<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Including <a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.5-Release-Notes" target="_blank">IIAB 6.5 PRE-Release Notes</a> :-)</div><div><br></div><div>But just a warning that Raspbian's mirrors (download servers) were barely working at all over the past ~12 hours or so, so you might have much better luck installing on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Debian 9.2.1 or possibly CentOS 7.4 in the coming hours?<br><br> <a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/releases" target="_blank">https://github.com/iiab/iiab/<wbr>releases</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Reconfirmed: disturbingly <a href="http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org">http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org</a> is hemorrhaging (works less than 50% of the time today, as <a href="http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/mirrordirector.raspbian.org">http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/mirrordirector.raspbian.org</a> confirms) for almost 24h now.</div><div><br></div><div>Consequence: those installing on Raspbian are having to run "./iiab-install" 10+ Times In A Row today, just to finally get a regular install (e.g. <a href="http://download.iiab.io/6.5/rpi/load.txt">http://download.iiab.io/6.5/rpi/load.txt</a>) to incrementally/finally complete on Raspberry Pi 3. What normally would just happen on its own within about an hour.</div><div><br></div><div>Better to take the day off !<br></div><div><br></div><div><i>( Possibly someone knows how we can build more resiliency into Raspbian package downloads/updates in future, using <a href="https://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianMirrors">https://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianMirrors</a> or similar? )</i><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>What's new? Our prototype replacement for ./runansible allows installation of <a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/releases" target="_blank">IIAB 6.5 Preview 2</a> to progress far more efficiently, far more readably -- and to recover roughly where it left off during a large net-based install, avoiding repetition! So once you have <a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-Installation#do-everything-from-scratch" target="_blank">all your OS prereqs in place</a>, you can now run IIAB's new 9-stage / incremental installer as follows:</div></div><div><br></div><div> cd /opt/iiab/iiab<br></div> ./iiab-install<br><br></div>NEW: it will even warn you if your Ansible and/or Raspbian kernel are not recent enough, and guide you to fixing these 2 most essential prereqs! Finally, most installers/implementers will still want to use a 1-line install/load scripts -- to walk away from the keyboard and have most everything taken care of. As such, YES all our install/load scripts now take advantage of "./iiab-install" 9-stage incremental/recoverable installs too:<br><br> <a href="http://download.iiab.io/6.5/rpi/" target="_blank">http://download.iiab.io/6.5/<wbr>rpi/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>RECAP #1: if you suffer from a connectivity failure during installation of IIAB, the vast majority of problems are quickly solved by re-trying "./iiab-install" (after Raspbian mirroring sites hopefully come back to life later today!)<br></div><div><br></div>RECAP #2: Raspbian folk...until the new Raspbian OS (point release) is officially released in coming days by the Raspberry Pi Foundation & All, avoid kernel compatibility hassles using this temporary measure to prep your OS properly, just prior to installing:<br><br></div> apt update<br></div> apt install raspberrypi-kernel<br></div> reboot<br></div> (then install IIAB as above, either way!)<br><br></div><i>Thanks all who've helped make this an incredibly high-quality pre-release <b>already</b>, just a few short weeks away from its final release sometime later this November!!</i><br></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <a href="http://unleashkids.org" target="_blank">http://unleashkids.org</a> !</div></div>
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