Re: [Server-devel] Booting F9 kernels on XO...

2009-04-15 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 12:14 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/4/15 Martin Langhoff : > > - dsd has a nice "fixup F9 for XO" script described here > > > > http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/08/regular-linux-desktops-on-the-xo/ > > > > The script builds a custom 2.6.25 which I think

Re: [Server-devel] Debugging booting problems with F9 on SD card...

2009-04-14 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 20:45 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Martin Langhoff > wrote: > > If I replace the kernel with an OLPC kernel, at least it tries to open > > mmcblk0p1 -- and fails, because the drivers we need are built as > > modules. > > > > Have you had an

Re: [Server-devel] Debugging booting problems with F9 on SD card...

2009-04-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 08:26 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 14:44 +0200, Alexander Boström wrote: > > Maybe something is missing from the initrd. The process of creating it > > is a bit of a mystery to me, but making sure /dev/root is set up right > >

Re: [Server-devel] Debugging booting problems with F9 on SD card...

2009-04-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 14:44 +0200, Alexander Boström wrote: > Maybe something is missing from the initrd. The process of creating it > is a bit of a mystery to me, but making sure /dev/root is set up right > before generating the initrd seems to work. Try this: > The initrd is missing the module

Re: [Server-devel] Debugging booting problems with F9 on SD card...

2009-04-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
I can download the image, or at least the initrd.img, from where? Jerry On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 12:29 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On the mission of getting a XS image running on the XO, I have abused > imagecreator (part of livecdtools) to create an ext3 image based on > the XS ISO we distribu

Re: [Server-devel] Upgrade to 5.2

2009-04-02 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:13 +1100, david wrote: > Hi > > Sorry I have not been able to keep up with things for a few weeks. My > questions: > Yea, me too.. > 1. Can we upgrade to 5.2 using apt-get or such like, instead of having to do > a clean install? If so what is the download size upgradin

Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall link broken?

2009-03-22 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 18:02 +, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:37 AM, John Watlington wrote: > > > > The OLPC web-based git interface was changed, due to security > > holes in the previous one. Unfortunately, links into it still haven't > > been changed. > > > > On Mar 20, 20

Re: [Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

2009-03-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 16:04 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/3/17 Martin Langhoff : > > It's in my plans to have a means to do what you're doing. I was wondering > > about > > > > - a conf.d approach > > - a pre-processor for the .in files that handles ifdef-style blocks > > - whether dnsmasq

Re: [Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

2009-03-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 11:21 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/3/17 Jerry Vonau : > > Guess you missed the part in the README about using an ".in" template to > > make your local changes stick between updates. On a different note, you > > could also use iptables to

Re: [Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

2009-03-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 12:00 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/3/17 Daniel Drake : > > But the iptables idea is a good one, thanks! > > ...but unfortunately the redirect is done by IP, which results in all > services/sites that might be running on the same system as > activation.laptop.org being un

Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall enhancements

2009-02-24 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 14:47 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > Wow, did I have a fun night for once, sorry for the delay in replying. > > :-) > > > That should of read --baseurl=file:///mnt/isodir/updates > > I

Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall enhancements

2009-02-21 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 15:02 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > >> I need to append "method=hd:LABEL=XSRepo:/iso" to the same line, > > > > Can you change this line in the patch from: > > sed -i -e &

Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall enhancements

2009-02-18 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 20:34 -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 15:06 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jerry wrote: > > > User impression doesn't count? ;-) Kind of throws fully automated > > > installs out the wind

Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall enhancements

2009-02-18 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 15:06 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jerry wrote: > > User impression doesn't count? ;-) Kind of throws fully automated > > installs out the window. To support installs to CF or from the network, > > anaconda needs to be patched for F9, is in

Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails

2009-02-15 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 15:04 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:42 PM, David Leeming > wrote: > > Tried with another USB stick - exactly the same result. > > Thanks for writing up carefully the steps you followed... I think I > spotted the problem... > > > SET UP BOOTABLE

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...

2009-02-14 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 15:28 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > I'm seeing the same errors in the install log as Sameer while installing > > on an XO. openssl does not get installed, because uname returns as an > &

[Server-devel] [Fwd: Re: XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...]

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 10:19 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 23:30 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > >> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM,

Re: [Server-devel] Install from NFS server

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 23:09 +1100, David Leeming wrote: > Hi Jerry > > All totally incomprehensible to me! > > David Leeming > Technical Advisor, People First Network, Honiara, Solomon Islands > Alternative email address: leemingda...@yahoo.com.au > You took a shortcut and got burned.. What

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 23:30 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Martin Langhoff > > wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > >>> was with eth0 not showing up. It looks like I am the vict

Re: [Server-devel] Install from NFS server

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 19:03 +1100, David Leeming wrote: > Jerry > > The USB install was prepared for me by someone else, loaded with version > 0.5.0. It worked fine, but the install failed at the final stage due to some > hardware issue which (I am told) is now fixed. > > When the 0.5.1 versio

Re: [Server-devel] Install from NFS server

2009-02-12 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 16:40 +1100, David Leeming wrote: > I am trying to install the server on a machine without CD drive via > NFS server. I have set up the latter and the new machine seems to be > finding the share. But it reports: > > > > “That directory does not seem to contain an OLPC scho

Re: [Server-devel] updates

2009-01-27 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 17:08 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > latest re-roll of anaconda, srpms, rpms and patch used, updated > > mkusbinstall for the XO at: > > > > http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/anaconda/

[Server-devel] updates

2009-01-25 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi Martin: latest re-roll of anaconda, srpms, rpms and patch used, updated mkusbinstall for the XO at: http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/anaconda/ - finds kickstart file without asking where it is... - loader doesn't copy stage2 to RAM - fix compile error re: MD_NEW_SIZE_BLOCKS(size) - ad

Re: [Server-devel] XS 05

2009-01-20 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 14:15 -0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Henry Vélez Molina > wrote: > > Thanks Martin for you answer. > > No problem! > > > We have been trying to install the server via the "Kickstart", but that > > happens when anaconda to start can not d

Re: [Server-devel] Notes about XS on XO...

2009-01-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 14:02 -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > On > > the list of things to try, along with adding the bits needed to > > mkusbinstall for /boot/olpc.fth to boot from the usbdisk. > > > > More later, > > Well, that was sort of productive, the

Re: [Server-devel] Notes about XS on XO...

2009-01-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 21:00 -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 21:43 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > > Just a question, would we be needing a do-it-yourself explanation of the > > > steps involv

Re: [Server-devel] Notes about XS on XO...

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 21:43 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > Just a question, would we be needing a do-it-yourself explanation of the > > steps involved, or are we just going to distribute an image that you > > could

Re: [Server-devel] Notes about XS on XO...

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 19:05 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > > OK lets backup a second, I'm thinking that the OS could be on a SD > > disk/NAND with an external USB harddrive holding most of the write > > intensive directories. thoughts? > > My plan is to use a high quality SD card, not NAND (j

Re: [Server-devel] XO

2009-01-08 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 15:02 -0500, Reuben K. Caron wrote: > Jerry, > > This should jump start you into the right direction: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/No-Fail_Upgrade > > Good Luck, > Reuben > Thanks, I figured as much. > > Jerry Vonau wrote: > >

Re: [Server-devel] Exploding wireless interfaces on your laptop

2008-12-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 11:12 -0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > It was, however, something a lot more mundane. > > This test machine is a laptop, and sports its own wifi gear > (centrino). Our device naming scheme for the pair of devices that the > Libertas appears as is wlanN/mshN. However, the buil

Re: [Server-devel] Amateurish Workaround to Get Bonding to Work With eth1

2008-12-12 Thread Jerry Vonau
Reuben K. Caron wrote: > > Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: >> >>>yum repolist --enablerepo=* >>> repolist: 0 >>> >> ... >> >>> This is on an upgrade from 0.4 >>> >> Doesn't sound good. Some more questions -- >> >> - can you em

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5 Second Attempt at eth1

2008-12-04 Thread Jerry Vonau
Anna wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> OK, I'm out of ideas, lets see if we can configure eth1 without bonding, >> not sure if this is nic driver issue with bonding, or what... >> >> backup the ifc

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5 Second Attempt at eth1

2008-12-04 Thread Jerry Vonau
Anna wrote: > Not having done this before, and after getting syntax errors and command not > found for speed, I googled and edited > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 like so. I figured 100 might be a > good place to start. I haven't tried half duplex yet, but I can if you > think that wo

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5 Second Attempt at eth1

2008-12-04 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > Reuben K. Caron wrote: >> I too am having problems with DHCP (and ejabberd) on XS 0.5. >> >> Let me detail my steps >> >> Appended upgradeany- ran default install >> Restarted >> NICs were swapped. >> Ran xs-swapnics >>

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5 Second Attempt at eth1

2008-12-04 Thread Jerry Vonau
Reuben K. Caron wrote: > I too am having problems with DHCP (and ejabberd) on XS 0.5. > > Let me detail my steps > > Appended upgradeany- ran default install > Restarted > NICs were swapped. > Ran xs-swapnics > > Check var/log/messages found (snipet): > > Dec 4 09:36:58 schoolserver1 dhcpd: Li

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5 Second Attempt at eth1

2008-12-04 Thread Jerry Vonau
Anna wrote: > I tried the XS 0.5 install on another box to see if the LAN issues on my > previous attempt were a hardware problem or something. It's a different > model Dell with 2 nics. > > Here are my notes: > > Basic install from the CD, text mode, default everything. > > Boot up, then: > /e

Re: [Server-devel] Anna's /var/log/messages

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry Vonau
Anna wrote: > Hi Jerry, > > Here's my /var/log/messages as of a couple minutes ago. I reinstalled XS > 0.5 this morning, so it should be *relatively* short. > > http://alabamaxo.org/downloads/anna/messages > > Yes, that is my XS 0.5 test box. At least you know httpd is working! > > Anna > D

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5 - eth1 not coming up

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry Vonau
Anna wrote: > I installed XS 0.5 and am having trouble configuring the LAN. I have 2 NICs > - eth0 to the outside world and eth1 facing the LAN. > > I've read README.networking in /usr/share/doc/xs-config and looked at the > ifcfg scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, but I still can't figur

Re: [Server-devel] how to use swapnic utility

2008-11-23 Thread Jerry Vonau
Eroni Tuiloma wrote: > Where is the script stored and whats the full name of the script as in if i > was to run it would it be something like this /etc/xs_swapnic ? that is the > confusing aspect . > > It's in /usr/bin/ with a "-" not a "_". /usr/bin/xs-swapnics Jerry __

Re: [Server-devel] how to use swapnic utility

2008-11-23 Thread Jerry Vonau
Eroni Tuiloma wrote: > hello . > > I have downloaded xs_server version 0.5 and im stuck at configuring the two > NIC's on the server . How do i go about using xs_swapnics utility . > Iam helping out with a school server in Nauru an island in the south pacific > and this server is part of the pilot

Re: [Server-devel] Setting up XS-0.5 for testing

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > 2008/11/18 Dan Poltawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I'm looking at setting up a simple test rig for playing with the school >> server, and I have the following hardware for use: >> >> * An XO >> * A generic laptop with a wired & a wireless interface and XS-0.5 >> installed >>

Re: [Server-devel] Planning for XS-0.6

2008-11-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Martin Langhoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Of course, >> if you can help a bit and you have other priorities, you can make your >> feature happen in time for 0.6 too (and I'll try my darndest to help!) > > I've been asked in private f

[Server-devel] rpm signing

2008-11-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
Any plans on gpg signing for the rpm packages? That should be in place before you plan on a final release candidate, need the key on the iso and reflected in the repo files. Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists

Re: [Server-devel] iso size

2008-11-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Well, it's gone from xs-release -- why does it show up as active? >>>> Maybe we have to recommend a manual step, but what woul

Re: [Server-devel] iso size

2008-11-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Well, it's gone from xs-release -- why does it show up as active? >>> Maybe we have to recommend a manual step, but what would that be? >>> >> It

Re: [Server-devel] iso size

2008-11-16 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Martin Langhoff >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Spinning hopefully the last one. >> There's a dev11 now in the server, and I think it's The One. But I'll >&g

Re: [Server-devel] iso size

2008-11-16 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Martin Langhoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Spinning hopefully the last one. > > There's a dev11 now in the server, and I think it's The One. But I'll > formally release it tomorrow, I think :-) > > cheers, > > > m Well, the upgrade

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.4 to 0.5 upgrade (vs. reinstall) path

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Think you need change the default selection to one of the top two >> options at the boot prompt(install/upgrade gui/text), you may also need >> to pass 'upgradeany

Re: [Server-devel] iso size

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > The iso size grew from approx 550 to 760 megs, doesn't fit on a cd now.. > > d/l dev10 to have a look.. > didn't run it through mkslim, boot.iso and friends are present Jerry ___ Server-devel mai

[Server-devel] iso size

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry Vonau
The iso size grew from approx 550 to 760 megs, doesn't fit on a cd now.. d/l dev10 to have a look.. Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5 upgrade notes

2008-11-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, since /etc/yum.conf is provided by yum itself, there should of been a >> yum.conf.rpm(olpc?)new file created as not to overwrite our modified one. > > Ok - I&#x

Re: [Server-devel] Getting closer: XS-0.5-dev5 "preview"

2008-10-16 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well there are 2 issues here, that one above and the root cause of having >> named, dhcpd, etc.. fail on firstboot is that olpc-network-config was used >> to call domain_c

Re: [Server-devel] Getting closer: XS-0.5-dev5 "preview"

2008-10-15 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> No, my mistake, I cd'ed into olpc-scripts instead of using the full path to >> call domain_config. :-( > > domain_config should not depend on CWD for its behavi

Re: [Server-devel] Getting closer: XS-0.5-dev5 "preview"

2008-10-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > Grab it and take it for a spin > http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/OLPCXS-0.5-dev5-i386.iso > > SHA1 3b911f1cf92d2f90314b8332ff8d9661a2c145ad > Size 532M > > This preview includes various fixes -- > > cheers, > > > m With the change to OLPCXS, anaconda is no longer fin

Re: [Server-devel] Tying yum to a package "stream"?

2008-10-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
date, this should fail (fall back to the matching one with revisor?) based on the Requires:=, no? Then you would need to release a revised config/pkgs to enable the update to install. I think that should give you enough version control. Just a thought, Jerry Vonau _

Re: [Server-devel] Revisor / yum odd error with f9 updates.newkey repo: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.8-3 is needed by package glibc-2.8-3.i386

2008-10-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > Right now, revisor can build a pristine F9 installer CD but cannot > build a F9 + updates installer CD. > > The problem appears by merely enabling the additional repo in the > stock F9 config files that ship with Revisor. It has also been > reported elsewhere: https://fedo

Re: [Server-devel] Orange Sombrero 9 Released - based on Fedora

2008-09-21 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > One more Software Freedom Day well spent ;-) > > I'm proud to announce a new minor player in the world of insignificant > clones of major, important Free and Open Source Linux Distributions, > > *bling* Orange Sombrero - /based on Fedora/ *bling* > > Orange Som

[Server-devel] ifcfg-mshbond1

2008-09-21 Thread Jerry Vonau
The DEVICE= line for mshbond1 should be mshbond1 not mshbond0 Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] Revisor / yum oddity: anaconda-runtime

2008-09-20 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > Jerry Vonau wrote: >> Martin Langhoff wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Hence the log-file is of interest to me ;-) >>> >>> Sent it in a pri

Re: [Server-devel] Revisor / yum oddity: anaconda-runtime

2008-09-19 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hence the log-file is of interest to me ;-) > > Sent it in a private email :-) > >> Yes, anaconda-runtime needs to exist in the repositories you use. > > Sorry - I should have clarified

Re: [Server-devel] mkslim: shed off XS weight

2008-09-19 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Martin Langhoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> in any case, I've run a quick check >> >> - cp -P does not imply --recursive, so I reverted to -a Yea, I know, that is why the mkdir/cp loop is there. ## selinux doesn't like cp -a ## <<--

Re: [Server-devel] XS activity server

2008-09-14 Thread Jerry Vonau
Douglas Bagnall wrote: > I wrote about this last week on the server-devel list[1], but in > hindsight that was the wrong place to catch people interested in > activities. > > XS 0.5 will make html microformatted indexes of all the activities it > has, localised for whatever languages the activitie

Re: [Server-devel] Couple things I'm looking for help with... (revisor, GPG migration...)

2008-09-14 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > Jerry Vonau wrote: >> Martin Langhoff wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> the --isolinux-cfg helps here, doesn't it? Using ks=hd:LABEL=foo:ks.cfg in >>&g

Re: [Server-devel] Couple things I'm looking for help with... (revisor, GPG migration...)

2008-09-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> the --isolinux-cfg helps here, doesn't it? Using ks=hd:LABEL=foo:ks.cfg in >>> one of the menu items should work

Re: [Server-devel] Couple things I'm looking for help with... (revisor, GPG migration...)

2008-09-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> the --isolinux-cfg helps here, doesn't it? Using ks=hd:LABEL=foo:ks.cfg in >> one of the menu items should work like Chris and Jeremy mentioned... > > Yes it definitely does, thanks! We need

Re: [Server-devel] Work in progress - F9 install ISO

2008-09-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Having had a look at the dvd, the size could be reduced by about 200meg by >>> deleting everything in the /images directory except for stag

Re: [Server-devel] latest XS + ltsp

2008-09-10 Thread Jerry Vonau
David Van Assche wrote: > Hi there, >We are doing a pilot with a bunch of xos and an XS server. I'd like > to be able to add LTSP functionality to the same server, (must be FC9) Cool, someone else that thinks like I do.. > so that it can do that for a couple static computers... do you see > a

Re: [Server-devel] Notes on replacing bridging with bonding

2008-09-08 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Alexander Dupuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I have placed TYPE=Bonding in the ifcfg-bond0 config files, but this is not >>> needed for Fedora 7 or later (it doesn't hurt to have

Re: [Server-devel] Notes on replacing bridging with bonding

2008-09-08 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Alexander Dupuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have placed TYPE=Bonding in the ifcfg-bond0 config files, but this is not >> needed for Fedora 7 or later (it doesn't hurt to have it, though) > > well, I grepped network-functions and ifup-eth

Re: [Server-devel] What's cooking in the XS pot this week (2008-09-08)

2008-09-07 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > Last week, > > - Douglas Bagnall mostly worked on enabling the laptops to update > activities from their local school server, but he also had time to > refactor the registration server and work on the xs-activation > package. > > - Martin worked on F9 - the new Fedora 9

Re: [Server-devel] Work in progress - F9 install ISO

2008-09-07 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> patch to F9's pungi >> http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/diet.patch > > Cool. > > I'm currently using revisor, but only because it knows how to install &g

Re: [Server-devel] Anaconda install - conflicts over ifcfg-eth0

2008-09-05 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: >> Executive version: I am preparing a package that provides an >> ifcfg-eth0 file - and finding that Anaconda overwrites it... >> >> If the package says %config{noreplace} >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 t

Re: [Server-devel] Anaconda install - conflicts over ifcfg-eth0

2008-09-05 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > Executive version: I am preparing a package that provides an > ifcfg-eth0 file - and finding that Anaconda overwrites it... > > If the package says %config{noreplace} > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 then anaconda installs the > file as an .rpmnew file. On the o

Re: [Server-devel] Work in progress - F9 install ISO

2008-09-05 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Having had a look at the dvd, the size could be reduced by about 200meg by >>> deleting everything in the /images directory except for stag

Re: [Server-devel] Work in progress - F9 install ISO

2008-09-04 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Having had a look at the dvd, the size could be reduced by about 200meg by >> deleting everything in the /images directory except for stage2.img and >> re-rolling the iso.

Re: [Server-devel] Work in progress - F9 install ISO

2008-09-04 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Martin Langhoff >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Very rough install CD. It has the packages, but you'll have to install >>> them by hand - >>> >>>

Re: [Server-devel] Work in progress - F9 install ISO

2008-09-03 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Martin Langhoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Very rough install CD. It has the packages, but you'll have to install >> them by hand - >> >> It will be here in about 1hr (transfer from NZ takes its time...) >> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/ot

Re: [Server-devel] Network route for activation time and netblocks for WLAN - 172.18.16.x reaching the XS

2008-09-02 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > Hi Wad, > > It's a good time to sort out our network changes. In our earlier > discussion about activation you mentioned that you suspected that we > had dropped or broken a bit of routing or network configuration for > the XS. Can you give me a bit more background? > > T

Re: [Server-devel] usb drive based installs.

2008-09-01 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Martin Langhoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>grab: http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/mkusbinstall >> Wow, that'

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-09-01 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Martin Langhoff wrote: >>> It is not clear to me how the anaconda team will support installs on >>> embedded systems over serial port. And I have to keep that in mi

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-09-01 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:14 AM, Robin Norwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> The people working on Anaconda are moving towards deprecating the >> text-only installer, if not completely, >> then for most cases. > > Yes, I've seen notes in that direction and discussion on the build

Re: [Server-devel] RFH: Script to make installable USB stick

2008-09-01 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> http://www.archivum.info/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2008-05/msg00016.html >>>>> I'm around for a couple of hours, >>> See the usb based install thread.

Re: [Server-devel] RFH: Script to make installable USB stick

2008-08-31 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Need to see the usb's layout that you had in mind. >>> You were trying to do tree-install or a iso source install? >> I

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-08-31 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Robin Norwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ok, yes, I was confusing what gets installed on the install disc with >> what gets installed on the server! So as far as the stuff installed >> on the server goes, is GNOME or X even needed? > >

Re: [Server-devel] RFH: Script to make installable USB stick

2008-08-30 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Need to see the usb's layout that you had in mind. >> You were trying to do tree-install or a iso source install? > > I'm thinking of applying it to the iso

[Server-devel] usb drive based installs.

2008-08-30 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All: Here is a quick howto: Grab a usb flash drive, I chose a superstore core micro 2gb cost $11.19 cdn, no endorsement just the closest to my house. Insert the drive in to the usb port, mine became usb0 on the desktop, which is sdb1 in /dev. umount it, umount /dev/s

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-08-30 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Robin Norwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I do need anaconda to run the install :-) Anaconda knows how to run a >>> pure text installer if it doesn't find its graphical deps. But the >>> package pulls them in anyway, and pungi isn't smar

Re: [Server-devel] Network address for activation - Fwd: [Techteam] Activating laptops from the school server

2008-08-29 Thread Jerry Vonau
John Watlington wrote: > > DHCP was not recognizing msh0 interfaces brought up after > DHCP was started. Instead of bringing DHCP down/up on every > networking device insertion, you can use a bridge to isolate the > issue. > > DHCP is happy --- it finds all its network interfaces at boot time.

Re: [Server-devel] Network address for activation - Fwd: [Techteam] Activating laptops from the school server

2008-08-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:59 AM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Martin, that shouldn't be needed. >> Somewhere, network_config has gotten screwed up... > > What part of the network setup should cater for 172.18.16.x? Looking > at the installed xs-0.4 I have

Re: [Server-devel] RFH: Script to make installable USB stick

2008-08-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > Jerry Vonau wrote: >> Martin Langhoff wrote: >>> As part of porting the XS to F9 I am moving from using live CDs to >>> anaconda-based installer CDs. This has a fundamental benefit - that >>> you can now upgrade from the CD as well as instal

Re: [Server-devel] RFH: Script to make installable USB stick

2008-08-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Need to see the usb's layout that you had in mind. >> You were trying to do tree-install or a iso source install? > > I'm thinking of applying it to the iso

Re: [Server-devel] RFH: Script to make installable USB stick

2008-08-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: >> As part of porting the XS to F9 I am moving from using live CDs to >> anaconda-based installer CDs. This has a fundamental benefit - that >> you can now upgrade from the CD as well as installing - but a >> downside: there ar

Re: [Server-devel] RFH: Script to make installable USB stick

2008-08-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > As part of porting the XS to F9 I am moving from using live CDs to > anaconda-based installer CDs. This has a fundamental benefit - that > you can now upgrade from the CD as well as installing - but a > downside: there are not easy tools to turn an installer CD into a > boo

Re: [Server-devel] Network address for activation - Fwd: [Techteam] Activating laptops from the school server

2008-08-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > Jerry Vonau wrote: >> OR do you want msh0, msh1, and msh2 on the same bridge? That would >> require editing the BRIDGE= line to be the same bridge device in all >> three ifcfg-mshX files > > Sorry make that read TYPE= > Which reminds me, I m

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-08-27 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jeff wrote: > On 27 Aug 2008, at 4:09 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > >> Jeff wrote: >>> On 27 Aug 2008, at 10:21 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> Why? What's wr

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-08-27 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jeff wrote: > On 27 Aug 2008, at 10:21 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Why? What's wrong with writing the image to a DVD? >> >> Don't worry about the CD :-) > > But I do. I'm worried that you may be applying first world standard

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-08-27 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > Playing with a minimal Pungi kickstart file I get an install CD of > about 500MB. If I add the xs-pkgs dependencies, things balloon to > 759MB, no longer fitting in a CD. My guess is that a good 1/3 of that > is related to the graphical installer and related dependencies wh

Re: [Server-devel] Help test OLPC_XS_169 - RC1 for xs-0.4

2008-08-22 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > Joshua N Pritikin wrote: >> After upgrading, I got this: >> >> Error in named configuration: >> /etc/named-xs.conf:53: open: /var/named/named.root.hints: file not found >> >> It's a broken link: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Server-devel] Help test OLPC_XS_169 - RC1 for xs-0.4

2008-08-22 Thread Jerry Vonau
Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > After upgrading, I got this: > > Error in named configuration: > /etc/named-xs.conf:53: open: /var/named/named.root.hints: file not found > > It's a broken link: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /var/named/named.root.hints > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2008-07-30 06:44 /

Re: [Server-devel] AP with fixed IP address

2008-08-20 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:13 PM, David Leeming > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> To clarify, I am talking about a minimal set up of a school server. Just > > So you are working with a single school server. > > - Is there an ISP / WAN / Internet connection? That will have

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