How to convert a Debian installation to a Debian Edu installation
The student in Trondheim working with Marius to test Skolelinux on
Rasberry Pi, asked me how I would transform a pre-installed Debian based
machine to a Skolelinux machine. I wrote this script/recipe, that I
hope other can find useful. It is untested so far.
The only missing parts in this recipe is related to partitioning, and
that is too late to do anything about when the machine is already
installed, so I just assume there is enough disk space everywhere. :)
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#!/bin/sh
# Fake a Skolelinux installation by running these commands as root.
# 0. Install etckeeper, to keep track of changes in /etc/ (optional,
# highly recommended)
apt-get install -y etckeeper
# 1. Add skolelinux related APT sources.
cat <<EOF >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/skolelinux
deb http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux wheezy-test local
deb-src http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux wheezy-test local
EOF
# 2. Create /etc/debian-edu/config, for example like this:
cat <<EOF > /etc/debian-edu/config
# Any version string will do, just copy the latest one from an existing
# installation.
VERSION="7.0.0+edua0"
# Or any other profile you want to install
PROFILE="Workstation"
# Language selectoins
LANGCODE="nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:nn_NO:nn:da:sv:en"
LOCALE="nb_NO.UTF-8"
# Should the test suite run after first boot or not?
TESTINSTALL="true"
EOF
# 3. Install debian-edu-install to load preseeding values and pull in
# our configuration..
apt-get install -y debian-edu-install
# 4. Run tasksel to install packages according to the profile specified
# in the config above
# FIXME should divert /usr/lib/tasksel/tests/desktop and new-install
# during the tasksel run to avoid having to manually deselect a few
# options.
tasksel --new-install
# 5. Run cfengine to configure everything that could not be done using
# preseeding.
cfengine-debian-edu -D installation
# 6. Reboot
shutdown -r now
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Please let me know if it work for you, or if you have improvements?
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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