samba – how to install and administrate a samba server
Last Edited: 8/29/2022 WARNING! This document is unfinished. I am going to get the common bits out first. Then I can go back and add...
Category : Linux
Ubuntu/Linux – Helpful Reminders
Last Edit 8/24/2022 When using putty applications that use the ncurses display library may not show up as intended. The above can be used to...
How do I find out my motherboard model?
You can try: Or...
grub2 boot /w text (console)
You might find yourself in the situation with a funky monitor and a pesky Ubuntu wanting to boot with a unsupported display mode. 🙁 It...
screenfetch
Mostly a note to myself. This is cute. A little cuter than hwinfo … which has a lot more information....
Grub2 error during rebuild…
When doing a grub2-update you might see some funky chatter/errors during the rebuild. You might need to edit a “global_filter” in order to exclude such...
Adding new disk to Ubuntu
Last edit: 2/27/2022 This will be a simple example. This should document how to add an additional disk to an Ubuntu system. In this example...
VMware – Linux – open-vm-tools
Install the tools For Ubuntu Some guides may suggest rebooting the Ubuntu server. While this might do the trick … it’s a little heavy handed....
Adding an custom APT repository
Last Updated: 2/27/2022 In this example I am using two machines to demonstrate. The first is some general purpose machine that I want to update...
Linux Ubuntu Distribution Upgrade
In this section we are going to talk about updating Ubuntu. Scenerio: You logon on and see the following. This is Ubuntu telling you in...