Re: [Server-devel] moodle howto?

2009-07-21 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:51:24PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Did you edit the XS install pages recently, perhaps? Yes, I got stuck on the installation because a step was missing. The "Install using kickstart" option is not present until you get past the first boot prompt. I mentioned that

Re: [Server-devel] Newbie problems

2009-07-21 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/22 Varun Arora : > I am a ICT consultant working in the South Pacific Islands. Sorry if you > guys are tired of reading newbie problems. But I had a serious concern with > installation of XS in a pilot deployment in Niue: > > I installed all packages including MySQL DB, X Window System, GNOM

Re: [Server-devel] Newbie problems

2009-07-21 Thread Varun Arora
Thanks Sameer. I think I shall give a shot at 0.6d2. I was just told to stay away from non-stable releases. Varun 2009/7/22 Sameer Verma > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Varun Arora wrote: > >> Hey Anna, >> >> Thanks for that. Yes, I did the yum groupinstall all of them. >> Unfortunately,

Re: [Server-devel] Newbie problems

2009-07-21 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Varun Arora wrote: > Hey Anna, > > Thanks for that. Yes, I did the yum groupinstall all of them. > Unfortunately, GNOME fails to log me in as a root or just another user. So I > reverted back to command-line. I don't know why that instability. Maybe its > specific

Re: [Server-devel] Newbie problems

2009-07-21 Thread Varun Arora
Hey Anna, Thanks for that. Yes, I did the yum groupinstall all of them. Unfortunately, GNOME fails to log me in as a root or just another user. So I reverted back to command-line. I don't know why that instability. Maybe its specific to me. MySQL works well after the install. (It was just funny t

Re: [Server-devel] Newbie problems

2009-07-21 Thread Anna
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Varun Arora wrote: > > I installed all packages including MySQL DB, X Window System, GNOME etc. on > installation of XS 5.2. Unfortunately, after installation I tried to run > MySQL and it did not run. It was not installed. X Windows did not seem to > installed. I

[Server-devel] Newbie problems

2009-07-21 Thread Varun Arora
Hey XS Dev team, I am a ICT consultant working in the South Pacific Islands. Sorry if you guys are tired of reading newbie problems. But I had a serious concern with installation of XS in a pilot deployment in Niue: I installed all packages including MySQL DB, X Window System, GNOME etc. on insta

Re: [Server-devel] moodle howto?

2009-07-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
Very stale! You should just install the XS-0.6 betas I've published, Moodle in included there and works out-of-the-box automagically. Did you edit the XS install pages recently, perhaps? cheers, m On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > I found http://docs.moodle.org/en/OLP

Re: [Server-devel] Graphci card

2009-07-21 Thread Reuben K. Caron
Henry, You should be able to complete the installation using a text based install. At the boot screen select the boot option press tab and add 'text' at the end of the line to request the text-based installer. Regards, Reuben Henry Vélez Molina wrote: Hello we have an incompatibility betw

[Server-devel] moodle howto?

2009-07-21 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
I found http://docs.moodle.org/en/OLPC_XS_installation However, I have a vague recollection that XS Moodle is set up with Postgresql. Are the instructions stale or shall I follw them? -- American? Vote on the National Initiative for Democracy, http://votep2.us __

[Server-devel] taming a fresh 0.5.2 install

2009-07-21 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
There is some DNS dysfunction. I can ping external sites (e.g. laptop.org) from the schoolserver. I can ssh to the schoolserver from my laptop. However, I cannot ping external sites from my laptop. I am using a USB EV-DO CDMA adapter to connect to the Internet. When it connects, it creates a pp

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] GPA Goals Status

2009-07-21 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Greg Smith wrote: > Hi Walter, Caroline and Dave, > > Looking at the list of main goals for GPA > (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Goals), I see two top > priority items: > > - Collaboration > - Backup and restore > > I think the first is done. That

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: [IAEP] Sharing Images in the neighborhood - Buddy Tag

2009-07-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:25, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> Can you extend on that? I think we need to extend telepathy-gabble a >> bit to add buddy tagging. Or are you referring to regular jabber >> groups? > > Regular jabber groups. Once you ma

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: [IAEP] Sharing Images in the neighborhood - Buddy Tag

2009-07-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Can you extend on that? I think we need to extend telepathy-gabble a > bit to add buddy tagging. Or are you referring to regular jabber > groups? Regular jabber groups. Once you make a group of users (a course in Moodle parlance) then the Nei

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: [IAEP] Sharing Images in the neighborhood - Buddy Tag

2009-07-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:42, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Caroline > Meeks wrote: >> Hi Server people, >> >> I wanted to make sure the server people saw this Buddy Tagging >> proposal as it might be something that could be more easily >> accomplished with Moodle's hel

Re: [Server-devel] moodle admin policy again

2009-07-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > I remember replying to your mail at > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2009-June/003590.html > but I can't find the response anywhere so maybe i was dreaming :) > The solution you propose there sounds good. I remember it too. Per

Re: [Server-devel] fixing the installation instructions

2009-07-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > I just had a go at fixing the page: > http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=XS_Installing_Software&diff=212755&oldid=212729 > Please review. Thanks! Makes sense. (I've been away for a few days as you've probably noticed. Now I am trying to g

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: [IAEP] Sharing Images in the neighborhood - Buddy Tag

2009-07-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Hi Server people, > > I wanted to make sure the server people saw this Buddy Tagging > proposal as it might be something that could be more easily > accomplished with Moodle's help. Good point. I don't know Kartik Rustagi, and have no idea i

[Server-devel] moodle admin policy again

2009-07-21 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Martin, I remember replying to your mail at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2009-June/003590.html but I can't find the response anywhere so maybe i was dreaming :) The solution you propose there sounds good. I am now dealing with a similar situation in Nepal. In this case I thi