7.1.0 server installation issues

[Charles Austin]

On Jan 6, 2008 5:14 PM, DB Clinton <dbclin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I installed Edubuntu Server on a box (1.7ghz, 4gigHD, 256RAM) that's not
> connected to the internet to see whether a clean install would at least
> give me the basics of thin client networking. I had little success in
> that area

You may be OK with a standard Edubuntu workstation, but I don't see a server
running on less than 1GB of RAM.


> (besides the fact that the Edubuntu box can access files on a
> Win98 box via Samba).
> But that's not my problem right now: for some reason none of the
> educational packages were installed on the system


I have this same experience with 7.10.  The educational packages are easy
enough to install from the net, why don't you have it connected?


> (it's not that there
> wasn't enough space: there are still 1.3gig left on the hard drive) and
> Synaptic doesn't have any reference to them (even with the CD in the
> drive). Also, none of the media players will work because they lack
> codecs. Do all of these packages require Internet access? If so, does
> that mean that 'buntus are pretty much useless without the Internet?
>

I would at least give the box internet access for the install, even if you
decide to disconnect it later.

>
> Next question:
> I uninstalled my Wubi version of Edubuntu from my own computer and
> prepared to replace it with real disk partition to create a dual-boot (I
> first did a disk defrag from Windows and checked the integrity of the
> Edubuntu CD). The partition went well, but the install itself froze late
> in the process while installing BRI TTY (or something like it).
> Naturally, when I rebooted, the system went nowhere. I tried again from
> scratch (hoping the install process would somehow pick up on the
> previous failed attempt - to no avail) and this time, too, it froze,
> leaving a message "Build LTSP chroot failed".
> But for the grace of SYSRESCUECD I would now be left with nothing - but
> I'm at least back in my old WinXP.
> Running the Edubuntu CD's rescue mode was entirely unhelpful.
> Is there any way to rescue what's been lost and/or is there any way to
> avoid such crashes on future installs?

With thanks again,
> David Clinton
>
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