Windows free LAN
I mentioned a day or two back that bitbucket (our Win2K3 server) was about to be turned off after migration of its data and services to our Ubuntu desktop. Well, it’s been done. The LAN has no more Windows machines on it.
Actually, that’s not quite true, because the Inspiron 9400 is setup for WinXP/Ubuntu dual boot. Having said that, when I’m at home I spend far more time in Ubuntu that WinXP. There’s certainly no more permanent Windows machines on the LAN. The only time I really use WinXP is for photography, because I need Lightroom.
I’ve had to do a few things to get this done.
- Migrate the subversion repository from the bitbucket to the Ubuntu machine. Easily done. Backup the repository on bitbucket, create a new repository on the Ubuntu machine and load from the backup. Notes here and here.
- Copy around 200GB of data from bitbucket to the Ubuntu machine. Here I cheated. I dropped bitbucket and took the hard disks out. I’ve mounted them as NTFS partitions on the Ubuntu machine and I’m copying the data across to other disks. Once I’m done I’ll reuse the bitbucket drives as additional storage on the Ubuntu machine. I’ve got a 160GB disk that will become the /home partition. Should do for now.
- Setup the new bug tracking system and import all the data from FogBugz. Easy done.
- Setup a wiki and import all the data from the SharePoint server. I haven’t done this yet, but it won’t be too difficult.
Oh, one other bonus thing: I spent so much time using ssh to go back and forth between the i9400 and the Ubuntu machine I looked up automatic ssh login (ie: no password prompt). Details here. Piece of cake.
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