Re: how to resize Windows KVM guest on LVM backend?

2012-10-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: Can anyone please tell me, or direct me to a website with instructions, how to resize a Windows based KVM guest, when the Windows KVM guest is setup on LVM?

Re: Yum update problem -

2012-10-31 Thread Henrique Junior
Can you show some error messages?   -- Henrique LonelySpooky Junior http://about.me/henriquejunior From: Mark Stodola stod...@pelletron.com To: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 11:14 AM Subject: Re: Yum update problem - On

Re: Yum update problem -

2012-10-31 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 31/10/12 09:14, Mark Stodola wrote: On 10/31/2012 07:59 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I have an NFS server running SL-6?. I don't know how to determine the version? I installed it and have been using it without a hitch. This morning I ran yum update for the first time in

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Yum update problem -

2012-10-31 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 10/31/2012 09:09 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 31/10/12 09:14, Mark Stodola wrote: On 10/31/2012 07:59 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I have an NFS server running SL-6?. I don't know how to determine the version? I installed it and have been using it without

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Yum update problem -

2012-10-31 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 31/10/12 10:14, Pat Riehecky wrote: syslinux-4.05-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 is not from SL, I suspect your problem is coming from there. Pat -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux Developer Well where would it come from? I would have chosen an XFCE Live USB installation if that was available but I'm not

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Yum update problem -

2012-10-31 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 10/31/2012 09:50 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 31/10/12 10:14, Pat Riehecky wrote: syslinux-4.05-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 is not from SL, I suspect your problem is coming from there. Pat -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux Developer Well where would it come from? I would have

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Yum update problem -

2012-10-31 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Pat Riehecky riehe...@fnal.gov wrote: On 10/31/2012 09:50 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 31/10/12 10:14, Pat Riehecky wrote: syslinux-4.05-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 is not from SL, I suspect your problem is coming from there. Well where would it

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Yum update problem -

2012-10-31 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 31/10/12 10:57, Pat Riehecky wrote: yum info syslinux That produces the following: [root@192 bobg]# yum info syslinux Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile epel/metalink | 12 kB 00:00 * epel:

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Yum update problem -

2012-10-31 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 10/31/2012 10:24 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 31/10/12 10:57, Pat Riehecky wrote: yum info syslinux That produces the following: [root@192 bobg]# yum info syslinux Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Loading mirror speeds from cached

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Yum update problem -

2012-10-31 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 31/10/12 11:31, Pat Riehecky wrote: It looks like 'rpmforge-extras' is also providing the syslinux package. To get the yum update to run I'd consider: 'yum update -x syslinux' Only you can determine if you need the syslinux update provided by 'rpmforge-extras', but that does seem to be

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2012-10-31 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 31/10/12 11:44, Connie Sieh wrote: The epel , rpmforge , rpmforge-extras repos are not install by default when installing Scientific Linux. Someone enabled them. Normally it is not a good idea to have rpmforge-extras enabled when you are doing updates as there can be conflicts with the

Re: how to resize Windows KVM guest on LVM backend?

2012-10-31 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: Can anyone please tell me, or direct me to a website with instructions, how to resize a

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2012-10-31 Thread Matthias Schroeder
On Oct 31, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: On 31/10/12 11:57, Connie Sieh wrote: What source did you use? -Connie Sieh Dunno, I most likely googled SL and used what I found there. All I know is it was a live USB ver. 6.2. I did

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2012-10-31 Thread Bluejay Adametz
And you ran no update for several months. I don't think that is very safe for a server. That depends on what the server is doing/being used for. I think we've had that conversation before. - Bluejay Adametz Life must be lived as play.-

mt and LTO

2012-10-31 Thread Ken Teh
Do you still use mt and tar for backups on LTO drives or is that so uncool compared to bacula? Does that mean I'm uncool if I confess I still do? ;) Do you still need mt if you use a package like bacula? Thanks!

Re: mt and LTO

2012-10-31 Thread Bluejay Adametz
Do you still need mt if you use a package like bacula? Regardless, I find having something like mt very useful when troubleshooting problems. mt, along with things like dd, allows me to verify that I can talk to a tape drive and do basic things with it without wondering if the backup software is

Re: usb

2012-10-31 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 10/29/2012 02:41 PM, Andrew Z wrote: since the weather is perfect t for drinking and catching up on all the little things that ive been procrastinated to do, i decided to revive the virus ridden laptop. That's some alienware from Dell . it doesn't have a cd/dvd . So the only option is to boot

Re: usb

2012-10-31 Thread Andrew Z
Todd and Margo, That's what I wanted to do first. But I considered more fun to try to use USB stick. I did precisely the same command on the sda but for reasons of security (read as -fear of unknown). since I'm on of 1.1mil without the electricity now, I haven't had a chance to try any other

Re: how to resize Windows KVM guest on LVM backend?

2012-10-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: Can anyone please tell

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Yum update problem -

2012-10-31 Thread David Sommerseth
(sorry! resending with proper e-mail address) On 31/10/12 15:50, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 31/10/12 10:14, Pat Riehecky wrote: syslinux-4.05-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 is not from SL, I suspect your problem is coming from there. Pat Well where would it come from? I would have chosen

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Yum update problem -

2012-10-31 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 31/10/12 18:17, David Sommerseth wrote: Otherwise, have a look in /etc/yum.repos.d ... and use rpm -qif repo-file to see where this file came from. If it's something you've added manually, you won't find a match. Otherwise, it's usually coming from a package somewhere. This is what I

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Yum update problem -

2012-10-31 Thread jdow
On 2012/10/31 15:40, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 31/10/12 18:17, David Sommerseth wrote: Otherwise, have a look in /etc/yum.repos.d ... and use rpm -qif repo-file to see where this file came from. If it's something you've added manually, you won't find a match. Otherwise, it's

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Yum update problem -

2012-10-31 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 31/10/12 18:50, jdow wrote: Perhaps you might consider uninstalling the rpmforge version and install the SL version in its place. You might also take some measures to make sure that machine is still yours and has not been thoroughly compromised. {^_^} Now you have me worried! I saved