[tech] Cobbler

Grahame Bowland UCC grahame at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sat Feb 15 22:02:20 WST 2003


On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:54:33PM +0800, Davyd 'proXy' Madeley wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 21:51, Grahame Bowland (UCC) wrote:
> 
> > Cobbler has been locked away in the machine room. Something is horribly 
> > wrong with it (absymal performance under Windows and Linux, hard hangs 
> > every five to ten minutes) and I wanted to prevent anything bad
> > happening to it (like it being turned on and melting) before I have time 
> > to fix it tommorow.
> 
> I assume you mean the all new cobbler, the one running Luyer's athlon.

I mean the cobbler that is in the machine room now, yes.

> > I'll be blowing away the current Windows install, so be warned and send 
> > me email if you have anything you want on there. It's already pretty
> > dead though, most of the games and things people had installed have been 
> > cloberred by someone.
> 
> Matthias was doing that, all the important stuff (afaik) is backed up on
> a harddrive in the machine room. I showed it to James.

Fine. It still doesn't work, and I'm going to take care of it. Say hello 
to a Samba PDC and not having Admin unless you're in wheel! :-)

(Also means nice things like getting your home area and your own
desktop, and other good things.) And also not having your setup randomly 
blown away by some gumby.



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