edubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 40, Issue 10

Tue Sep 23 17:43:07 UTC 2008

Hi All,

Please i need urgent help on installing KDE desktop on my ubuntu machine. I have all the CDs, Kubuntu, Mythbuntu, Ubuntu Desktop, Server, Xbuntu, etc.but it seems adding kde desktop using them is beyond my knowledge.

I issue these commands;

sudo mount /dev/cdrom
sudo apt-get install kde-core

etc, but it's taken over 24 hours downloading the files from the Internet on my slow link. There should be a way to install directly from cd without needing the Internet, pls help.

David

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Ubuntu 8.10 Alternate Alpha 6, some problems
      (Jonathan Carter (highvoltage))
   2. Re: Edubuntu - configuring for multiple monitor support
      (Jonathan Carter (highvoltage))
   3. Hardy 8.041 ltsp dhcp frozen? (Reiner Schmid)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:20:26 +0200
From: "Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)" <jonathan at ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 8.10 Alternate Alpha 6, some problems
To: Edubuntu Edubuntu <edubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
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Hi Asmo

Asmo Koskinen wrote:
> I installed Ubuntu 8.10 Alternate Alpha 6 as a LTSP server.
> 
> Everything else seems to work out-of-box (sound, Vinagre, auto login 
> etc), but usb-stick does not. This very same hardware (server, thin 
> client, usb-stick) works on the Ubuntu 8.04.1.
> 
> Here are some ltsp/chroot messages on the Ubuntu 8.04.1:
> 
> http://www.arkki.info/howto/Wiki/LTSP5/Ubuntu_8.04.1_Alternate_ltsp_chroot_usb-stick.txt
> 
> And here on the Ubuntu 8.10:
> 
> http://www.arkki.info/howto/Wiki/LTSP5/Ubuntu_8.10_Alternate_Alpha_6_ltsp_chroot_usb-stick.txt

Thanks for this report. Have you filed a bug in Launchpad.net with this 
information? Can you also include which hardware is used on the clients, 
the output of dmesg from the clients would be useful if you can get it.

-Jonathan

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:29:10 +0200
From: "Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)" <jonathan at ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Edubuntu - configuring for multiple monitor support
To: edubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
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Hi Tom

Tom Reaney wrote:
> I would like to use Edubuntu and OpenOffice Impress to drive three 
> seperate VGA video outputs for three monitors functioning as 
> message/information screens in a Secondary School.

Would these displays have to display the same information, or different 
slideshows?

> Assuming I put an appropriate video card in the PC - suggestions for ISA 
> cards and drivers would be appreciated - is Impress capable of driving 
> three seperate video outputs simultaneously?

Perhaps you mean PCI or AGP slots? ISA cards aren't supported in many 
Linux distributions. ISA slots are those big old black slots (picture on 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Standard_Architecture).

I've read previously that if you want to have unique content on each 
display, you can only go up to 2. I think that you'll be able to get a 
cloned output with 3 displays with the tool that is available from the 
Preferences menu (Labeled Screen Resolution). Do you already have the 
hardware?

-Jonathan

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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:36:39 +0200
From: Reiner Schmid <reischmid at gmx.de>
Subject: Hardy 8.041 ltsp dhcp frozen?
To: edubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
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Hello
Until the end of August I used  Gutsy 7.10 at school, but now in 
September I wanted to change the classroom system to the new edition Hardy.

I didn?t upgrade, I wanted a complete new installation on my  server. So 
I worked with two test clients at home and noticed a strange behaviour. 
The server worked very very slowly at some times, there was no chance to 
work as admin on the server. It was during boot process of the clients. 
But I didn?t want to notice it .......

But now at school (9 clients) the freezing process has the result, that 
only two clients reached the status of ldm screen. The others had no 
contact to the dhcp3-server ....

So I tried at home
stopping and starting the dhcp3- server (3-seconds-period) with
sudo /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart
during boot process of one client

Gutsy
no problem: You can start and stop dhcpd after few seconds. No freezing!

Hardy
First no problem. But during boot you are able to freeze the dhcpd.

I tried this with a second server. The same bug!

Perhaps there are more users who suffer from the problem.
*TOPIC: DHCP server (sometimes) not found
http://sudan.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=830748

***Thanks

Reiner

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