Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-19 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: >> Anaconda will not automatically find the old install if its older than >> release-2, you will need to pass upgradeany at the boot prompt if you go >> with F14. > > Good point -- thank

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > So -- going back on the traffic we've see in the last 24 months, what > would you highlight? What have people asked for (that wasn't > easy/trivial/possible)? What problems have we heard that were hard to > diagnose...? Thanks for the idea

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:12 AM, rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: > The Fedora 13 ARM port is intended to be a complete a port as possible and > should have the bits required as a base for the XS. Excellent news! > I hope you keep the Fedora RPMs as RHEL6/CentOS6 do not support ARM. My sincere hope

[Server-devel] Pungi features - (was: Is pungi the preferred composer for installers?)

2011-01-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > Pungi is what is used for the install images released by the Fedora Project. > So for install images it makes sense to use that tool. Thanks! So we turn to trying to do what I used to do with revisor, which I am not sure pungi supports -

[Server-devel] Journal and Google

2011-01-19 Thread Jan Zawadzki
There are API's for working with Google Docs, that's not the problem. We can do the sync with the XS in the middle - so rsync to XS, and native Google API's to Google. Challenge is in syncing up the individual machines directly to Google Docs without the storage being replicated on the XS. The u

[Server-devel] OLPC XS Installation detail guide

2011-01-19 Thread Dudley Daduwe
Hi, I am a new learner in the OLPC deployment in Papua New Guinea. I have installed an OLPC XS and everything looks good. However, the only problem faced here is to do with eth0. During booting up, it come to a stage where it says; IP determining information eth0 fails. I have tried /etc/sysconfig

Re: [Server-devel] Revisor broken on F14? Is pungi the preferred composer for installers?

2011-01-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 17:17:36 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Trying to build a minimal 'server' profile compose, I find that > revisor on F14 has bugs/issues that hint at it not being used at all > -- notably #bz649815, where revisor expects to find and use > /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime and ex

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi features - (was: Is pungi the preferred composer for installers?)

2011-01-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 18:50:53 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > Pungi is what is used for the install images released by the Fedora Project. > > So for install images it makes sense to use that tool. > > Thanks! So we turn to trying

[Server-devel] "Administrative" login for political reasons

2011-01-19 Thread Anna
I think enough time has passed that I can write this up in case anyone else runs into this situation. Back when I was tussling with a school IT guy, he demanded "administrative access" to the XSs. Err, you do realize there is no GUI whatsoever and all you're going to see is a prompt, right? He w