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About text mode installers

By zobel on August 17, 2009 5:07 PM | 6 Comments | No TrackBacks
Taken from the CentOS Install Guide:

While text mode installations are not explicitly documented, those using the text mode installation program can easily follow the GUI installation instructions. One thing to note is that manipulation of LVM (Logical Volume Management) disk volumes is only possible in graphical mode. In text mode it is only possible to view and accept the default LVM setup.

Dear CentOS, please learn that doing LVM setup is even possible with the Debian text mode installer. It can't be that hard.

[UPDATE]: I need to admit, it's not CentOS to blame to, but RedHat, as CentOS is a clone of RHEL.

Switched to Movable Type

By zobel on July 1, 2009 12:38 AM | 3 Comments | No TrackBacks
After a long period of not-blogging, i decided to relaunch my blog using MovableType. Yes, i know ikiwiki does exist... ;-)

Best way to slow down a relocation?

By zobel on September 23, 2007 7:25 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Living really downtown and having a demonstration of NPD and of Antifa at the same time, while you try to move out of a flat. Anyway, relocation finished by 10pm yesterday evening, now waiting for DSL connection.

Indian Summer in Germany

By zobel on September 6, 2006 9:51 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
The best you can do on a tepidly summer evening like today? Drinking a glass of single malt scottish whisky while reading a good book and enjoying the sunset.

How to activate the Error LED on Soekris net4801

By zobel on June 19, 2006 11:09 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
modprobe scx200_gpio mknod /dev/soekris_error_led c 254 20 echo 1 > /dev/soekris_error_led Now my router can morse errors :-)

Switched to Wordpress

By zobel on June 1, 2006 12:16 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
I decided to switch to Wordpress, as it more suiteable for me. I often do not have shell access to the host where my blog runs on when i want to blog about something.

Fighting with amavisd-new

By zobel on August 31, 2005 3:00 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
After i reinstalled my mailserver a few weeks ago i hadn't had found any time yet to reinstall amavisd-new. So i thought i could do it this night. After i installed it, i copied the old configs back from my backup. But ...huh... for some reason, some parts of my old config do not seem to work anymore... I don't know what i changed, but the nice feature having X-Spam-Headers in every mail, regardless if spam or not, does not seem to work any more, dunno why. After 4.5h of searching i give up for now.... Far to late here (0400 local time) Current mood: frustrated.

Switching to pyblosxom

By zobel on May 28, 2005 1:13 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
I switched to pyblosxom recently. While switching, i found out, that pyblosxom has no real rss2 support, so i head to write the templates myself. Also neither blosxom nor pyblosxom support support pubDate statement in the head, so i had to hack the w3cdate a bit. I found out, i was not the only one with this problem. Doug Ransom posted this also recently to the pyblosxom user mailing list. I didn't took the official w3cdate plugin, as this only gives back date in ISO8601 format. I prefere a more readable date, so i took time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S", time_tuple). And sorry in advance, if this switch might flood planet.. :(

Installing Debian Sarge on S/390

By zobel on December 8, 2004 9:15 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
While looking around in the net for zSeries stuff, i discovered Debian is containing a software called "hercules", a z/Architecture Emulator. So i thought, why not giving that one a try and installed it. After understanding how to run hercules without root-privileges (okay, next time i should read README.Debian first...) i started installing Debian Sarge inside the virtual machine, using Debian Installer RC2. Went quite well, but there is one nasty bug left (#281407) while doing partitioning. Okay, S/390 isn't that fast, if you run it as virtual machine, but hey, have you a tried to work with S/390? 
~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
vendor_id       : IBM/S390
# processors    : 1
bogomips per cpu: 55.91
processor 0: version = 00,  identification = 002623,  machine = 3090

IPv6 up and running

By zobel on December 2, 2004 2:44 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Yiepi, i got IPv6 on newfrigg up and running. Now even IRCing works on that machine... My IPv6 tunnelbroker is SixXS. After i managed to get my entries in the RIPE-database (which was the hardest part of it), i got IPv6 connectivity within 1.5 hours. You are realy great guys. I own you a beer. Now i will experiment with IPv6 routing. I want to connect DaLUG farm PCs on that v6 network.
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