Hello Slugger
Work on our room is going well. We now have 5 Sun stations added so
we are up to 15 computers, but one has a bad HD. We added a nice high speed
Cabletron 24 port switch and connected to the school's LAN, but the schools
connection to the Internet is temporally down. Now for the problems and
questions. Ben and Todd hacked away at it, but for some reason neither RH6.1
nor Mandrake6.1 would not pick up their IP address from the DHCP server.
When booting up they would just hang on the start up waiting to get its
address from the server. After a very long wait it would start up, but not
get it address. The Sun stations boot up fine and get their address. The
Windows machines boot up fine and get their address OK. We have link lights
and continuity, but no IP addresses on the Linux boxes. After checking,
rechecking and rechecking again the configuration with no luck we installed
a static IP address on one box and it works fine. All the computers in the
school use the two DHCP servers and if Linux keeps choking on the DHCP we
can just install static address on the all. Chris Kenyon said he was going
to pull 10 IP address from the server if necessary to make this work. I
really would like to solve this DHCP riddle if at all possible. If any of
you want to help fix this problem please come forward. Just put out an
announcement so maybe others came stop by at the same time to help or learn.
I want to come by just so I can watch and learn(I'm stupid remember).
Please don't think that you are limited by any schedule. If you have the
time to trouble shoot this just go to the school and tell to Office people
that you are a SLUG(they think its cute) and need to get into room 29A. We
still need to install Linux on 4 more machines. We held off until the
schools Internet connection comes back and we can do a FTP install from
another distribution. Ideally it would be nice to get the latest and
greatest installation from the different distributions. This way we could
explore the different distribution's strengths and weakness.
When entering the room starting on you left the second machine and the last
three machines on the end need Linux installed. Someone, I don't know who,
started using X-Men for the naming convention of the machines. Just pick up
the X-Men sheet and pick a name for the remaining boxes. For now the root
password is "slugger." When we get everything up and running we will change
it. Also please set up a visitor account with name "visitor" and password
"visitor."
Does anyone have any Linux posters or ideas to decorate the room?
Also this is a great resource, so would anyone be interested in say meeting
twice a month??? Just a thought.
Rick
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