Tag: centos

• Notes on Updating Centos7 to 4.3.3

  Upgrades! Sometimes they are a lot of homework. Enabled Centos-Plus repos and elrepo for recent kernels. I figured out I want to install kernel-ml, kernel-ml-headers, kernel-ml-devel. That last one escaped me but is necessary because you need it when you do a dkms install. So after updating that stuff, I was able to dkms install…

  jedreynolds

  December 30, 2015

  Linux, Uncategorized

  centos, dkms, kernel-ml, updating, vboxdrv, virtualbox, zfs

• Anaconda has not really gotten better.

  Consider the workflow: it does not ask you if you want to remove an old installation. It does not indicate that if you need to create LVM raid1 volumes, how you should do that. It does not offer any shortcuts on creating a mirrored LVM partitioning scheme. You get bullshit errors like ‘raid1 requires two…

  jedreynolds

  April 13, 2015

  computing, Linux

  centos, fedora, Linux

• Recommendations for #Linux storage server?

  I’ve got an embedded 800mhz Via system that I’m going to retrofit with a 2TB drive for catching backups. I used to run CentOS 3.5 on there but those days are long gone. I’d rather run a rolling distro…Debian…Arch. I will likely also retrofit it with a CF adapter for the boot device. Likely I…

  jedreynolds

  April 26, 2012

  computing, Linux

  arch, backups, centos, debian, embedded, storage