[clue-tech] Installfest hotwash, 090321.

[David L. Anselmi]

We had a really good installfest today.  14 people came and we seemed to 
have enough helpers for the projects that needed help.

David Willson did the Free (as in freedom) lunch again, with a great 
explanation that demonstrated how Free software works using pizza.

I worked on making a bootable thumb drive with unetbootin but didn't get 
it to boot on my laptop or a DeVry box.  Zach got it to work on his 
laptop so maybe some BIOSs are more finicky, or I was doing something 
wrong.  I'll keep working on it.

I saw projects on wine, CIFS (using PAM for automounting, gutsy), and 
MythTV.  Zach had an embedded board that looked cool.  Wasn't doing 
anything yet but it was laid out so you could see all the parts.

Aaron is teaching himself xen (good stuff to know, my office is starting 
to think about that).  He moved his LVM and boot partitions to RAID-1, 
pretty easy[1].  But update-initramfs didn't pick up the md modules so 
it wouldn't boot.  Luckily it was easy to fix from the Ubuntu live CD, 
even if he had to learn more about how Linux boots than he wanted.  I 
really enjoyed working with someone who was interested in digging up 
answers rather than just re-installing.

All in all a great way to spend the first Saturday of spring.  And DeVry 
didn't kick us out by 3pm when things wound down so that's nice to know 
for those who can't come out first thing in the morning.

Dave

  1) 
http://www.howtoforge.com/set-up-raid1-on-a-running-lvm-system-debian-etch