[Server-devel] Newbie problems

[Sameer Verma]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Varun Arora<futuregenious at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hey XS Dev team,
>
> Hey Varun!
>
> > 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:
>
> Great to hear you're in the Niue team - thanks for the work you're doing!
>
> > 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
>
> The XS disk doesn't really include any of those. You can install them
> from online yum repositories after the initial install.
>
> Note that you _do not need mysql_. Moodle will work with PostgreSQL.
> For many reasons, PostgreSQL is a better option for the specific needs
> of the XS.
>

Not to bikeshed or anything, but I was curious about the reasons behind
pgsql.

Sameer


> If you want to use Moodle, grab the packages that will transform your
> 0.5.2 into a 0.6-beta by doing
>
>  yum --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing update
>
> which will install a Moodle that autoconfigures itself. After that,
> upgrade the Browse.xo on the XOs and Moodle will auto-login users
> (that have registered).
>
> > I waited for several hours on the IRC channel for help, but there were
> only
> > a couple of folks on.
>
> The people active around the XS are mostly email-people rather than
> irc-people :-) ask here and we'll come to your help...
>
>
>
> m
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