These are my notes on installing a brand new Framework Laptop DIY Edition (12th Gen Intel® Core™) from Batch 1 for myself.

These are my notes on installing a brand new Framework Laptop (Batch 9) for a nephew of mine. It is the model with 11th Gen Intel Core.

I want a playground for Ceph’s cephadm that was introduced with Octopus and is also present in Pacific.

So I cleanly took my QNAP TS-473A out of my existing Ceph Nautilus cluster again (because I have enough combined capacity on my F5-422 nodes to be able to remove the OSDs in the TS-473A) and installed Fedora Server 35 plus cephadm from upstream.

I installed Fedora Server 35 on my QNAP TS-473A.

These are my installation notes. They are similar to my RHEL8 notes.

Because my ASUS PN50 running MythTV was initially installed with F32 and I routinely DNF System Upgrade, it has been running F34 for a while now.

The main reason for this post is that the infrared receiver and watchdog seem to finally work.

I bought a Blynclight PLUS busylight from Embrava, these are my notes on using it under Fedora Linux.

Since my ASUS PN50 is planned to be running MythTV, I reinstalled it with Fedora 32 (wiping my RHEL 8 install).

Specs say 115 x 115 x 49 mm (WxDxH). CD case in the picture to give you a rough idea of the size.

I intend to run ceph-ansible stable-4.0 on my Fedora 31 Workstation.

Since F31 comes with Ansible 2.9, but ceph-ansible 4.0 requires ansible>=2.8.8,<2.9, I simply used python -m venv ….

This is my braindump.

I installed Fedora 29 on my TerraMaster F5-422 for a quick Ceph test.

Obviously if you plan to use Fedora on this hardware for anything more than a quick test, use the latest version! Or try RHEL7 or CentOS Stream on it.

This is my braindump.

It’s been about 2½ months since I started adding ODROID-HC2 nodes to my Ceph Luminous cluster.

This is a quick update on how it’s doing so far.

I was gifted a SoftIron OverDrive 1000, an ARMv8 Opteron Seattle based machine.

This post is my braindump. Expect it to change until I remove ‘WIP: ’ from the title.

I built a Ceph Luminous cluster containing seven ODROID-HC2 nodes. This cluster also contains some x86 VMs running on my hypervisor.

I use this cluster mainly as a Ceph playground.

For Ceph use I definitely did not want to mess about with serial console on the ODROID-HC2 (there are 7 nodes to install, there could be more). The instructions include getting rid of the need for serial console during first boot.