Monthly Archives: October 2021

Halloween 2021

Posted on October 31, 2021 by larry

Happy Halloween, I did not expect a huge rebound in trick or treaters today, but there wasa decent amount reminiscent of 2019. Got Rocky 8 USB Boot working Finally figured it out, able to kickstart and boot off of a … Continue reading →

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Son Doing Great

Posted on October 30, 2021 by larry

Youngest son ran XC districts today. I wasn’t sure if this is his last race, but it sounded like he wanted to be there again next year. Also he learned a bit of containers and linux today. This should be … Continue reading →

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Building Podman Servers

Posted on October 29, 2021 by larry

I am now starting to move to move towards podman rocky 8 containers. Pas the testing phase and now into building real processes. Also ordered three new thin clients to be the new podman cluster. Another thing today is I … Continue reading →

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Simplify Network

Posted on October 28, 2021 by larry

My network’s too complex. Need to assess risks and figure out something new. Keeping static IPs but reducing power usage. Also need to get a switch RMA’s, I think it is just plain broken. Weight: 343.0

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Break From Yesterday

Posted on October 27, 2021 by larry

Yesterday was weird, kind of tough one. Today I had to fix a few things like stuff on the network. The power outage did a number on some of the things here. I did get s little rest though. Weight: … Continue reading →

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Real Crazy Day

Posted on October 26, 2021 by larry

Wow, what a day, so I was scheduled to get an angioplasty today with a possible stent put in. Apparently, I have a healthy heart and don’t need one. But before I went to the hospital, the power went out. … Continue reading →

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Podman Network Persistent

Posted on October 25, 2021 by larry

Figured it out, I can now have the Rocky 8 reboot and have the containers persist over reboots. nmcli con add con-name dockernet-shim type macvlan dev dockernet-shim mode bridge nmcli con add con-name dockernet-shim type macvlan ifname dockernet-shim ip4 192.168.100.223/32 … Continue reading →

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Podman on CentOS 8

Posted on October 24, 2021 by larry

A few differences in podman, but got a lot done with CentOS 8 and containers. One of the weird things I got was communication between the containers and the host. This sort of worked ip link add dockernet-shim link eth0 … Continue reading →

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Son Running Cross Country

Posted on October 23, 2021 by larry

My youngest son ran Leagues today. I don’t know if this will be the last run I will see because next week is districts and I think is varsity only. He PR’d though. He is an alternate, will see if … Continue reading →

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Rocky 8 Kickstart Via USB

Posted on October 22, 2021 by larry

Struggling to get kickstart working on USB, Changing tactics, going to get it work via network completely, then will get it working via USB Weight: 343.4

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