Install/Disk1/InstData/Linux/VM/install.bin: Input/output error

Just a quick note for all you guy’s who get this error.

I was trying to install ZCM10.3 on a SLES11 server when I got the error: Install/Disk1/InstData/Linux/VM/install.bin: Input/output error

I didn’t know if this was a error from a bad download or that I tried to install ZCM10.3 on a SLES11 machine. After a quick MD5 check the problem was obvious. Wrong download.

Novellcongres.nl

Yesterday I was at the Novell Congres in Ede the Netherlands. And I must say it was really nice day with a lot of interesting session. In the morning I followed a session from Ron van Herk about ZENworks Configuration Management 11. A few things about this session were very intresting:

• The interface of ZCM11 looks and feels the same as ZCM10
• Reporting server is added by default
• Linux management is integrated, as of ZCM11 it’s possible to create a bundle who installs a RPM
• Only Suse and Red-Hat server are supported, not Debian (including Ubuntu)

After this, I followed a the session: Automatic deployment of a SLES/OES server. This session was all about Installation servers, PXE boot and Autoyast wich I find very intreseting. You can view the deck slide over here. Most of the deck slide is in dutch (notice the .nl in novellcongers.nl! ;-))

Next was the keynote from Johan Rosius from Novell. Johan Rosius is Vice President Identity and Security Management EMEA. The keynote was all about cloud computing and Identity Mangement and how it all combines. Unfortunately I had the leave in the middle to prepare my session: Open Enterprise Server 2 on VMware vSphere best practises. I had about 50 people in Studio 1. Very nice, and I only saw 2 people sleeping 😉 The responses were great. It’s always nice, that if you put a lot of effort in a presentation, you get nice responses. Of course you can download my session over here.

After this I didn’t follow any technical sessions any more.

Google ditches Windows

The Financiel Times reports that Google is replacing all there Windows desktop in there organisation.
The reason for this is the security of Windows (duh!). As you all will know, Google was a victim of a attack of the Chinees country. As of then (januari 2010) the strategy of Google is to replace all there Windows desktop by either a Mac or Linux desktop.

This is not official annouced by Google, but by employees who work for Google. If a employee still want to use a Windows desktop, they have to get a approaval from “quite senior level” or even a CIO.

I must say that I can understand the decission off Google. Windows is not the best secured operating system in the world. This doesn’t mean that you have to move off Windows from now, but if you have a company with sensitive information (Banks for example), I can imaging you will think twice!