[clue-tech] Things I learned at installfest.

[Mike Bean]

Sorry I missed it.  Might be fun to bring my ESXi server to one of those.
It has to stay ESXi, but we can put as many VM's of any flavor we want as
its got capacity for.

Mike Bean

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 5:50 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>wrote:

> We had a relatively small installfest--only 10 or so.  We could have used
> more help though, there
> were some time consuming problems and no one to hand them off to.
>
> There was an old Compaq laptop that requires software to get to the BIOS.
>  Normally the first disk
> partition contains that.  Since we didn't have that we had to get their
> utilities to build bootable
> floppies.  Luckily we had a box with a floppy drive and Windows to make
> them.
>
> But the laptop didn't have a floppy.  So we used Linux to rip the images
> and then (later) built a CD
> with both images.  Since they were floppy images it was easy to put both of
> them on a CD and use
> ISOLINUX to boot them.
>
> There was a PCLinuxOS 2007 box that needed a wireless driver built.  That
> turned out to Just Work,
> although it wasn't obvious how to get the module loaded at boot (no,
> /etc/modules didn't work).  My
> guess is that rebuilding the initrd might help.
>
> It's nice to be reminded that some things are a lot easier on new hardware
> or new distros.
>
> We also installed openvpn on a Sheeva plug.  We didn't fool with RSA keys
> for authentication so
> there were some changes needed to make it work in static key mode but it
> wasn't too hard.  The
> howtos for openvpn are pretty good.
>
> Thanks to everyone who came, and those who would have rather been with us
> than wherever they were.
>
> Dave
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