Hi David,
Well, I had an excellent day with LTSP (for a change). I had been booting
from a cd and was thinking there was a lot of work to get the clients to
boot from the network. Wow was I wrong. Sort of stumbled upon it by
accident that all it takes is changing the boot order in the bios. So, I
went through about ten machines and all except two are booting directly to
the network.
Then the boss (the owner of the school started using the lab from an old
Dell client station and was blown away with how fast it was. It used to be
so slow. Well he was so impressed he started dragging every pc and laptop
out that he could get his hands on and I got about 8 abandoned machines
going.
But the best story was when I came across two basically stripped out pcs.
They had no hard drives, no memory, holes where the floppy used to be, and
no history about what was wrong with them. I found a proper memory stick
and threw it in one and started it up. Wouldn't you know it went right into
a network boot in a snap. I had never done a diskless machine before and
tonight I got my first two built. Way cool.
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:40 PM, David Amormino <david.amorm...@microvu.com
> wrote:
> Robert,
>
> I hope someone else can comment on Moodle and the MX180 PC for you. I
> have no experience. Perhaps e-mail this list with a new Subject.
>
> Thank you for your encouragement; I am somewhat uncomfortable updating the
> Wiki due to inexperience, but I may try.
>
> It has been easier for me to work with LTSP on a 10.04 server than on a
> 12.04 server. I keep running into undocumented issues on 12.04, so I stick
> with 10.04 which is a shame. I think the new Unity interface is the
> biggest cause of these problems on 12.04. Otherwise, 12.04 supports newer
> hardware and applications better than 10.04.
>
> We have been running 25 users on LTSP for about 4 years in a production
> manufacturing environment.
>
> -David
>
>
>
> On 08/11/2012 08:32 AM, Robert Lefebvre wrote:
>
> Hey David,
>
> Hey hey hey HEY!
>
> Yes! That worked like a charm!
>
> I have four test stations set up and rebooted all of them and got the
> menus :-)
>
> Your instructions worked flawlessly! Thank you so much!
>
>
> Adding this to the wiki is an excellent idea because I Googled for a long
> time and wasn't able to find anything. It may be because it is a difficult
> issue to describe in a short search phrase. I suggest you splatter the
> article with as many variants as you can.
>
> Suggestions:
>
> Edubuntu 12.04 No menu
> Edubuntu 12.04 No menu after login
> Edubuntu 12.04 Desktop but No menu
> Edubuntu 12.04 Desktop but No menu after login
>
> Edubuntu 12.04 No Ubuntu admin bar
> Edubuntu 12.04 No Ubuntu admin bar after login
> Edubuntu 12.04 Desktop but No Ubuntu admin bar
> Edubuntu 12.04 Desktop but No Ubuntu admin bar after login
>
> Edubuntu 12.04 No menu or Ubuntu admin bar
> Edubuntu 12.04 No menu or Ubuntu admin bar after login
> Edubuntu 12.04 Desktop but No menu or Ubuntu admin bar
> Edubuntu 12.04 Desktop but No menu or Ubuntu admin bar after login
>
>
> For clarity on the wiki let me mention that my lts.conf was already there.
>
> It had
> [default]
> LDM_THEME=edubuntu
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
> LDM_LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
>
> NOTICE (maybe mention in the wiki) there are no quotes in all the current
> code. Your code worked with the quotes but I also tested w/o them and it
> won't work w/o quotes. A strange result.
>
> So, yes, I am using Edubuntu 12.04. It is at a small private school in
> Winter Park, Florida (just north of Orlando). It is a school for special
> needs kids and I'll be doing a couple of courses there on building computer
> games. The owner's wishes are to get them equipped with applicable skills
> and hopefully I'll be able to get them typing, doing basic graphics, simple
> coding etc along the way to building a game that they will acquire those
> skills.
>
> I am definitely a Moodle fan so that will be my next step (to install
> Moodle). Now my research seems to indicate that Edubuntu will not have a
> conflict with Moodle. I was concerned there would be because there will be
> two servers running (I don't see Apache installed or running). Would you
> have some advice on installing Moodle before I attempt it?
>
> Also, are you familiar with the MX180 PC?
>
> $69
>
> We would need a grant of some type to acquire them but the kids would be
> able to use them to connect to the lab and could take them home to have as
> their own.
>
> http://www.w2comp.com/detail.asp?catid=74585&Pdtid=630954
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 1:12 AM, David Amormino <
> david.amorm...@microvu.com> wrote:
>
>> Are you running version 12.04 of Edubuntu (or Ubuntu)? What you
>> describe is, unfortunately, the normal behavior after installing Ubuntu
>> 12.04 as an LTSP server. It may be true for Edubuntu as well.
>>
>> Try setting the "session" to "ubuntu 2d". At the login screen, go to the
>> bottom left and click on "Preferences". Select Session and change from
>> "Default" to "Ubuntu 2D". You should login with the correct Unity panel,
>> etc.
>>
>> If this works, there is a way to make "ubuntu 2d" the default session for
>> all users:
>>
>> I force this by creating the file /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf
>> with the
>> contents:
>>
>> [default]
>> LDM_SESSION="gnome-session --session=ubuntu-2d"
>>
>> (If you are using a 64-bit client, this file would be
>> /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/amd64/lts.conf.)
>>
>> Please comment because I would like to put this information on the
>> UbuntuLTSP wiki if many others are having this same issue.
>>
>> -David Amormino
>>
>>
>> On 08/10/2012 09:08 AM, Robert Lefebvre wrote:
>>
>> I am a total noob at Edubuntu and even networking in general but I
>> finally managed to get a client to boot and log into the server but when it
>> does the desktop is missing any navigation. There is no icons in the top
>> right that indicate network connection, date, username reboot etc. There
>> are no program icons in the left menu either.
>>
>> There is, however, a folder on the desktop titled "untitled folder". It
>> is filled with the os folders and files.
>>
>> How do I get the client to display programs?
>>
>>
>>
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