[juneau-lug] December meeting & January topics

  • From: James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jlug <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:23:48 -0900

The Debian PowerPC install went well last night, with only one small hiccup.  
Using the floppy images from the Woody CDs, Nels' PowerComputing (?) c180 
booted up just fine, but then hung trying to expand the root image from the 
second floppy.  Booting with a Mac OS 8 system disk floppy (from the NetBSD web 
site) let us upgrade the OpenFirmware.  Try number two with the Debian floppies 
worked fine, and Nels started dealing with the familiar Debian installer.  From 
that point on, the only major difference between an i386 install and the 
PowerPC install was the fdisk version used for Macs, and the fact that the 
video card was not PCI.  The install finished up just as the library staff 
started turning off the lights.

During the install Nels and I were talking about home networks getting too big 
to manage with host files, and how DHCP and Dynamic DNS might be a solution 
worth looking at. I was going to put together a quick demo & howto on it for 
January.  (The Tower of Power might make an appearance since it is configured 
this way already.)

Any other topics people are interested in seeing?

Cheers,

James

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