[clue-tech] Things I learned at installfest.

[Mike Bean]

Nice!

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Brian Gibson <bwg1974 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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