by ezs | Dec 28, 2019 | evilzenscientist
Todays fun – installing old (2005 era!) software on a modern (2019) distro.
I’ve been playing LAN shooter games with the boy for a while; it’s old school EA Battlefield 2 from mid 2005. It’s ancient. Today we looked at setting up a dedicated LAN server for this one.
openSUSE Leap 15.1 continues to be solid on a wide variety of hardware. I rescued an old laptop and it’s installed and running as a server (runlevel 3 – no GUI). Only additional module needed for the EA dedicated server was libncurses5 – easily installed using zypper. (As an aside – it’s a pleasure seeing this working so well after the delights of ZMD/ZLM back in the day..)
Hunting down the original EA bits for the server is a pain – eventually managed to find a pristine (and checksummed!) copy on a fan server.
by ezs | Oct 25, 2019 | evilzenscientist
Zypper lost the repos for SLES 12 on Azure again. There is a good KB from SUSE on this. https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7022311
by ezs | May 30, 2019 | evilzenscientist
After a couple of goes at this – I finally found time to get this working.
I found that good old scripting worked beautifully – kudos to Neil Pang for acme.sh – it’s a work of art.
Installation instructions are easy; there’s a great walkthrough for Apache2.
A little testing with CloudFlare (turning off their re-write and dynamic SSL support) – and it’s working a treat.
by ezs | May 20, 2019 | evilzenscientist
Finally got this all working across multiple servers, websites and vhosts.
by ezs | May 10, 2019 | evilzenscientist
Again the SLES team made this really easy – using zypper and the online update repositories. Less than 15 minutes per server – and a single reboot.
Documentation is at https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/book_sle_deployment/data/sec_update_migr_zypper_onlinemigr.html
Accept the recommended upgrade – and read and accept the EULA – and you’re away. For me 240MB download, 156 packages, 10 minutes of install, one reboot.
zypper migration
Available migrations:
1 | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 x86_64
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