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<b style="">Debian</b> Project Team,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>First
of all, <b style=""><u>thanks</u></b> you very much
for the final product that you always give to us. We are from <b style="">Montevideo</b><b style=""> City
capital of Uruguay</b>
and we are working at TI area, specifically in Infrastructure and Servers from
several years ago (we are using <b style="">Debian
since Woody</b>). </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>At present we are working for one of
the most outstanding technological project at the country, called Ceibal
Project (<a href="http://www.ceibal.org.uy/">http://www.ceibal.org.uy</a>) (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceibal_project">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceibal_project</a>).<span style=""> </span>In your country this is known like OLPC (<a href="http://one.laptop.org/">http://one.laptop.org/</a>), please view:<span style=""> </span>Next Story/Photo “Uruguay Students in
Artigas”. <span style=""> </span>For your information <b style="">in more than 2000 servers</b> that
currently exist to support the Plan in all country we are <b style="">using Debian</b>. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>One
of our tasks in the Plan is to create images servers, which provide the support
of each School <a href="http://www.ceibal.org.uy/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=177:servidores&catid=40:tecnologia&Itemid=61">http://www.ceibal.org.uy/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=177:servidores&catid=40:tecnologia&Itemid=61</a>).
To develop it we were using “Etch”, “Lenny” and now we are using <b style="">“Squeeze” every day.</b> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>We
have known about the improvements that this new version has like update the
kernel, faster booting, ext4 support inclusion, and control units through
sysv-rc-conf in runlevels and identification devices between others points. <span style=""> </span>All of this had a pleasant result we started
to use a new method of work more strict and orderly.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>On the level control device UUID we focus on doing the
initrd and the current grub2 (grub-pc.) It is on this last thing we would like
to direct a query to the list <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Grub-Devel
</span></strong><a href="mailto:pkg-grub-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org"><pkg-grub-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org></a>
(<a href="http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-grub-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">QA
page</a>) if you enable this medium.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>We have a solution Raid + LVM where generated images to
scale on school servers, both as Lenny as ETCH this methodology applied to
generate the image and then dump the new server where we generated by scripting
the partition / file system and then we added the solution.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>Currently in Squeeze this new device-level control by
UUID, forced us to remove the native UUID server and add to that generated by
the image. Ex: (q-mdadm-create / dev/md0-run-level = 1-raid-devices = 2-uuid =
xxxxx: xxxx: xxxx: xxxxx / dev/sda1 / dev/sdb1) (idem with assemble) this to
initrd level is supported to move from a master image to a server. The problem
is generated by GRUB2 which this procedure is letting us do not dump the image.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>Therefore we disabled the control in Grub2 UUID
(GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID = bring), then update-grub, we generate a new
grub.cfg, core.img, etc etc to not corroborate anything regarding UUID at boot.<span style=""> </span>But to dump the master image to a new server,
this does not boot, limiting the incident in the new boot loader, for that
reason, we use the old package grub (1) holding in Squeeze distribution.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>If you have any comments (we did not
find anything similar in the mailing list) or a special treatment for this
particular point, we appreciate the information, however <b style="">we will continuous very attached to DEBIAN.</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span><b>Yours faithfully,</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><b><span style=""> </span>Gonzalo and Eduardo</b><span style=""><b> </b> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Reference for the Ceibal Plan:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.uruguay-ciencia.com/imagenes/sumario6/0408CEIBAL.pdf">http://www.uruguay-ciencia.com/imagenes/sumario6/0408CEIBAL.pdf</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://one.laptop.org/">http://one.laptop.org/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Ceibal">http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Ceibal</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">“Uruguay (380,000+ given to 1-6
students and teachers, completing the initial objective.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child#cite_note-65">[66]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child#cite_note-bbc-jun-2010-66">[67]</a></sup>
90,000 ordered in 2010 for high-school students).<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child#cite_note-bbc-jun-2010-66">[67]</a>”</sup></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">To consult: <a href="http://www.debian.org/devel/people">http://www.debian.org/devel/people</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Debian QA Group</span></strong></span><span style=""></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:packages@qa.debian.org"><packages@qa.debian.org></a>
(<a href="http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=packages@qa.debian.org">QA
page</a>)</span></p>
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(<a href="http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-policy@lists.debian.org">QA
page</a>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">main:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">
debian-policy </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="FR">Grub-Devel</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="FR"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:pkg-grub-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org"><span style="" lang="FR"><pkg-grub-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org></span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="FR">
(</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-grub-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org"><span style="" lang="FR">QA page</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="FR">) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">main:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">
grub-splashimages, grub2-splashimages </span></p>
<br><br><br>-- <br>A/P Eduardo Gómez<br>Infraestructura - Sistemas<br>Plan Ceibal - CITS<br>Avda. Italia 6201<br>Montevideo - Uruguay<br>Tel.: 601 57 73 - Interno 2210<br>E-mail : <a href="mailto:egomez@plan.ceibal.edu.uy">egomez@plan.ceibal.edu.uy</a><br>