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Comment on Subversion sparse checkouts by admin

admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:07:18 +0000

I can’t see why not, if you check out the parent directories to at least that depth before trying to. But I guess one should test this 🙂

Comment on Subversion sparse checkouts by Sriram

Sriram — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:50:54 +0000

TortoiseSVN 1.7 has sparse checkouts. It is very easy to use. However the question is, will we be able to add stuff (files/directories) into the omitted directories in the future?

Comment on BIOS flash upgrades on Linux by admin

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:36:32 +0000

Hi Adam,

I think you’re constained to a maximum size of 2.88 MB for floppy images – I’m not sure how the BIOS would behave with a larger image. So I think you should look at creating a bootable iso (cdrom) image instead. http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/ISOLINUX contains some instructuions on how to use syslinux to boot a DOS floppy image although I haven’t tried them. On Windows, there are lots of different tools for creating DOS bootable ISO images – http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/ has one approach but Google should turn up plenty more.

Comment on BIOS flash upgrades on Linux by AdamT

AdamT — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:00:31 +0000

Great article, but do you happen to know how to make the disk image bigger? The disx image 1.44 megs and the bios I need to flash is over 4 megs, so its giving me a disk full error.

Comment on Linux as a Home Theatre PC (HTPC) – Introduction by building a linux home entertainment center and htpc | semioticpixels

building a linux home entertainment center and htpc | semioticpixels — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:11:04 +0000

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Comment on Debian 5.0 (Lenny) install on Software RAID by gimili

gimili — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:41:37 +0000

Got it thanks (see below). Also I see Debian 6 is out now. I wonder if the raid 1 will work better.

grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.

GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ]

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
find /boot/grub/stage1
(hd0,0)
(hd1,0)
grub> device (hd0) /dev/sdb
device (hd0) /dev/sdb
grub> root (hd0,0)
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
grub> setup (hd0)
setup (hd0)
Checking if “/boot/grub/stage1” exists… yes
Checking if “/boot/grub/stage2” exists… yes
Checking if “/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5” exists… yes
Running “embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)”… 17 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running “install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+17 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst”… succeeded
Done.
grub> quit
quit

Comment on Debian 5.0 (Lenny) install on Software RAID by smulcahy

smulcahy — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:51:15 +0000

Before unplugging any drives, make sure you install grub on both drives – google for installing grub on multiple drives or similar – then the system will boot for either drives.

Comment on Debian 5.0 (Lenny) install on Software RAID by gimili

gimili — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:34:24 +0000

Thanks for the tips. So I unplugged sdb from the motherboard and rebooted no problem. I got my warning email. 🙂 🙂 Then I plugged sdb back in and the drives re-synced. Then I turned off the system and unplugged sda and the system would **not** boot which I kind of suspected. Any tips on how to make sdb bootable in case sda fails? I have googled this problem but I have still not figured it out. Thanks again.

Comment on Debian 5.0 (Lenny) install on Software RAID by smulcahy

smulcahy — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:16:00 +0000

Hi,

Glad to hear the article was useful. I’ve certainly unplugged drives from Linux Software RAID1 configurations and the system boots ok – but yes, you should try it – better to identify any problems now than when the drive really does fail. That debian bug you reference is already fixed so you should get that notification. In addition to that, mdadm will mail you an alert any time a problem occurs anyway – just make sure /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf contains the correct value for the MAILADDR parameter.

Comment on Debian 5.0 (Lenny) install on Software RAID by gimili

gimili — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:49:07 +0000

I couldn’t get raid setup using debian-508-amd64-netinst.iso until I used your instructions. A BIG thanks! On another note I was hoping to unplug a drive and see if the system would still boot. I also wanted to see if it would email me an error. I added this to cron */10 * * * * /sbin/mdadm –monitor –scan -1. Have you tried this sort of testing? I see there is a cron.daily to be added for future versions: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497949.