My last PXE boot attempt got into the Kickstart stage and then failed due to the repo set up. The VM SCreen looked like this.
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PXE Setup: Debugging Kickstart
Once I re-enabled DHCPD and TFTP, my Machines got through the basics of PXE, but then failed Kickstart. Here’s the debugging:
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PXE is conglomeration of tools used to get a new operating system onto a computer. It is based on two protocols: DHCP and TFPT. I used PXER a long time ago at Penguin and have always wanted to set it up for my home personal use. I’m doing that now for my lab. My goal is to first be able to provision virtual machines, and then to provision physical boxes. I need to do a full install of RHEL 7 and RHEL 8, which means I also need Kickstart to automate the install process. I had it working, but after rebooting the NUC it is running on it broke. Here’s my debugging.
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Updating a Minecraft Mod, Part Two: Exploding Anvils
Continuing my attempt to update what I know about modding minecraft from 1.8 to 1.15. Based on my experience from this book;
Updating a Minecraft Mod: Part One
I have not touched the mod code I wrote for a couple years now. When Arun and Aditya Gupta wrote their book, the current version of Minecraft was 1.8. That was five years ago, and the current version is 1.15. Some things have changed. I want to document what I need to do to get my old mods running again on the newer version.
My starting point is that I have a working version of Minecraft and the comparable version of forge. Lets take it from there.
Continue readingRefactoring in Ansible: extract Variable
“Let the complexity emerge.” Probably the best advice I ever got in coding. Do something in as straight-forward manner as possible. When you find your self repeating code, extract it. Here’s an example from an ansible playbook I’m working on.
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Labs are designed for learning. I learn by doing. While I can read, as they say in the local vernacular in my propinquity “Wicked Fast,” I don’t process read information to the depth that I need in order to retain it. I need to type in the code in order to learn. Here’s a technique I use to do that.
Continue readingCreate a host and get a keytab from the CLI
Since I have to do this a lot, figured I would write it down here. Follow on to Kerberizing a Service in OpenShift.
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