Network issue on a cloned server

[R. Scott Belford]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 4:49 PM, David Groos <djgroos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cool.  Tell me about this oem-config script.  How does one run it?  I did a
> search for it and sounds like a great idea.  It didn't, however, tell how to
> use it.  Would I install it with sudo apt-get oem-config?  Then launch it in
> Terminal w/ sudo oem-config?  What info besides network info would I need
> handy?  I couldn't find useful info in the wiki?

Aloha David

You would definitely just do a sudo apt-get install oem-config (or
oem-config-gtk for a gui) and lauch it as sudo oem-config.  Everything
happens automagically, and upon execution of the script you are
informed that on reboot the new user will be asked for the basic setup
stuff.  What this lets me do is to tweak and perfect golden images wih
codecs and more.  Also, given my ridiculous collection of hard drives,
I create golden images on small, 4-8 gb drives, with / second, so that
I can image and resize to nearly any profile hardware.

I am trying to make it really hard for a school to throw out hardware,
or not to pass it on to a family in need, by making it easy to make
any functioning computer run "like new" within minutes.  I call it my
Software Licensing and Fundraising Machine (tm).  You see, instead of
putting $25 into an XP license, plus all the other stuff, you can put
$20 into my box and out comes a lifetime license to use the Desktop OS
I install, $10 for the software project or developer of choice, and
$10 for your school.  It's like getting Windows and a Gates Foundation
Gift all at once, for less.  Free and Open Source Software Rocks.

As far as being on the wiki, I regret that I will continue to be the
person who documents by email and searches by Google.  I'd far rather
spend 8 hours on a Saturday, hacking away at a donated server for our
Charter Schools' headquarters, and solving their grub issues with the
/dev/rd/c0d0p1 RAID controller, than I would care to spend 8 minutes
on a wiki adding anything.  If there is any other way I can help,
please ask.

>
> Thanks!
> David

--scott