[Bio-Linux] Problem booting installation DVD - biolinux 6

[Anthony Pemberton]

Hi Tony and Martin,

After a very tedious morning here in sunny Birmingham, I have managed the first step of option #3 from Tony's list. I now have Ubuntu 10.04 running on the server. To complete, do I just need to add the nebc repos to the sources file?

I tried option #1, by taking the SATA disk from the server and putting it in our Dell Precision 360 workstation and booting from the USB stick and then trying to do an install. For some obscure reason, the installer would not recognize the server disk, despite fdisk -l showing the disk and its partitions in all their glory using the USB-live system. I could even mount the partitions and see the files on them! After checking the Dell BIOS and my handy-work inside the Dell a few times, I gave up on option #1 


Regards,

Tony P.


-----Original Message-----
From: bio-linux-bounces at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk [mailto:bio-linux-bounces at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tony Travis
Sent: 16 July 2010 16:42
To: bio-linux at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Bio-Linux] Problem booting installation DVD - biolinux 6

On 16/07/10 15:55, Martin Gollery wrote:
> Or set up an instance on EC2, then you can run it from anywhere!

Hello, Martin.

Yes, in principle, and as long as you can afford to download your work 
because Amazon make their money by charging much more to retrieve data 
than they do to store it...

Seriously, though, I'm setting up Eucalyptus at RINH to try out the AMI 
that Tim et al. are working on with the JVCI. I think 'private' clouds 
compatible with EC2/S3 etc. are the way forward. The economics of using 
AWS does make sense if you almost never use a computer, but the more you 
use a computer the less economic it is to rent a share of one from Amazon.

Eucalyptus is well supported by Ubuntu server edition:

   http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/eucalyptus

I'd be interested to hear from anyone else doing this sort of thing?

Bye,

   Tony.
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