Monday morning saw half the DPO failing to boot into linux, which caused some minor disruption (fortunately the practicals could use x sessions on x-access from windows to work around). The problem appeared to be that the PXE boot session wasn't getting any DHCP replies, … [Read more...]
Centos 7 Gnome Desktop configuration
Session selection The cogwheel which appears after you have given a username, but before you have given a password, lets you select between the various sessions available to the system. Out of the box this includes a couple of KDE options, Gnome Classic (which is the … [Read more...]
Centos 7 ro nfsroot DPO desktop
Overview This is intended as a braindump of the steps I've taken to correctly configure a Centos 7 server and client machine to allow the latter to nfs mount it's root partition ro from the former. It's currently evolving as I discover how to redo things I've done before … [Read more...]
Home directory changes – Summer 2014
This notice concerns arrangements for the migration of home directories from the existing server file-serv to the new fileserver cued-fs. Overview As part of the process of migration of home directories, a certain amount of restructuring will be taking place. Each user … [Read more...]