Ubuntu in my Office

[Pybe]

On 16/11/05, Aaron Kiley <aaron.kiley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> First post to the group so go easy on me please.
>
> I have worked in my office now for almost a year, and in that time I have
> converted everone over to FireFox, now, in our call centre we have bought a
> whole load of new PCs, with which I am going to be responsible for.
>
> Now my problem is this, I have managed to convince the Director that we
> should be putting Linux on these machines, as it would work out cheaper and
> would be easier for me to maintain. (I am not a noob or anything like that)
> I am a compitent user of Linux but not an IT administrator.....
>
> However, my fav distro is Ubuntu, I tried to install it on the pc but it
> is telling me it cant find a partinion to edit or install on.
>
> The drive works on the ubuntu live CD but not during installation, its
> located at /dev/sda
>
> The modell number of the computer is a Dell Optiplex GX520....
>
> Now the other isssue is I am up agaist 2 other distros I have to install,
> So I want to make ubuntu look its best, the others I am up against are
> Fedora 4 and Suse 10.0
>
> On the Dell PC the controller is an Intel 82801GB Serial ATA Storage
> Controller......... The ubuntu CD does not seem to have been compiled with
> this support in the install kernel.
>
> Any help would be great.
>
> Also, as a side note, I only want to have a basic user account install,
> and once logged in the first thing that loads is a webpage and the user will
> not have any other access except to the one page in firefox. Is that
> possible.
>
> Sorry for making my first post a long one, but its something I really need
> to get sorted out soon.


Using a full blown install sounds a bit overkill for just using firefox. I
would suggest that you either use something like http://kioskcd.com/ which I
have running on the internet access pc's in the canteen at our office's on
p3 550 machines with 256mb ram, or use ltsp. Either way you can sell the new
pc's and use the money left after buying some much cheaper ones for the
christmas party.

HTH
Pybe
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