[Server-devel] Last notice - free XS hardware to good home

2013-05-14 Thread Brian Ghidinelli
Last call before it goes to the recycler... hopefully someone can get this back into action for an OLPC installation or use it for testing? - Last year I took a new server to Kaisisi in Uganda to replace a server that had

Re: [Server-devel] Error Installing XS 0.7 from USB: can't find image #1 on disk

2012-07-28 Thread Brian Ghidinelli
On 7/28/2012 12:20 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: I simply copied the iso to the stick and that worked. See step 4 here: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2012-February/005822.html Sameer, This worked perfectly for me - I think your notes should be added to the wiki as they are more

Re: [Server-devel] Server rec for Kasiisi (Brian Ghidinelli)

2012-07-25 Thread Brian Ghidinelli
On 7/25/2012 8:18 AM, Tony Anderson wrote: The MSI has one ethernet port so that connection to the internet (WAN) will require a usb-ethernet adapter. Also, it is not possible to make a headless install on the MSI so that a monitor (vgb) and a keyboard (usb) will be needed to install XS.

Re: [Server-devel] Server rec for Kasiisi

2012-07-24 Thread Brian Ghidinelli
On 7/24/2012 10:02 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: Which hardware notes are you referring to? Thanks for the suggestions, the environmental reqs I saw here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Server_Hardware#Environmental Brian -- http://about.me/ghidinelli

[Server-devel] Server rec for Kasiisi

2012-07-23 Thread Brian Ghidinelli
Hi all, I'm leaving for Uganda next Monday and will be volunteering for a couple of days at Kasiisi. Apparently nobody knows the password to their server and it has stopped functioning as they expect it to. They have about 200 laptops. They would like me to bring a new server with me

Re: [Server-devel] Server rec for Kasiisi

2012-07-23 Thread Brian Ghidinelli
Thanks for the fast reply Reuben - the folks on the ground were unable to get me anything other than a serial number from the existing box. I assume 4 years later that the models are different anyways. For their deployment size, which of those models would be the best fit? I believe they