Archive for February, 2008

help! CentOS 5.1 + Xen kernel doesn’t see all the RAM in my PC

Friday, February 29th, 2008

I've run into quite a few odd issues with CentOS 5.1 x64 & the Xen kernel. One of them being the fact that it only sees about 480MB RAM, even though my server has 2GB RAM. So, searching the net, I came across this post: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250299 which states that grub-0.97-13 ...

Howto write an ISO image to a CD-RW from the Linux console

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

I need to / want to write ISO's to CD's from my Linux server, but since I don't have an X-Manager like Gnome or KDE running, I need to find a way to write the CD's from the command line with SSH. Luckely the server is right next to me, ...

Offline Blog writing & Editing tool

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

I have decided that I need a program that will run on my PC to post / edit my blog, which means I won't need to login to my blog, http://blog.softdux.com EVERY TIME I want to post something. So, I google for "Windows blogging tools", and found this cool website, ...

Stuff for automating my server installations

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

If you've ever installed a server, you'll know how long it can sometimes take, especially if you need to setup software RAID + LVM, and then go through all the packages and deselect what you don't need. After that you would normally download a few favorite scripts from the net, ...

Howto install the Realtek8110C/8169C driver in SME 7.3

Monday, February 18th, 2008

I have a Gigabyte GA-G31MX-S2 and I run SME Server 7.3 on it. The motherboard has an onboard Realtek 8110C Gigabit Ethernet card, which isn't supported in CentOS 4.6 (or even CentOS 5 for that matter), so I need to manually install a driver to get it to work. Since ...