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| 14:51.36 | toyotafosgate | anyone there? |
| 14:52.19 | toyotafosgate | hello? |
| 15:03.22 | toyotafosgate | ~logs |
| 15:03.23 | jbot | i heard logs is apt/ibot/infobot/jbot/purl all log daily to http://ibot.rikers.org/<channelname>/ where channelname is html encoded ie: %23debian | lines that start with a space are not shown | some channels have stats at http://ibot.rikers.org/stats/<channelname>.html.gz |
| 15:04.29 | jbeez | hi |
| 15:04.33 | toyotafosgate | hey |
| 15:04.49 | toyotafosgate | do u remeember talking to me yesterday? |
| 15:09.21 | jbeez | lets see |
| 15:09.43 | jbeez | yea |
| 15:10.25 | toyotafosgate | yeah so we established that i had my dhcp set up correctly now what's the next step? |
| 15:11.05 | jbeez | so how far does it get? |
| 15:13.24 | toyotafosgate | i can hook up the server to be created and have it boot off dhcp...then go to the image server, bring up my prompt, i select the image i want and then it gets the kernel and image, it goes at this for a while until it gets to a point where it says start_network |
| 15:14.08 | toyotafosgate | then it can't find pre-boot settings |
| 15:14.16 | toyotafosgate | it then trys to boot off dhcp and fails |
| 15:14.29 | toyotafosgate | it is using sit0 instead of eth0 too |
| 15:14.44 | jbeez | what os are you trying to install? |
| 15:17.13 | toyotafosgate | ubuntu server edition |
| 15:20.48 | toyotafosgate | i am using system imager to copy an image from one server to another with an os on it |
| 15:21.13 | jbeez | im trying to read this to find you some answers, http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_pxe_install_server im not normally in here, just trying to learn some things |
| 15:23.52 | toyotafosgate | yeah well thats cool |
| 15:24.12 | toyotafosgate | i appreciate your help |
| 15:28.33 | toyotafosgate | i just need to figure out a way to gibe the server a static ip after the initial setup finishes.. i think appending the kernel parameters would work but i don;t know how to do that |
| 15:28.35 | jbeez | are you reading through that? its a nice little primer, I might try to do it too |
| 15:28.49 | jbeez | how about a static dhcpd reservation? |
| 15:29.17 | toyotafosgate | yeah that might work |
| 15:29.39 | jbeez | I do static reservations for several of my things |
| 15:29.52 | toyotafosgate | i also think that the image is not installing the right ethernet interface though |
| 15:30.04 | jbeez | the ubuntu image? |
| 15:30.10 | toyotafosgate | because it sends out DHCP offers and doesn't get a response |
| 15:30.20 | jbeez | ah |
| 15:30.26 | toyotafosgate | i'm sorry the kernel |
| 15:30.26 | jbeez | what kind of network card is it? |
| 15:31.13 | toyotafosgate | its a intel pro/1000 MT |
| 15:31.35 | jbeez | ah very nice, i use those at home |
| 15:31.43 | jbeez | i have some dual port versions, they work great |
| 15:31.51 | toyotafosgate | yeah they are nice |
| 15:36.08 | toyotafosgate | with system imager i am copying the image and kernel from a different server, they are not same server, but shouldn'e the kernel still have most of the drivers? |
| 15:37.14 | jbeez | well, what if its a kernel module? |
| 15:37.34 | jbeez | the kernel might work with it, but if that driver isn't compiled into the kernel, how is it going to load that network device? |
| 15:39.41 | toyotafosgate | true |
| 15:39.50 | toyotafosgate | so how do i add that driver to it? |
| 15:40.03 | toyotafosgate | i don't know to much about linux or unix |
| 15:40.18 | toyotafosgate | i just started really working with it indepth |
| 15:46.44 | jbeez | hehe |
| 15:47.00 | jbeez | I haven't used linux in a while, im a bsd guy myself, but i started on redhat 4.2 about 8 years ago |
| 15:47.28 | jbeez | you're gonna have to google on recompiling your kernel, I used to do it from command line, but im sure theres some fancy gui for it |
| 15:53.22 | toyotafosgate | ok i'll check that out |
| 15:54.01 | toyotafosgate | i think i know how to set static dhcp so that shouldn't be too bad |
| 15:54.34 | toyotafosgate | now if i figure out how to recompile the kernel where do i find the driver for unix |
| 15:54.54 | toyotafosgate | and can i just add it or do i need to remove the other driver? |
| 15:57.33 | jbeez | the driver for unix? |
| 15:57.38 | jbeez | intel is a well supported card |
| 15:57.55 | jbeez | when I did kernel configs, it was available as part of the kernel source files |
| 15:58.06 | jbeez | I just selected it in a text based menu |
| 15:58.40 | jbeez | make menuconfig |
| 15:59.31 | jbeez | find the driver, choose y to put it in the kernel, m to make it as a module |
| 16:04.03 | toyotafosgate | do you know anything about Sit0? |
| 16:04.19 | jbeez | no, what is that the driver for? |
| 16:04.20 | toyotafosgate | its supposed to be IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling drivers.... |
| 16:04.33 | jbeez | are you on an ipv6 network>? |
| 16:04.40 | toyotafosgate | no thats the weird part |
| 16:07.31 | toyotafosgate | can i edit the kernel after its already been compiled though? |
| 16:08.03 | jbeez | well you can alter the existing config |
| 16:08.13 | jbeez | also |
| 16:08.24 | jbeez | I would think the intel driver was built by default as a module |
| 16:08.40 | toyotafosgate | thats what i would think |
| 16:08.43 | jbeez | you probably just need to move the module over somehow? I donno how that works, is this a special install kernel or a running system kernel |
| 16:09.28 | toyotafosgate | the kernel was creates from an existing server yes |
| 16:10.32 | jbeez | try using a kernel from a ubuntu install disk |
| 16:10.34 | jbeez | ? |
| 16:11.15 | toyotafosgate | but i want to copy the config of the other server.... |
| 16:11.20 | toyotafosgate | i want to replace it. |
| 16:11.32 | toyotafosgate | will the image take care of that by itself |
| 16:11.46 | toyotafosgate | i don't want to have to reconfigure everything |
| 16:11.50 | toyotafosgate | cause its a mail server |
| 16:13.24 | jbeez | not sure, you should install freebsd :D |
| 16:13.26 | jbeez | lol |
| 16:14.22 | toyotafosgate | how does that work? |
| 16:14.53 | toyotafosgate | lol |
| 16:16.00 | jbeez | it works well as a server |
| 16:16.05 | jbeez | you need a mail server? |
| 16:16.43 | toyotafosgate | yeah but i work for a company that does mail hosting and web hosting and its already completely configured |
| 16:16.50 | toyotafosgate | with thousands of accounts |
| 16:16.57 | jbeez | oh |
| 16:17.16 | jbeez | how were the other servers installed? |
| 16:31.45 | toyotafosgate | from scratch |
| 16:31.57 | toyotafosgate | thats why i'm trying to get an imaging system setup |
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| 16:34.58 | jbeez | ah |
| 16:35.15 | jbeez | are all the servers teh same hardware? |
| 16:41.16 | toyotafosgate | no unfortunately |
| 16:41.35 | toyotafosgate | do you think i should just install off the disk and then reimage |
| 16:41.43 | toyotafosgate | that would copy all the config files right? |
| 16:47.51 | jbeez | well |
| 16:48.06 | jbeez | pxe is just the way to install |
| 16:48.21 | jbeez | it sounds like you have some customizations you need to the install media to make it all configured at first bootup |
| 16:55.48 | famousjs | hey...does anyone know a good site for a step by step instruction of how to put Ghost on top of PXE?...like if you typed rdhatimg at the pxe boot promt, it would load up ghost and start imaging with red hat. |
| 16:55.54 | famousjs | *promt |
| 16:55.56 | famousjs | *prompt |
| 16:56.00 | famousjs | too early haha |
| 17:03.07 | jbeez | that'd be nice to have setup |
| 18:45.53 | famousjs | yeah...i need to be able to do that within three weeks for my new job |
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