Donating 500 F/OSS Computers to Schools... SATURDAY!! (Pizza & Schwag from Mozilla!!)

[Andrew Fife]

Hi Aaron:

>What sort of infrastructure are you setting up? LAN + Ubuntu
>mirror in each location? Modified CDs with a central preseed file? A
>dhcp+tftp setup for PXE booting?

Yes we are setting up an Ubuntu mirror in each location and using a boot
CD that installs from that mirror with a default configuration.

PXE booting is not consistently supported in different hardware,
especially old hardware... and nearly all of the systems are late 90s
PIII.

-Andrew

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-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Porter [mailto:atporter at primate.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:57 PM
To: Andrew Fife
Cc: bad at bad.debian.net
Subject: Re: Donating 500 F/OSS Computers to Schools... SATURDAY!! (Pizza
& Schwag from Mozilla!!)

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:11:50PM -0800, Andrew Fife wrote:
> We're trying to donate 500 Ubuntu computers to Bay Area schools this
> SATURDAY... and we need your help!

	What sort of infrastructure are you setting up? LAN + Ubuntu
mirror in each location? Modified CDs with a central preseed file? A
dhcp+tftp setup for PXE booting?