Two beauties

Well the two Linux servers in the Server room in Lab. Ok, the pics are not so great....

The machine on the right acts as an gateway for Internet access. Net access of all computer labs , VLSI Lab, Mechanical Lab etc goes through this machine.

The machine on the left is a new Debian machine which has to be configured using NIS and NFS.

GnuJagruti Workshop

I conducted a workshop in an event called as GnuJagruti in VIT Pune on 20th if this month. The workshop was on Programming in Linux, was attended by around 20 students from various colleges.

Inspite of being present in he lab one hour before the presentation, things still went wrong. The lab was in the making, so eletricians were screwing up tubelights etc. Arrangement for the projector were made last minute. The PC that was to be used for the presentation did not have Open Office installed and did not have a working cdrom drive too.

So there I was, 20 odd faces looking to me, with no presentation slides to show. The workshop was already delayed by an hour or so because of the entire schedule being revamped.

Fortunately, I had taken such sessions in my college earlier. Once things got started, they kept on moving pretty fine. In the end, it was an ok workshop.

Debian Server up

OK, so am messing around in the server room... But hey, this maybe the last time I may be able to mess around with servers.

Existing Redhat server got the jinx and a new HP machine is in its place. It was going to be Rh 9.0 as usual, but the installation kept on messing up, maining due to corrupt cd's I guess.

So, got the Deb Netinstall cd, burned a copy of it. Did initial stuff, partitioning etc. Setup network parameters, selected Desktop Environment, File servers and some other options, next next next, and done.

The installation was surprisingly smooth. It did not have a fancy GUI, but things were pretty self explanatory.

Setup of NFS is done. Now have to setup NIS and reconfigure the clients. Am trying to setup a local Debian repository, maybe can change the entire lab from RH 9 to deb.