[NCLUG] 11.04 with lvm encryption

[Sean Reifschneider]

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On 05/17/2011 02:02 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> On Debian the debian-installer uses ifupdown to control the network.

The particularly unusual thing is that I DHCP picks up an address and is
fine for around a minute, then DHCP is still running but the interface is
down.

> And personally I have been very frustrated with using network-manager
> on my laptop.  I am sure it must work acceptably well for some people

It used to be quite annoying, but the last two years or so it's been quite
good for me.

>> Rarely a problem for me, I specifically select mirrors.tummy.com, partly
>> because I know it's fast, mostly because it's even faster at my house
>> because I have a transparent caching proxy on that IP.
> 
> Nice!  It's good to be you.  :-)

I tried to set up a mini-mirror at my house at one point, but I was never
very happy with that.  So I just set up an Apache with disc cache on my
firewall machine, and any HTTP connections going to mirrors.tummy.com get
redirected to that proxy.  So, the first time I do an install or a distro
it can take a while, but after that is just rockets...  And it requires 0
maintenance, for the last 3 or 4 years.

I guess for Fedora it doesn't matter quite so much to explicitly set up
mirrors.tummy.com as the install source, because there's a process there
that checks the source address when you ask for a list of mirrors, and if
it knows that source address it will hand out a list of "close" mirrors.  I
have my home cable IP set up to prefer mirrors.tummy.com.

Of course, anyone is welcome to use mirrors.tummy.com.

Sean
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