RE: [SLUG] Re: GRUB2 + RAID-1 on debian?

2010-08-10 Thread Mr A Tomlinson
Hi Ian, I have no experience with Debian, RAID-1 (software) and Grub, but I use it on numerous low end server Fedora installations. Make sure you install a copy of the grub boot loader in the master boot record of each hard drive, otherwise a failure of Disk0 will result in a machine that does

RE: [SLUG] Ubuntu drive designations (Re: update to Hardy)

2008-05-24 Thread Mr A Tomlinson
In addition to the comments from Mary about partition UUID's I think you will find the reason that drives are re-designated as hdxx when adding SATA to the mix is a BIOS thing. I'm sure you will find a section in your BIOS setup that controls SATA/PATA emulation modes. Andre -Original

FW: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

2006-03-21 Thread Mr A Tomlinson
I pulled all 5 cd iso's and the 75mb rescue cd iso yesterday from the optusnet mirror at full adsl speed (approx 150kb/s on 1.5m/256 adsl). On my home connection using 512/128 adsl I'm still waiting for the DVD ISO over bit torrent. At 8:00 am (+24 hours on torrent) this morning it was about 68%

[SLUG] HDD recovery options

2005-02-21 Thread Mr A Tomlinson
One of my first Linux servers has just had a hdd go bad. Well sort of.I think. It is a RH9 install on a Pentium 200 running samba and winbind integrated as a 'member server' in an NT4 domain. About a 9months ago I added a single IDE 160GB HDD and moved all of data onto it. I couldn't believe

RE: [SLUG] Re: Help on non encrypted tunnel through NAT devices

2005-01-04 Thread Mr A Tomlinson
Success with openvpn using the first simple example. I now have a simple non encrypted tunnel working. Thanks guys for all of your help. Cheers Andre -Original Message- From: David Kempe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 January 2005 17:09 To: Mr A Tomlinson Cc: 'Matthew Palmer'; slug

[SLUG] Help on non encrypted tunnel through NAT devices

2005-01-03 Thread Mr A Tomlinson
Hi there, Due to the incredible costs quoted by ISP's to provide a VPN solution I've been trying to figure out the easiest and simplest way to create a VPN tunnel between two networks where both endpoints are sitting behind NAT devices. Each site has a single fixed IP address and a cheap adsl

RE: [SLUG] Re: Help on non encrypted tunnel through NAT devices

2005-01-03 Thread Mr A Tomlinson
@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] Re: Help on non encrypted tunnel through NAT devices On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:19:15PM +1100, Mr A Tomlinson wrote: I don't require encryption on the tunnel and I favour FC3/2 as the end point OS. IPSec solutions built into the OS don't work over NAT, nor does openswan

RE: [SLUG] Re: Mini-ITX Rackmount cases

2004-12-20 Thread Mr A Tomlinson
I'm buying SuperMicro (www.supermicro.com) gear from BCN Technology, featuring such technology at awesome pricing, either in case only or complete server. Check out (http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/1U/813/SC813MT-420C.cfm) for a chassis solution. Worth a look. Regards Andre Tomlinson