[K12OSN] New installation on an old Server

Tue Apr 24 13:19:47 UTC 2007

Congrats Levi !!!

Happy to hear that all your efforts panned out and in the end your going to be moving to NEW equipment :-)

I haven't worked on Compaq servers for quite awhile, but I do remember that they were very quirky about how they had to configured... not to mention old Compaq DOS...   {8-P

Again, congratulations on your new toys !!!

-ejb

----- Original Message ----
From: "Kemp, Levi" <lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us>
To: Support list for open source software in schools. <k12osn at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:53:27 AM
Subject: RE: [K12OSN] New installation on an old Server

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	{font-family:Arial;color:navy;}  _filtered {margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;} div.Section1 	{} -->       Sorry, I got busy again. Nope, no USB support. I can boot from CD though. It is ok, I got lucky last Friday and Yesterday. We had a meeting at my little office and I had just got the parts in for my personal PC which I had already loaded K12LTSP on before they got here. Got to show them the speed of the clients, which I had one with 256MB, and the other with 64MB to show there was no difference. Showed them the Teacher app and how it was comparable to our current Vision software. We also had a call with Ericom about using our older software and came up with the solution to just use TS Client and Rdesktop. We were going to be paying for Terminal Licenses with Ericom or Citrix or any other “solution”. So basically I just have to come up with the specs/cost of 2 new servers, one for the open lab and one for the library. After all the work I put into fixing that other one
 up, we are going to use it as a file server for Windows Updates ;-) . Hopefully we won’t need that too much longer. Thanks for the help on trying to get that Compaq working everyone.

     Levi

  From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steven Santos
 Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:34 PM
 To: Support  list for open source software in schools.
 Subject: RE: [K12OSN] New installation on an old Server

     You can boot from a CD.  

    Does the server have a USB port?

    Can you boot from a connected USB flash drive?

    Steven Santos
 Director, Simply Circus, Inc.
 Email: Steven at SimplyCircus.com
  Mail: 14 Pierrepont Road
        Newton ,  MA 02462
 Phone: 617-527-0667
   Web: www.SimplyCircus.com 

    -----Original Message-----
 From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Kemp, Levi
 Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:30 PM
 To: Support  list for open source software in schools.
 Subject: RE: [K12OSN] New installation on an old Server
   Well I’m on round three. I’m going with just the array this time, the HD isn’t bootable in this server ;-). It’s hard to get it to boot a CD sometimes. Anyways, I’m setting up the partitions manually again, if this doesn’t work I may try an earlier version. I’ve read people having no problems with fedora core 4. Is there a previous version of K12LTSP using FC5 or FC4? I’m not ready to give up quite yet!

     Levi Kemp
   Technology Specialist
   Bolivar R-I  School District
   417-328-8943
   lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us

  From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of EJBoshinski
 Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:26 PM
 To: k12osn at redhat.com
 Subject: Re: [K12OSN] New installation on an old Server

         From: EJBoshinski <mistrz.linux at yahoo.com>
 To: Support list for open source software in schools.  <k12osn at redhat.com>
 Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:58:28 PM
 Subject: Re: [K12OSN] New installation on an old Server
       Levi,

     The only other thing that I should have mentioned is to make sure that you make the /dev/hdb1 partition as bootable ;-)  Otherwise, your desciption sounds - as they say - sane...  and it sounds like it should go for you!

 Good luck !!

 -ejb
     ----- Original Message ----
 From: "Kemp, Levi" <lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us>
 To: Support list for open source software in schools.  <k12osn at redhat.com>
 Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:22:47 PM
 Subject: RE: [K12OSN] New installation on an old Server
     Yes there is a custom settings button. I’ve got it reading the entire HD as /boot ext 3 and I’ve split the array into / ext3 and a swap. Does that sound correct? There is only one section now, Hard Drives, and there are no LVM. I’m tentative to continue without input because of the amount of time it takes me to get to this point again. Besides I have other work I can do while I wait for a reply. Thanks again.

     Levi Kemp
   Technology Specialist
   Bolivar R-I School District
   417-328-8943
   lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us

  From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of EJBoshinski
 Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:55 AM
 To: Support  list for open source software in schools.
 Subject: Re: [K12OSN] New installation on an old Server

       Levi,

     I don't think that this is exactly what you want.  If you look closely, you will see that LVM is spanning both your array & the IDE drive ( /dev/hdb is your IDE hardrive and it is showing 2 partitions.  You would want it to only have a single partition, /dev/hdb1. Have another go at it and see if you can force the boot partition to consume the entire drive.  I don't have the interface in front of me right now, but I "think" you can do a custom partition setup...

 HTH,

 -ejb

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