URLs: Can’t find original source atm.. Back up MBR: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Dd#Backing_up_your_Master_Boot_Record_.28MBR.29. Removing the MBR/partition information Working on a remote install machine (PXE booting) sometimes need to remove the MBR that is on the current machines hard disk so that on reboot the machine tries to boot from net. In Linux the following command can be executed [...]
Entries from February 2008
Delete the MBR
February 20th, 2008 · No Comments
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Enable quotas on a Virtuozzo 3.5.1 container
February 20th, 2008 · No Comments
URL: http://kb.swsoft.com/en/1144 Quotas may not be enabled for within a virtual server. To enable quotas within a virtual server/container you may increase QUOTAUGIDLIMIT parameter using ‘vzctl’ utility on a node: # vzctl set 101 –save –quotaugidlimit 210 To apply changes it is required to restart VE: # vzctl restart 101
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Upgrade Fedora Core 6 (FC6) to Fedora 7 (F7) to F8
February 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Good URL: http://www.ioncannon.net/linux/68/upgrading-from-fc6-to-fedora7-with-yum/ Install the fedora release Fedora 7 RPMs: rpm -Uhv http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/Fedora/fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/Fedora/fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1.noarch.rpm Set /etc/yum.conf file: [base] name=Fedora Core $releasever – $basearch – Base #baseurl=http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/fedora.redhat.com/core/$releasever/i386/os baseurl=http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/fedora.redhat.com/releases/$releasever/Fedora/i386/os/ [updates-released] name=Fedora Core $releasever – $basearch – Released Updates #baseurl=http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/fedora.redhat.com/core/updates/$releasever/i386 baseurl=http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/fedora.redhat.com/updates/$releasever/i386/ Run following commands: [root@server ~]# rpm -e authconfig firstboot-tui-1.4.23-1.noarch authconfig-gtk-5.3.18-0.1.fc6.i386 [root@server ~]# yum -y update Then, to [...]
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