[clue-tech] Things I learned at installfest.

[Brian Gibson]

well now, that's not nearly as fun as 
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/09/13/how-to-install-145-operating-systems-on-one-pc/





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From: Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com>
To: CLUE technical discussion <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 10:13:11 AM
Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Things I learned at installfest.

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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