[General] SLUG Speakers

[Arthur]

Could you please give me a link to the SED Linux Users Group (SLUG) webpage.
I feel like I should know about this group but I don't, and my google fu
seems to have failed me.

Also when is it?  I don't live in Huntsville right now, but I could give
small talks like:  "When the installer fails:  Installing Debian from the
command line" and "UEFI:  Better than grub, but still not perfect."

Assuming I can get away from my university that is.  East Tennessee State
University is on a slightly different schedule than UAH.


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Kirk D Mccann <kirk.mccann at gmail.com>wrote:

> The SED Linux Users Group (SLUG) is looking for people who are willing to
> come speak on topics relating to Linux.  As the overall knowledge of our
> makers group is quite vast, and the use of linux in hacker spaces is
> common, it is my hope that someone could fill one of the speaker slots.
> This speaking opportunity would also give the speaker a chance to advertize
> Makers Local 256 and all that we do.
>
> The slug group has presented on the following topics:
> rsync
> Synergy
> QT
> Network Installs
> ZoneMinder
> Virtual Box
> RPM creation
> RHEL 6 Identity Management
> Git
> Perforce
> Raspberry Pi
>
> This year the SLUG is looking to hold 1 hour presentations on the
> following topics:
>   KVM
>   RHEL MRG
>   STIGs/NIST/OpenSCAP compliance
>   RHEL 7 expectations
>   SELinux
>   System performance analysis tools & BBP
>   Full disk encryption
>   Iptables/nftables
>   UDEV rules
>   RH Satellite installation – in “disconnected” environment
>   Bacula
>   SSDs, LVM, disk management, filesystems
>   IdM installation
>   Software programming/debugging tools
>   Cross-compilation + building OS for non-x86 processor
>   Virtual Appliances
>   Large storage/distributed filesystems and BBP
>
> Thanks and Have a Good Day,
> Kirk McCann
>
> PS: If you would like to attend one of the sessions and have access to the
> arsenal, I can send out notifications when the meetings are scheduled.
>
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-- 
Sincerely,
Arthur Moore
(256) 277-1001
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These are the notes for how I preformed my custom Debian installation:
The laptop is named "Shiva".

See this link to add non-free firmware to initrd.gz:
	http://www.n0r1sk.com/index.php/Debian_Remaster_Netinstaller_-_Integrate_Firmware_bnx2x_and_Preseed

Here's the FAQ:
	https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FAQ

Here's how to preselect things in grub.cfg so I don't have to do it when installing:
	http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apb.html.en

Debootstrap instructions for when the graphical install doesn't do what I want:
	https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap
	http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html.en

Instructions for using UEFI to boot directly to the linux kernel (without grub):
	https://wiki.debian.org/EFIStub

Shiva has an "Intel centrino wireless N 2230" network card.
	deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
	apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi

Follow these steps to make the installer work with that wifi card:
	Download and extract the firmware:
		wget http://debian.gtisc.gatech.edu/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-iwlwifi_0.40_all.deb
		mkdir iwlwifi
		dpgk-deb -x firmware-iwlwifi_0.40_all.deb iwlwifi/
	
	Extract the initrd.gz:
		mkdir initrd
		cd initrd
		zcat ../initrd.gz | cpio -iv
	
	Copy over the files:
		cp -a ../iwlwifi/* .

	Rebuild initrd.gz:
		rm ../initrd.gz
		find . -print0 | cpio -0 -H newc -ov | gzip -c > ../initrd.gz

I'm using btrfs subvolumes, so once I had wifi the graphical installer was useless:
	ROOTDIR=/media/btrfs/Debian_Root
	ROOTPARTITION=/dev/sdb6
	
	mkfs.btrfs -L Shiva_Linux $ROOTPARTITION
	mkdir /media/btrfs
	mount $ROOTPARTITION btrfs
	btrfs subvolume create $ROOTDIR
	btrfs subvolume create $ROOTDIR/../Linux_Home
	btrfs subvolume create $ROOTDIR/../Data
	
	debootstrap --arch=amd64 jessie $ROOTDIR http://http.debian.net/debian/
	#Copy over everything in the .../etc folder to $ROOTDIR/etc/
	mkdir $ROOTDIR/boot/efi
	mkdir $ROOTDIR/media/btrfs
	mkdir $ROOTDIR/media/Data
	
	#Mount everything needed to set up UEFI booting
	mount proc $ROOTDIR/proc -t proc
	mount sysfs $ROOTDIR/sys -t sysfs
	mount /dev/sdb2 $ROOTDIR/boot/efi/
	cp /proc/mounts $ROOTDIR/etc/mtab
	
	mkdir $ROOTDIR/boot/efi/EFI/debian
	chroot $ROOTDIR /bin/bash
	apt-get update
	apt-get install sytemd systemd-sysv linux-image-amd64 firmware-iwlwifi vim btrfs-tools efibootmgr iw sudo less
	update-initramfs -u
	
	#Set efi to boot the kernel
	
	#Make sure we're not in a mounted direcory, and unmount everything
	cd /
	umount $ROOTDIR/proc
	umount $ROOTDIR/sys
	umount /dev/sdb2
	umount $ROOTPARTITION
	
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