Re: [SLUG] mount LVM from Ubuntu live CD

2010-02-20 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 19/02/2010, at 1:41 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: Try booting the kernel with 'init=/bin/bash' on the command line, and then: ] mount / -o remount,rw ] passwd root # ...and give it a good password ] mount / -o remount,or ] sync; sync; sync # wait thirty seconds, because paranoia never

Re: [SLUG] Testing glue records

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Barry
$quoted_author = Ashley Glenday ; Thanks John, I've tried that too, the only thing that comes up is ns3 and ns4. So the current glue is ok. Out of curiosity, could it be something to do with the fact that I used to have ns1 and ns2 set up on an old server and those records haven't been

Re: [SLUG] Testing glue records

2010-02-20 Thread Ashley Glenday
Hi Marty, The domain is mobileitdept.com.au I suspected that the glue records weren't set up properly but they kept closing my ticket saying it was fine. I guess my next question should be which registrar should I use that knows how to do glue records properly? I've lodged another ticket

[SLUG] Replacing Mac HDD (was: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?)

2010-02-20 Thread elliott-brennan
Alan Tyree wrote: I have an Apple iBook G4 and the hard drive is showing some damage - it is an IDE drive. Would like to replace with something solid state, but don't really know where to start. Cheers, Alan Hi Alan, You'll need the following: 1 x webcam 1 x address for others to watch 1 x

Re: [SLUG] Replacing Mac HDD (was: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?)

2010-02-20 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:48:28 +1100 elliott-brennan elliottbren...@gmail.com wrote: Alan Tyree wrote: I have an Apple iBook G4 and the hard drive is showing some damage - it is an IDE drive. Would like to replace with something solid state, but don't really know where to start. Cheers,

Re: [SLUG] mount LVM from Ubuntu live CD

2010-02-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
Michael Chesterton che...@chesterton.id.au writes: On 19/02/2010, at 1:41 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: Try booting the kernel with 'init=/bin/bash' on the command line, and then: ] mount / -o remount,rw ] passwd root # ...and give it a good password ] mount / -o remount,or ] sync; sync;

Re: [SLUG] mount LVM from Ubuntu live CD

2010-02-20 Thread Jeremy Visser
On 19/02/10 13:41, Daniel Pittman wrote: ] mount / -o remount,rw ] passwd root # ...and give it a good password ] mount / -o remount,ro ] sync; sync; sync # wait thirty seconds, because paranoia never hurts ] sync; sync; sync; reboot Just be aware that you don't get a lot of nice things

Re: [SLUG] mount LVM from Ubuntu live CD

2010-02-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name writes: On 19/02/10 13:41, Daniel Pittman wrote: ] mount / -o remount,rw ] passwd root # ...and give it a good password ] mount / -o remount,ro ] sync; sync; sync # wait thirty seconds, because paranoia never hurts ] sync; sync; sync; reboot Just be

Re: [SLUG] Asus EeePC 1005HA

2010-02-20 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Jeff Waugh 7. What sorts of quirks have you discovered There were a few funny things going on with wifi (ath9k driver), but I'm now running lucid (what will become Ubuntu 10.04 LTS), and it's doing very well. A quick tidbit for anyone who has acquired one of these delightful

Re: [SLUG] mount LVM from Ubuntu live CD

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Visser
I don't get how sync will write anything to a ro filesystem. That seems to be to break a fundamental kernel and filesystem principle. I would have thought either the remount would either force a flush of dirty blocks before it switches to ro, or alternatively those blocks still dirty at the time

Re: [SLUG] mount LVM from Ubuntu live CD

2010-02-20 Thread John Ferlito
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 02:03:29PM +1100, Martin Visser wrote: I don't get how sync will write anything to a ro filesystem. That seems to be to break a fundamental kernel and filesystem principle. It won't change anything on the file system as to how it existed in RAM/DISK at the time of the

Re: [SLUG] mount LVM from Ubuntu live CD

2010-02-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
Martin Visser martinvisse...@gmail.com writes: I don't get how sync will write anything to a ro filesystem. That seems to be to break a fundamental kernel and filesystem principle. ...ah. Um, it doesn't write anything to the file system, as such. It triggers the dirty pages in the kernel