Seven members including myself left Douala by 8:30am saturday moment and we arrived Sokolo, Limbe sometime around 10:30am. Michel welcomed us warmly and we got down to work immediately (though most of the members had little or no knowledge about Open Source softwares).

Our Objectives were:

• Learn to know each other to better work together in the future in our quest to make Open Source softwares better known in Cameroonian hinterland by forming Open Source groups which help each order and work together.
• To exchange information and putting in a place a structure in Douala under the tutorship of Mr. Samo, a resident in Bekoko whom Michel met in Switzerland through a South African friend By now each and every one of knows what is demanded of him and what contributions he may make to foster Linux Friends.
• To install a machine with an Open Source operating system - Debian and Ubuntu including the recommended packages needed to run a Center in Douala to help foster the development of Linux Friends. So michel cloned one of his servers, briefed us on projects like - ltsp: linux terminal server project - Moodle: the e-learning software -mediawiki: a wonderful project used by WIKIPEDIA to develop educational programs.
• To disseminate the Open Source movement and make it as cheap as possible for Local Network creations - Michel expressed his likeness for LTSP but x2go is his dream Terminal Server project.
• To work together with other Open Sorce groups like Ubuntu-cm and Mr. Nacer Adamou from Yaounde who is also a promoter of the movement.

PROBLEMS:

1. Michel expressed his wish for a 100Mbps Switch because of 10Mbps Hubs are not meeting expectations and are getting old.
2. Mr. Samo and the Douala group need to setup a network but lack devices like ethernet cables, RJ45 jacks, a Hub/Switch and Crimping tools to start the first Littoral Branch.

&&&&&&&&&&&&--'Server Cloning Tips'--&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
First lessons started with hardware configurations i.e Michel showed us how to connect the monitor to the Central Processing Unit with cables then he went on to show us how to clone a server.


He used a Live CD Puppy version to start the cloning. First we checked its properties.


FOR ltsp installations it is always recommended to have 2 ethernet cards - one for internet and another for intranet connections.


For cloning to be done we do not need internet connection.


N/B eth1 is on-board card while eth0 is internet.


We can only clone a smaller disk to a bigger one and not vice versa.


It is imperative that the clone should have exactly thesame partitions as the original disk.

1.step copy the original on a usb hard disk in our case, the usb hard disk is mounted on /mnt/sda1


so dd if=/dev/hda1 of=hda1


now write the dis we want to clone dd if=hda1 of=/dev/hda1


repeat the same for hda5


when this is finished install grub on the new disk mount new hd disk in our case on /mnt/hda1 cd /mnt/hda1 make a chroot chroot /mnt/hda1 and install grub grub-install /dev/hda it seems very easy but it tool us many time be careful dd can have mistake

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