Re: [GLLUG] Debian Live pxe boot

2023-06-27 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 at 10:49, Ken Smith via GLLUG mailto:gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote: Ken Smith via GLLUG wrote: > Hi All, > > I wonder if someone with Debian and pxe understanding might point me > in the right direction. > &g

Re: [GLLUG] Debian Live pxe boot

2023-06-27 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
Ken Smith via GLLUG wrote: Hi All, I wonder if someone with Debian and pxe understanding might point me in the right direction. I have a Rocky server with dhcp/tftp/httpd that hosts Rocky and Fedora as pxe bootable images. It works fine. I'm trying to do similar for Debian 12

[GLLUG] Debian Live pxe boot

2023-06-26 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
Hi All, I wonder if someone with Debian and pxe understanding might point me in the right direction. I have a Rocky server with dhcp/tftp/httpd that hosts Rocky and Fedora as pxe bootable images. It works fine. I'm trying to do similar for Debian 12 but not quite getting the right

Re: [GLLUG] sendmail puzzle

2022-10-11 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
Marco van Beek via GLLUG wrote: On 10/10/2022 22:54, Ken Smith via GLLUG wrote: I'm trying to sort out a Rocky 8.5 server that has sendmail installed. (Please don't go on a diversion about how I should tell the owner to dump sendmail and switch to exim or postfix - save that for another

[GLLUG] sendmail puzzle

2022-10-10 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
I'm trying to sort out a Rocky 8.5 server that has sendmail installed. (Please don't go on a diversion about how I should tell the owner to dump sendmail and switch to exim or postfix - save that for another thread please. ) I'm pretty good with sendmail but this problem has me a bit foxed.

Re: [GLLUG] Rocky Linux on HP ML350G6 - Motherboard failure??

2022-05-18 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
Chris Bell wrote: On Sunday, 15 May 2022 17:32:50 BST you wrote: Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: On Sunday, 15 May 2022 13:37:10 BST Ken Smith via GLLUG wrote: Any pearls of wisdom either about my question or about recovering a miscreant ML350 motherboard that won't boot anything or go

Re: [GLLUG] Rocky Linux on HP ML350G6 - Motherboard failure??

2022-05-15 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: On Sunday, 15 May 2022 13:37:10 BST Ken Smith via GLLUG wrote: Any pearls of wisdom either about my question or about recovering a miscreant ML350 motherboard that won't boot anything or go into the setup pages. Thanks Ken Hello Ken, I had a very lightly loaded

[GLLUG] Rocky Linux on HP ML350G6 - Motherboard failure??

2022-05-15 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
Hi All, This might seem a bit of an off the wall question. Would running the 5.4 Kernel stress a system such that it could cause a motherboard failure? I can't think how but. More details — I’m running (or was running) various KVM VM’s as well as MythTV server on the host machine with

Re: [GLLUG] LVM / KVM Question

2022-02-15 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
Andy Smith via GLLUG wrote: Hi, On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 10:19:32AM +, Ken Smith via GLLUG wrote: I'm contemplating a system where I pass a LVM LV through to a KVM VM. On the host I'm thinking that I could do a backup of the LV using a LVM snapshot. What am I missing, is this a mad

[GLLUG] LVM / KVM Question

2022-02-15 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
Hi All, I'm contemplating a system where I pass a LVM LV through to a KVM VM. On the host I'm thinking that I could do a backup of the LV using a LVM snapshot. What am I missing, is this a mad idea? Thanks Ken -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by

Re: [GLLUG] Multi-Boot Puzzle - a bit OT

2020-10-04 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
John Winters via GLLUG wrote: On 04/10/2020 18:21, James Roberts via GLLUG wrote: [snip] I've done this a lot in the past and now I just don't. Disks are cheaper than my time, so I am prepared to multi-boot, but not from one disk. [snip] IIWM I'd acquire another disk or two and put

[GLLUG] Multi-Boot Puzzle - a bit OT

2020-10-03 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
Hi All, I have a machine I use for Music recording. It has an old Fedora 13 install and it also boots Server 2003 and Win 7. Its high time it was upgraded to something current and my plan is to add Fedora 32 and Win 10. I'd like to keep the old installs as they host music software I'd like

Re: [GLLUG] KVM Performance

2020-06-15 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
James Courtier-Dutton via GLLUG wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 08:55, Tim Woodall via GLLUG wrote: On Tue, 9 Jun 2020, Ken Smith via GLLUG wrote: Hi All, While in lockdown I decided to do some performance testing on KVM. Interesting, I've been looking into this myself trying to improve

Re: [GLLUG] KVM Performance

2020-06-10 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
Mike Brodbelt via GLLUG wrote: On 09/06/2020 22:52, Ken Smith via GLLUG wrote: I can' t help thinking that there must be something more behind a drop from 60MB/s to 15MB/s in write performance Can't speak to your exact bottleneck here, but I think I'd try and eliminate your disk

Re: [GLLUG] KVM Performance

2020-06-09 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
Martin A. Brooks via GLLUG wrote: The more levels of indirection you have between any 2 components in a system the slower stuff will move. Indeed. So wouldn't passing a block device from the host through to the guest minimise the 'components' that are 'in the way' I can' t help thinking

[GLLUG] KVM Performance

2020-06-09 Thread Ken Smith via GLLUG
Hi All, While in lockdown I decided to do some performance testing on KVM. I had believed that passing a block device through to a guest rather than using a QCOW2 file would get better performance. I wanted to see whether that was true and indeed whether using iSCSI storage was any