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Still no usefull information to solve our PowerEdge 2400 problem :'(

2 new blogs created today: one for Publino, a writer (here, it's Dutch), another one which should show progress we make on getting Fedora Stateless Linux to run at out university. More info on this project here. The pygtk dependency of stateless-snapshooter is very strange |-| Guess I'll have to take a close look at it.

I hop I'll be able to make even more guys/girls/man/woman happy by offering them an blog :-D Rules are simple: no ads, stick to the netiquette, and no pr0n and/or illegal content.
New skins can be installed on a simple request, like london, moonrise and wpc_splat today (you can see them by pointing your browser to http://blog.eikke.com/index.php?skin=[skinname] ).

While looking for a Linux replacement for w.bloggar, after I couldn't get Gaim-Blogger working, I tried both Gnome-Blog and BloGTK. None of them could satisfy my needs, tough :-( Too bad. Maybe I'll have to code one myself using Mono and GTK# :-)

I started to use BlogLines again, after some months. Fortunately there's a "Mark all as read" button. Sorry guys :oops:

No coding work done today, I studied some more geometry. Still don't like this subject tough ;-)

Spent some hours in front of my screen today, so I'll give my poor eyes some rest now and poweroff the machine (yeah, even tough it runs Linux ;-)). 'night all.

Now, we're blocked. We followed the nice tutorial, but we have quite a problem on chapter 4, Creating a snapshot of a prototype system. When we try to execute stateless-snapshooter --list or stateless-snapshooter --new --protosystem DemoSystem or even just stateless-snapshooter, we recieve a message that some GTK libraries are not found. On a server, we think X and so GTK is not necessary, even not wanted. The tutorial also says that this is a command-line tool, but when it needs GTK, I don't think so. I also can't imagine that we are the only ones running a stateless server without GTK, so is there anybody who encountered the same problem and fixed or worked around it? Please let us know.

Sorry, I can't give the exact error message. I'm at home now and our server is only reachable from within it's own subnet. I'll post the message here as fast as possible, normally monday.

To create the whole system, we follow the Stateless Linux Tutorial. Our server is already installed and configured by ikke, so chapter 2 is ready. Be-ing a real LDAP-dummy, I've made some syntax mistakes while creating the prototype system image (chapter 3) but this is also ready now. So, next step is chapter 4, Creating a snapshot of a prototype system, but that doesn't seem that easy. OK, tutorial is clear, just a few commands, but we have a little problem. More info in the problems-topic. Please, help if you're able to do.

Whoo! The first message on this blog and also my first message on a blog. Thanks to ikke for creating this.

Maybe it would be nice to give a short introduction in our FS@U project. I am a student at Ghent University in a nice town called Ghent, located in Flanders, the dutchspeaking part of Belgium. I study engineering at the (du-uh) Faculty of Engineering. There I am active at the student organisation called VTK wich stands for "Vlaamse Technische Kring" or "Flemish Technical Board" in English. Last year, we (me and a couple of friends) founded a new organisation, WVS, Workgroup Free Software, to let our co-students, professors, assistants,... know about the existence and possibilities of free software and to point their attention on the fact that not everybody uses the standard proprietary (MS-) software and the importance of open standards etc. We already organised a few workshops like linux installation, linux desktop use and LaTeX. We also have a deal with the sysadmin of our building for installing free software on the computerfarm. So we installed Mozilla Firefox, Thunberbird, OpenOffice.org, Gimp,... Now it's time for the crown on the work: a complete dualboot configuration with Linux next to MS Windows. It's for this linux-installation that this blog is created.

To provide a quick and easy installation and management, we've chosen for The Fedora Stateless Linux project. We recieved a computer to create the server on, so that 's already OK. On the client computers there will be a PXE-boot system that lets you chose between the local windows installation and our Linux installation. The harddisk of those clients will be partitioned in two partitions, one for windows and on caching partition for Fedora.

Not everything is as easy as it seems, so we have a few problems. I'll post them in the problems-topic. If you can help us find an answer on them, please let us know, we'ld really appreciate it! Thanks a lot.