@localhost said: This, is fancy stuff. Looks great. Sure some prices need to be fixed (like 3rd hot swapped hdd for 3tb is higher)
Thanks this helps a lot I remembered there was a specific thing like that but couldn't find it and that's exactly what I was looking for, you saved me probably at least 15 minutes at my current pace.
@VirMach Looks sweet. I had an issue when I tapped somewhere on the page and it made iOS Chrome not be able to do anything, broke the page somehow. I was going to replicate it to share with you but I couldn't get it to happen again.. not sure what I did before.
I see this fancy thing, but does it translate correctly to the RAM slot thing? Like you only have 8GB sticks and we can fight for dual/quad channel and you won't just put single 16GB stick? Like I know this is fancy, but people gonna be angry [up to chargeback] when they see 4 sticks on configurator and end with 2 in system.
also no validation - like I can get a system without any dicks plus what I am supposed to do here on mobile view?
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@MikeA said: @VirMach Looks sweet. I had an issue when I tapped somewhere on the page and it made iOS Chrome not be able to do anything, broke the page somehow. I was going to replicate it to share with you but I couldn't get it to happen again.. not sure what I did before.
Mobile was mostly an afterthought after a friend me reminded me phones exist. Then it bothered me and I had to spend some time getting it to be usable. I couldn't get tapping to work well on it so I just soft "force" a guided walkthrough.
I assume it could be a lot worse on Android/Chrome since I only looked at Safari.
Must have taken some time to make that.
As it usually goes, the last few little minor things took an agonizingly long time.
Number of RAM sticks don't show properly, I'm not fixing this, I made it worse then gave up.
The empty 8GB was me making it worse.
@Jab said: I see this fancy thing, but does it translate correctly to the RAM slot thing? Like you only have 8GB sticks and we can fight for dual/quad channel and you won't just put single 16GB stick?
Only 2x and 4x and the original plan was to have it show as such, which is why it got so broken. It did work at some point where it showed 1, 2, 3, 4. But I wanted it to be 2 and 4 only, then gave up and halfway mixed it up and yeah, we're at the worst possible version right now for it. But I did make the sticks look a little nicer.
@Jab said: when they see 4 sticks on configurator and end with 2 in system
This part wouldn't be possible to get accurate unless we do an inventory check before every change you make, as a joke I could enable "accuracy mode" once I get done with the other part of the project that does inventory checks, where you have to wait 30 seconds for each validation so it can display the number of sticks correctly.
So the goal was to have it show 2 sticks for 8GB, 16GB, and 4 sticks for 32GB, 64GB.
@Jab said: also no validation - like I can get a system without any dicks plus what I am supposed to do here on mobile view?
Disks are like that on purpose, one option used to be called "Any/None" but I might have just changed it to "None" and decided to show some type of message or modal about you getting whatever's available. I think it's because I thought "Any/None" would be even more confusing. But hey if people are upset this particular one doesn't match we can always remove their complimentary disk.
To be fair none of this would have been better if we just had default dropdowns. I think I've decided what we're going to do if anyone gets upset about seeing 4 and getting 2 sticks or vice versa, we can make it match the visualization precisely, no power cord, fans, or ethernet cable.
Not a validation issue, as intended. The user interface has nothing to do with background validations, as in you can't just trick it to give you infinite whatever either. There will be an inventory check at some point if I can get it working though, as mentioned.
@NodeSuper said: @VirMach My Japanese vps has been offline for many days. Please restore it to normal as soon as possible. Thank you. I sent you a work order but no one responded. Service Ticket Number#714106
Ticket backlog so these were only checked to some degree and looked into further if an issue was identified. Your ticket indicated disk issue, control issue, or node issue, and none were confirmable based on that.
This should have been looked at sooner though, so you'll get SLA credit/extension. It's a SolusVM VNC bug. Turning off VNC and booting confirms this, but I've fixed it. Might have triggered after your most recent reinstall immediately followed by reconfigure. Credited.
@NodeSuper said: @VirMach My Japanese vps has been offline for many days. Please restore it to normal as soon as possible. Thank you. I sent you a work order but no one responded. Service Ticket Number#714106
Ticket backlog so these were only checked to some degree and looked into further if an issue was identified. Your ticket indicated disk issue, control issue, or node issue, and none were confirmable based on that.
This should have been looked at sooner though, so you'll get SLA credit/extension. It's a SolusVM VNC bug. Turning off VNC and booting confirms this, but I've fixed it. Might have triggered after your most recent reinstall immediately followed by reconfigure. Credited.
Thank you very much
I'll try reinstalling the system.
@VirMach automated installation fails when RAID configurations are involved. I tried both Proxmox and Debian (and probably CentOS) and they did not work. The system attempts to create two RAID devices when RAID1 is selected. The first one completes successfully but the second one fails. I believe it also fails with RAID10. I was able to install Debian by selecting “use the largest drive” and that worked. Anyway I do not want mdadm. I want Proxmox with ZFS 😭
Okay I remember, wow that was an awful idea on my part. Time to go figure out what was agreed, I vaguely remember it being like $300 a year or $500 per 2 years or something for some 2600 option, yeah. Okay give me a moment.
FWIW, I recall the second option being required as you, "didn't want to check every month to see if these one-off weirdos were cancelled." Not an exact quote but reasonably captures the spirit. ;-)
Okay I remember, wow that was an awful idea on my part. Time to go figure out what was agreed, I vaguely remember it being like $300 a year or $500 per 2 years or something for some 2600 option, yeah. Okay give me a moment.
FWIW, I recall the second option being required as you, "didn't want to check every month to see if these one-off weirdos were cancelled." Not an exact quote but reasonably captures the spirit. ;-)
These might get rolled into a different configuration since we're likely dumping the 2600, so if that happens you can get it monthly instead if preferred. You'll likely have to get it how I said annually/as it is technically if you want to continue with whatever we said as a "beta" pre-launch, otherwise if you wait until after it gets rolled into a base configuration, it means you'd have to get it monthly at whatever price it ends up being for everyone during the sale.
Hopefully that makes enough sense.
@imok said: @VirMach automated installation fails when RAID configurations are involved. I tried both Proxmox and Debian (and probably CentOS) and they did not work. The system attempts to create two RAID devices when RAID1 is selected. The first one completes successfully but the second one fails. I believe it also fails with RAID10. I was able to install Debian by selecting “use the largest drive” and that worked. Anyway I do not want mdadm. I want Proxmox with ZFS 😭
Well that's not good, you don't even have a controller so it should just work, as in we're not doing anything weird and their PXE profiles should be functional for it.
It might be because you have 2 NVMe and 4 HDDs though.
I'm doing spreadsheets to try to adjust pricing to see how I'd have to work in the coupon for the sale, and his is technically "valued" at $189 a month.
I'm going to have to change some things around and make it the math less logical so it works out better overall, otherwise all the 4TB NVMe configurations are just going to stay empty.
@Kris said:
Oh hell, I should have gotten a different Ryzen. :'( Mine's still trying to find the rest of the RAM.
You originally had the 3500 too, I just worked in a 2600 because I remembered your comment saying it was better than the 3500.
@VirMach said: These might get rolled into a different configuration since we're likely dumping the 2600, so if that happens you can get it monthly instead if preferred. You'll likely have to get it how I said annually/as it is technically if you want to continue with whatever we said as a "beta" pre-launch, otherwise if you wait until after it gets rolled into a base configuration, it means you'd have to get it monthly at whatever price it ends up being for everyone during the sale.
Hopefully that makes enough sense.
To make sure we're on the same page:
Annually is fine/preferred. Biennial was sub-optimal but workable as I completely understand not wanting to have to watch over the potential one-off's.
I figured at the end of whatever term I chose not to renew I'd put a ticket in saying, "I'm not renewing [x]. It's one of the weird non-spec dedis so you have to decide if it should go out of service."
I'm fine with the 2600,3500, 3600, or the 5900X. Any work for me.
I'm all in for beta.
I feel like there was something else I wanted to put here when I started but I'm drawing a blank at now.
From elsewhere, I miss my low-end 2CPU/8GB/500GB/29 dedicated server @$18/month. :'(
Just saying.
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Guys, any idea how to load Debian manually without mounting the ISO via KVM?
I do not want to consume Virmach's time. I am sure he has other things to do and this is a good situation for me to learn.
What I want to do is boot into some network tool that lets me start the Debian installer and set up the OS with RAID1 on those beautiful and big -not 1200GB but 4TB- NVMEs. Then I would install Proxmox on top. No ZFS of course. Is that possible?
GRML ISO is available in the control panel. I read it can be used to install Debian, but when I tried it, it asked me to select the partitions. So I guess I have to create them in advance, which started to feel intimidating. I ended up discarding that way.
@imok said:
Guys, any idea how to load Debian manually without mounting the ISO via KVM?
I do not want to consume Virmach's time. I am sure he has other things to do and this is a good situation for me to learn.
What I want to do is boot into some network tool that lets me start the Debian installer and set up the OS with RAID1 on those beautiful and big -not 1200GB but 4TB- NVMEs. Then I would install Proxmox on top. No ZFS of course. Is that possible?
GRML ISO is available in the control panel. I read it can be used to install Debian, but when I tried it, it asked me to select the partitions. So I guess I have to create them in advance, which started to feel intimidating. I ended up discarding that way.
PS: Did I write a wall of text Virmach-style?
There should be Netboot available on the OS list. Let me spend some time to see how ISO works, it should probably be easy.
(edit) It is real easy. Let me know if it works, adding it is easy, I don't know about getting it to work.
(edit) I'm also going to try to get into creating some disk layouts for RAID and see how well that works. I keep forgetting I have a bunch of servers I'm allowed to use/mess around with...
@imok said:
Guys, any idea how to load Debian manually without mounting the ISO via KVM?
I do not want to consume Virmach's time. I am sure he has other things to do and this is a good situation for me to learn.
What I want to do is boot into some network tool that lets me start the Debian installer and set up the OS with RAID1 on those beautiful and big -not 1200GB but 4TB- NVMEs. Then I would install Proxmox on top. No ZFS of course. Is that possible?
GRML ISO is available in the control panel. I read it can be used to install Debian, but when I tried it, it asked me to select the partitions. So I guess I have to create them in advance, which started to feel intimidating. I ended up discarding that way.
Did you want to buy one of these to joint the beta pre-sale or whatever? It'll be 3500, and 500GB NVMe. Not sure if this was a suggestion for the sale or part of the custom requests or if we talked about it anywhere else, my brain is mush, I just accidentally found this comment when I was trying to help skorous.
Did you want to buy one of these to joint the beta pre-sale or whatever? It'll be 3500, and 500GB NVMe. Not sure if this was a suggestion for the sale or part of the custom requests or if we talked about it anywhere else, my brain is mush, I just accidentally found this comment when I was trying to help skorous.
Yes, please! Definitely meant that as wanting to be part of the beta pre-sale
I didn't know whether it was going to boot the ISO image via PXE or actually try to use the KVM dongle. It seems like it's actually using the dongle. That's why it doesn't work. Anyway that makes more sense.
There's different tiers of dongles, we're below economy class. One does a mouse that doesn't sync, and nothing else. That's ours. Then there's a premium one where the mouse syncs and it allows you to use an ISO. Then there's an ultra premium dual USB one that lets you also emulate USB inside the BIOS.
@Wonder_Woman said: Yes, please! Definitely meant that as wanting to be part of the beta pre-sale
Alright, I'll likely provision yours after I go to the datacenter tonight, I believe that configuration you want needs a BIOS change.
I got my FOMO imok CPU upgrade requested, and it installed next day, on a holiday weekend. Now my GB6, it's over 9,000! (god I'm old) and a nice big drive in there to fill up with requests for the wifey and inlaws.
I got my FOMO imok CPU upgrade requested, and it installed next day, on a holiday weekend. Now my GB6, it's over 9,000! (god I'm old) and a nice big drive in there to fill up with requests for the wifey and inlaws.
Virmach was hard at work while I was getting drunk and grilling, looks like my server is off and running too!
I was ready to install Debian and Proxmox on top. I set the control panel to run Grml and at boot I pressed CTRL+B, then followed the instructions to run netboot.xyz and voilà... Proxmox was listed 🤩
Now I'm running the Proxmox installer GUI and trying to click stuff with the out-of-sync mouse. Feels like driving drunk (i'm not saying that I've done that, just guessing 😉)
Good to finally see imok talking technical and not just shit.
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I hate when I 'lose' a feline friend. :'(
Condolences.
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Thanks this helps a lot I remembered there was a specific thing like that but couldn't find it and that's exactly what I was looking for, you saved me probably at least 15 minutes at my current pace.
@VirMach Looks sweet. I had an issue when I tapped somewhere on the page and it made iOS Chrome not be able to do anything, broke the page somehow. I was going to replicate it to share with you but I couldn't get it to happen again.. not sure what I did before.
Must have taken some time to make that.
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I see this fancy thing, but does it translate correctly to the RAM slot thing? Like you only have 8GB sticks and we can fight for dual/quad channel and you won't just put single 16GB stick? Like I know this is fancy, but people gonna be angry [up to chargeback] when they see 4 sticks on configurator and end with 2 in system.
also no validation - like I can get a system without any dicks plus what I am supposed to do here on mobile view?
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Internal disk #1 is unable to configure for SATA.
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Needs some flashing stuff. This feels like those interfaces from CSI shows.
Mobile was mostly an afterthought after a friend me reminded me phones exist. Then it bothered me and I had to spend some time getting it to be usable. I couldn't get tapping to work well on it so I just soft "force" a guided walkthrough.
I assume it could be a lot worse on Android/Chrome since I only looked at Safari.
As it usually goes, the last few little minor things took an agonizingly long time.
See:
The empty 8GB was me making it worse.
Only 2x and 4x and the original plan was to have it show as such, which is why it got so broken. It did work at some point where it showed 1, 2, 3, 4. But I wanted it to be 2 and 4 only, then gave up and halfway mixed it up and yeah, we're at the worst possible version right now for it. But I did make the sticks look a little nicer.
This part wouldn't be possible to get accurate unless we do an inventory check before every change you make, as a joke I could enable "accuracy mode" once I get done with the other part of the project that does inventory checks, where you have to wait 30 seconds for each validation so it can display the number of sticks correctly.
So the goal was to have it show 2 sticks for 8GB, 16GB, and 4 sticks for 32GB, 64GB.
Disks are like that on purpose, one option used to be called "Any/None" but I might have just changed it to "None" and decided to show some type of message or modal about you getting whatever's available. I think it's because I thought "Any/None" would be even more confusing. But hey if people are upset this particular one doesn't match we can always remove their complimentary disk.
To be fair none of this would have been better if we just had default dropdowns. I think I've decided what we're going to do if anyone gets upset about seeing 4 and getting 2 sticks or vice versa, we can make it match the visualization precisely, no power cord, fans, or ethernet cable.
Not a validation issue, as intended. The user interface has nothing to do with background validations, as in you can't just trick it to give you infinite whatever either. There will be an inventory check at some point if I can get it working though, as mentioned.
Ticket backlog so these were only checked to some degree and looked into further if an issue was identified. Your ticket indicated disk issue, control issue, or node issue, and none were confirmable based on that.
This should have been looked at sooner though, so you'll get SLA credit/extension. It's a SolusVM VNC bug. Turning off VNC and booting confirms this, but I've fixed it. Might have triggered after your most recent reinstall immediately followed by reconfigure. Credited.
Thank you very much
I'll try reinstalling the system.
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@VirMach automated installation fails when RAID configurations are involved. I tried both Proxmox and Debian (and probably CentOS) and they did not work. The system attempts to create two RAID devices when RAID1 is selected. The first one completes successfully but the second one fails. I believe it also fails with RAID10. I was able to install Debian by selecting “use the largest drive” and that worked. Anyway I do not want mdadm. I want Proxmox with ZFS 😭
Wild YABS appears
nice machine @imok
Waiting for the ISO and the /29 😃
Oh hell, I should have gotten a different Ryzen. :'( Mine's still trying to find the rest of the RAM.
FWIW, I recall the second option being required as you, "didn't want to check every month to see if these one-off weirdos were cancelled." Not an exact quote but reasonably captures the spirit. ;-)
These might get rolled into a different configuration since we're likely dumping the 2600, so if that happens you can get it monthly instead if preferred. You'll likely have to get it how I said annually/as it is technically if you want to continue with whatever we said as a "beta" pre-launch, otherwise if you wait until after it gets rolled into a base configuration, it means you'd have to get it monthly at whatever price it ends up being for everyone during the sale.
Hopefully that makes enough sense.
Well that's not good, you don't even have a controller so it should just work, as in we're not doing anything weird and their PXE profiles should be functional for it.
It might be because you have 2 NVMe and 4 HDDs though.
I'm doing spreadsheets to try to adjust pricing to see how I'd have to work in the coupon for the sale, and his is technically "valued" at $189 a month.
I'm going to have to change some things around and make it the math less logical so it works out better overall, otherwise all the 4TB NVMe configurations are just going to stay empty.
You originally had the 3500 too, I just worked in a 2600 because I remembered your comment saying it was better than the 3500.
To make sure we're on the same page:
lucky @imok with the machine
hey @VirMach .... anything for 4'th of July ... i am interested in NL only.
From elsewhere, I miss my low-end 2CPU/8GB/500GB/29 dedicated server @$18/month. :'(
Just saying.
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
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Why Virmach has not launched some Atom dedis with 500gb HDD at $6.5/m?
Edit: Oh right, the provider that tried that previously failed successfully.
Guys, any idea how to load Debian manually without mounting the ISO via KVM?
I do not want to consume Virmach's time. I am sure he has other things to do and this is a good situation for me to learn.
What I want to do is boot into some network tool that lets me start the Debian installer and set up the OS with RAID1 on those beautiful and big -not 1200GB but 4TB- NVMEs. Then I would install Proxmox on top. No ZFS of course. Is that possible?
GRML ISO is available in the control panel. I read it can be used to install Debian, but when I tried it, it asked me to select the partitions. So I guess I have to create them in advance, which started to feel intimidating. I ended up discarding that way.
PS: Did I write a wall of text Virmach-style?
There should be Netboot available on the OS list. Let me spend some time to see how ISO works, it should probably be easy.
(edit) It is real easy. Let me know if it works, adding it is easy, I don't know about getting it to work.
(edit) I'm also going to try to get into creating some disk layouts for RAID and see how well that works. I keep forgetting I have a bunch of servers I'm allowed to use/mess around with...
Install OS from template and then use netboot.xyz to install from whatever ISO you want to use
https://netboot.xyz/docs/booting/uefi
Edit: Virmach already answered, netboot is available on list so you don't even have to install OS first
Finnix is a favorite of mine, swiss army tool rescue CD, worth an upload: https://www.finnix.org/
@virmach can you check my invoices? Now I have a debt of around $600 😅
Did you want to buy one of these to joint the beta pre-sale or whatever? It'll be 3500, and 500GB NVMe. Not sure if this was a suggestion for the sale or part of the custom requests or if we talked about it anywhere else, my brain is mush, I just accidentally found this comment when I was trying to help skorous.
Added.
@virmach I can see the new ISOs. Thank you!
I'm surprised it works, nice.
I'm testing out some RAID profiles now as well to see if we can actually get it to set it up before OS install automatically in some way.
Debían, thx
Apparently Netboot is disabled by default, time to find out why.
Inmediately after mounting the ISO I see an alert:
Okay, I'm no longer surprised.
Yes, please! Definitely meant that as wanting to be part of the beta pre-sale
I didn't know whether it was going to boot the ISO image via PXE or actually try to use the KVM dongle. It seems like it's actually using the dongle. That's why it doesn't work. Anyway that makes more sense.
There's different tiers of dongles, we're below economy class. One does a mouse that doesn't sync, and nothing else. That's ours. Then there's a premium one where the mouse syncs and it allows you to use an ISO. Then there's an ultra premium dual USB one that lets you also emulate USB inside the BIOS.
Alright, I'll likely provision yours after I go to the datacenter tonight, I believe that configuration you want needs a BIOS change.
Awesome, but no rush!
(internal screams in rush)
Is there a reason why the solus vm vnc address does not work to connect with my own vnc client?
Also about netboot.xyz I only got it to work by adding it to grub and booting it that way
A huge huge thank you to @VirMach.
I got my FOMO imok CPU upgrade requested, and it installed next day, on a holiday weekend. Now my GB6, it's over 9,000! (god I'm old) and a nice big drive in there to fill up with requests for the wifey and inlaws.
Virmach was hard at work while I was getting drunk and grilling, looks like my server is off and running too!
BEEFY!
Ok it seems I found a way to install Proxmox.
I was ready to install Debian and Proxmox on top. I set the control panel to run Grml and at boot I pressed CTRL+B, then followed the instructions to run netboot.xyz and voilà... Proxmox was listed 🤩
Now I'm running the Proxmox installer GUI and trying to click stuff with the out-of-sync mouse. Feels like driving drunk (i'm not saying that I've done that, just guessing 😉)
Guys!
The server is up and proxmoxing! There are still some issues.
@Kris could this be related to that thing you wrote?
Edit: ChatGPT says it's easy to fix by forcing the command. Will try.
Good to finally see imok talking technical and not just shit.
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It's just because I'm sad and waiting for the results of my cat.
Most probably I will be eating flan again in a couple of weeks.
So one method is /dev/disk/by-id
I ended up doing a lsblk, formatting them as the letters they were.
Then lsblk -f to get the UUID
Finally in fstab, they start with UUID=[uuid] and no problems since.
Yeah you can force that just a warning they aren't ready and need to be formatted.
I just didn't use /dev/disk/by-id/ for fstab, and UUID= has been working a charm.
Betty died 1 hour ago
I hate when I 'lose' a feline friend. :'(
Condolences.
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