Jethro Tull has a long, deep catalog. The Early album “Stand Up” has a track called “We Used to Know” that has very unusual changes. These changes were picked up by The Eagles and used as the basis for “Hotel California.” What gives them their unique sound?
Continue readingHardware last longer than Hardware support. My lab has 3 Dell R610s, which have old disk controllers…too old for RHEL 8. Dell is no longer supporting the Hardware, which means that the latest versions of RHEL do not ship with the drivers needed to install.
Continue readingI can now PXE Boot both RHEL 7.8 and RHEL 8.1 OS images for virtual machines. Here is what works.
Continue reading(To the tune of Payphone by Maroon 5)
Continue readingMy last PXE boot attempt got into the Kickstart stage and then failed due to the repo set up. The VM SCreen looked like this.
Continue readingOnce I re-enabled DHCPD and TFTP, my Machines got through the basics of PXE, but then failed Kickstart. Here’s the debugging:
Continue readingPXE 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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I’m Working on writing and arranging a Bossa Nova. I need to get better before it sounds like it is supposed to.