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Wed Jan 25 13:25:55 PST 2012

[DON'T "REPLY ALL" TO BOTH LISTS UNLESS YOU'RE SUBSCRIBED TO BOTH]

And yes, I should be at Noisebridge this evening, 6p-8p.
For those that are interested in the planning/upgrade process,
but can't make it tonight, I'm also planning to attend the next
SF-LUG meeting on 2012-02-05.  May also put out some status/summary
emails in the meantime (may or may not also send those to
BALUG-Talk - but will probably at least put pointer(s) on email
to BALUG-Talk where such emails may be found/followed).

> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: Re: SF-LUG & BALUG: System OS upgrades *soon*(?) -  
> volunteer(s)? [DON'T "REPLY ALL" TO BOTH LISTS UNLESS YOU'RE  
> SUBSCRIBED TO BOTH]
> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:05:35 -0800

> [DON'T "REPLY ALL" TO BOTH LISTS UNLESS YOU'RE SUBSCRIBED TO BOTH]
>
> Jim, thanks for passing this along - thought you might.  :-)
> I'm also passing it along to "BALUG-Talk".
>
> Also, I *probably* will make it to Noisebridge this Wednesday
> evening (6-8p).  I'll confirm Wednesday afternoon if I'm able to make
> it (and will confirm at *least* an hour in advance (before 5pm),
> and probably a fair bit earlier than that (perhaps before 3pm)).
>
> I'm also intending to make the SF-LUG 2012-02-05 meeting.
>
> Anyway, between those meetings, hopefully we'll have the upgrades pretty
> well planned out and can execute them relatively soon after.
>
> I did also get the host "vicki" a wee bit closer to prepared yesterday.
> Some we reference excerpts added further towards the tail end of this email.
>
> references/excerpts:
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Visitor_advice
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Getting_Here
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/LinuxDiscussion
> http://www.sf-lug.com/
> http://www.balug.org/#Lists
>
>> From: jim <jim at well.com>
>> Subject: Re: SF-LUG & BALUG: System OS upgrades *soon*(?) - volunteer(s)?
>> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:51:51 -0800
>
>>
>>
>>    I think this is a great volunteer project for anyone
>> who's interested in linux system administration. Let us
>> know if you're interested in helping or learning.
>>    We can meet up either at the next regular SF-LUG
>> meeting (Sunday February 5 from 11 AM to 1 PM at the Cafe
>> Enchante on Geary at 26th Ave) or at the Linux Discussion
>> Group meeting at Noisebridge (every Wednesday evening
>> from 6 to 8 PM) or both--don't worry about coordinating
>> between multiple meetings, we'll take care of that.
>>    Note that Michael is an expert Linux sys admin with
>> a particularly good sense of best practices.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 18:25 -0800, Michael Paoli wrote:
>>> SF-LUG & BALUG: System OS upgrades *soon*(?) - volunteer(s)?
>>>
>>> Jim, et. al.,
>>>
>>> Do we have a quorum of volunteers (or should we also try to add a person
>>> or two)?  In this case, I'm specifically thinking colo box, physical
>>> access and associated systems administration stuff (there's also lots
>>> that can be done mostly remotely).
>>>
>>> Anyway, I see some fairly major upgrades due in our near future.
>>> Impacted are:
>>> SF-LUG:
>>> sflug (guest on vicki, hosts [www.]sf-lug.com)
>>> vicki (host for the above)
>>> BALUG:
>>> vicki (noted above, hosts the immediately below)
>>> balug-sf-lug-v2.balug.org (guest on vicki, hosts lot of BALUG
>>>   production)
>>> aladfar.dreamhost.com. (hosted, will be upgraded/replaced for us, hosts
>>>   [www.]balug.org, etc.)
>>>
>>> Security support for Debian 5.0 "lenny" ends *soon* (2012-02-06).
>>> To the extent feasible, we should upgrade the relevant systems soon,
>>> preferably before that date, if that's doable, but if not, soon
>>> thereafter.
>>>
>>> Maybe we could plan out the upgrades at an upcoming SF-LUG meeting?
>>> Roughly, I have in mind (what I'd like to do):
>>> o There isn't any official supported upgrade path from i386 to amd64
>>> o the Silicon Mechanics physical box is and will run amd64/x86_64
>>> o the Silicon Mechanics physical box supports hardware virtualization
>>> o suitably backup (including on-disk as feasible)
>>> o generally prepare for upgrades
>>> o do "upgrades" as follows:
>>>   o vicki:
>>>     o backup / move / "shove" stuff around beginning of disk suitably
>>>       out-of-the-way (on-disk backups / access to existing data)
>>>     o install Debian 6.0.3 (or latest 6.0.x) amd64, using beginning
>>>       area(s) of disks, general architecture layout mostly quite as
>>>       before (everything mirrored, separate /boot, rest under LVM2,
>>>       separate filesystems, etc.)
>>>     o install/configure vicki as above to fully support both qemu-kvm,
>>>       and xen.  Note that on amd64, and with hardware virtualization,
>>>       that will allow vicki to support i386 and amd64 images under
>>>       qemu-kvm and I believe also xen.
>>>   o sflug & balug-sf-lug-v2.balug.org:
>>>     o once the above vicki upgrades are done, sflug and
>>>       balug-sf-lug-v2.balug.org can be dealt with remotely
>>>     o sflug & balug-sf-lug-v2.balug.org can each be dealt with
>>>       separately by their primary/lead sysadmin(s) as may be desired, in
>>>       general for them, I'd probably recommend proceeding as follows:
>>>       o get the existing xen guests running again, more-or-less as they
>>>         were (may require some adjustments - most notably boot bits) -
>>>         may be advisable to convert them to run under qemu-kvm as soon as
>>>         feasible (to avoid guest<-->host kernel, etc. interdependencies)
>>>       o upgrade guests to Debian 6.0.3 (or latest 6.0.x)
>>>       o optional: change guests from i386 to amd64, use above guests
>>>         as reference installations, and do an install/merge to get the
>>>         guest(s) as desired to amd64 architecture.
>>>
>>> bit 'o reference/background ;-) ...
>>>
>>> THE END* IS NEAR**! *of security support for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
>>> (code name "lenny") **2012-02-06
>>>
>>> Security support of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (code name "lenny") will be
>>> terminated 2012-02-06.
>>> Debian released Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias "lenny" 2009-02-14.
>>> Debian released Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 alias "squeeze" 2011-02-06.
>>>
>>> references:
>>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2011/msg00238.html
>
> //or if we present that data a bit differently, to show just how
> //identical the partitioning on the two /dev/sd[ab] disks is:
> Disk /dev/sd[ab]: 30401 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0
>
>    Device Boot    Start       End   #sectors  Id  System
> /dev/sd[ab]1            63    498014     497952  fd  Linux raid autodetect
> /dev/sd[ab]2        498015  35648234   35150220  fd  Linux raid autodetect
> /dev/sd[ab]10    318472623 375037424   56564802  fd  Linux raid autodetect
>
> //excepting extended partition, all logical and non-zero length primary
> //partitions paired up between the sda and sdb devices partisions as md
> //raid1 devices
>
> ///dev/md0 is used for /boot
> sda1 sdb1 md0
> /dev/md0                241036     57135    171457  25% /boot
> //md[1-6] used for LVM
> PV Name /dev/md1 VG Name vg00
> //before: (and above)
> sda2 sdb2 md1 vg00
> sda10 sdb10 md7 (unused)
> //after:
> sda2 sdb2 md1 (unused)
> sda10 sdb10 md7 vg00
>
> references:
> file://vicki/root/upgrades/5.0_lenny_to_6.0_squeeze/
> 0001_a_general_plan_or_outline
> 0002_vicki-pre-disk-analysis
> 0003_vicki_initial_disk_prep

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