How to extract modern Ubuntu initramfs
Just to remember, there is an explanation here, from which the following directive can be taken:
(cpio -id; zcat | cpio -id) < /path/to/initrd.img
I’ve been to our own little “August Penguin” just few days ago, and it wasn’t too good. I avoided the lectures (who needs secure rsync?!?), but sat and talked with friends about all kinda stuff. One of the advantages of such an event is that you get to meet lots of your linux-related friends, and…
As part as my efforts of reducing the management overhead of multiple systems – much like the rest of the world – I am in a long process of migrating all my workload from virtual machines, each dedicated to a single or a small number of related services, to a container-based solutions. While containers are…
This is relevant for Redhat EL 3 and 4, and any other compatible system not using “yum”. RHEL5 uses “yum”, and its RPM system does not include the “–aid” flag, which we require so much. 1. Place all the available RPMS (I assume these are the installation medias, combined) in a single directory – for…
This is not a simple task, as there are few things which should actually happen for it to work. First – the switch port should support vlan tagging (of course, right?) I have used vlan2 for “external” network, and vlan3 for “internal” network. My configuration looks like this: ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes ISALIAS=no…
I had one of my computers die a short while ago. I wanted to get the data inside its disk into another computer. Using the magical and rather cheap USB2SATA I was able to connect the disk, however, the disk was part of a software mirror (md device) and had LVM on it. Gets a…
I was required to utilize a transparent proxy. The general idea was to follow a diagram as the one here: The company did not want any information (http, https, ftp, whatever) to pass directly through the firewall from the internal network to the external network. If we can move it all via some sort of…
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