[CoLoCo] Ubuntu-us-co Digest, Vol 8, Issue 26

[Kevin Fries]

Bulk installs are not exactly on the Wiki at Ubuntu, but there are
several tricks you can use to really kick install into high gear.  Let
me know when you are ready to do this, and I will help in every way I
can.

You don't mention location, but I live in Lakewood, and work in
Inverness, and have my business in Cherry Creek.  So most parts of the
Metro area are quick and easy for me to get to, and have been known to
be willing to travel anywhere in the front range.

Kevin Fries


On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 20:47 -0700, Chris Reigrut wrote:
> Les,
> Are the systems identical?  If so, if you'd be able to drop one off I'm 
> sure that I (or others on the list) would be happy to get one installed 
> for you and give you instructions for the remaining machines.
> 
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> "You live and learn, or you don't live long" -- Robert A. Heinlein
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Les Law [mailto: hopeles2 at gmail.com] 
> >
> > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:27 PM
> >
> > To: mitch at kci.net
> >
> > Subject: Ubuntu help
> >
> > Greetings and Hello.
> >
> > I need help loading Ubuntu.  We were given 30 computers to ship to and
> > use in Sierra Leone West Africa.  As part of the donation we were required
> > to delete the operating system due to a licensing agreement.  The
> > computers are Dell and were originally loaded with Windows 95 and later
> > upgraded to Windows 98.  The computers are "clean". 
> >
> > I have 3 discs, one that I have downloaded, one that I purchased on Amazon.com, and one from a
> > "Ubuntu for Dummies" book.  The downloaded disc and the Dummies
> > disc seem to partially work while the purchased disc does nothing. 
> > Everything seems to work well, except for waiting a long time, up to
> > where I see the "examples" and "install" icons. 
> > I can get a drop down menu off the "install" icon and can click on
> > "Open".  Then nothing happens except a lot of whirring,
> > clicking, and blinking. 
> >
> > I need to get these computers loaded, packed, and shipped to Sierra Leone by
> > mid February.  We have a Work Team going in July, part of whom will be
> > setting up a computer lab at a school in Makeni, in a remote area of Northern
> > Sierra Leone . 
> >
> > Ideas, comments, questions, please.  Phone number at home is 303 642
> > 3693 and cell is 303 921 1495, or course e-mail response.
> >  
> > Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
> >  
> > Les Law
> >   
> 
> 
> 
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Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
A Division of Japan Communications Inc.