User:MaxEnt
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I'm also active as MaxEnt on various MediaWiki Foundation projects. In my own network I run a mixture of OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Fedora Core, and Ubuntu. | I'm also active as MaxEnt on various MediaWiki Foundation projects. In my own network I run a mixture of OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Fedora Core, and Ubuntu. | ||
On the BSD side, I'm presently running a FreeBSD backup server, I host various web sites (including a handful of MediaWiki sites) on a FreeBSD hosting service that recently upgraded to 6.2, and I'm in the process of adding to my test network a pfSense firewall and a Varnish http accelerator, also on the FreeBSD 6.2 platform. | On the BSD side, I'm presently running a FreeBSD backup server, I host various web sites (including a handful of MediaWiki sites) on a FreeBSD hosting service that recently upgraded to 6.2, and I'm in the process of adding to my test network a pfSense firewall and a Varnish http accelerator, also on the FreeBSD 6.2 platform. | ||
| − | On the Linux side, I'm in the process of switching over the remaining Fedora boxes to Ubuntu. I just completed my first successful netboot / local mirror installation of Feisty Fawn (mirror is set up for i386 and AMD64). The stupid thing chewed up more disk space than I anticipated, but in the end it worked well. | + | On the Linux side, I'm in the process of switching over the remaining Fedora boxes to Ubuntu. I just completed my first successful netboot / local mirror installation of Feisty Fawn using apt-mirror on an OpenBSD host (mirror is set up for i386 and AMD64). The stupid thing chewed up more disk space than I anticipated, but in the end it worked well. |
I PXE-booted my FreeBSD backup server quite a while back, but I didn't set up a local installation mirror at the time. I stumbled upon this wiki looking for the best method to manage a local FreeBSD install mirror. Hopefully this site will get me started and I can contribute back a few refinements along the trail. | I PXE-booted my FreeBSD backup server quite a while back, but I didn't set up a local installation mirror at the time. I stumbled upon this wiki looking for the best method to manage a local FreeBSD install mirror. Hopefully this site will get me started and I can contribute back a few refinements along the trail. | ||
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| + | I'll say one thing about installation mirrors: many of the tutorials out there describe self-hosted mirrors (e.g. Ubuntu mirror hosted on Ubuntu). This might make sense in larger sites, but in the case of my test network, the worst place to host the mirror is on the machine I'm in the process of tearing apart. I could host my FreeBSD mirror on my FreeBSD backup machine, but then how would I would do a netboot reinstallation of the backup host itself, should that come to pass? There is no guarantee one of my other FreeBSD project machines will around at the time to host the mirror natively. For this reason, I lean toward mirrors that are platform agnostic as much as possible. | ||
Latest revision as of 19:41, 22 July 2007
I'm also active as MaxEnt on various MediaWiki Foundation projects. In my own network I run a mixture of OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Fedora Core, and Ubuntu.
On the BSD side, I'm presently running a FreeBSD backup server, I host various web sites (including a handful of MediaWiki sites) on a FreeBSD hosting service that recently upgraded to 6.2, and I'm in the process of adding to my test network a pfSense firewall and a Varnish http accelerator, also on the FreeBSD 6.2 platform.
On the Linux side, I'm in the process of switching over the remaining Fedora boxes to Ubuntu. I just completed my first successful netboot / local mirror installation of Feisty Fawn using apt-mirror on an OpenBSD host (mirror is set up for i386 and AMD64). The stupid thing chewed up more disk space than I anticipated, but in the end it worked well.
I PXE-booted my FreeBSD backup server quite a while back, but I didn't set up a local installation mirror at the time. I stumbled upon this wiki looking for the best method to manage a local FreeBSD install mirror. Hopefully this site will get me started and I can contribute back a few refinements along the trail.
I'll say one thing about installation mirrors: many of the tutorials out there describe self-hosted mirrors (e.g. Ubuntu mirror hosted on Ubuntu). This might make sense in larger sites, but in the case of my test network, the worst place to host the mirror is on the machine I'm in the process of tearing apart. I could host my FreeBSD mirror on my FreeBSD backup machine, but then how would I would do a netboot reinstallation of the backup host itself, should that come to pass? There is no guarantee one of my other FreeBSD project machines will around at the time to host the mirror natively. For this reason, I lean toward mirrors that are platform agnostic as much as possible.
