Debian - Dirk-Jan's log

Create a persistent Debian Live USB Flash Drive

For a hobby project I have recently build a new computer system. This system is setup only for mining altcoins using three ATI Radeon 7950 graphics cards. I decided to make use of an unused USB Flash Drive for two reasons. Because it is cheap and less power hungry then

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Fresh HDD space arrived

Two years have past since I installed two 2TB disks on my home server. Last week I squeezed out the remaining bytes of my data volume, so I ordered two brand new 3TB Western Digital harddisks (WD30EZRX) to replace the current 2TB ones. Two things prevented an upgrade as easy

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Sensors on Intel DQ67EP

On my previous board I was using the information from lm-sensors for Cacti and phpSysInfo, so after upgrading to a new system board it turned out lm-sensors did not work out of the box for my Intel motherboard DQ67EP. A sensors-detect gave me the following information: Now follows a summary

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Downgrading Debian package

It is very rare upgrades of Debian stable break functionality. It happened recently with asterisk, so my PBX was out of service. Due to bug #688053 I had to rollback the asterisk packages to restore service. This is how I proceeded, by just installing the previous version from the local

Citrix

Unattended icaclient installation

For a new project we need to build Linux workstations with Debian. One of the wishes is to have a Citrix Receiver installed, so we created a nice install script, but the EULA agreement is not very helpful in an unattended install. echo "icaclient icaclient/accepteula boolean true"

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Server upgrade

This week I decided it was time to upgrade my home server. The main reasons, lack of 64-bit support and virtualization technology (VT-x) in my existing setup. The performance gain was also a nice side effect. I have come up with the following new components: Intel DQ67EPB3, S1155, Q67, 2xDDR3,

Cloud computing

Moving into the cloud

Last week I setup a server in a cloud based on Xen virtualization technology. After some hours research I decided to go for the Rackspace cloud. I chose the minimal setup to start with, which is a 256MB memory configuration that comes with 10GB disk space. As stated in the

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Backup Lenny using TSM

The few steps below describe in short how to install Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) on Debian 5 (Lenny) x64. 1. Download the latest 5.x TSM client wget ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/mirrors/tsm/maintenance/client/v5r5/Linux/LinuxX86/v552/5.5.2.0-TIV-TSMBAC-LinuxX86.tar 2. Install alien and

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Gallery2 and Lenny

During the upgrade from Etch to Lenny I was surprised that the Gallery2 package was not available for the current stable release of Debian. At first it was no problem, but the Gallery2 package of old stable Etch is to old for the most recent WPG2 plug-in for WordPress, so

Avahi

Setup Firefly to serve iTunes

This guide will help you setup Firefly Media Server to serve iTunes. This server based program, previously known as “mt-daapd” shares your media collection to iTunes. DAAP stands for Digital Audio Access Protocol and is developed by Apple to share media across a local network. I have done the installation

cyrus

Ipurge

No, it’s not another Apple app, it’s an handy tool that comes with the Cyrus mailserver package to delete mail from IMAP mailboxes. I have setup two entries to get rid of unnecessary messages from the spam and trash folders for all users. The following rules have been

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PE1950 installation hassle

Installing debian etch (40r4a) on a Dell PowerEdege 1950 with SAS disks was not to easy. Debian crashed the fist reboot after the install, because of not loading or finding the correct module in initrd. The second issuse was swaping the drive from sdb to sda. This is how I