student.cs upgrade

Trying to upgrade from ubuntu 9.10 to opensuse using a custom suse studio build...

Loaded it onto a usb, if everything goes well I'll use xen to manage virtual machines.  Ideally I would like to use separate virtual machines for the different services that we provide.

It is a little sluggish from the usb...

It is going to be a little learning curve using yast

hmm... I think I can just dd from the usb into a partition and then redo the boot loader.... let's see



so I reinstalled the boot loader, and it over wrote the usb boot loader, blech

still no luck, I think I'll just do a live cd install and then patch it up later, the usb stick is already corrupted, otherwise I could have copied the boot loader from it.

so far so good, updating the packages now....

lab status

112 hardware fail
119 upgrade fail

for some reason the network is down in the lab, but I'm still connected to 141.... weird
well, my guess is that it was a power fail because I did a wakeonlan and everything came back,
weird.

a little while later we loss network connectivity in feinberg

ppa firewall work around

from the internet

gpg –keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 –recv-keys 0A5174AF
gpg –armor -o keyfile –export “key name” // (use gpg –list-keys to look it up)
sudo apt-key add keyfile

moodle notes

perlbrew

perlbrew is a cool application.  It lets you install multiple instances of perl with their own libraries.  This let me do development work using 5.14 without messing with the system's 5.10  It took a while to install everything for the catalyst app to work, but it was mostly painless.