++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[shortylickens]

Theiyr're

 

[Pick2]

I usually use the Debian installers from here:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
"Here are some extra images, equivalent to the normal images we produce regularly except in that they also include non-free firmware to make things easier on some systems requiring proprietary but redistributable firmware."

 

[Pick2]

Ugh I hate how anything in Linux never can't be easy.

Trying to install Debian and it won't even detect the cdrom. YOU FUCKING BOOTED OFF OF IT YOU IDIOT! To be fair I've seen Windows do that shit too.

Now to spend hours googling and troubleshooting something stupid. Probably end up just trying another distro.

Ha Ha , I've had that problem a few times

 

[Red Squirrel]

Might end up having to do that. Not a fan of netinstallers as they cease to work once they pull down the servers, but come to think of it it's rare I want to install an older version of Linux anyway. I dd'ed the image to another USB stick and will try it to see if by chance it was the stick itself, but it was brand new.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Think I need more wine

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Another load of laundry done. Did sheets earlier.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Well that's a no go, it won't even boot now.

I really don't want to have to burn a DVD. Ugh... I'm not really properly setup for that. And that might fail too, then I wasted media.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

fen

 

[WaTaGuMp]

lef

 

[Pick2]

I got a letter - just this morning - it was postmarked Omaha ...
Damn ,50 years and I still have My fathers records going thru My brain ... what little I have left of it

 

[shortylickens]

Nice drinks:


https://i.imgur.com/AD8U6aU.png

 

[Pick2]

I'm still trying to remember the words to " Tijuana Taxi "
and don't get me started on Spike Jones

 

[bigboxes]

You Linux guys. I've installed a Debian distro in Virtual Box for shits and giggles. I like doing some configuring, but with Linux you are constantly finding solutions for problems that shouldn't exist. I don't mind spending some time doing configuring. Just not all the time.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I like Linux because you're not depending on proprietary software but I totally agree I sometimes ask myself why I make my life harder lol. Everything that would be 1 click in windows ends up being 100x more complicated in Linux. There's a few things that it's better at though, like I prefer SSH over RDP, much more secure and less of a bandwidth hog when dealing with slower links.

Going to try to put the ISO on my cdrom emulator drive and see how that goes.

 

[zzuupp]

ned

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yay my Zalman HDD ISO emulator drive wins again. I don't know why this is not more popular tbh. It's a drive enclosure that you put a hard drive in, but it gives you the option of adding ISOs to it and then you can select one and emulate a cdrom drive. So when you plug it in the computer it thinks there's a cdrom drive with a disc in it.

Still early to celebrate though as it's not done installing but I got further than with the USB stick.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Getting a little cold.

Living Room: 16.1875°C (=)
Hallway: 20.1875°C (=)
Server Room: 19.5°C (-)
HVAC Return: 15.25°C (-)
HVAC Supply: 16°C (-)
Outside: -28°C (+)
Delta Temp: 0.75°C

Outdoor temp according to Weather Network (probably more accurate than my sensor) : -30°C Feels like -44

 

[Red Squirrel]

ARgh I knew I should have unplugged the windows drive so that the other one can be the first drive. Boot loader is all messed up and now i have to restart. Why is installing Linux so hard?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Removed all the other drives and set that one primary now I just get tons of errors then dumped into a busy box shell. What a pain. Think I'm just going to do CentOS, it never gives me this much trouble.

 

[sdifox]

vm :whiste:

 

[Red Squirrel]

This is for etherium mining. I need to plug physical video cards in it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

But even CentOS is giving me issues. Now I think I recall why I built my current Linux box. I think Linux just won't install on that particular system for some reason.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Complaining about GBT partitions now. Huh? Just freaking format it to whatever it has to be, I don't care. Just install FFS.

 

[sdifox]

This is for etherium mining. I need to plug physical video cards in it.

https://ianmcdowell.net/blog/esxi-nvidia/

 

[Red Squirrel]

https://ianmcdowell.net/blog/esxi-nvidia/

I can't fit 12 cards in 2U. Or 1 for that matter.

I'll be building a dedicated custom box. This is just a temporary test setup. I know you're obsessed with VMs but not everything can or should be virtualized. Besides you still need physical hardware for the actual VM server, so what's the point of building a VM server to serve just one purpose?