

2008-06-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/6/5 eskender andualem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We are trying to configure the school server in Ethiopia but we found some > documents which says we can only support <120 computers with one school > server and three active antennas.Is it the only capacity which we can > support with one school s

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (Tomeu Vizoso)

2008-06-05 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Tomeu, No problem. FYI. That was marked as a "should" not a "must" in the requirements so I'm open to re-thinking if absolutely necessary. See requirement #10 at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Blog_Educativo_Plan_del_Proyecto#Requirements_ English No network means no hosted blog site so its OK t

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (Tomeu Vizoso)

2008-06-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope this whole app can be done server side with no changes to code on > the XO. I don't even want to "sugarize" beyond making sure the web pages > display well in the default Browser. > > That saves us from updat

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (Tomeu Vizoso)

2008-06-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
I see, sorry I missed the "XS only" requirement. All the solutions I proposed could be done without any compiled programming (except probably the abiword-based one), but all required a .xo to be installed. I was supposing that it was an activity that was supposed to work without access to any netw

Re: [Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay

2008-06-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/6/5 Tony Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hardware: Nice hw! But the sata controler might not be supported. When you load F8 64-bit or Ubuntu, - what does lspci say about the SATA controller? - what kernel module loads for it? (dmesg will name it) > Problem 1: I boot from XS-163.iso and se

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (Tomeu Vizoso)

2008-06-05 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi All, Great work. Tarun is awesome! That said, I didn't intend him to do any C++ or compiled programming before we began. Not that he can't or shouldn't, just that it wasn't in the job description :-) I'm not sure I understand everything you are talking about below but I want to re-iterate one

[Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay

2008-06-05 Thread Tony Pearson
Greg, The XS hardware is up and running, and now am encountering some software issues that I may need help from the server-devel list to resolve. Hardware: V3-M2A690G barebones PC with M2A-VM motherboard, power supply and tower case, The M2A-VM motherboard has ATI SB600 RAID controller, ATI

Re: [Server-devel] OLPC News (2008-05-26) - Tech Team

2008-06-05 Thread Andy Rabagliati
(Copying server-devel) On Tue, 27 May 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On 5/27/08, Andy Rabagliati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -- Forwarded message -- > > > From: Kim Quirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: OLPC News (2008-05-26) - Tech Team > > > Scott Ananian: > > > * W

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes

2008-06-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Tarun Pondicherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Embed Mozilla's editor inside an activity similarly to how we are > embedding the browse in Browse. > http://www.xulplanet.com/references/xpcomref/comps/c_editorhtmleditor1.html > > > This looks very promising. The

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes

2008-06-05 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: [ccing sugar] Hi, just some comments: On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Tarun Pondicherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1) Provide a client side Browse based WYSIWYG editor that does what the editor in Moodle Blog does for students to easily create and edit posts. This versi

Re: [Server-devel] Help on the School_server

2008-06-05 Thread Marten Vijn
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 01:50 -0700, eskender andualem wrote: > Hello All, > > We are trying to configure the school server in Ethiopia but we found > some documents which says we can only support <120 computers with one > school server and three active antennas.Is it the only capacity which > we

[Server-devel] Help on the School_server

2008-06-05 Thread eskender andualem
Hello All, We areĀ  trying to configure the school server in Ethiopia but we found some documents which says we can only support <120 computers with one school server and three active antennas.Is it the only capacity which we can support with one school server.We have like 2500 students in one s

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes

2008-06-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
[ccing sugar] Hi, just some comments: On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Tarun Pondicherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Provide a client side Browse based WYSIWYG editor that does what the > editor in Moodle Blog does for students to easily create and edit > posts. This version will be sugariz