Category: Computers

Howto and other interesting information on computers systems and programming.

Cygwin command line installation

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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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 …

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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) …

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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

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 …

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