The big, important event for this week is the monthly SLUUG general mtng. This month its the 2 presentations: SoftRAID6 upgrade w Zero Downtime. Red Hat KickStart =============================================================== http://www.sluug.org/ • ONLINE MEETINGS ONLY until further notice. • ONLINE sessions will use a remote video meeting service. • HOW TO CONNECT instructions will be on above web page and our mailing lists. Note that your browser may need to be refreshed each time you check the web page for the instructions. • We will open the remote session at about 6:00 PM ================================================================ Meetings are every 2nd Wednesday of the month from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM. BASE: "Upgrading RAID6 with Zero Downtime From six 2T to eight 4T". by Lee Lammert There is a lot of hype about "zero downtime", and many vendors charge boucoup dinero for that sort of hardware capability to have when upgrading a storage array. With Linux SoftRAID, however, don't believe the hype - "zero downtime" has nothing to do with hardware! This tutorial will cover upgrading a 6x2T SoftRAID array to 6x4T, and then adding two more 4T drives, without any downtime or service interruption. MAIN: RedHat Kickstart by Steven Gomez Red Hat's Kickstart installations offer a means to automate the installation process, either partially or fully. Kickstart files contain answers to all questions normally asked by the installation program, such as what time zone you want the system to use, how the drives should be partitioned, or which packages should be installed. Providing a prepared Kickstart file when the installation begins therefore allows you to perform the installation automatically, without need for any intervention from the user. Kickstart features can be an Admin's best friend. This session will present examples of how to use the Kickstart system with RHEL/CentOS platforms to automate the creation of "cookie cutter" systems in an easily repeatable manner. Working examples of various methods using of Kickstarts will be included. (Also works on Fedora per RH.) ===================================== SLUUG is your forum for exchanging information about OPEN standards, OPEN systems, OPEN source, products, services and architectures. We usually start the general meeting with our BASE introductory level session (often focused on personal computing), which may include either simple tutorials, displays of newly discovered web sites, command line wonders, demonstrations of useful applications, amazing graphical packages, major resolution of long standing anomalies, blinking lights, or quantum shifts in both time and space. Then we will have our usually quick welcome, introduction, administrative announcements, and a Call For Help - Q&A Period. After all that, we take a break before our MAIN event. ====================================== O T H E R H I L I T E T H I N G S this week… This week, there is a free M-F class "Automating Geoscience Processes using Python” The Linux Users of Central Ill Newbies is TONITE! There is an Intro to Ansible on Thurs There is an EMACS on Thurs. Thurs is the deadline to apply for the $100,000 Bell Labs Prize grant. There is a "Jitsi Community Call" on Monday next week. There is the 2021 Google Developers Conf Tue-Thurs next week.