Have you ever wished you could install Cygwin programs via the command line? Well you can. Just use this shellscript that Stephen Jungels wrote. Just download it into your cygwin /usr/bin directory and modify if necessary. View apt-cyg First ssh to the cygwin box. Next download the needed packages for apt-cyg ./setup.exe -q -P wget,tar,qawk,bzip2,subversion,vim …
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Nov 03
Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Installation
Download Oracle XE from Oracle. http://download.oracle.com/otn/linux/oracle11g/xe/oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm.zip unzip the file and goto Disk1 directory rpm -i oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm Executing post-install steps… You must run ‘/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure’ as the root user to configure the database. [root@database Disk1]# /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Configuration ————————————————- This will configure on-boot properties of Oracle Database 11g Express Edition. The …
Oct 21
Extending LVM volume on Linux root partition using XenServer
The first disk of a XenServer guest VM is called xvda, the second disk (the one we added) is called xvdb. We start with the creation of a Physical Volume (PV) on the extra disk. pvcreate /dev/xvdb Then we extend the existing Volume Group (VG) called VolGroup00. vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/xvdb Then we extend the Logical Volume (LV) …
Oct 10
Oracle Virtual Server 3.0.2 patch has been released
You will want to upgrade your 3.0.1 OVM Manager to the latest patch release 3.0.2. Download the patch from http://support.oracle.com and the patch is called p13036236_30_Linux-x86-64.zip Unzip and copy the iso to your OVMM machine. mount -o loop OracleVM-Manager-3.0.x.iso /OVMCD cd /OVMCD ./runUpgrader.sh
Sep 30
Oracle Virtual Server 3.0 VM Migration from OVM 2.2
I know that this software is a new and fairly different version from OVM 2.2 but Oracle has been working on this over over 3 years! At least there should have been some documentation on how to migrate / move existing OVM 2.2 running VMs over to the new version. Gafff Anyway, you can probably …