Archive for May 16th, 2005
Support (or lack of it)
I’m a huge fan of open source. If there’s a bug, I can generally track it down and with luck, fix it. The likelyhood of me fixing something various from very high with stuff I’m familiar (shell script, Linux, perl, C) to very little (Java, databases). Currently I have a few problems to resolve, all [...]
Posted: May 16th, 2005 under Linux Rants.
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Troubleshooting the Linux boot process
Wrote a wiki article on Debugging the Linux boot process.
Posted: May 16th, 2005 under Linux.
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Cloning a Linux machine
Earlier today I cloned a Linux machine (we ran out PCI slots in the first machine). As the machine in question is our firewall I wanted to do this live so I decided to use the old favourite of “tar over the network”. Details of the process are available in my wiki under [http://smop.co.uk/mediawiki/index.php/Cloning Cloning].
Posted: May 16th, 2005 under Linux.
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