[Server-devel] installing a school server

[Martin Langhoff]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin at pobox.com> wrote:
> I finally got a reasonably fast internet connection at our school in
> India (BSNL EV-DO). I would like to try to install the school server. We
> have 15 XO laptops.

Excellent.

> Just to get something working, I installed Ubuntu with
> Squid/Dansguardian. I have about 200Gb of hard drive and 2G RAM. Can I
> get an ext2 image of the school server and load it on a logical
> partition? I prefer to store anything important on LVM+RAID1. Does the
> school server understand this disk format?

Yes, but you will need to tweak the kickstart file on the image (no
"do your own partitioning" option yet, sorry). By default, the XS
install CD will wipe the disk and setup an LVM (w/o RAID).

cheers,



m
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