Hi, --- On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Anand Chitipothu <[email protected]> wrote: | Recently | I have been working with a school to covert their systems to Ubuntu | and here are some problems that I faced. \--
Do you have any form of Internet connectivity available in their premises? --- | Standard Ubuntu Distribution doesn't play mp3 files \-- Which Ubuntu distribution are you referring to? --- | So, I started building a new distribution with the following. \-- IMHO, it would be useful to use any form of Internet connection at the school premises along with this mailing list and IRC (#ubuntu-in at irc.freenode.net) for your queries and support. --- | To save space on the CD, I removed foreign language support and some | other less important packages. | ... | I'm also thinking of creating a companion CD with some packages to | help people with no/slow internet connection to add additional | packages easily. \-- Why a CD? If it is one user, having a CD with extra packages helps. But, when you have a network, it is my recommendation that you setup a system that acts as a local mirror, and you can use that to do a network install/update on all the machines: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation#Server%20and%20network%20installations SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
