Re: [Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?

2012-01-31 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I met Tony Anderson in Haiti, and again at the San Francisco OLPC Summit in late 2011. He prevailed upon me to spend some time trying to figure out how to rebase XS on a more recent Fedora Core. Yesterday I also started

Re: [Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?

2012-01-31 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I met Tony Anderson in Haiti, and again at the San Francisco OLPC Summit in late 2011. He prevailed upon me to spend some time trying to figure out how

Re: [Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?

2012-01-31 Thread George Hunt
Jerry, The pointers you gave were just too juicy. I used the olpcxs-pungi.ks to gather fc16. The ISO was 650MB. The ISO pungi generated wanted to do a GUI install even though I specified text in the KS.cfg. But the Packages folder did not include any Xorg stuff. I spent time last night trying

[Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-01-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Like others, I'm interested in moving the XS to a newer OS base. My key motivation for this is that the Foundation Zamora Teran (OLPC Nicaragua) is having difficulty buying servers for new schools being added to the project - Fedora 9 is too old to support this hardware. For the next XS

Re: [Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?

2012-01-31 Thread George Hunt
Hi Daniel, I share the Centos 6.2 dream. I didn't find pungi in the Centos repository, compiled it to rpm from source, and discovered that pungi wanted anaconda 16, but Centos is stuck at anaconda 14. Maybe we can find someone who knows how much work is involved in upgrading anaconda, or

[Server-devel] openVPN on the XS

2012-01-31 Thread Sameer Verma
Hello Serverheads! We've been using openVPN on the XS in India (http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com) and Jamaica (http://olpcjamaica.org.jm). OpenVPN runs in client mode on the XS and phones home to public IP server. We have a couple of laptops with appropriate keys that also run in the client mode.

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-01-31 Thread Abhishek Singh
On 02/01/2012 01:15 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, Like others, I'm interested in moving the XS to a newer OS base. My key motivation for this is that the Foundation Zamora Teran (OLPC Nicaragua) is having difficulty buying servers for new schools being added to the project - Fedora 9 is too