It's getting to be time for me to upgrade my ascii server to beowulf. But I have some worries, having heard people have had problems with said upgrade.
What I absolutely need after the upgrade is a text console and network cnnectivity. Because this is my link to the rest of the world, and if something goes wrong I won't be able to ask for help. Since i'm in coronavirus lockdown, a trip to a local coffeeshop's wifi isn't really an option. (they're pretty closed down anyway) So. What information, code, binaries, documentation should I be collecting ahead of time in case it doesn't go smoothly? I don't care that much about interactive graphics, desktop environments, and the like. If I get a text console with root access, internet connection and bridging and masquerading to my LAN, that's enough. Yes, I've heard of people's woes with things like ehternet device renaming and the like. I need to know what to do if this happens to me. The machine is an old AMD-64 box; it's been running for over a decade. I'm not entirely sure of the USB subsystem; and its floppy drive is dead. The lase Debian on it was the one before jassie; it has been updated to Devuan's jessie and has been running Devuan ever since. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
