Random tidbits Bdale thinks are worth documenting.
Bdale Garbee
bdale@gag.com
Subscribe to a syndicated feed of my weblog, brought to you by the wonders of RSS.
Thu, 25 Mar 2004
Helping with Debian Installer
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...
[/bdale/debian] permanent link
Now That's a New One...
While I've smiled for a lot of photographs at speaking engagements around the
world in the last year or three,
to the best of my knowledge Elizabeth Gordon-Werner is
the first person who ever painted me during one of my talks. Pretty cool.
She has the
painting
of me online, along with lots of others from this and other events at her
Art Smitten site.