Re: [Server-devel] stability of XS 0.5
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Anna <aschoolf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I followed the instructions here for Fedora 9, but using the XS 0.5 install
CD instead.
http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/08/regular-linux-desktops...
Also, in the kernel config file in /XO-alt-distro/kernel/2.6.25.15-XOaltF9-1
That's the main thing that worries me - the kernel. I'd like to use a
standard F9 kernel -- when I talk about "backporting cleverness", it's
about applying some fixes that IIRC Jeremy Katz applied to the initrd
that F10 carries.
We need a standard Fedora kernel because
- we don't need all the latest cleverness in power saving
- we need as many drivers for network and usb kit as possible
- we don't have easy access to kernel folk - Deepak is kept busy with
laptop concerns
I enabled the bonding module before I ran the sd_fixup script. At
the end,
it failed to do the chroot thing, so I looked at the chroot.sh script in
/XO-alt-distro/distro/fedora-9 and then manually did:
sed -i "/VolGroup00/d" /media/disk/etc/fstab
cp olpc.fth /media/disk/boot
Alternatively, you can use a more conventional disk partitioning scheme :-)
I don't have a USB to ethernet adaptor, so I downloaded and put
the rpm in
/root before I disconnected the 8 GB SD card. I booted up on an XO and did
the usual XS stuff, including installing the rpm, and got what looked like a
working XS, with the exception of failure to load the extra iptables
modules. I booted up a regular XO, got an IP on msh0, and then successfully
registered to the XSXO. Moodle looked like it was working on the XSXO, but
when I go to http://schoolserver/moodle, all I get on the regular XO is a
bunch of error messages related to scorm.
Overall, promising results :-) The iptables modules perhaps aren't
included. That Moodle's failed is odd! /var/log/moodle/ will have an
installation log that probably tells us what went wrong, can you post
it.
I haven't tried ejabberd yet, though I suspect the little XSXO
might be a
little underpowered to handle that with too many users.
It should cope with 20~30 users. Simultaneous use with Moodle might
need further tuning, but it can be made to work.
At any rate, this needs testing
definitely. But that's a great start :-)
associated with an XS, this might be a solution. Boa does work on a
regular
XO, but I don't know if that would work within a simple mesh environment.
We're still a bit tied to apache, can boa work with mod_python's low
level hooks?
I bet this would even work on an XO with a broken screen if it was
otherwise
going to go unused, as you could either ssh in to do stuff or simply swap
the SD card temporarily. Using ssh might be a better idea anyway, as the
console display is very, very small.
Yeah. OTOH, I woudn't want to promote cannibalising the XS ;-) we'll
see where this leads...
cheers,
m
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