Jun 25

This morning, as a result of a hardware failure on my home server, I decided to move my Redmine devtracker to my Linode host. Read the rest of this entry »

May 27

If, like me, you’ve built your Ubuntu machine using LVM for all partitions except /boot, you can do a live backup of your system using LVM snapshots and the dump tool. Read the rest of this entry »

Apr 24

If you, like me, use sysv-rc-conf to change the services that run a particular runlevel, i.e. so that runlevel 2 is actually only networked and not GUI as tradition holds, you can set the default runlevel to boot in Ubuntu by editing:

/etc/inittab:
id:3:initdefault

The number in the middle is the runlevel to start by default.

Apr 14

My SFF server machine has been configured to speed up my digital life. Read the rest of this entry »

Apr 14

In order for me to use the official binary drivers, version 169.12, from NVidia with my GeForce 8800GT on Ubuntu Gutsy, I had to do some research. Alberto Milone’s envy tool makes the whole thing almost idiot-proof.
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Apr 10

My desktop just grew by two 500GB Western Digital Caviar drives. Having installed those, I loaded Gutsy-AMD64 on one using LVM. The partition schema is as follows:

Drive: 500GB #1
Volume Group: server1
Volumes:
	swap_1 - 6GB - swap
	root_1 - 30GB - ext3 - mounted as /
	home_1 - 20GB - ext3 - mounted as /home/
Free space: ~398GB

500GB number two will probably wind up being a RAID mirror via my motherboard. This LVM layout allows me to dynamically allocate space for the many potential Xen DomUs I create.

To install Xen on Gutsy-AMD64 desktop version:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xen-desktop-amd64

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