Posts Tagged ‘linux’
Linux server installed with Oracle pre-requisites, in 15 minutes or less.
January 1st, 2010 | 
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This video demonstrates the power of PXE booting, and automating Operating System installation with Red Hat Kickstart and similar technologies.
The raw footage is 13 minutes. Which is actually quite fast, but is rather boring to watch.
The video has been edited to demonstrate the little amount of interaction required to meet Oracle pre-requisites, when these pre-installation requirements have been automated.
The stuff that has been edited for time, follows.
1) The long boot process: system scanning SCSI bus and RAID controllers; basic self tests on hardware.
2) Startup of the RedHat installation: it takes a few minutes for all of the disk and hardware drivers to load.
3) Data partition formatting: the largest volume took well over a minute to complete formatting.
Presentation:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love PXE Booting.
Slides and configuration examples available:
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~wolfe21
Kickstart examples available:
http://opensource.marshall.edu
Track is Nine Inch Nails, 3 Ghosts I, from the Ghosts I-IV album. Ghosts I-IV is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. http://ghosts.nin.com
Duration : 0:3:59
Posted in preboot execution environment | 
Tags: automated install, Kickstart, Kickstart HOWTO, linux, Linux server, network install, Oracle, pxe, PXE boot, pxelinux, pxelinux HOWTO, RedHat, RedHat Enterprise Linux, RedHat Linux, RHEL | 
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Linux on Slim Playstation 2
[updated]!
PlayStation 2 slim console booting Linux. This is done with MegaMan’s kernel loader and deba5er’s BlackRhino Linux distribution.
On slim consoles the kernel will NOT work with Linux installed on USB, it will crash and freeze all the time. Mouse / keyboard work, mass storage does not.
You need to have the Linux distribution stored on a network share (I have a NSLU2 NAS). Also network boot is quicker than the USB 1.1 ports on the PS2.
I am using kloader and the linux kernel from
http://kernelloader.sourceforge.net/linux.html
The initrd and distribution from “windows share boot files” at:
http://www.ps2.nuclearfall.com/
DVD from original PS2 Linux kit is needed to get sound working.
Duration : 0:2:8
Posted in network booting |
Tags: blackrhino, kernelloader, linux, Playstation, PS2, PStwo, SCPH-75006, Slim, Sony |
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,`\ 100% Puppy Linux /`, Sub-128 MB Linux Distro
Demonstration of Puppy Linux Dingo 4.0
Specs on the machines:
Thinkpad 600X (P3-533 with ~512MB)
Dynex Wireless PCMCIA card
Thinkpad 760EL (P-133 with 64MB)
no USB, serial/parallel ports,
BIOS does not support booting from CDROM drive.
I demonstrate wireless connectivity and playback of a music video from youtube with the 600X.. Puppy Linux instantly recognized my card, and found my router, hooking up to router was very easy.
On the second machine, I just demonstrate a graphics program, as I wasn’t able to connect to the Internet, nor anything else of significance. I have a zip drive somewhere, and could have used that, but if I was desperate, maybe I could get it to work.
The program used to boot the 760EL, since it’s bios doesn’t support booting from anything other than floppies (which I didn’t have a drive for), and Hard drives, note it does support booting from a network (a feature that isn’t popular these days).. But I had to look around for a program that would permit me to boot from a cdrom, the program I found is:
Smart Boot Manager
Google it.. Or go here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/
You can use Smart Boot Manager to boot any operating system, even windows install disks.. So its a good thing to have especially if you have an old BIOS.
To get Puppy Linux, go here:
http://www.puppylinux.org/
Duration : 0:18:45
PC boots over the network using LTSP
This video shows an old 233mhz Compaq desktop with 32mb ram booting linux without an drive, just using the ethernet card over the network from a server running Redhat and LTSP. As you can see, it boots very fast and works as fast as the server.
Duration : 0:0:35
Posted in network booting |
Tags: hdaalz, linux, LTSP, network, project, server, terminal |
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Fog Project: Modified PXE Boot Menu
Short video showing the modified PXE boot menu to include the ability to select 3rd party applications and run them over PXE.
Duration : 0:1:11
Deployment of BOSS GNU/Linux in various Govt. organisations Palakkad, Kerala.
Bharat Operating System Solutions
BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) GNU/Linux distribution developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) derived from Debian for enhancing the use of Free/ Open Source Software throughout India. BOSSGNU/Linux – a key deliverable of NRCFOSS has upgraded from Entry level server to advanced server. It supports Intel and AMD x86/x86-64 architecture. BOSS GNU/Linux advanced server has unique features such as Web server, proxy server, Database server, Mail server, Network server, File and Print server, SMS server, LDAP server. BOSS GNU/Linux advanced server is comprised with administration tool such as webmin which is a web based interface, Gadmin, PHP myadmin, PHP LDAP admin, PG admin.
more details visit: www.bosslinux.in
Duration : 0:5:17
Network Planning, Kindle Tricks and a Linux Network …
This week Matt continues his series on IT Infrastructure planning. Shannon has a bundle of Kindle tricks, and Darren’s amped about a USB boot key that network insalls popular Linux distros.
Duration : 0:24:23
Posted in network booting |
Tags: admin, boot, easter, hacks, infrastructure, IT, kindle, linux, networking, planning, sysadmin, systems, tricks, USB |
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Booting Ubuntu Live CD over PXE and Network
Wach the bootup of Ubuntu Desktop over the network. Heck of a process.
I’m in the process of making a tutorial on how to PXE boot systems, if you are interested.
Duration : 0:5:0
Damn Small Linux Network Boot
a DSL boot over the network. just copied the initrd.gz from the CD and put it on the tftp server.
Duration : 0:1:39
Damn Small Linux Network Boot
a DSL boot over the network. just copied the initrd.gz from the CD and put it on the tftp server.
Duration : 0:1:39