Re: Software Freedom Day 09

2009-09-16 Thread Kent Fredric
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Andrew Errington < a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > On Thu, September 17, 2009 12:54, Rik Tindall wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > > > Software Freedom Day 2009 is this Saturday, 19 September. The > > international festival of free and open-source software (FOSS)

Re: Software Freedom Day 09

2009-09-16 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, September 17, 2009 12:54, Rik Tindall wrote: > Greetings, > > > Software Freedom Day 2009 is this Saturday, 19 September. The > international festival of free and open-source software (FOSS) is in its > fifth year, and of celebration locally. Arr! Shiver me timbers! That tharr Software F

Re: Loopback server

2009-09-16 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:55 PM, wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:13:53 +1200, Abhinav Keswani > wrote: >> So there is the answer to your own question?  You can use >> virtualisation to create an 'appliance' that you can >> test/drop/burn/whatever. > > I'm sorry, I should have made clear that I a

Re: Loopback server

2009-09-16 Thread Roger Searle
Were you using vmware, when configuring via the vmware-config.pl command, you would get what I believe you are looking for by choosing "host only" as the network type. This (first result in google for "vmware-config network options") might be of interest: http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/

Re: Loopback server

2009-09-16 Thread wgsilkie
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:13:53 +1200, Abhinav Keswani wrote: > So there is the answer to your own question? You can use > virtualisation to create an 'appliance' that you can > test/drop/burn/whatever. I'm sorry, I should have made clear that I already know about virtualisation, it's the network p

Software Freedom Day 09

2009-09-16 Thread Rik Tindall
Greetings, Software Freedom Day 2009 is this Saturday, 19 September. The international festival of free and open-source software (FOSS) is in its fifth year, and of celebration locally. A computer user workshop and displays will run from 10am to 4pm at the South Learning Centre, South Christchur

Re: Loopback server

2009-09-16 Thread Hadley Rich
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:15:41 steve wrote: > That's exactly how I do my development work. I have a low power quad > core server with 4GB memory ( resources like this get important if > you're going to run a few of them ) for this. I don't really recommend > running the following on a single core mac

Re: Loopback server

2009-09-16 Thread steve
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 08:57 +1200, wgsil...@no8wireless.co.nz wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:57:14 +0100, Dan Wallis > wrote: > > 2009/9/16 Aidan Gauland : > > Your details are a little sketchy. I understand you're interested in > > setting up a web server, to have a play around. If that's not ri

Re: Loopback server

2009-09-16 Thread Abhinav Keswani
2009/9/17 : > > That's exactly what I want, but a *virtual* server, so I can play with > it (almost) as if it were a separate machine, and because I want to > set up more services later (such as SSH) and don't want to make major > changes to my system. > --Aidan So there is the answer to your own

Re: Allocating unused drive space to a root partition

2009-09-16 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Maurice Butler wrote: > LVM achives the fact you create small partions - the size you need at the > time of the install, leaving spare space that you can allocate to partions > as required. The partions can be formated to what ever your favourate file > system. > >

Re: Loopback server

2009-09-16 Thread wgsilkie
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:57:14 +0100, Dan Wallis wrote: > 2009/9/16 Aidan Gauland : > Your details are a little sketchy. I understand you're interested in > setting up a web server, to have a play around. If that's not right, > stop reading now, and let us know what you really meant. That's exactly

Re: Loopback server

2009-09-16 Thread Dan Wallis
2009/9/16 Aidan Gauland : > I want to set up a server for fun and education.  That would be easy, if I > did not want it to only be accessable from the host system (my general-use > machine).  So for example, if it was a web server, a URL for a page on it > may be ; I g

Loopback server

2009-09-16 Thread Aidan Gauland
Hello, I want to set up a server for fun and education. That would be easy, if I did not want it to only be accessable from the host system (my general-use machine). So for example, if it was a web server, a URL for a page on it may be ; I guess that I would setu

LVM was Re: Allocating unused drive space to a root partition

2009-09-16 Thread Craig Falconer
Daniel Hill wrote, On 16/09/09 20:10: don't like articles that don't state what they are trying achieve or what LVM does LVM is another layer of indirection for disk storage. Allows you to expand the LV a filesystem lives on, without having to shuffle partitions on disk like the OP. Most f

RE: Allocating unused drive space to a root partition

2009-09-16 Thread Maurice Butler
LVM achives the fact you create small partions - the size you need at the time of the install, leaving spare space that you can allocate to partions as required. The partions can be formated to what ever your favourate file system. This is a better link as it explains the history and the benfits

Re: Allocating unused drive space to a root partition

2009-09-16 Thread Craig Falconer
Yes LVM would have made it easy to add space. But I doubt you can convert an existing filesystem to a LV inside a PV. I still think Steve's idea (moving /usr or /var to the space freed up by shrinking swap) would be the best fix. By all means use LVM on new installs. Maurice Butler wrote, O

Re: Allocating unused drive space to a root partition

2009-09-16 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 don't like articles that don't state what they are trying achieve or what LVM does > Hi, > After spending today testing at work I have suddenly become a fan of LVM > that gets around this problem > > http://linuxbsdos.com/2008/11/11/lvm-configuration-i