Hi. As we plan to release as soon as the last RC bug is fixed, it is imporant that the release documentation is up-to-date. It is currently drafted on wiki.skolelinux.no, under <URL:http://wiki.skolelinux.no/DebianEdu/Documentation/Etch>. This is the current content. As you can see, there is still work left for you and me. :)
Debian-Edu etch 3.0 Codename "Terra" This will become the documentation for the Debian-Edu etch 3.0 release. This document was put into the debian-edu-doc package on $DEBIAN_EDU_DOC_BUILDDATE. (The version at http://wiki.skolelinux.no/DebianEdu/Documentation/Etch is a wiki and updated frequently.) Translations are only part of the debian-edu-doc package. * Copyright and Authors * Translations of this document * About Debian-Edu and Skolelinux * Architecture * Requierements * Installation * Maintainance * Upgrades * HowTo - simple step by step Howtos * Contribute to Debian-Edu * Support - how+where to find help Special pages: Index page - All in one page Copyright and Authors This document is written and copyrighted by Holger Levsen 2007 and released under the GPL2 or any later version. Enjoy! If you add content to it, please only do so if you are the author of it and plan to release it under the same conditions! Then add your name here and release it under the GPL2 or later version. FIXME: Put full text of GPL into Appendix. Translations of this document Translated versions of this document are not yet available, as the document itself is very incomplete, even the skeleton is unfinished. Howto translate this document If you want to start translating, you can! Do apt-get source debian-edu-doc and in debian-edu-doc-$version/documentation/wikibook you find information how to create a .po file for your language, and how to update it against the source. FIXME: describe how to work in svn and give a step by step howto. Potential problems for translators Remark from Holger: I'm curious to learn if distributed translating and commiting the .po file into svn works, that is, if svn automatically merges correctly. Also we will need to write sed-scripts (or something like that) to support different images for different translations. Laters :) Please report any other showstoppers. AboutDebianEdu Welcome to DebianEdu / Skolelinux! Architecture See http://developer.skolelinux.no/arkitektur/arkitektur.html.en. FIXME: Copy http://developer.skolelinux.no/arkitektur/arkitektur.html.en over here and and mention the source in an extra paragraph or is adding Petter to the authors enough? Requirements * a computer or two * harddrive space requirements varies between profiles, but any disk with more than 8 GiB will be sufficient. As always, more disk space is an advantage. * whatnot Installation Download an installation media for Debian-edu etch rc4 The multiarch dvd ISO image is 4.4 GiB large. To download it, use either of these methods: * ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-etch-amd64-i386- powerpc-DVD-rc4.iso http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-etch-amd64-i386 -powerpc-DVD-rc4.iso rsync ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-etch-amd64-i386-power pc-DVD-rc4.iso or for the netinstall cd you can download for i386 * ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-etch-i386-netins t-rc4.iso http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-etch-i386-netin st-rc4.iso rsync ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-etch-i386-netinst-rc4 .iso and for amd64 * ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-etch-amd64-netin st-rc4.iso http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-etch-amd64-neti nst-rc4.iso rsync ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-etch-amd64-netinst-rc 4.iso The powerpc port is still under development, and are currently not officially a supported part of Debian-Edu. The architecture have been reported to work. Its available for download at http://ftp.skolelinux.org/cd-etch-test-powerpc/debian-edu-powerpc-CD-1 .iso. The netinst installation will fetch some packages from the CD and the rest from the net. The amount of packages fetched from the net varies from profile to profile: * Main server: X of X MiB downloaded * Main server and Thin client server: 595 of 1059 MiB downloaded. Installation options When you do an Debian-Edu installation you have a few options to choose. But don't be afraid, there aren't many. We have done a good job hiding the complexity of Debian during the installation and beyond. Though, DebianEdu is Debian, if you want there are more than 15000 packages to choose from and a billion of configuration options. But for the majority of our users, our defaults should be fine. * normal graphical installation is the default on i386 and amd64. The powerpc installer does not support graphical installation. Enter FIXME at the bootprompt to do a text-mode install. * debian-edu-expert boot option adds the barebone profile to the profile options, and switches to manual partitioning. Enter "debian-edu-expert" (REALLY/FIXME?) at the syslinux/yaboot prompt to enter expert mode. * Choose a language (for the installation and the installed system) * Choose a time-zone * Choose a keyboard keymap (usually the countrys default is fine) * Choose a profile, explain those here (FIXME) + server + workstation + terminal server + standalone * say yes to automatic partioning, it will destroy the data on the harddrives! * say yes to partman * wait * be happy Screenshot tour through an i386 main-server installation HowTo The HowTos from http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ are either user- or developer-specific. Let's move the user-specific HowTos over here! Other topics the documentation should cover, not neccessarily in the HowTo Chapter though :) LDAP Setup /etc/ in svk modify Kiosk mode Flash Java Sound & Video Thin Clients vs Half-Thick Clients printer managing Firewall setup (coyote linux) LTSP in detail Maintainance Updating the software document how to use aptitude upgrade / kde-update-notifier are cron-apt and apt-listchanges installed and configured? Backups document slbackup-php / give pointers Monitoring give pointers to munin doc Upgrades Upgrades from Debian-Edu sarge FIXME: document known any issues here! Upgrades from older Debian-Edu / Skolelinux installations Upgrades from the woody based Debian-Edu / Skolelinux installation are not supported. Upgrade to the sarge based version first, a howto can be found at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/UpgradeFrom1.0 Contribute Resources FIXME, for now some basic pointers: * http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu * http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu * #debian-edu on irc.debian.org Translations wanted FIXME how to help / translate explain how to help debian-edu explain how to help debian / upstream Join a local debian-edu team FIXME: in Norway, Germany, France, Spain (the region of Extremadura). start a new local debian-edu team FIXME: "isolated" contributors and users in schools exist in Greece, the Netherlands, Japan and elsewhere. Meet up for beer or coffee and form a new Debian Edu local team! Support volunteer based support professional support -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
