Tooooo Loooooooooong
Jun. 23rd, 2010 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoYeah, it's that day again. At least our weather was tame, unlike what people had just 30 miles south of us. On the other paw, the light rain and not terribly hot temperatures meant we had a full complement of summer reading club activity. Door count nearly double the normal 600, at 1070.
Found out just an hour before closing that two computers out on the main floor have been marked "out of order" for days but no one told me. A peremptory check finds nothing wrong with them. I'll take another look in the morning, but I've told people repeatedly that if they don't report to me exactly what the problem is, it never happened and won't be fixed.
Experimented on one of the new machines today to see if I can rearrange the disk partitions without removing and restoring Windows 7. I used Gparted from the Xubuntu live CD and it worked. I plan to use that technique to set up the one that will go on my own desk. I want it to boot Linux by default but still keep Windows 7 on the disk and available to boot occasionally. Looks like it can be done cleanly enough.
First though, I need to get the other two set up with Userful, the managed Linux desktop we use on public workstations. That's where I got stuck. Userful desktop fails to find the NIC in these machines (a Broadcom ethernet chip embedded on the main system board) even though Debian, Ubuntu, and Windows 7 have no trouble with it. Userful is built on one of my less favorite distributions, Fedora. Apparently it lacks a driver for the Broadcom networking hardware. This should be fixable, but is going to require some sort of tinkering either with the installation setup or else by installing the necessary driver after the main system is in place. Waiting on support for the answer.
Gorgeous crimson sunset, after a half hour or more of glowing yellow sky that went from horizon to horizon. I got some photos of the crimson part, I'll see if any are good enough to upload.
Found out just an hour before closing that two computers out on the main floor have been marked "out of order" for days but no one told me. A peremptory check finds nothing wrong with them. I'll take another look in the morning, but I've told people repeatedly that if they don't report to me exactly what the problem is, it never happened and won't be fixed.
Experimented on one of the new machines today to see if I can rearrange the disk partitions without removing and restoring Windows 7. I used Gparted from the Xubuntu live CD and it worked. I plan to use that technique to set up the one that will go on my own desk. I want it to boot Linux by default but still keep Windows 7 on the disk and available to boot occasionally. Looks like it can be done cleanly enough.
First though, I need to get the other two set up with Userful, the managed Linux desktop we use on public workstations. That's where I got stuck. Userful desktop fails to find the NIC in these machines (a Broadcom ethernet chip embedded on the main system board) even though Debian, Ubuntu, and Windows 7 have no trouble with it. Userful is built on one of my less favorite distributions, Fedora. Apparently it lacks a driver for the Broadcom networking hardware. This should be fixable, but is going to require some sort of tinkering either with the installation setup or else by installing the necessary driver after the main system is in place. Waiting on support for the answer.
Gorgeous crimson sunset, after a half hour or more of glowing yellow sky that went from horizon to horizon. I got some photos of the crimson part, I'll see if any are good enough to upload.
