[Koha] Fwd: Can anyone help a new Koha user?

[Arslan Farooq]

Did not include Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz, but later thought my reply may
help someone else. So...

Stewart, I think you should include Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz in the Cc
because may be another person may read your message and be able to help you
or answer your questions better than me.... for example the part about
whether to install and run Linux from a Flash drive. I hope now someone may
answer you about that, and may be correct me.

And Felix, this may also help you... the part about Live Cds.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Arslan Farooq <arslanone at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Koha] Can anyone help a new Koha user?
To: Stew Wilson <stewartrwilson at gmail.com>


Hi Stewart

I realise you are probably a busy guy, so I don't want to trouble you too
> much.  But what would be helpful is to have someone I can ask a few
> questions.  I can follow detailed step by step instructions - but sometimes
> I just need to know where to start.  If you don't mind, I have a couple of
> questions below:
>

Right now I am at work... it's 7:15pm here... and when I get home I'll
probably have dinner and an hour later go to sleep. But tomorrow or most
probably this Sunday I'll write a step-by-step guide how to install Debian
and Koha according to best of my abilities. That may help others also.


>
> I've been reading about Debian Live <http://live.debian.net/> project.
> From what I understand, I'm able to have Debian installed on a USB drive.
> What I'd like is to be able to have Debian and Koha installed and running
> on a USB drive.  Is this possible?  Is it a good idea?  And if so, which
> version do you think I should be downloading?  I wasn't sure which .img to
> download, so I went with "debian-live-6.04-i386-gnome-desktop.img".  I have
> yet to try to install it!
>

I have not used Debian Live so can't say much about it.

But if you need to try some Live CD why not try a Linux+Koha Live CD like:

First see this: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_LiveCD

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kohalivecd/
http://www.osslabs.biz/koha/livecd
http://www.dlnetsa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63&Itemid=69

And about running Debian and Koha from a USB: I think for short-term plan
it is fine. But for long-term usage not a good idea in my opinion. If I
remember correctly I read somewhere a while ago that flash disks have
limited read/write life cycles and after that they begin to wear out. And a
Linux server (or any sever) constantly writes data to disk (log files etc).
Ask someone more knowledgeable though. I may be wrong. As things have
changed a lot (it's 2012!).

So you decide.

And if you like one of the Linux+Koha Live CDs then you won't need my help
:)

But if I had to help someone with the Debian installation for Koha, I'd
have asked to download this ISO:
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.5/i386/bt-cd/debian-6.0.5-i386-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso.torrent

Anyway, now you'll have to let me know if you want me to write that Debian
+ Koha installation guide *this* Sunday. If you like the Koha Live CDs
(which I think are installable surely), then I may postpone writing the
guide... till some other Sunday :)


If this isn't desirable or workable, that's fine.  Perhaps you could just
> recommend a good Debian build, and a thorough step-by-step installation
> guide?
>
>
Hmm, let me google that for you tomorrow... it's been a long day. Will do
my research tomorrow.


> Thanks so much for your help, the students and I really appreciate it.
>

No problem. I once was also new to Linux. I understand.

arslan




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