Who is Adrian Hannah?
Adrian was a poor college kid living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan trying to make a living as a System Administrator. Now he's a struggling new hire at a software firm in New York, but he's still trying to make a living as a system administrator.
Tag Archives: imaging
Work: 1-Jul-2008
I started imaging the window machines in Superior, as of right now it will take roughly 6 hours to complete so I will look into it tomorrow and verify that it worked. Askel has been having a problem recently where … Continue reading
Work: 30-Jun-2008
Users started inputting data into the research.me admin website today and they started finding bugs in the system. When uploading a PDF for the abstract of a publication, the site would tell the user that it was not a valid … Continue reading
Work: 27-Jun-2008
I mostly worked on transferring the new image to chef. I will start the transfer to the window machines in Superior as soon as I get done posting. Marlene had some questions about how to do things with the Admin … Continue reading
Work 26-Jun-2008
I put together a new PXE file that points to the image file “F08_R03[u].gho”, and then wrote a wiki article detailing the process of creating a new PXE file.
Work: 25-Jun-2008
I spent the day copying over the final revision of the lab image. It turns out we need to revert and update, because Firefox 3 is incompatible with the Catia help files. We’ll copy over the new file and burn … Continue reading
Work: 12-Jun-2008
Today was spent mostly working on the Fall ’08 image, since Tim is gone for the weekend. He had the final image finished except for installing McAffee and UIU, which I did. The image was copied over (~30 minutes) and … Continue reading
Work: 16-May-2008
We built and captured the UIU image for Base, it seems to be working with no problem. Several of the student employees tested the image and reported their errors to Tim (the Enchanter). While waiting for the image to finish/copy … Continue reading
Work: 15-May-2008
Things done today: I reimaged the testing side of Erie with revision 3.1 of the base image, and let Henry know so that they can start testing. I wrote documentation on how to use the GParted LiveCD on our lab … Continue reading
Work: 14-May-2008
I got the GParted LiveCD working on our lab machines finally. It turned out to be that the default settings couldn’t handle the hardware we have installed. So I came up with a list of settings that do make it … Continue reading
Work: 12-May-2008
I was tasked with finding a way to repartition the hard drives on the lab machines so we could push the image files to the machine before imaging. The only way I can find to do it is using GParted, … Continue reading