| whaack: | jfw: Hm yeah, I don't plan to switch languages mid project. That said maybe I'll try using your client when I setup my new comp | [00:39] |
| whaack: | diana_coman: EOD Report: I went overtime on the Panama article / computer planning so I did not make too much distance with TheFleet (I created an outline for a plan article.) I did about 30 minutes of reading and no Spanish. The computer planning article will be published early tomorrow, it just needs a final review. Then after I publish the compl plan article I'm going to get right ahead to using it and build the machine. | [00:42] |
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| auctionbot: | S#1078 O=17mn LB=18mn E=2020-01-29 05:43:42.679910 (184h28) >>> Dell R610 PE Server ships from Uruguay (Server-B) http://blog.mod6.net/2020/01/physical-specifications-for-the-bitcoin-foundations-servers/ | [03:29] |
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| diana_coman: | whaack: re computer sounds fine. | [04:15] |
| auctionbot: | S#1077 O=17mn LB=None E=2020-01-29 05:43:03.567830 (179h28) >>> Dell R610 PE Server ships from U.S. (Server-A) http://blog.mod6.net/2020/01/physical-specifications-for-the-bitcoin-foundations-servers/ | [08:29] |
| auctionbot: | S#1078 O=17mn LB=18mn E=2020-01-29 05:43:42.679910 (179h28) >>> Dell R610 PE Server ships from Uruguay (Server-B) http://blog.mod6.net/2020/01/physical-specifications-for-the-bitcoin-foundations-servers/ | [08:29] |
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| whaack: | dorion: reading your article w/ all its double rainbows, cigars and suits on the beach, exotic drinks, and surfing was a nice way to start my day | [12:15] |
| whaack: | and btw, i think i'm going to visit Panama again in 3 months for my next visa run. there are some flights from Liberia (shaves a cool 6-10hrs off the trip each way) I can get if I don't buy the tickets last minute | [12:32] |
| dorion: | whaack cheers x 2! | [12:33] |
| dorion: | whaack i did have fun writing the article, so glad you enjoyed reading. | [12:49] |
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| auctionbot: | S#1078 O=17mn LB=18mn E=2020-01-29 05:43:42.679910 (174h28) >>> Dell R610 PE Server ships from Uruguay (Server-B) http://blog.mod6.net/2020/01/physical-specifications-for-the-bitcoin-foundations-servers/ | [13:29] |
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| whaack: | so it looks like i was mistaken in thinking i need an auxillary power cable for the PCIe slot graphics card. Am I correct in thinking that it's possible the 8 pin 'CPU' power supplies power to the PCIe slot as well? | [15:54] |
| diana_coman: | dorion: quite the whirlwind of fun in hawaii by the sounds of it, good for you! | [16:00] |
| diana_coman: | whaack: why don't you check the spec for your components, it should say exactly, no? | [16:02] |
| whaack: | is checking | [16:05] |
| whaack: | yes it must, because there is no listed connector for the PCIe auxiliary cable | [16:07] |
| dorion: | diana_coman yeah, now back to the whirlwind of fun here :) | [16:08] |
| diana_coman: | ahaha, the whirlwind-you is welcome of course but otherwise here things be of the boring type! | [16:15] |
| ossabot: | Logged on 2020-01-19 17:46:29 diana_coman: jfw: glad to know it! only boring stuff around here really, testing, going to sleep when tired, speaking up when needing to communicate, seriously, boring. | [16:15] |
| diana_coman: | fwiw that part with the "1 week sleep deprivation" terrible exercise got me laughing the most | [16:16] |
| billymg: | whaack: i think they are different cables/connectors, though both are 8-pin and look very similar. i would research a bit more what's coming out of your PSU before attempting to connect it to the PCIe card | [16:16] |
| billymg: | it's been a while since i've messed with any heavy duty video cards though, my most recent FX build has a dinky GPU that's powered only by the slot itself | [16:17] |
| whaack: | billymg: ^ right, my q was whether or not the GPU was powered by the slot itself, and that is the case | [16:18] |
| billymg: | ah ok | [16:18] |
| diana_coman: | whaack: your question was not that clear as you just stated above though, ugh. | [16:18] |
| whaack: | diana_coman: I didn't format the question as "can the GPU be powered by the slot itself"? Because I thought that on other motherboards the auxillary PCIe power cable plugged into the motherboard and thus the GPU still would get its power through the PCIe slot. | [16:21] |
| diana_coman: | iirc at least some higher end GPUs might need the auxiliary PCIe cable as they basically don't get enough power just through the slot | [16:22] |
| whaack: | i see, so the cable would plug directly into the GPU | [16:22] |
| BingoBoingo: | whaack: From what I understand if the GPU needs it. Usually there will be a place to plug a cable. Otherwise many GPUs can get all the power they find useful from the slot. | [16:57] |
| whaack: | successfully made it to the bios. CPU Freq: 4k MHz, Mem Frequency : 1.6kMHz, Mem Size: 16,384MB, CPU Temp: 40-50 C, both hard drives detected | [17:10] |
| BingoBoingo: | Congrats | [17:24] |
| auctionbot: | S#1077 O=17mn LB=None E=2020-01-29 05:43:03.567830 (169h28) >>> Dell R610 PE Server ships from U.S. (Server-A) http://blog.mod6.net/2020/01/physical-specifications-for-the-bitcoin-foundations-servers/ | [18:29] |
| auctionbot: | S#1078 O=17mn LB=18mn E=2020-01-29 05:43:42.679910 (169h28) >>> Dell R610 PE Server ships from Uruguay (Server-B) http://blog.mod6.net/2020/01/physical-specifications-for-the-bitcoin-foundations-servers/ | [18:29] |
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| whaack: | BingoBoing: thx! | [18:39] |
| whaack: | BingoBoingo* | [18:39] |
| whaack: | installing centos6 with sha256sum = 422af57b493b8af49d485885a730c5a1d955f803fac85aa51311c393168b9080 atm | [18:40] |
| jfw: | whaack: from the remote hash table of I take it this is CentOS-6.9-x86_64-minimal.iso | [18:46] |
| whaack: | yes | [18:46] |
| whaack: | jfw: hm, i am prompted the q what type of media contains the installation image. my options are: "Local cd/dvd, hard drive, nfs directory, URL" I am installing off a usb, not quite sure what to pick. | [18:51] |
| whaack: | (looks like hard drive was the right choice) | [18:55] |
| jfw: | woulda been one of the first two for sure. | [19:03] |
| whaack: | yeah my guess was local cd/dvd, but that was wrong | [19:04] |
| whaack: | weird, the install failed, and now it wont let me boot from the usb again | [19:12] |
| whaack: | (error was "an error was encountered while formatting device / format failed: 1") | [19:13] |
| whaack: | now i have the option to boot from the SSD from the failed install, but it just takes me to a blinking cursor screen | [19:21] |
| jfw: | hah, did you fdisk the usb drive instead of the ssd like everyone seems to do these days? | [19:22] |
| jfw: | ( http://ossasepia.com/2020/04/21/ossasepia-logs-for-12-Jan-2020#1014943 ) | [19:23] |
| ossabot: | Logged on 2020-01-12 12:57:16 dorion: lobbes thanks for the updates, glad you're making progress. one point I'll alert you on is when you get to partitioning the disk with the installer, double check which /dev/sdX is the install media and which is the internal, target disk. | [19:23] |
| whaack: | jfw: lol i think i set those right...but looks like maybe not | [19:24] |
| jfw: | strange error though, why would something be trying to format a device while booting | [19:26] |
| jfw: | oh possibly I misread and that was from when the install failed; in that case got any more detail on "wont let me boot from the usb"? | [19:28] |
| jfw: | but yeah first suggestion is to sanity-check the usb from other machine, rewrite the .iso if needed | [19:29] |
| whaack: | jfw: so when I first booted from the usb all I did was plug in the USB and turn on the machine, and it took me right to the centos6 installer | [19:29] |
| whaack: | now it takes me to a blinking cursor page. I did sanity-check the usb and rewrote the .iso, but i'm getting the same problem | [19:30] |
| jfw: | ah so you had it too easy the first time :) Found how to get to the BIOS boot menu? | [19:30] |
| whaack: | i will triple-sanity check rn though, because a botched usb is the only thing that makes sense | [19:31] |
| whaack: | jfw: yes I can get to the BIOS boot menu, but within there i have no option to select the usb | [19:31] |
| jfw: | dare I ask, is there UEFI involved here? | [19:31] |
| whaack: | There's Boot Mode Selection, with three options, "UEFI and Legacy" "Legacy Only" "UEFI Only" . right now "UEFI and Legacy" are selected | [19:33] |
| jfw: | oof, so 10x the potential problems then. IIRC (possibly from spyked's research) there's no clearly established meaning to any of those choices. I'd expect "legacy only" would be most promising | [19:35] |
| whaack: | derp, my problem may have been a mechanical error. i have one of those shit usbs that can hide their head like a turtle. so i may have retracted the head when i thought i plugged it in | [19:38] |
| whaack: | alright here we go round 2, this time running "install or update an existing system" instead of the "install system with video driver" option | [19:40] |
| whaack: | hm. now i'm given 4 options for the q: 'what partition and directory on that partition holds the installation image for centos?: /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1' | [19:42] |
| whaack: | i'm pretty sure its sdc1, i guessed that and was taken to the centos install screen | [19:43] |
| jfw: | the unstated question is "how would I check on that"? | [19:43] |
| whaack: | maybe if i unplugged and replugged the usb one option would disappear/reappear | [19:44] |
| jfw: | get a shell on another TTY, run fdisk -l /dev/sdX, check the size/partition layout, usually that's enough to figure it out | [19:44] |
| jfw: | I would not recommend replugging, not sure if the root FS is mounted from it or what. | [19:45] |
| jfw: | dmesg is your friend too | [19:47] |
| ossabot: | Logged on 2020-01-12 13:57:45 dorion: lobbes cool, dmesg is a good friend to have :) | [19:47] |
| whaack: | i'm not sure exactly what you meant by get a shell on another tty. are you saying there's a way i could connect to my machine from another computer? | [19:48] |
| whaack: | dang, same error | [19:49] |
| jfw: | whaack: https://www.linux.org/threads/virtual-terminals.4135/ | [19:49] |
| whaack: | hm but that requires me to already have linux installed, i am not there yet. anyways, it seems my problem was i was trying to install on both my ssd and hdd. | [19:53] |
| jfw: | the installer itself is linux, what | [19:54] |
| jfw: | did you intend to install on both? should certainly be possible, like / on ssd and /home on hdd or something | [19:56] |
| whaack: | ah yeah for some reason i had in my head i was locked into the installer sequence. alright i finished the install but i will try to run the installer again and switch to a shell on another tty | [19:57] |
| whaack: | jfw: hm i can't get into a terminal with alt-f2 or any other alt function combination | [19:59] |
| jfw: | the ctrl-alt-fN, possibly the single biggest distinction between Linux and Windows in regards to whether human controls machine or vice versa. | [19:59] |
| jfw: | if it's a GUI installer, might need to add the ctrl. | [19:59] |
| whaack: | had to click num lock | [20:00] |
| whaack: | the other terminals though don't allow any input | [20:00] |
| jfw: | no login prompts? possibly centos installer is dumb like that then. | [20:00] |
| whaack: | i just have a blinking cursor | [20:00] |
| whaack: | anyways, i got centos6 installed on my ssd and arrived at a terminal. now i have to figure out how to connect to the network + start installing drivers, but all that is for tomorrow/later this week. | [20:12] |
| jfw: | cool. The 'minimal' install is indeed quite minimal if I recall - might not even have man pages and syslog for example. You'll have some yum installing to do. | [20:14] |
| whaack: | yup, no man pages | [20:18] |
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