<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 6, 2008 5:14 PM, DB Clinton <<a href="mailto:dbclin@gmail.com">dbclin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I installed Edubuntu Server on a box (1.7ghz, 4gigHD, 256RAM) that's not<br>connected to the internet to see whether a clean install would at least<br>give me the basics of thin client networking. I had little success in
<br>that area </blockquote><div>You may be OK with a standard Edubuntu workstation, but I don't see a server running on less than 1GB of RAM.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
(besides the fact that the Edubuntu box can access files on a<br>Win98 box via Samba).<br>But that's not my problem right now: for some reason none of the<br>educational packages were installed on the system</blockquote>
<div> </div><div>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?<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
(it's not that there<br>wasn't enough space: there are still 1.3gig left on the hard drive) and<br>Synaptic doesn't have any reference to them (even with the CD in the<br>drive). Also, none of the media players will work because they lack
<br>codecs. Do all of these packages require Internet access? If so, does<br>that mean that 'buntus are pretty much useless without the Internet?<br></blockquote><div><br>I would at least give the box internet access for the install, even if you decide to disconnect it later.
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Next question:<br>I uninstalled my Wubi version of Edubuntu from my own computer and
<br>prepared to replace it with real disk partition to create a dual-boot (I<br>first did a disk defrag from Windows and checked the integrity of the<br>Edubuntu CD). The partition went well, but the install itself froze late
<br>in the process while installing BRI TTY (or something like it).<br>Naturally, when I rebooted, the system went nowhere. I tried again from<br>scratch (hoping the install process would somehow pick up on the<br>previous failed attempt - to no avail) and this time, too, it froze,
<br>leaving a message "Build LTSP chroot failed".<br>But for the grace of SYSRESCUECD I would now be left with nothing - but<br>I'm at least back in my old WinXP.<br>Running the Edubuntu CD's rescue mode was entirely unhelpful.
<br>Is there any way to rescue what's been lost and/or is there any way to<br>avoid such crashes on future installs?</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
With thanks again,<br>David Clinton<br></blockquote></div><br>