Building Ubuntu via PXE

I already have a Raspberry Pi serving up Centos over the network, and I wanted to add Ubuntu. I’d previously had this working over NFS; I stumbled over a backup of my configuration for 14.04, 12.04, and 11.10 using NFS. However, my Centos setup uses http (plus TFTP for the PXE bit) as I’d found […]

stash of /etc/os-release files

Which I use for bootstrapping puppet apply. Ubuntu 18.04 (symlink to /usr/lib/os-release) NAME=”Ubuntu” VERSION=”18.04.3 LTS (Bionic Beaver)” ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME=”Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS” VERSION_ID=”18.04″ HOME_URL=”https://www.ubuntu.com/” SUPPORT_URL=”https://help.ubuntu.com/” BUG_REPORT_URL=”https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/” PRIVACY_POLICY_URL=”https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy” VERSION_CODENAME=bionic UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic Fedora 31 NAME=Fedora VERSION=”31 (Workstation Edition)” ID=fedora VERSION_ID=31 VERSION_CODENAME=”” PLATFORM_ID=”platform:f31″ PRETTY_NAME=”Fedora 31 (Workstation Edition)” ANSI_COLOR=”0;34″ LOGO=fedora-logo-icon CPE_NAME=”cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31″ HOME_URL=”https://fedoraproject.org/” DOCUMENTATION_URL=”https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f31/system-administrators-guide/” SUPPORT_URL=”https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help” BUG_REPORT_URL=”https://bugzilla.redhat.com/” REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT=”Fedora” REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=31 REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT=”Fedora” REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=31 PRIVACY_POLICY_URL=”https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:PrivacyPolicy” […]

OEM support for Linux (firmware updates)

Ubuntu 18.04 and Centos 7.6 both run the fwupd service. This polls for updates on supported hardware. Support arrived in 16.04 and 7.4 respectively (from the docs.) hat tip Check the daemon’s status with the following; problems with any plugins are noted in the logs. systemctl status fwupd On ubuntu 18.04 updates are via the […]