Re: encrypted root fs on a slug and crypto-modules

2008-02-24 Thread Rick Thomas
I don't know how much load you're going to put on your proposed Kerberos KDC, but the extra CPU load placed on it by encrypting the filesystem may make it unresponsive, given the Slug's not-very-fast CPU. Let us know how it turns out. Rick On Feb 24, 2008, at 1:42 AM, Anders Lennartsson

Re: Print server on nslu2

2008-01-18 Thread Rick Thomas
It probably depends heavily on what else you've got going on in the background. The Slug is tightly memory constrained and consequently prone to swapping. CUPS (and the things it calls to do its job) can take a lot of RAM. Rick On Jan 18, 2008, at 7:10 AM, Sam Reed wrote: Strangely on

Re: ARM installer images for etch (4.0) currently broken

2007-12-27 Thread Rick Thomas
OK! 4.0r2 has been announced! Has anybody tried installing it on a slug yet? Rick On Dec 20, 2007, at 1:49 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Jake McGraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-19 11:47]: Has this been addressed yet? Can we get a time frame for 4.0r2? The current target date is December

Re: ARM installer images for etch (4.0) currently broken

2007-12-27 Thread Rick Thomas
Cool.. Thanks, Martin, for all your efforts! This is a really great Solstice gift. Rick On Dec 27, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-27 13:51]: OK! 4.0r2 has been announced! Has anybody tried installing it on a slug yet? Yeah, I just

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 24, 2007, at 5:21 AM, John Winters wrote: Assuming the answer is yes, then how about this as a plan? Create a 10G partition on each disc. Combine with RAID1. Use as /. Create a 1G partition on each disc. Combine with RAID1. Use as swap. Create, say, a 100G partition on each disc.

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 24, 2007, at 6:04 AM, John Winters wrote: John Winters wrote: [suggestions on disc usage] Apologies for following up to my own post, but thinking more about the question it struck me that it's a bit silly to layer LVM on top of RAID0. Apart from maintaining symmetry it doesn't seem

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 23, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Andrew Haswell wrote: can you give me some advice as to what partitions to create, can i get away with just root and swap or is it worth considering more granularity. I will install Debian on 1 HDD to start and add the other in after, mirror the debian

Re: Best USB stick for the slug

2007-09-20 Thread Rick Thomas
Are you swapping to the USB stick on this slug? If so, it may not be the right medium for you. The Flash RAM used in USB sticks has a lifetime limit of approximately 100,000 - 1,000,000 write cycles [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_state_drive] If you're not swapping, you should

Re: ARM installer images for etch (4.0) currently broken

2007-09-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks to Rainer and Wouter for this workaround! Q: How does one invoke the expert mode in the unofficial image for the NSLU2 installer? Essentially, Rainer's instructions invoke expert mode the hard way, but if there's an easy way to get into expert mode right from the start, I'd like to

Re: NSLU2 clock drift

2007-05-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 18, 2007, at 6:00 AM, Marcus Better wrote: Hi, my NSLU2 (266 MHz) has a problem with timekeeping. I run ntp, but it doesn't help - the clock drifts at least fifteen minutes a day. Did I miss something obvious? My kernel is 2.6.20-1-ixp4xx. Marcus Marcus, If you're running

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