On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Varun Arora<futuregeni...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hey XS Dev team, > > Hey Varun! > > > I am a ICT consultant working in the South Pacific Islands. Sorry if you > > guys are tired of reading newbie problems. But I had a serious concern > with > > installation of XS in a pilot deployment in Niue: > > Great to hear you're in the Niue team - thanks for the work you're doing! > > > I installed all packages including MySQL DB, X Window System, GNOME etc. > on > > installation of XS 5.2. Unfortunately, after installation I tried to run > > The XS disk doesn't really include any of those. You can install them > from online yum repositories after the initial install. > > Note that you _do not need mysql_. Moodle will work with PostgreSQL. > For many reasons, PostgreSQL is a better option for the specific needs > of the XS. > Not to bikeshed or anything, but I was curious about the reasons behind pgsql. Sameer > If you want to use Moodle, grab the packages that will transform your > 0.5.2 into a 0.6-beta by doing > > yum --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing update > > which will install a Moodle that autoconfigures itself. After that, > upgrade the Browse.xo on the XOs and Moodle will auto-login users > (that have registered). > > > I waited for several hours on the IRC channel for help, but there were > only > > a couple of folks on. > > The people active around the XS are mostly email-people rather than > irc-people :-) ask here and we'll come to your help... > > > > m > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel >
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