[10:52] <dashohoxha> Has anybody tried to install edubuntu using FAI:  http://fai-project.org/  ?
[10:54] <dashohoxha> I would like to install automatically a class of computers with edubuntu, but also preserving the existing windows, which is on the first partition.
[10:55] <dashohoxha> I have tried it and in general it works well, however there are still some problems.
[10:55] <alkisg> Shouldn't those questions be asked in the #fai irc channel instead of here?
[10:55] <alkisg> Or those problems are edubuntu specific?
[10:55] <dashohoxha> Has anybody tried such an installa
[10:55] <dashohoxha> FAI is debian specific
[10:56] <dashohoxha> in debian it works like a charm (as I hear from the others)
[10:56] <alkisg> You had some problems. Are *those* problems, edubuntu problems, or you think they are fai problems?
[10:56] <alkisg> If they are edubuntu problems, then you're right to ask them here
[10:56] <alkisg> If they are fai problems, why not ask in their irc channel instead?
[10:57] <dashohoxha> Probably they are not edubuntu problems, but if somebody has experienced such a thing before and could help to solve them, why not?
[10:57] <dashohoxha> I have asked on fai mailing lists as well.
[10:57] <dashohoxha> But probably they have not tried it on ubuntu.
[10:57] <alkisg> Of course you're free to ask, but if noone here knows fai, then surely noone will answer, while in #fai I'm sure everyone knows it
[10:58] <alkisg> From their site, they say: Installs and updates Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, SuSe, ...
[10:58] <alkisg> So that means they tried Ubuntu
[10:58] <dashohoxha> If nobody answers that's not a problem, I just tried to get help.
[10:58] <alkisg> OK
[11:00] <dashohoxha> Actually I would prefer that some day edubuntu has built in support for FAI, just like it has for LTSP.
[11:01] <dashohoxha> So that it can be used without problems out of the box.
[11:02] <dashohoxha> Their concepts are very similar, they both use DHCP, LFTP, PXE, etc.
[11:04] <dashohoxha> I even had a problem while configuring DHCP, because I didn't expect the configuration file to be /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf
[11:06] <alkisg> You mean that you want a "fai-server" package in Debian/Ubuntu? File a "Request for packaging" in one of those 2 distros.
[11:07] <dashohoxha> No,  would like better support of edubuntu for fai-server.
[11:07] <alkisg> I don't think distros need to support FAI
[11:07] <alkisg> FAI supports distros, not the other way around
[11:07] <alkisg> Does FAI require changes in the distros in order to support them?!
[11:08] <dashohoxha> For example, at the beginning of installation, there are two checkboxes: [ ] Install Unity, [ ] Install LTSP. There can be a third one which says: [ ] Install FAI Server
[11:11] <dashohoxha> The example configuration files provided by the fai-server package probably work well for Debian, but I would like some example config files that work well for edubuntu, and for the scenario that I described above: installing alongside with windows, which is on the first partition.
[11:11] <alkisg> And debian can't be installed alongside windows?
[11:12] <alkisg> I understand about the installer option you said before, but not why edubuntu would be different than debian or ubuntu
[11:12] <dashohoxha> I am sure it can, but probably nobody has tried to do it.
[11:12] <dashohoxha> I don't say that edubuntu would be different from ubuntu.
[11:13] <dashohoxha> But I am interested on installing edubuntu, not ubuntu.