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AnthonySmith

I had an equine-related emergency today, so I could not complete the testing on the ISO over https, bumped to tomorrow.

Not_Oles

Best wishes to the horses! Hope they are okay!

WSS

@AnthonySmith said:
equine-related emergency

The last time I head of that on the Internet, it was called Mr. Hands.

AnthonySmith

@WSS said: The last time I head of that on the Internet, it was called Mr. Hands.

On this occasion, I am not going to google it and just be happy I dont understand.

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I did the engineering validation tonight, so the iso over https will be live tomorrow if the stars align (lots on tomorrow)

made a last minute change, you can now mount 2 ISO.. idk, maybe you want a driver disk and an ISO, I wont be asking why, but you might...

Also if the planets also align, Tokyo may be live tomorrow.

WSS

I mounted two. One of them was called yourmom.iso9660.

AnthonySmith

ISO Mounting is now available.

Other info:

The system will follow a maximum of 3 redirects, the ISO must ultimately provide a 200 response, and the web server must support HTTP Range requests, supported in HTTP/1.1 since around 1997, but some ultra-simple web servers still don't, and some mirrors block it by design.

• VALID https is expected.
• ISO's are streamed using this block on demmand method.
• We allow up to 2 ISO's to be mounted

• 2nd ISO slot is handy for drivers and as a secondary data source for some ipxe or netboot.xyz installations and probably other reasons I can't think of.
• Your IO is limited on your main disk while an ISO mount is active, and ISO's that are mounted for 48 hours are forcefully removed by the backend. This is to avoid ISO mount as a permanent network storage method.

In other news, it looks like Tokyo is not happening; the hardware just was not up to the task, not even for TierHive, searching for alternatives.

WSS

My IPv6 gateway is downed.

$ ping 2a11:6c7:2300:9508::1
PING 2a11:6c7:2300:9508::1 (2a11:6c7:2300:9508::1) 56 data bytes

AnthonySmith

@WSS said:
My IPv6 gateway is downed.

$ ping 2a11:6c7:2300:9508::1
PING 2a11:6c7:2300:9508::1 (2a11:6c7:2300:9508::1) 56 data bytes

fixed

Not_Oles

@AnthonySmith said: ISO Mounting is now available.

Thanks! I am excited to try an ISO install on TierHive!

I especially appreciate the extra details you posted about how it works.

terrorgen

@budi1413 said:
singapore has fallen?

Our heart skipped a bit, we thought it will be renamed as Shōnan-Tō again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Singapore

cmeerw

@AnthonySmith said: 2nd ISO slot is handy for drivers and as a secondary data source for some ipxe or netboot.xyz installations and probably other reasons I can't think of.

I guess one way to use it would be to have a somewhat generic "copy this image to the disk" ISO as the 1st ISO, and use the 2nd ISO as the image to be written to the disk. But then, maybe you should just offer a way to write a user-provided image to the disk?

Although one issue that still remains with all these ISO installation options is that there probably isn't a way to access the server configuration meta-data from the ISOs (as far as I can tell, that configuration meta-data is removed after the first reboot).

AnthonySmith

@cmeerw said:

@AnthonySmith said: 2nd ISO slot is handy for drivers and as a secondary data source for some ipxe or netboot.xyz installations and probably other reasons I can't think of.

I guess one way to use it would be to have a somewhat generic "copy this image to the disk" ISO as the 1st ISO, and use the 2nd ISO as the image to be written to the disk. But then, maybe you should just offer a way to write a user-provided image to the disk?

Although one issue that still remains with all these ISO installation options is that there probably isn't a way to access the server configuration meta-data from the ISOs (as far as I can tell, that configuration meta-data is removed after the first reboot).

I can think of a few use cases which made me think that others can probably think of even more, it was 5 minutes extra work to do.

Regarding the metadata I plan to make the removal after reboot optional, 99% don't even know what the meta data is so removal will be default.

AnthonySmith

Paris is live, services can be created there now, IPv6 will follow within a day or 2.