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Today was a server install’s day … I’ve reached the following conclusions:

1) I have to stop being lazy, and to look into the network boot. Up until now I did nothing, just make something with mknbi, that while booting, made the screen flicker with differently-colored letters (reminds me of a memory overwriting under DOS), or a kernel which booted, and wasn’t able to mount it’s root from NFS (damn it, the old debian installer works fine).I tormented it, tortured it, and then the knoppix ( it was writing with 4x speed) finished writing, and I booted from it (one of the LiveCD distributions, that boots from USB cds).

2) The installation of a machine from another one using tar and netcat is something wonderful.

3) The configuration of the 3com switch with the vlans is easy, after you start to know where which menu is. When you add the nice vlan support in the kernel, it’s definitely great.

(and I have to clean up the notebook from the horde of strange daemons, like atftpd and dhcpd).

In the end I have a remote access to those machines, so I can easily fiddle with them from here tonight – they’re connected on a slow link, only 256kbps (an ADSL through BTK), so I can easily say ‘apt-get install all-that-i-need’, and leave it sucking…

I’ve printed 30 pages of Quicksilver – in fact 210, because that’s the compression ratio. It’s readable, but slowly, because Stephenson’s style is a bit overloaded.

I’m thinking about doing the mistake of trying Doom 3 on my machine… The linux binary should be out soon…

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