[Gllug] Request for Help with Community Project - Installing and Supporting Edubuntu (Linux) in Youth Centre

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 02:22:17PM +0000, Alex McMahon wrote:
> 
> I am working as part of a group who are setting up an 'internet room' 
> in Putney Vale Youth Centre (London). We have 5 computers which we will 
> be installing Edubuntu onto. However we are concerned that without a 
> small amount of ongoing support the computers will gradually become 
> outdated, degrade or stop working. 

Or get rooted, or exploited by the local users. Whatever solution you
go for, I'd recommend ensuring you have a failsafe 'kickstart' ability
to do equiv of a bare-metal install at any time. A box running a combo
of DHCP/PXE/Apache would be able to serve as a network boot & install
server, reducing the task of re-install to simply reboot & hold down
F12 for network boot. 

Dan.
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