Comments on: Talos recalibration (status 18jan2010)

By: Talos recalibration (status 02mar2010) - John O'Duinn's Soapbox

Talos recalibration (status 02mar2010) - John O'Duinn's Soapbox — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:39:02 +0000

[...] after my last post, we started running the new 2.26GHz minis, concurrently with the older 1.83GHz minis. Every build [...]

By: Robert Helmer

Robert Helmer — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:01:30 +0000

I am also curious how the racking/imaging process works right now.

Seems like you could have them delivered directly to the colo and rack them up, and create dhcp/bootp entries for each machine (MAC) address (assuming they are netbootable, looks like it from a quick search). The boot, imaging and initial boot could be automatic on first power-on.

I guess the recording of the MAC address (and associating that with a serial # etc.) would be manual, unless Apple sent this (ideally in a machine-readable format ).

I could see the advantage to having a decent workspace like an office if you need to do a lot of work for cabling, making them easily rackable, etc. Doing large server deliveries directly to the colo and doing the rest on boot and from remote can be a nice division of labor, if it’s possible.

By: Gen Kanai

Gen Kanai — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:52:07 +0000

John, were these the Mac Mini Server models without the optical drives? Just curious.

By: Arpad Borsos

Arpad Borsos — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:59:10 +0000

Wow updated linux images, finally
That needs to be done for the build slaves as well.

By: Robert Accettura

Robert Accettura — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:20:14 +0000

Wow, 100 mini's! Plan on doing a post on how they will be managed/racked/wired? I recall Microsoft's setup and am wondering if there's been any movement on how to most efficiently rack an unorthodox chassis.

By: Zandr

Zandr — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:20:03 +0000

I’d love to know more about the motivations for the switch to Fedora, rather than current Ubuntu. My deep-seated hatred for RPM-based distros aside, it seems that this complicates the recalibration. Will you be running Fedora on the old hardware to isolate the effects of the OS switch from the hardware upgrade?