[volunteergrid2-l] Node Update

[Shawn Willden]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Steve Dodson <steve.dodson at gmail.com> wrote:
> After much difficulty, I was finally able to install Ubuntu (Server 10.10 w/
> Lubuntu) on software RAID and I believe "Hiro" is now fully operational.  At
> some point I will upgrade the Tahoe version - but the repo install was by
> far the easiest option.

Cool!  If you have the repo version working, odds are pretty good that
unpacking the source and running "python setup.py build" will work.

> The rhp997 node is up - but the share size has been capped at 1G until I can
> reconfigure the drives (two were pulled for hiro).  I'm waiting on a longer
> Torx screwdriver to arrive from Amazon (today or tomorrow) before I can pull
> an external drive and combine it into an LVM of acceptable size.  Should I
> stop the tahoe service on rhp997 until this is completed? I'm hoping to get
> started on this by Wed. this week...

Nah, I think it's fine to leave it running.  You'll be upgrading the
storage soon enough.

> Do any of you network gurus have ideas for me
> to try next time I'm onsite to try and determine if I will, in fact, need a
> static IP?

Can you do a "traceroute -n google.com"?  I want to see if you're
behind more than one layer of NAT.  If you need the traceroute
program, you can get it with apt-get install traceroute.


-- 
Shawn