Legacy DRBL RPM Locations

> How do I go about getting older dependency packages to do a legacy
> installation?  Sourceforge has copies of the older drbl rpms, but I
> can’t find any links or browseable directory structure that lets me get
> the appropriate versions of clonezilla, gpxe, etc.
>
>  
>
> Background info about why I want this, if anyone’s interested:
>
> I set up a Ubuntu-based Clonezilla server at the beginning of the year.  
> It worked pretty good, but I had some non-DRBL related gripes (terminal
> would lock up after extended periods, samba implementation was
> unstable), and I wanted to start learning RHEL, so I removed the Ubuntu
> drive and installed a new one, then installed CentOS 5.  I downloaded
> and installed the latest version of Clonezilla, only to find…
>
>  
>
> Well, it’s sort of broken for my needs.  At some point one of the
> upstream upgrades of syslinux broke support for a lot of the PXE boot
> cards we use (specifically 3-Com based).  This is a known hardware issue
> of syslinux, but it’s not so readily apparent that it didn’t affect
> older versions (as evidenced by that fact that the Ubuntu-based system
> has no problems with them).  They recommend flashing the nic firmware to
> a newer version as a solution, but I’m cloning so many systems that it
> would just introduce too long a delay in the process to do that.  I also
> had stability problems with the newer Clonezilla (stale NFS handles,
> other things that escape me), though that may have been an unrelated
> problem (I was actually trying FC10 when I got the NFS handle problem,
> but abandoned FC in favor of CentOS fairly quickly).
>
>  
>
> Basically, I need the old syslinux capabilities more than I need new
> Clonezilla capabilities.  I tried manually installing an older syslinux
> and then editing the drbl.conf file of the latest drbl package so that
> it didn’t download the newer version of syslinux, just everything else,
> but it still didn’t work right.  Now I’m looking to just do a local
> install of all package versions that were on the Ubuntu server (I
> plugged that drive back in long enough to get a list of all relevant
> package versions).
>
>  
>
> Any help?
>
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> How do I go about getting older dependency packages to do a legacy
> installation?  Sourceforge has copies of the older drbl rpms, but I
> can't find any links or browseable directory structure that lets me get
> the appropriate versions of clonezilla, gpxe, etc.
>
>  
>
> Background info about why I want this, if anyone's interested:
>
> I set up a Ubuntu-based Clonezilla server at the beginning of the year.  
> It worked pretty good, but I had some non-DRBL related gripes (terminal
> would lock up after extended periods, samba implementation was
> unstable), and I wanted to start learning RHEL, so I removed the Ubuntu
> drive and installed a new one, then installed CentOS 5.  I downloaded
> and installed the latest version of Clonezilla, only to find.
>
>  
>
> Well, it's sort of broken for my needs.  At some point one of the
> upstream upgrades of syslinux broke support for a lot of the PXE boot
> cards we use (specifically 3-Com based).  This is a known hardware issue
> of syslinux, but it's not so readily apparent that it didn't affect
> older versions (as evidenced by that fact that the Ubuntu-based system
> has no problems with them).  They recommend flashing the nic firmware to
> a newer version as a solution, but I'm cloning so many systems that it
> would just introduce too long a delay in the process to do that.  I also
> had stability problems with the newer Clonezilla (stale NFS handles,
> other things that escape me), though that may have been an unrelated
> problem (I was actually trying FC10 when I got the NFS handle problem,
> but abandoned FC in favor of CentOS fairly quickly).
>
>  
>
> Basically, I need the old syslinux capabilities more than I need new
> Clonezilla capabilities.  I tried manually installing an older syslinux
> and then editing the drbl.conf file of the latest drbl package so that
> it didn't download the newer version of syslinux, just everything else,
> but it still didn't work right.  Now I'm looking to just do a local
> install of all package versions that were on the Ubuntu server (I
> plugged that drive back in long enough to get a list of all relevant
> package versions).
>
>  
>
> Any help?
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
>
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>
>

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> Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited
> royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing
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> Okay, thanks for the links.  Most of the packages I needed were actually in:
> http://free2.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core/i386/RPMS.drbl-stable/
> but having the jumping-off point allowed me to find them.
>
> I have a new problem, though (or actually a problem I didn't mention
> before).
>
> I downloaded the older packages, did an offline install, and the resulting
> DRBL server is working well, even with the older 3Com nics.  However, I'm
> again running into a secondary problem I ran into before when I was trying
> the latest version of DRBL/Clonezilla:
>
> After running drblpush -i and accepting all the default options (or with
> Clonezilla Box mode as one option I tried differently), although the DRBL
> side works fine, when I try to run Clonezilla, it errors out with the last
> few lines:
>
> ...
> Reading ocd_opt from /proc/cmdline...
> No clonezilla param in /proc/cmdline!
> Abort!
> Press Enter to exit...
>
>  

> Any idea why?  Since I'm running all the non-distro related packages I was
> in Ubuntu, and since I also saw this problem when using the default latest
> version of DRBL & Clonezilla, I have to suspect a conflict with CentOS 5.4.
>
> -David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Shiau [mailto:steven@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:11 AM
> To: David Mills
> Cc: drbl-user@...
> Subject: Re: [Drbl-user] Legacy DRBL RPM Locations
>
> Hi David,
> You can find the old files here:
> http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core/old/
> http://free2.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core/old/ (maybe faster)
>
> Steven.
>
> David Mills wrote:
>  
>> How do I go about getting older dependency packages to do a legacy
>> installation?  Sourceforge has copies of the older drbl rpms, but I
>> can't find any links or browseable directory structure that lets me get
>> the appropriate versions of clonezilla, gpxe, etc.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Background info about why I want this, if anyone's interested:
>>
>> I set up a Ubuntu-based Clonezilla server at the beginning of the year.  
>> It worked pretty good, but I had some non-DRBL related gripes (terminal
>> would lock up after extended periods, samba implementation was
>> unstable), and I wanted to start learning RHEL, so I removed the Ubuntu
>> drive and installed a new one, then installed CentOS 5.  I downloaded
>> and installed the latest version of Clonezilla, only to find.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Well, it's sort of broken for my needs.  At some point one of the
>> upstream upgrades of syslinux broke support for a lot of the PXE boot
>> cards we use (specifically 3-Com based).  This is a known hardware issue
>> of syslinux, but it's not so readily apparent that it didn't affect
>> older versions (as evidenced by that fact that the Ubuntu-based system
>> has no problems with them).  They recommend flashing the nic firmware to
>> a newer version as a solution, but I'm cloning so many systems that it
>> would just introduce too long a delay in the process to do that.  I also
>> had stability problems with the newer Clonezilla (stale NFS handles,
>> other things that escape me), though that may have been an unrelated
>> problem (I was actually trying FC10 when I got the NFS handle problem,
>> but abandoned FC in favor of CentOS fairly quickly).
>>
>>  
>>
>> Basically, I need the old syslinux capabilities more than I need new
>> Clonezilla capabilities.  I tried manually installing an older syslinux
>> and then editing the drbl.conf file of the latest drbl package so that
>> it didn't download the newer version of syslinux, just everything else,
>> but it still didn't work right.  Now I'm looking to just do a local
>> install of all package versions that were on the Ubuntu server (I
>> plugged that drive back in long enough to get a list of all relevant
>> package versions).
>>
>>  
>>
>> Any help?
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>    
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>  
>> Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial
>> Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited
>> royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing
>> server and web deployment.
>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects
>>
>>
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>>
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