similar to: Hardisk cloning for centos-5.3

Hi, I have x86 system and have used clonezilla to clone the entire hardisk of system A and restored it on another x86 system, system B. After the cloning process, i notice that the MAC address of the system B in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 is changed and is having the MAC address of system A. The interesting part is that if i do an ifconfig from the bash prompt, the MAC

Hi, I want to install customized centos on multiple systems. Can PXE boot do that ? Apart from this is there any other way of doing image copy of centos OS and installing it on several client machines through network. I used clonezilla, but after image cloning, i will again have to use the clonezilla LIVE CD on client machine to do a image restore. I want to make a clone of centos OS and

Hi, I wanted to set up Clonezilla Tools on my client machine via PXE Boot. How do I do it. I got information from the web, but after making changes in the dhcpd.conf file, the dhcpd fails to start. In the BIOS after enabling the PXE Boot, iam not able to see an Clonezilla menu options that i have placed in /pxelinux.cfg file. Iam using centos-5.3 on Intel Board Please provide me with some

Hi, I would like to have a software protection for my hardisk. I have some query regarding that (1) In Centos, is it possible to do a hardisk protection. Ex : Even if the hardisk is taken from a PC and used on another PC, it should not be executable. (2) Also if the entire binary of the source is mounted on a partition say /tmp, is it possible to make that mount point as protected,

Hi , I wanted to know about any commercial support for centOS 5.3 like kernel customization and others from centOS community or developers. Please provide information on the same Regards, Premraj M Disclaimer : This message is proprietary to Smartlink Network Systems Limited and is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged or

Hi, On Centos-5.3, is it possible to capture an interrupt when the reset button on the Supermicro Box is pressed ? Regards, Premraj M Disclaimer : This message is proprietary to Smartlink Network Systems Ltd. and is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged or confidential information and should not be circulated or used for any purpose

Hi, I wanted to install the ghostscript for ps2pdf support. I wanted to know the required rpms for this and also the order of installation. As of now i don't have this support on my system. Please provide me with information on this. Disclaimer : This message is proprietary to Smartlink Network Systems Ltd. and is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. It

Hi, On Centos is it possible to read the processor ID from any File ? Regards, Premraj M Disclaimer : This message is proprietary to Smartlink Network Systems Ltd. and is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged or confidential information and should not be circulated or used for any purpose other than for what it is intended. If you have

Hi, I am trying to build busybox for the centos-5.3,but facing issues in installing the busybox executable into the centos filesystem. Is it possible to build a busybox for a server platform (x86) with centos. Thanks and Regards, Premraj Disclaimer : This message is proprietary to Smartlink Network Systems Limited and is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is

Hi, Iam using cento-5.3 on x86 machine and iam working to get the console messages redirected to serial port. I have made the necessary changes in the /etc/inittab file. - - - - - id:3:initdefault . . so:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 9600 vt100 - - - -- - and also in /etc/grub.conf file - - - - serial --speed=9600 --unit=0 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal --timeout=10 serial . .

Hi, Iam working on centos - 5.3 and would want some information on 1. Disabling the bash prompt and running customized CLI (command line interface). 2. Enabling the bash prompt again. Is it possible to redirect the entire console message to serial port. ? Thanks and Regards, Premraj M Sr.Software Engineer Tel: +91-080-67274900 Cell: +91-9741231739 Email: premrajm at digilink.in

Hi, I have customized my centos Installation and removed the vitalization, Cluster and storage cluster support along with GUI support.I have enabled only server related packages. Regarding serial console redirection,I have checked my serial cable,Ports and inittab and grub.conf configuration.Everything seems to be correct.I wanted to know that is it necessary to have a xen kernel

Although this SmartLink comes with a Linux program to monitor it, I'd rather use nut if possible. The biggest reason for preferring nut is that the supplied software forces one to set the On Battery time rather than allowing the battery to go critical and then sending a shutdown. Guessing how long the battery will last is problematical, especially as the battery ages. The other big reason

Hello, I am still ironing out the bugs in my rsync backup soloution. As I said earlier I have it working working initiating from the macs to the linux server, sortof. The sortof part is what I am trying to eliminate. 2 problems: first rsync seems to be filling up the disk on one of my client OSX machines. df showed a little over a gigabyte when i started the backup of the ~=30GB drive I had

Hi! At first thanks for your great work! I started to make multiboot CDs 1,5 years ago, with Bart Lagerweij 's utils. I have a problem with the memtest86 floppy image, made by the authors in the .zip file, downloadable from it's homepage, when I use diskemu. Some days ago I found on Bart's page a new method to select boot images on CD with syslinux/isolinux/memdisk. I thought this is

hi R folks, I need read a file from hardisk or www web. Then I need to define some new functions according to the contents of the read file. For example, i need write a package name "mypackage" like this: >library(mypackage) >read(some_file_on_web) #to see its content, suppose it contains: eat.drink.sleep then 3 new functions need to be created and usable. the problem is, how

Dear Concerns, I have backup script which TAR the data, makes one copy on local hardisk and then FTP to another machine. Last few days i m facing problem with it. The cron job only makes the copy automatically on local disk but doesnot automatically FTP to another machine. I ran the script manually, the script runs successfully. For trouble shooting i displayed the output in some file and shown

Hi, somtimes i have trivial recodings like this: > dim(tt) [1] 252382 98 system.time(for(i in 2:length(tt)){ tt[,i][is.na(tt[,i])] <- 0 }) ...and a win2000(XP2000+,1GB) machine makes it in several minutes, but my linux notebook (XP2.6GHZ,512MB) don't get success after some hours. I recognize that the cpu load is most time relative small, but the hardisk

I intended to create a share of a newly added hardisk(one partition) for public access. I declared the mount point in /etc/fstab as something like this, /dev/sdb1 /mnt/individual ext2 defaults 1 2 now, when i try to access the share from Window's browse list, it report that 'the share is not accessible, the network name cannot be found'. Any idea why? any clue would be appreciated.

Now (after applying patch from Jeremy), most of the problems with Excel and user's files being locked have quit. However, we're still getting some files locked out when a given smbd process hangs, it appears as though the process itself is tied up in some sort of loop or something and becomes un-responsive; the client tries to auto-reconnect and does so spawning a new 'duplicate'