I am using Fedora 9 as a client to connect to a Solaris 9 machine. Strangely it kept failing and after some Google time, all is revealed. NFS is logged as a bug in Bugzilla.
What is the equivalent command for ??? in Linux?
How to find a Solaris command for ??? in Linux? or vice versa? or AIX, BSD? Check out the Rosetta Stone for Unix.
Disk to disk cloning a server
Disk to disk cloning a server is a really old way of cloning. Insert a new disk of similar size, boot an independent OS eg Live CD, Ubuntu or Knoppix to clone from old to the new disk.
Administrating VMware Server’s Guest OS using scripts
Sometimes you need to control the guest OS or the virtuals by script. Good example is stopping all the guests or virtuals to take a backup. For VMware server, this is controlled by using Perl script via vmware-cmd.
Creating a Linux Virtual Machine
Recently I have the chance to create a Fedora 9 virtual machine on VMware server. This is to replace a crashed server that ran out of disk space. Since it was running off a Compaq ML server. I thought this…
Another project completed
After 3 months of straightening up processes, my work at this charity is done. Along the way, I managed to rebuild a Linux server. My first production Linux server, not really a complete set up as I actually wanted it…