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+In between keeping things going at work and hanging out more than usual with
+my kids (who are off from school on spring break this week), I've been trying
+to help out around the edges with 
+<a href="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer">Debian Installer</a>
+this week.
+Probably the most significant thing I've done is to provide access to one of
+my hppa systems so that nightly builds of d-i for hppa can happen.  However,
+trying to help out has finally gotten me to organize "my other rack" in a way
+that testing stuff like this will be easier in the future.
+
+What I've done is to set up a modest test server with a private subnet behind
+it.  The private subnet now has an <a href="http://www.apc.com/">APC</a> 
+Masterswitch remotely-controllable power switch, a 
+<a href="http://www.cyclades.com/">Cyclades</a> 
+16-port serial server, and a growing set of target systems
+representing different Debian architectures.  The server provides DHCP and TFTP
+support for network booting the various target systems, my evolving 
+<a href="http://www.conserver.com/">conserver</a> 
+configuration makes it possible to access serial consoles on 
+each target system, and the Masterswitch makes it possible to power cycle the
+target systems remotely.  There's a bit of security work yet to do before I
+allow anyone else to play, but my intent is to allow other folks working on 
+debian-installer to also have access to this lashup for remote testing of some
+of the less-readily-available system architectures...
+
+My only gripe is that conserver is in non-free.  I'm not entirely sure why,
+though, since the licensing appears at first glance to be a mixture of BSD-like
+with and without advertising clauses.  Time to email the maintainer and ask...
+
+[[!tag tags/debian]]