Linux

These instructions will create a bootable install medium for the installation of a operating system using a .iso file downloaded from the network, the dd command and a standard USB…

These instructions will create a bootable install medium for the installation of a operating system using a .iso file downloaded from the network, the dd command and a standard USB…

Missing OpenSSL blows up kernel compile..Oh Why? So, I’ve walked into this one a few times when compiling a new kernel for the first time after a new distro install. Each time I shake my head.

Though, every now and then I hit a snag when installing a new package, especially from a PPA. The most common of these relate to security/verification using PKI.

GlusterFS Software Defined Storage cluster provides a robusts solution for oVirt self hosted engine yields positive results using native integration

Hosting a virtual machine inside a virtual machine KVM trickery for conceptualisation and testing. If your server/host supports VT-x, it goes to say so should the guests.

I installed Wireshark the other day on Ubuntu 16.10 so I could analyse what is going over the wire in GNS3 and later on physical network topologies. Unfortunately, Wireshark has implemented Privilege Separation which means that the Wireshark GUI (or the tshark CLI) can run as a normal user while the dumpcap capture utility runs as root

After having a running battle with my, what turns out, cheap Chinese CSR clone bluetooth USB adaptor (maybe more on that in another post). I purchased a more expensive adaptor…

A guide created from memory and some notes on how I installed Arch Linux (BTW) using UEFI settings, NVMe storage. and LVM filesystem. Grub now supports NVMe but not “exotic” filesystems like LVM or LUKS encryption as the root (/) filesystem

Absolute pain getting Debian installed on my UEFI only sytem. When working through the installation process until the boot loader tries to install and this message occurs.