A little bit of wisdom
Linux software RAID – quick howto. Basic steps: 1) create partitions using cfdisk or fdisk (set them to MSDOS type with parted beforehand if required) 2) Change partition type to Linux Raid autodetect 3) Create RAID 4) Format RAID devices Show partitions with ‘fdisk -l’ Device Boot Start […]
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This article is dated now, as it’s only for Windows XP – however it is left here for historical purposes. This is a read me from the IBM / Lenovo website and covers the installation of the SATA drivers on Windows Vista & XP. The original document and drivers can be downloaded here. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-62909 INSTALLATION […]
This is dated now, as it’s only for Windows XP – however it is left here for historical purposes. I experienced tremendous problems installing these drivers under WinXP SP2. The following steps worked for me. 1) Install windows XP. 2) Download and install KB888111 from here http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-68974.html If this link doesn’t work – search for […]
The RedHat / CentOS way. Title should be “recover grub boot loader really”! Boot into recovery mode from the linux rescue cd. Type: chroot /mnt/sysimage – this will make your main / partition (currently mounted under /mnt/sysimage) the / partition. Type mount and find which device is your hard disk. This could be sda or […]
This command will copy files between servers – ownership of the files changes to the user you used to login to the remote server with. This can be any user with SSH access. tar -czf – directory/ | ssh user@remotehost “tar -xzf -“
I found that you cannot simply right click on the public folder in Outlook and designate a moderator, as for some reason the setting is not retained. You can however do it from the Exchange powershell. It is not possible to assign a group, however you can add multiple user with comma delimited syntax, like […]
I was trying to mount a CIFS / SAMBA share on Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy). I wasn’t being prompted for a password, I would simply get: mount -t cifs -o user=admin //10.1.1.10/BLAH remote/ mount: block device //10.1.1.10/BLAH is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: cannot mount block device //10.1.1.10/BLAH read-only I needed to install “cifs-utils” apt-get install […]
Create a bootable USB stick and install Windows 7 from a USB drive using this guide. Third party software doesn’t always work as it’s supposed to. With this BootableUSB guide all you need is to ensure that your motherboard supports USB booting, and this is a common feature now for most computers. This step by […]
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