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Installation for RefugeesOnRails Laptops

Weston Hankins edited this page Apr 23, 2016 · 16 revisions

Installation

  1. First wipe the Disk with dban (unless the disk has already been wiped)
  2. Install Ubuntu normally
    • Use the Desktop Version of Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS 64bit
    • Use English as the machine language
    • Select a keyboard layout matching the physical keyboard on the machine (most likely german)
    • Select to completely erase and install ubuntu, and use LVM as volume manager.
    • If you have an internet connection, activate it so you can download the latest updates
    • Leave the option for 3rd party software off
    • Name: ror
    • username: ubuntu
    • password 123456 (ask student to change the password using command passwd)
    • choose to login automatically (makes life easier)
    • hostname: "ror-CITY-" + number (where number is an unused integer)
    • Do not select disk encryption
  3. Run as the user ubuntu no sudo
    • Click on system settings icon on top right -> Lock -> Lock Screen: choose never (otherwise the screen locks while the script runs, and progress is not visible)
    • wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RefugeesOnRails/machina/master/install-machina.sh | sh
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