[frgeek-michiana] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installs
- From: "Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 14:26:41 -0500
Makes sense to me. Having the most common installation methods available
allows us greater flexibility and ability in meeting our goals.
Tom --
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[mailto:frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phil Goldbach
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 23:04
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installs
To quote Tony:
"For the record, I wanted to say that Chuq's solution using virtualbox and
clonezilla is probably the more efficient way to install freeboxes, but I
don't think it aligns as closely with FGM's goal to train and educate
volunteers as having a local mirror of the repositories does. Maybe at some
point we can do both if we really need to start cranking out larger volumes
of freeboxes."
That's a main issue at hand, and one I had stated numerous times. While it
maybe quicker to use Virtualbox and Clonezilla, it does take away something
from the learning aspect. Part of that is also if I had to learn how to do
it by disc-based install, then so should everyone else, lol, and you slave
driving (just kidding) people mean to tell me there was an easier and faster
way to install, and we didn't use it? LOL. Not sure how well that would have
worked with VL 5.9, but who knows. Also, by learning how to do a disc-based
install, it teaches people how to setup in the future, in case they obtain a
copy and wish to install it onto another computer. As slow as it is, I think
disc based media is still going to be around for awhile as a means of
installing software, unless the major corporations and companies decide to
start using USB drives or SD cards.
Again, I would say that we use both methods (disc-based and
PXE/Virtualbox/Clonezilla) as necessary-disc based on slow nights, VB/CZ on
nights when we are going to need more computers and may not have the
warehouse open the next Thursday due to a holiday, for example. Even if in
the future we decide to use VB/CZ as the primary method, it would still be
good to know how to use the disc based method, just in case something proves
to be too much of a pain to use VB/CZ.
Phil Goldbach
"Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades."
--- On Wed, 12/8/10, Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installs
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 12:57 PM
-----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Germano
> Sent: Dec 8, 2010 10:53 AM
> To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installs
<snip>
> Also, not sure if this will work or not, but if we put an entry in the dns
server to point the ubuntu archives to our local server we might not have to
mess with the apt sources on the freeboxes at all. We might run into gpg key
issues, though. I don't really know how they are used with the repositories.
> Tony
Sounds like something to try, I hadn't thought about gpg. We would have to
set up a local dns though. <flw> What's the worse that could happen....
</flw>
Mike
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