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Would like to talk to someone that has mass deployed Edubuntu on Acer Netbooks in a K-12 school district.* We are running into many problems using FOG.* Our main issue is after the image is clone all we see on the screen is a blinking cursor.*
It appears that FOG and Ghost do not work well with Edubuntu.* Can you please tell me what others are using?

*

Thank you,

*

Ryan Kelley

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Kickstart for the initial vanilla install (+ puppet client) and then Puppet takes over for configuration.


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Would like to talk to someone that has mass deployed Edubuntu on Acer Netbooks in a K-12 school district.* We are running into many problems using FOG.* Our main issue is after the image is clone all we see on the screen is a blinking cursor.*
It appears that FOG and Ghost do not work well with Edubuntu.* Can you please tell me what others are using?

*

Thank you,

*

Ryan Kelley

Belding Area Schools

kelleyr@bas-k12.org





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There is a group of teachers/schools in Maine who you might want to talk to.
http://open1to1.org/

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Would like to talk to someone that has mass deployed Edubuntu on Acer Netbooks in a K-12 school district.* We are running into many problems using FOG.* Our main issue is after the image is clone all we see on the screen is a blinking cursor.*
It appears that FOG and Ghost do not work well with Edubuntu.* Can you please tell me what others are using?

*

Thank you,

*

Ryan Kelley

Belding Area Schools

kelleyr@bas-k12.org





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Clonezilla?

My own approach is "tar czpf /backup/path/edubuntuclone1.tgz ."

Do this from the installation root directory (works better when the system
to be cloned is shut down, boot from rescue image of your choice) and you
end up with a single file to be restored anyplace else. Change hostname and
so on to match your intent.

Restore with "tar xzpf edubuntuclone1.tgz" into the new, blank, filesystem root.

Andy Figueroa

On 07/18/11 13:55, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> There is a group of teachers/schools in Maine who you might want to talk to.
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> Would like to talk to someone that has mass deployed Edubuntu on Acer
> Netbooks in a K-12 school district. We are running into many problems
> using FOG. Our main issue is after the image is clone all we see on the
> screen is a blinking cursor. It appears that FOG and Ghost do not work
> well with Edubuntu. Can you please tell me what others are using?____
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> Thank you,____
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>
> Ryan Kelley
> Belding Area Schools
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If I remember my clonezilla experiences correctly, I think the blinking cursor problem was a symptom of hard drive geometry differences. IOW, look for problems associated with pata vs sata, size of the hdd, or where the partitions begin/end.

Or, maybe look here: They suggest using sysprep before cloning windows:
http://www.edugeek.net/forums/o-s-deployment/35425-fog-awesome.html

-peter

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Caroline Meeks <caroline@meekshome.com> wrote:

There is a group of teachers/schools in Maine who you might want to talk to.
http://open1to1.org/


On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Ryan Kelley <kelleyr@bas-k12.org> wrote:









Would like to talk to someone that has mass deployed Edubuntu on Acer Netbooks in a K-12 school district.� We are running into many problems using FOG.� Our main issue is after the image is clone all we see on the screen is a blinking cursor.�
It appears that FOG and Ghost do not work well with Edubuntu.� Can you please tell me what others are using?

�

Thank you,

�

Ryan Kelley

Belding Area Schools

kelleyr@bas-k12.org





�





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Ryan Kelley wrote:


Would like to talk to someone that has mass deployed Edubuntu on Acer
Netbooks in a K-12 school district. We are running into many problems
using FOG. Our main issue is after the image is clone all we see on
the screen is a blinking cursor. It appears that FOG and Ghost do not
work well with Edubuntu. Can you please tell me what others are using?


I usually use dd, but it is easy to make mistakes. I have also used this
method with complete success:

http://www.greenfly.org/tips/filesystem_migration.html

However, these were for single copies. A friend of mine devised a method
using scripts and rsync to clone drives in a geometric progression, i.e.
first one drive to two, then two to four, and so on. Her used this to
update his school computers.


Cheers, Theo Schmidt

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Theo's filesystem_migration page triggered a memory. A couple years ago I also tried to use Norton Ghost to clone and had blinking cursor issues. The problem was ghost didn't support cloning grub which I was using for my double-boot system. In fact, I'm under the impression that ghost may not work with linux at all. To fix it I booted each computer with knoppix and reinstalled grub (as in Theo's webpage).
Now I use clonezilla for one-off jobs and the drbl live cd for entire labs.http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-SE.php
-peter

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Theo Schmidt <theo.schmidt@wilhelmtux.ch> wrote:


Ryan Kelley wrote:




Would like to talk to someone that has mass deployed Edubuntu on Acer Netbooks in a K-12 school district. �We are running into many problems using FOG. �Our main issue is after the image is clone all we see on the screen is a blinking cursor. �It appears that FOG and Ghost do not work well with Edubuntu. �Can you please tell me what others are using?






I usually use dd, but it is easy to make mistakes. I have also used this method with complete success:

http://www.greenfly.org/tips/filesystem_migration.html



However, these were for single copies. A friend of mine devised a method using scripts and rsync to clone drives in a geometric progression, i.e. first one drive to two, then two to four, and so on. Her used this to update his school computers.





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