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 to delete the MBR (Don’t [...]
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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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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 upgrade to Fedora 8:
rpm -Uvh http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/fedora.redhat.com/updates/8/i386/fedora-release-8-5.noarch.rpm http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/fedora.redhat.com/updates/8/i386/fedora-release-notes-8.0.1-1.noarch.rpm
yum clean all
yum -y update
Edit: Then to Fedora [...]
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