I will be investigating what F29 is doing. Perhaps we can follow that, though of course they will be on a newer version.
Is you mention, F29 makes a strong case for it for booting UEFI. I seem to remember a thread with Peter Robinson on this early in the F29 (then rawhide) release when I asked about the vfat partition.
Learn from F29-arm.
Push Centos-arm to adopt directly what makes sense. (see my zram post there).
Add whatever else we need think works here.
Or some such. 
See my post on zram on the zram howto thread:
You must have some inside information on the progress of 7.6. For us regular Centos people all we hear is, âit will be released when it is ready.â 
We donât But we can manage the release of NethServer 7.6
I built a HD with:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A5EUMJ6ZI2rRKidyX3Nc2NFWGCtiFCVp/view?usp=sharing
Went through firstboot fine, I am logged in as root on the serial console on my Cubietruck. My IP address is 192.168.192.14.
From my F29 arm system on 192.168.192.12, I try to connect to:
And that does not work; I figured that I needed https. Wow is that default cert weird. I wonder if we can do better. If nothing else we need to move to ECDSA!
Set rootâs password? What if I had already done this from the serial console, would I have to change it again?
I DO NOT APPRECIATE YOUR PASSWORD REQUIREMENTS. Fedora Initial Setup is very happy with my password of choice, giving it a good rating. And you donât even give the password rules. Humph.
Set timezone? Why is not Detroit in the list here? It is in the tz fileâŚ
And I am in to the configâŚ
I have two projects: Replace my ClearOS and my RSEL mailserver.
My Cubietruck should be up to replacing ClearOS for my 3 client systems. I will tackle that first as I decide which system to get for the mailserver replacement.
Get me what I need to convert to zram, and I will test switching to that as wellâŚ
Meanwhile I am going to figure out what I need to install to get the gnome DE and set up vncserver.
No, only if it is the default (Nethesis,1234)
Rules are quite strict, meanwhile iâm used to itâŚ
Sorry, I do not know. have to look in to this.
A gross description:
Thank you for testing and feedback!
I wonât get into password strict fights. I will see what I can do so it works for meâŚ
timedatectl set-timezone America/Detroit
From the console works. Guess I just missed it in way your list worksâŚ
Other than it is âswapoff -aâ, I am up now with zram. I will work out a sed command to comment out the swap line.
it would be great! And you will make zramctl
NAME ALGORITHM DISKSIZE DATA COMPR TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
/dev/zram0 lz4 959.4M 4K 64B 4K 2 <swap>Nice that you already have zram in your repo! Send your rpm directly to Pablo so he can try it out.
Actually not hard:
sed -i -e "/swap/s/^/# /w /dev/stdout" /etc/fstabWith all this, you can wrap it up in a script and make it generally available as a Nethserver featureâŚ
On
setting-up-a-pdc over in SupportâŚ
Do you have nethserver-dc available for the generic image?
Hi there!
seems to work for testing purpose for me.
Thanks for testing!
I used a raspberry as fallback mirror webserver when the main webserver was down for maintenance. Itâs enough to run a low perfomance home server.
I can also imagine using it as monitoring agent (with zabbix or nagios).
With better arm hardware than a raspberry there are no limits.
I would definitly do that with a 4Go Ram Pi 
I have several Raspbian Lite LAMP devices. Iâm a bit oldschool when it comes to web servers. No virtual machines, no graphic interface, SSH only and no other service on the machine.
On day Iâll try with NS. But not on a small bug. Maybe on a supercharged Banana Pi?
I have had a Cubietruck running Redsleeve6 as my mailserver for 4 years. It processes ~5k messages per day and supports my very active access with 4 copies of Thunderbird via IMAP and one friend with POP.
The key here is that Cubies have native sata. The CT is 2GB memory duo core. It does get bogged down at times with the anti-virus scanning.
One of my goals is to replace this with a Nethserver mail server. I will probably also move to a quad core to better handle anti-virus scanning. Like the BananaPi M4 Ultra.
Warning if you want to run a desktop on Allwinner boards like Cubies and Bananas: they have the Mali GPU which is closed. None of the upstream kernels have support, so with GTK3, you end up in emulation mode. Fedora28-Xfce (GTK2) was decent on my Cubies. Fedora29-Xfce (GTK3) is bad. They are fine for servers, or if you use vncserver connection from your notebook (as I am doing). The Centos7-gnome works OK (probably GTK2).
I really like these small bugs!
A test I did this evening before starting over to get AD started rightâŚ
yum groupinstall âgnome desktopâ
yum install vncserver
add user
ssh in as user and run vncpasswd
configure vncserver for user
set firewall rule for ports 5901:5903
start vncserver
connect via vnc client
I am in! Also works for user root. Gives me a desktop to do more if I want. Logged out and stopped vncserver.
I would be nice if centos-arm had the Xfce desktop, but not all the modules are there for armhfp. 
So that is enough for tonight. Shutdown and start over and this time get AD rightâŚ
Or righter. Ready, fire, aim, aim, aimâŚ
I just got a failure installing the Backup package. Previously, I had installed AD, File Server, and Basic Firewall.
the red error message says:
Resolving RPM dependencies
The install/update may have failed due to metadata caching issues. Please clean the cache by clicking the button below and retry the install/update operation.
and there is a button to Clear Yum Cache
which I will doâŚ
I have installed AD domain controller. Under Status I clicked on Domain Accounts and got:
Could not connect to accounts provider!
What do I have to do to get this working?
Probably a connection problem (DNS not resolving)
Try restarting the system or look at journalctl, or at systemctl -l status sssd nsdc
Or just try again, I had similar behavior yesterday, tried again and since then itâs working and now I canât reproduce anymore.
