For a personal project I want to iPXE boot alpine. I did not found any step by step guide, so I ended up testing multiple solutions until it works. This post is a “copy” of the answer I made here for the netboot.xyz project.
To fix this issue I used a bunch of thread and resources but here are the three main entry used:
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I recently messed up my laptop (do not play with /etc/apt/preferences too much!),
and I had to reinstall my distro. I checked my previous article
and noticed some missing informations. So here is a second article of things
I needed to fixup when installing LMDE on my Macbook.
I will not install VirtualBox! That’s all (nor VMWare, don’t be ridiculous). But I really like Vagrant, and use it every time I need something closer to a running machine. So, I dig up the internet and found that there is an unofficial support of libvirt. Installation I do not remember where I found the documentation to do this or if I did it by myself, so no link here, just what I do in order to make this work. Read More...
Jenkins is everywhere now, but I really don’t like it. So I am looking at a replacement from day to day. I discovered Gogs an I though that a CI is also a good use case for the Golang language. And I finally found Drone (which was not really difficult as it is mentionned in a ticket on gogs github). So I decided to make them work together in order to test that. Read More...
After a long journey, I finally found the distribution which fits all my need: Linux Mint Debian Edition Why ? It is based on debian a distribution which I really like (and not Ubuntu). The default tilling (similar to W7) is really comfortable. Lot of configuration can be done for shortcuts. Support for systemd (Yay \o/). Beautiful UI out of the box (which I didn’t have with TWM). And a lot more Installation As I am on Macbook (once upon a time, I was young and dumb), I need a particular configuration of the partitions for the installation. Read More...
I have a home media server, and I spent a lot of time configuring, testing and installing on it. But I was never really satisfied by the way I had to perform the installation (which happens way too often). And I recently discovered Ansible, which is a tool for doing a lot of stuff with a server (configuration, run repetitive command, installation) over ssh. I really loved experienced with it, it does not require a lot of dependencies on the targeted server, and can be easily run. Read More...
Following this article I have LVM on top of Luks for my system. When I boot I encounter the following message:
Volume group "vg_ssd" not found
Skipping volume group vg_ssd
Unable to find LVM volume vg_ssd/lv_root
It appears that LVM is started before I open the crypted partition and display this error. To fix this we will manipulate the initramfs \o/.
The issue is in the file /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot
Weechat is an ncurse client for IRC, which I use and have tweaked to fit my needs. But Weechat have one major issue: IT IS NOT USER FRIENDLY. The documentation is poor, there is a lot of plugins, which documentation is even poorer, and the configuration is a hell. WELCOME! First of all the installation, apt-get install weechat will be sufficient on a real OS. Then, just type weechat in order to launch the client. Read More...
I am a huge fan of docker for my dev environments, it helps me keeping things clear and understanding what are the ressources needed for a project. A few month ago a friend told me that there already is a similar feature on Linux, and this feature is systemd-nspawn. Creating your first container So like docker I wanted to first start a container. Nspawn has no environment so everything has to be done “by hand”. Read More...
I really like docker (even if I will look at [systemd-nspawn](http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/ systemd-nspawn.html)), and also gulp. So I decided to create a small tool for serving a directory with a livereload. The repo is available here What I have learned Docker, especially with boot2docker (I am on MacOSX shame on me), is not really flexible: no evaluation for environment variables you can not store a variable through multiple run, you will need to do a oneliner e. Read More...