usb storage on edubuntu 5.10

[Jonathan Carter]

Hi James

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 23:07 -0600, James Call wrote:
> I was looking around for some help in setting up sound and usb storage
> on edubuntu breezy.  I really couldn't find anything.

Yes, we have some documentation scattered in tiny pieces all over the
place at the moment, we are working on making it more readable,
findable, and enjoyable :)

When you refer to sound and usb support, I assume you're talking about
support on the thin clients?

For sound, you need to create a file on the server
called /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf, and include the following in that
file:

  [default]
     SOUND = True

Local USB support isn't available out of the box yet, that is planned
for a later release.

> I installed symbiont's new deb package, and then I couldn't get
> anything to work.  I am here at our school lab at 11:00 pm.  I
> uninstalled it and had to manually erase/reconfigure a ton of files.
> Now I am back to a standard install.

Symbiont is meant for the LTSP you would download and install at
LTSP.org, as far as I know, you should stay clear of Symbiont in
Edubuntu at the moment.

> BTW. Today was the first day that we used our edubuntu system on 25
> terminals and it brought our amd x2  2200+ to it's knees with a bunch
> of the students using gcompris.  I have ordered 2 gig more of memory.

How much memory does it currently have? As soon as an LTSP server goes
into lots of swap, things get very, very slow.

> Can anyone send me in the right direction for using usb flash drives
> on the clients???

I know that some people use MToolsFM with K12LTSP to do this, I haven't
tried it yet so I can't give you exact advice on that at this stage.

-Jonathan