| 00:04.16 | simonrvn | sourdough: how do you get quik to do its thing from a /boot partition again? i'm replacing my boot drive, and made a /boot partition, and / is XFS |
| 00:10.23 | demon | heh... lemme look at my setup on my 7500 |
| 00:12.35 | demon | simonrvn: on my 7500, I have my quik.conf in /boot, partition= has the number of the /boot partition, and the kernel paths are rooted in the /boot partition (i.e., strip off /boot), because quik doesn't understand symlinks |
| 00:12.52 | simonrvn | mine does |
| 00:12.57 | demon | those are the only changes I had to make |
| 00:13.07 | simonrvn | grok symlinks. i have a woody built one that does. backported |
| 00:13.18 | demon | and /etc/quik.conf is a symlink to /boot/quik.conf |
| 00:13.20 | demon | ah |
| 00:13.21 | simonrvn | if you want it, you can go fetch it |
| 00:13.27 | simonrvn | ok |
| 00:13.35 | simonrvn | sec |
| 00:13.56 | simonrvn | deb http://simonraven.nuit.ca/src/debian sid main |
| 00:13.57 | simonrvn | deb-src http://simonraven.nuit.ca/src/debian sid main |
| 00:14.12 | simonrvn | should be in woody-quik or something |
| 00:15.03 | *** join/#debianppc _mechanix (~carlos@200191165154-dial-user-ECP.acessonet.com.br) |
| 00:15.20 | simonrvn | ok, thank you |
| 00:15.38 | _mechanix | hi! |
| 00:15.44 | simonrvn | hi |
| 00:15.55 | _mechanix | i have a doubt |
| 00:16.50 | _mechanix | in my ppc , i only have a dialup connection...........slow for doing dist-upgrades and such........there's some way that i can download updates on other debian machine and then move then to my ppc box via CD or ZipDisk (examples) ?! |
| 00:17.07 | _mechanix | my g/f has a debian machine with a 256k xDSL |
| 00:17.21 | simonrvn | sure. or set up an apt-proxy on the other machine, and get them from there, or a squid proxy |
| 00:17.45 | simonrvn | but i'd suggest either sneakernet or apt-proxy |
| 00:18.13 | shadows | shame there's no easy way to dump the URLS of the packages it would download |
| 00:18.19 | shadows | that'd be easiest... take text file |
| 00:18.24 | shadows | use wget |
| 00:18.33 | _mechanix | the machines are apart , there's no eth connection between them |
| 00:18.55 | simonrvn | uh, internet? :) |
| 00:19.14 | simonrvn | ok, now to do this quik thing |
| 00:19.17 | _mechanix | explain :-) |
| 00:19.25 | simonrvn | see above |
| 00:19.45 | _mechanix | my ppc only can connect to internet via a dialup 56k connection... |
| 00:20.02 | shadows | null serial? |
| 00:20.07 | shadows | zip bang boom |
| 00:20.10 | _mechanix | and my g/f lives on another neigborhood , an i386 debian/w2k |
| 00:20.29 | shadows | hm |
| 00:20.49 | shadows | yeah i think it's about time to get a script hacked together |
| 00:21.32 | simonrvn | sounds like it |
| 00:21.44 | simonrvn | _mechanix: do the sneakernet thing then |
| 00:22.11 | _mechanix | i want to download the ppc packages my box need on that machine , burn a cdrw and get them on my ppc box , like dropping them on /var/cache/apt/archives |
| 00:22.17 | _mechanix | sneakernet !?!?! |
| 00:22.18 | _mechanix | ;/ |
| 00:22.34 | simonrvn | sneakernet is what you're describing |
| 00:22.43 | simonrvn | @+dict sneakernet |
| 00:22.46 | ravenbird | Dictionary 'sneakernet' (3 shown; 4 total): Also called tennis-net, armpit-net, floppy-net, shoe-net, walk-net, foot-net. ;; /snee'ker-net/ Term used (generally with ironic intent) for transfer of electronic information by physically carrying tape, disks, or other media from one machine to another. ;; "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with ma |
| 00:22.46 | ravenbird | gtape, or a 747 filled with CD-ROMs.". |
| 00:25.15 | _mechanix | apt-get --print-uris dist-upgrade!? |
| 00:25.18 | _mechanix | that? |
| 00:25.49 | simonrvn | demon: ok, so i've done this so far: cp quik.conf to /boot, edited partition= to say 7 (which is the partition number is for the /boot partition, and root= is /dev/sdd7. that sound ok? |
| 00:26.14 | simonrvn | _mechanix: ask shadows, he mentioned the urls thing |
| 00:27.51 | simonrvn | demon: and i've edited the image= lines to say vmlinux* instead of /vmlinux* |
| 00:28.28 | simonrvn | ...not yet |
| 00:32.45 | simonrvn | demon: does quik itself have to be in /boot too? |
| 00:41.30 | simonrvn | demon: quik likes absolute paths for the symlinks, segfaults otherwise |
| 00:49.13 | simonrvn | i think i'll add this to the quik howto |
| 01:11.45 | sourdough | simonrvn /etc/quik.conf -> /boot/quik.conf pretty much it |
| 01:12.24 | sourdough | simonrvn quik binary need not be in /boot |
| 01:14.58 | core | foad |
| 01:15.05 | core | sourdough, my new job sucks :( |
| 01:16.36 | sourdough | :( |
| 01:19.11 | simonrvn | sourdough: cool, thanks |
| 01:19.15 | simonrvn | demon: thanks |
| 01:19.35 | simonrvn | core: hi. too bad your job sucks |
| 01:19.49 | core | i know... :/ |
| 01:19.50 | core | sup? |
| 01:20.37 | simonrvn | moving my / to another drive... |
| 01:20.46 | core | cool |
| 01:20.47 | sourdough | i managed to get a $44,000 CAT5e network installtion approved |
| 01:20.55 | simonrvn | sourdough: w00t |
| 01:21.04 | core | sourdough, nice :) |
| 01:21.11 | core | my old sysadmin did the same |
| 01:21.19 | core | he was like there's no way in hell i'm wiring this myself |
| 01:21.30 | sourdough | thats what we said |
| 01:21.39 | core | i would for $40k |
| 01:21.54 | simonrvn | not by myself i wouldn't ;) |
| 01:21.57 | core | shit i should just start wiring offices a couple months |
| 01:22.02 | core | and then take off the rest of the year |
| 01:22.15 | sourdough | they make 60 an hour generally |
| 01:22.22 | sourdough | for ours 28000 of it is labor |
| 01:22.26 | core | it's not half as bad as wiring 500+ nodes with ethernet and myrinet |
| 01:22.28 | sourdough | well estimated.. |
| 01:23.20 | sourdough | now just need to get a $12,000 raise.. |
| 01:23.26 | sourdough | or so |
| 01:23.32 | core | that'd be nice |
| 01:23.57 | core | i have a psycho boss who is the wife of the president of the company.. she fires people randomly every other day |
| 01:24.07 | sourdough | oh fun |
| 01:24.09 | core | i think she's either on some sorta drugs |
| 01:24.13 | core | or needs mental care |
| 01:24.18 | simonrvn | ouch |
| 01:24.20 | core | but she runs the company.. |
| 01:24.29 | core | i think her family has all the money or something |
| 01:24.38 | core | she's also really racist |
| 01:25.09 | simonrvn | ugh |
| 01:25.16 | core | like my new roomate is a guy we hired from china... has a PhD in computer science... she doesn't like him because he's from the wrong province in china or something |
| 01:25.29 | core | i don't plan to stay any longer than i have to |
| 01:25.39 | simonrvn | i wouldn't |
| 01:26.05 | core | i dunno for some reason i still have a job... but i imagine as soon as i create the distro they'll can me |
| 01:26.15 | core | it's a lot easier than it used to be |
| 01:26.29 | simonrvn | how so? |
| 01:27.08 | core | better resources and less expectations |
| 01:27.14 | simonrvn | nods |
| 01:27.14 | core | it's just an RHEL rebuild atm |
| 01:27.23 | simonrvn | ugh :/ |
| 01:27.23 | core | i'm trying to get them hooked on ROCKS |
| 01:27.31 | core | since they insist on RHEL based |
| 01:27.40 | simonrvn | ok |
| 01:27.42 | sourdough | RHELL |
| 01:27.46 | core | personally i wanted a KlusterKNOPPIX |
| 01:27.48 | simonrvn | yeh |
| 01:27.53 | core | OUR HELL |
| 01:27.54 | core | ;) |
| 01:27.54 | simonrvn | AFK, bbiab |
| 01:27.57 | simonrvn | hehe |
| 01:28.06 | core | yeah i need to get some cigs |
| 01:30.05 | core | doh! no ciggies |
| 01:30.20 | core | Beamish Irish Stout |
| 01:30.24 | core | aye laddies |
| 01:30.55 | core | also have to mess with this Clustermatic that LANL makes |
| 01:31.01 | core | it uses LinuxBIOS and Bproc |
| 01:31.03 | core | ugh |