Well, lots has happened since my last post, it included this little todo list:
- OPLS Site
- Canning Town Mapping
- GM maps script
- Laptop setup
- Desktop setup
- Server 4.2->4.4
I have completed 3 of these 6 tasks.
The server migration from 4.2 to 4.3 was a massive undertaking, since I wanted to do a completly fresh install. The backup itself took almost 12 hours (several of which I was asleep for). I also wished to revise the partitioning scheme, since it was organised very inefficiently:
A bit of manual sector tweaking (a spreadsheet is so useful to do this!) with disklabel later, some hairy growfs and newfs commands, a bit of file juggling, and I was left with this:
Much better! The OpenBSD 4.3 install was painless, as usual, and the system was soon back up and running. All that remained was to manually merge any config changes, but I’ll do most of them as I come across problems! LambdaMOO also required a quick recompile, but nothing too strenuous with that!
The Lappy and Desky machines are working well now, too. The desktop setup hasn’t changed very much, if at all, and the laptop now has Ubuntu (yuck, yuck) running on it. My excuse for not running Open is lack of wifi drivers, my excuse for not running Free is lack of simple netboot installs and/or blank CDs, my excuse for Fedora is that it just felt a little odd and I couldn’t get the wifi to work quickly. Ubuntu just worked out of the box (/netboot install)!
Another annoying thing is that sshing to the server over wifi doesn’t work. It just hangs before authentication, oddly it works fine over eth0 and putty works well over wifi, another ubuntu oddity.
(Post backdated to time originally written, published 10 days late!)