Today we started to install Debian 5.03 on our new blades. We are installing via preseed so we have to manage that the bnx2x firmware works. It isn’t included in the netinstaller. Also there is a little issue with the cdrom dection (trough ILO2) but the workaround is just easy.
You could find the documentation about it in the wiki here and here. Here is a short exerpt:
1. cdrom could not be found
2. press no
3. choose “manual select”
4. choose “/dev/cdrom”
Today we had a lot of discussions with different contents. All about organisation of different processes. A lot of talk…
But today we have also started with the installation of two “new” OpenVZ servers. Oh, they aren’t “new” in the meaning of high sophisticated hardware. They are new for us because they have 16GB ram and a fibre channel interface. which is really useful for us.
I am documenting the installation because I would like to post it on wiki.openvz.org and/or blog.openvz.org. We think it would be interesting for everybody who is using OpenVZ to know how we are managing our installations.
First facts: We are using Debian preseed, APT-Proxy, our own “add on” repository and Puppet. Well stay tuned!
The idea was to simply enhance the IBM Optical Library, so that a failure message (of an unreadable WORM), will automatically be saved (by a webcam) and then committed (by pressing the “Enter” button). In the following video you can see the Lego Mindstorms NXT hitting the “Enter” button after the failure message appears on the left monitor.
The program which is called by the shell-script on the Debian machine has been compiled and uploaded to the NXT with the NeXTTool.
Link to the NeXTTool on Sourceforge – Link
I have written a short documentation about Debian and preseeding a automatic unattended installation.
Look here ->Documentation
If you have any futher questions, please let me know!
