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Debian Lenny install hung at 1%

This is mostly meant as a note to myself, in case I need to reinstall Debian Lenny on my VPS. The installer stalls at 1%, when at the screen titled “Selecting and installing packages”. To fix this, do the following: Press ALT+CTRL+F2 ps aux | grep aptitude # note down the PID (proccess ID) of …

Enabling jumbo frames in VMware ESX 4

First, you must create the vSwitch and change the MTU to 9000. For this example, vSwitch9 will be the name you would replace with your own. esxcfg-vswitch -a vSwitch9 Then, set the MTU of the vSwitch. esxcfg-vswitch -m 9000 vSwitch9 esxcfg-vswitch -l will list all the vSwitches so you can confirm your changes and settings. …

Traffic shaping on Linux

#!/bin/bash # # tc uses the following units when passed as a parameter. # kbps: Kilobytes per second # mbps: Megabytes per second # kbit: Kilobits per second # mbit: Megabits per second # bps: Bytes per second # Amounts of data can be specified in: # kb or k: Kilobytes # mb or m: …

Procedure for running PCNS 2.2.4 installtion patch on VMware vMA 4.1

1. Extract PCNS 2.2.4 installation files: 2. Replace existing install.sh script with the updated version download from this link ftp://apcftp.apc.com 3. unzip the file downloaded from the FTP site 3a. gunzip PCNS224_VIMA41.tar.gz 3b. tar -xv PCNS224_VIMA.tar 4. run sudo ./install_en.sh for English language system or sudo ./install_jp.sh for Japanese language systems: 5. Overwrite shutdown and …

USB in Service Console on ESX4.x

Accessing USB storage and other USB devices from the service console Details The technology that supports USB device passthrough from an ESX/ESXi host to a virtual machine does not support simultaneous USB device connections from USB passthrough and from the service console. Solution To access USB storage and other devices from the console, disable USB …

SATA RAID

Setting up Debian on a Serial ATA RAID device This page explains how to use Debian Installer to set up Debian on a Serial ATA (SATA) RAID disk (using dmraid).Note that support for SATA RAID is experimental and is only available in the Lenny version of the installer.SATA RAID support has been significantly improved after …

Bonding

This article will show how to “bond” two Ethernet connections together to create an auto failover interface. Bonding   Install packages First install the ifenslave-2.6 package, necessary to enable bonding: # apt-get install ifenslave-2.6   Shutdown / Unconfigure Existing Interfaces   # ifdown eth0 (Repeat for all interfaces included in the bond) # /etc/init.d/networking stop …