Stuff…

As SwSoft, now known as Parallels, introduced an end of life policy for supporting old OSes I’ve had to migrate a number of Fedora Core machines to Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. The best way of doing this is via the migration manager from the new Plesk node. However, the migration manager will copy everything [...]

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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PXEInstallServer
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Netboot
http://wiki.koeln.ccc.de/index.php/Ubuntu_PXE_Install
Ubuntu & preseed: http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-unattended-ubuntu-network-install-preseed-p5
http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/User:Tonyr/Journal/Nov07 (Good links)
http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/04/17/unattended-debian-installations-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-preseedcfg/

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URLs: http://www.realvnc.com , http://www.ubuntutips.net/node/7
On a plain 6.06 LTS server I wanted to install Xserver to test
something out, so, I did the following. The following is a quick
way of installing xwindows/xserver and accessing via VNC. There
are many places for improvement/customisation etc.
I executed the following command:
apt-get install gdm zenity ubuntu-artwork edubuntu-artwork xubuntu-default-settings gnome2-user-guide gnome-panel nautilus [...]

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I needed to change a machine primary IP from one network to another… Not knowing that Plesk 8.3 has a specific way of changing IPs on a machine I manually updated the /etc/network/interfaces file with the systems new IP address details. Infact, probably best that I changed this file manually as Plesk doesn’t appear [...]

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