Update With clonezilla 2.x is you are facing following error & boot is stuck, you can try changing vga=normal from vga=788 in pxe configuration. conflicting fb hw usage inteldrmfb vs vesa vga – removing generic driver This article will help you pxeboot clonezilla using pxeserver. Clonezilla will be handy if you wish to backup / [...]
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Earlier we have covered how to Add new hdd to existing xenserver. This article is to extend existing Local Repository. Since Xenserver is using lvm, this can easily be done using standard commands that we use to extend Linux Lvm. Here we are extending existing Local Repository 2 using /dev/hdb create partition on new hdd [...]
Full Story »Upgrade Fedora 15 to 16 -using shell
To upgrade fedora to latest version F16, run following commands. yum -y update rpm –import http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/i386/os/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386 rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-16-1.noarch.rpm yum upgrade -y If you get error, you may continue using –skip-broken. I was getting following error, hence had to remove libnih Error: Package: libnih-1.0.2-4.fc15.i686 (@fedora/15) yum remove libnih Or the easiest way would be to [...]
Full Story »Fedora – How to change boot sequence -Grub2
Update Works with Fedora 17 This is for dual boot os users, there are many who prefers dual boot to keep another OS optional. For any reason if you wish to change boot sequence unlike grub, grub2 requires couple of commands to run. Here will take example to keep Windows as default boot. First of [...]
Full Story »XenServer Add hdd as LocalRespository
If you are facing performance issue / running out of space while running multiple VMs. You can either upgrade to better storage system or install additional hdd. To add new hdd to citrix xenserver, you need to follow below mentioned steps. 1)Find the disk ID cat /proc/partitions e.g sdb 2)Find the disk ID ls /dev/disk/by-id [...]
Full Story »XenServer6 howto start VM on Host boot / reboot
With the release of latest xenserver one more feature is removed from free version ie AUTO START VM ON SERVER BOOT/REBOOT. This feature is replaced by vApp, which lets you control VM boot sequence with time delay between two VM startup. This is certainly great feature for licenced user as it lets you control booting [...]
Full Story »Fedora 15- Howto Switch to LXDE & Fix Resolution
Install Following command will help you to switch to LXDE. yum groupinstall LXDE -y Once lxde is installed, you need to relogin your user with lxde session. Resolution Once LXDE is installed, you might find your desktop resolution switched to 1024×768 everytime you reboot / relogin. To make 1280×1024 resolution permanent. Add following command in [...]
Full Story »CentOS-5.6 -Continuous Release Repo
CentOS has released Continuous Release Repo for CentOS-5.6. This repo is to provide latest updates which are to be included with next release of CentOS-5.X i.e 5.7 Depending on your OS version you’ll need to install a rpm to get updates. for i386 x86_64 With the release of next version, 5.6/cr/ will be removed.
Full Story »Fedora – Howto Switch to Xfce
For any given reason, if you wish to switch to Xfce from gnome3, all you need is to run following command to get Xfce enabled. yum groupinstall Xfce -y Once Xfce is installed, you need to relogin your user with Xfce session.
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