[Dextrose] [Server-devel] Regarding my OLPC XS Wishlist

[mokurai at earthtreasury.org]

Abhishek's explanation added to

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nepal_Wish_List#Comments

On Sun, June 5, 2011 11:06 pm, Abhishek Singh wrote:
> On 06/05/2011 09:42 PM, Tony Anderson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I hope we can keep Abhisek in the loop as he has detailed information
>> on the XS version deployed in Nepal. The procedure there is to build
>> XS and release it as an img. The image is loaded to a usb drive
>> (mkusbinstall.sh). This key is used to install all of the deployed
>> school servers.  I have attached the instructions for installing NEXS
>> from the olenepal redmine (slightly edited).
>>
>> I am very internet-challenged (at this campground I arrived on
>> Thursday and used the internet for about two hours and then it died -
>> now on Sunday evening it is working intermittently!), so I think some
>> of my previous comments have not been received. So please be patient
>> if you have read this before:
>>
>> I think the separation of the server into two components XS and XC is
>> very valuable. The XC build should provide a working schoolserver
>> which can be accessed via the LAN from an XO using ssh. With the XS-Au
>> fix for the 'race' condition in kickstart, it should be possible to do
>> this install 'headless' on a server which supports booting from the
>> usb drive when present (and bootable).
>>
>> XC provides the content for the /library partition. However, with
>> Daniel Drake's usbmount scripts XC could be used to install any
>> optional packages such as Dan's Guardian, Moodle (forgive me, Martin),
>> Fedora Commons, Fez, mediawiki, and so on.
>>
>> The netsetup.sh script should be used to configure the WAN network and
>> should not be needed when the school server is not connected to an
>> external network (the LAN network is configured the same in every
>> school as 172.18.0.1). The LAN should be configured for the baseboard
>> (RJ45