From cef1cadca6aff62e6d6a9d041c847315700080bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bdale Garbee Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:01:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] post --- .../posts/Helping_with_Debian_Installer.mdwn | 30 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 bdale/blog/posts/Helping_with_Debian_Installer.mdwn diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/Helping_with_Debian_Installer.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/Helping_with_Debian_Installer.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4cc0e79 --- /dev/null +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/Helping_with_Debian_Installer.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +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 +Debian Installer +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 APC +Masterswitch remotely-controllable power switch, a +Cyclades +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 +conserver +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]] -- 2.30.2