This page should describe the steps needed to turn a debian etch installation into a debian-edu etch installation.

the description

Add the following two lines to /etc/apt/sources.list

 deb http://ftp.skolelinux.no/skolelinux etch local
 deb-src http://ftp.skolelinux.no/skolelinux etch local
 
 #
 # You can also use etch-test instead of etch. 
 # etch-test is what is "unstable" in Debian, quoting http://www.debian.org/releases/ 
 #   "The «unstable» distribution is where active development of Debian occurs. 
 #   Generally, this distribution is run by developers and those who like to live
 #   on the edge." 
 # So use etch-test at your own risk! 
 # See http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/ArchivePolicy for more information.
 #

Create a config file /etc/debian-edu/config, this is needed by debian-edu-install the file must contain at minimum a PROFILE entry profiles can be "Thin-Client-Server" "Workstation" "Main-Server"

#example from a thin-client-server
NONINTERACTIVE="true"
PROFILE="Thin-Client-Server"
LANGCODE="nn_NO:nn:no_NO:no:nb_NO:nb:da:sv:en_GB:en"
LOCALE="nn_NO"

As root, run

 apt-get update
 apt-get install debian-edu-archive-keyring
 apt-get upgrade
 apt-get install debian-edu-config debian-edu-install

Comment from HenningSprang: somehow, even if I installed the keyring package, I got messages about non-authenticated packages.

FIXME: it is necessary to install some other binaries built from the source package debian-edu - it needs to be checked which ones exactly

Make sure you have enabeled update-hostname with a file called /etc/default/update-hostname, and run it with /etc/init.d/update-hostname restart. This ofcourse assumes that you are in a working Debian Edu enviroment (debian-edu bind), If you are actually installing a main server try setting the hostname to tjener.intern manually.

#/etc/default/update-hostname
ENABLED="true"

install the tasks using

aptitude install education-tasks

Install all the needed education-* packages, using tasksel install ... For ldap and homedir access you will need education-networked and education-common.

Comment from HenningSprang: For example for getting to a mainserver (not checked if that is fully working, but services are running now), I did:

tasksel install education-main-server

After you have installed the tasks you can execute the cfengine run (as root)

 # this require the fqdn in the /etc/hostname, that update-hostname provides. 
 cfengine-debian-edu -D installation

Restart all kinds of services, or simply reboot the box.

Check the debian-edu installation (as root) to assure everyting is working like the Debian Edu developers expect it to to be:

 # untested, needs confirmation. (If you do this and this works, please remove this comment.)
 debian-edu-test-install

comments from trying to work by this documentation

Comments from RonnyAasen testing this

Successfully converted a Debian etch install into a Debian Edu Workstation using these instructions

Comments from HenningSprang testing this

(The script below is probably outdated, I've got stuff working as described above, I kepp it for some time in case some interesting stuff is missing. This paragraph can be removed after 2008-01-01 if the above description is tested to work well without any additions)

My current "buildscript" is as follows - but I am not yet there to have a really working main server yet, there is some more stuff missing, and I have to find out what's needed: