[Koha] Live DVD (Was: Master-password (katikoan) and Live-DVD

[Chrispin Simasiku Sitali]

Like I said before, after learning about Koha and linux using the Live DVD
first Mizstik's *Koha Live* CD then Vimal Kumar's. After doing several
installations and gaining enough confidence and experience I am able to
install Koha in most linux distros. I remember the embarrassment of asking
for a Live DVD at KohaCon12 during the Hackfest! All this is behind me now.
At my institution, Charles Lwanga College of Education in Southern Zambia
we now have Koha 3.12 in Debian Wheezy which I installed with no problems
at all except for tinymce2 that Koha grumbled about but was able to install
from http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/tinymce2 and then
ftp.uk.debian.org/debian<http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tinymce2/tinymce2_2.1.3-1_all.deb>
afterwards
installed the tinymce2 deb package using GDebi package installer.


On 22 May 2013 11:00, Mirko <5p4m at gmx.de> wrote:

> Chrispin,
>
> Chrispin Simasiku Sitali schrieb am 22.05.2013
> > Well, to be honest I really benefited from Live DVD. I am a librarian who
> > had no prior experience about linux. The live DVD assisted me a lot to
> > learn about Koha itself and the internal plumbing of linux. I am a self
> > taught koha and linux user. I remember at KohaCon12 in Edinburgh,
> Scotland
> > asking MJ and Chris Cormack about the possibility of a Koha Lived at the
> > conference. No, was the asnswer. Thanks to Mr Olugbenga Adara of Nigeria
> > and to my own persistence I taught my self. So it was the Live DVD, the
> > Koha mailing list and my own willingness to learn.
> >
> > So if you ask me today, I am able to install Koha on a server with GUI or
> > not, configure them properly for LAN or internet access and do training.
> I
> > introduced Koha in all the teacher training colleges under the Ministry
> of
> > Education, including the three new universities Nkrumah, Mukuba, NISTCOL
> > and at the National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA),
> >
> > I wouldn't strike the Live DVD off. Its a very nice tool to begin with,
> so
> > please dont shoot it down!
> >
>
> thank you very much for sharing your positive experience! I'm happy
> that you were able to learn thanks to the Live DVD. I'd love to read
> more experiences like yours if people have them. :)
>
> It is not my intention to shoot down the Live DVD. If it is used to
> actively learn your ways around the system (Koha and GNU/Linux) that
> is fantastic and exactly the way I would like to see it used.
>
> What I consider problematic is to encourage its productive use as a
> long term option. Not only will it lead to outdated systems, but
> also to problems regarding community support, as it is not used by
> developers and there might be problems specific to the DVD.
> I would love to see Live DVD users teach themselves and later switch
> to a regular installation, but I am under the impression that this
> is more of an exeptional case than the rule.
>
> I just realized that you answered offlist, so I will answer directly
> to you too in case you did not want to share your experience on the
> list. I encourage you to send it to the list though, so others can
> read it too. :)
>
> -- Mirko
>
>


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