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Installation issues / 810 Core, MD and Orbiters
« on: August 12, 2010, 01:55:27 am »
Howdy all,
first, I'd like to thank all the developers for working very hard on a great project; I've been a lurker for a while and I'm ready to take the plunge.
I've installed the 810 beta2 core on a system, and that's working fine. Since I already have an extensive and (overly) complicated LAN installed (wireless DMZ, lan, wan DMZ, OSPF, dual ISP, oh my), I've put the WAN of the core into my LAN, and the Core's LAN is going to be only for the MD's (I already have Asterisk, zoneminder and other systems running elsewhere). I've disabled the firewall to attempt to make things easier with LinuxMCE as I'm learning it. I've developed some questions and have some experiences to share.
Question #1:
As stated before, the core is chugging along. But my MD's PXE boot from the core on their own VLAN, but it takes over 40 minutes to boot into the configuration screen, and that in itself is very laggy in response. I've since moved the Core's LAN onto its own dedicated gig-e switch and ran iperf across the interfaces; the speeds are more than acceptable (even within the VLAN). I can't explain why it takes so long to load, and then never boot the MD's interface after configuration. The interface just hangs there, though I can SSH into the MD's and interact with them very well. The MD's are all the same system: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500037 with 2 Gig's RAM and 80 Gig HD's.
Question #2:
Lurking on the forum and observing other's posts, I can't determine if there is a way to boot the MD's right from the HD's. I have small and fast drives in the MD's at my disposal. Is there a process to not have to PXE boot and just load the MD's software from the system's HD? (Maybe through the use of just "dd'ing" the booted image to the first drive?
Question #3:
Since I already have a wireless dmz, and I'm aware of the architecture of "put everything behind LinuxMCE," and hopefully ya'll understand that this isn't simply possible for me, is there a way to run the orbiters off of the WAN interface? I've tried connecting a Nokia n900, and it's not able to connect.
Question #3-subset-a-mark-1:
I've got a Windows XP Tablet, tried installing the tablet software, it keeps saying "the installation package could not be opened. contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid windows installer package."
I'm really excited to try and get this going; I'm just running into some hiccups and don't know how much of them are due to my own unique situation and have solutions, and how many may be due to the beta.
I've tried downloading and installing the LinuxMCE-8.10-23233-i386.iso snapshot, but it wont boot using a USB drive, DVD or in VM. I'm downloading the previous snapshot to try that.
Thanks all- and I look forward to your suggestions!
first, I'd like to thank all the developers for working very hard on a great project; I've been a lurker for a while and I'm ready to take the plunge.
I've installed the 810 beta2 core on a system, and that's working fine. Since I already have an extensive and (overly) complicated LAN installed (wireless DMZ, lan, wan DMZ, OSPF, dual ISP, oh my), I've put the WAN of the core into my LAN, and the Core's LAN is going to be only for the MD's (I already have Asterisk, zoneminder and other systems running elsewhere). I've disabled the firewall to attempt to make things easier with LinuxMCE as I'm learning it. I've developed some questions and have some experiences to share.
Question #1:
As stated before, the core is chugging along. But my MD's PXE boot from the core on their own VLAN, but it takes over 40 minutes to boot into the configuration screen, and that in itself is very laggy in response. I've since moved the Core's LAN onto its own dedicated gig-e switch and ran iperf across the interfaces; the speeds are more than acceptable (even within the VLAN). I can't explain why it takes so long to load, and then never boot the MD's interface after configuration. The interface just hangs there, though I can SSH into the MD's and interact with them very well. The MD's are all the same system: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500037 with 2 Gig's RAM and 80 Gig HD's.
Question #2:
Lurking on the forum and observing other's posts, I can't determine if there is a way to boot the MD's right from the HD's. I have small and fast drives in the MD's at my disposal. Is there a process to not have to PXE boot and just load the MD's software from the system's HD? (Maybe through the use of just "dd'ing" the booted image to the first drive?
Question #3:
Since I already have a wireless dmz, and I'm aware of the architecture of "put everything behind LinuxMCE," and hopefully ya'll understand that this isn't simply possible for me, is there a way to run the orbiters off of the WAN interface? I've tried connecting a Nokia n900, and it's not able to connect.
Question #3-subset-a-mark-1:
I've got a Windows XP Tablet, tried installing the tablet software, it keeps saying "the installation package could not be opened. contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid windows installer package."
I'm really excited to try and get this going; I'm just running into some hiccups and don't know how much of them are due to my own unique situation and have solutions, and how many may be due to the beta.
I've tried downloading and installing the LinuxMCE-8.10-23233-i386.iso snapshot, but it wont boot using a USB drive, DVD or in VM. I'm downloading the previous snapshot to try that.
Thanks all- and I look forward to your suggestions!