Re: Debian booth at FOSDEM 2006

Frans, I presume you already know about this; but just in case, put you
in Cc.

You suggested doing babelbox a while back. Do you still want to make
that happen, or should I find another volunteer?

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:10:06AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > "interesting" for visitors to have a look at. Frans Pop already
> > suggested to set up a babelbox (d-i installation looping through each of
> > the available languages that d-i supports), which I think is great, but
>
>
> I will have made a testbed of babelbox at Solutions Linux in Paris
> (Jan 31st-Feb 2nd). Recent news are: the thing now works as of
> yesterday and has good chances to be quite attractive to the eye,
> especially if you can manage to have it display on a large screen of
> with a projector.

Hmm. Getting a projector at the booth might be problematic, due to the
fact that there's not going to be much space to do that (booths are
traditionally placed in a hallway, which isn't much more than 3m wide
anyway...)

Does anyone have a largish monitor?

> Please note that babelbox needs another machine to run. The other
> machine will host the DHCP/TFTP/WWW server needed for the installation
> process (it uses a netboot ISO).

I presume it's going to be faster with a local mirror, too? Or can the
installation use a local CD-ROM for the .debs?

> I recommend setting up a dedicated network between both machines, if
> possible a 1GB network.
>
> The 2006 babelbox runs with the graphical version of the installer so
> it's a bit fancier than 2005 babelbox...:-)

Cool :-)

> Of course, I'll made the material available on my home page on gluck
> as soon as it'll be ready. These are basically two tar files and one
> conf file: one tar for /var/lib/tftpboot, one for /var/www and a
> dhcpd.conf.
>
> I do not use the sounds anymore: this has proven a false good idea as
> noone hears them and it really complicates the setup (getting an
> out-of-the-box working sound on Debian is.....ahem...tricky)..:-)
>
> Last year, the babelbox installed a full desktop system, then opened
> the GDM session automatically, left it opened for a few minutes before
> rebooting in another language install.
>
> I'm not sure I will reconduct this this year. This complicated the
> setup quite a lot and installing a full desktop system is quite long,
> even with a 1GB connection.

We'll see.

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