Installed RHEL4 on a system with both internal storage (HP SmartAray 5i – cciss) and external disks through Qlogic FCS HBA. During install, the local disks were detected as /dev/cciss/c0d0 while the external disks were detected as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb After installation was done, Grub started with incorrect mapping. For no apparent reason, Grub searched…
Imagine Omniback 4.x to Omniback 5.5 upgrade on HP-UX. Imagine you assume all existing backup procedure (and you were told there is license only for disk agent) is based on filesystem backup. Assume you know there’s Oracle installed on this server, but no relevant agent (again, filesystem only, no DB agents…) You are cautious. You…
While trying to install RHEL 4 on VMware ESX 2.1 I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Linux installation which was unable to detect disks. A quick search in VMware’s web site resulted in a download page for RHEL 4 Update 2, which, unfortunately, wasn’t the version I was using. Before running around and searching the…
I’ve had problem with color names ever since around the time I’ve upgraded to Xorg 7.0 This problem as been annoying, but it was acceptable, just until lately. I’ve discovered that a required file /etc/X11/rgb.txt was involved, and was required for X to understand color mappings. For some reason, although x11-common 7.0.20 was supposed to…
This post will be divided into this common view part, and (the first in this blog) "click here for more" part. The main reason I’ve created this blog was to document, both for myself and other technical persons, the acts required to perform set tasks. My first idea was to document how to install HACMP…
I’ve been under a huge trackback attack, and, to be honest, closed the whole comment mechanism by a mistake. It is now announced as open. I’ve noticed some of the later entries were to my ML110 and Linux post. Now, with comments available, you can feel free to ask for clarification, if needed. Cheers.
