Linux Networking sambasamba – how to install and administrate a samba serverTom HamiltonAugust 29, 2022August 29, 2022 by Tom HamiltonAugust 29, 2022August 29, 20220229 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...
apt Linux UbuntuUbuntu/Linux – Helpful RemindersTom HamiltonAugust 24, 2022August 24, 2022 by Tom HamiltonAugust 24, 2022August 24, 20220217 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...
Linux UbuntuHow do I find out my motherboard model?Tom HamiltonMarch 30, 2022March 30, 2022 by Tom HamiltonMarch 30, 2022March 30, 20220328 You can try: Or...
Linuxgrub2 boot /w text (console)Tom HamiltonNovember 15, 2021February 26, 2022 by Tom HamiltonNovember 15, 2021February 26, 20220373 You might find yourself in the situation with a funky monitor and a pesky Ubuntu wanting to boot with a unsupported display mode. 🙁 It...
LinuxscreenfetchTom HamiltonNovember 15, 2021February 26, 2022 by Tom HamiltonNovember 15, 2021February 26, 20220393 Mostly a note to myself. This is cute. A little cuter than hwinfo … which has a lot more information....
LinuxGrub2 error during rebuild…Tom HamiltonNovember 15, 2021February 26, 2022 by Tom HamiltonNovember 15, 2021February 26, 20220319 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...
Linux LVM Storage UbuntuAdding new disk to UbuntuTom HamiltonJanuary 27, 2021February 27, 2022 by Tom HamiltonJanuary 27, 2021February 27, 20220195 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...
Linux VMwareVMware – Linux – open-vm-toolsTom HamiltonJanuary 3, 2021February 26, 2022 by Tom HamiltonJanuary 3, 2021February 26, 20220561 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....
apt LinuxAdding an custom APT repositoryTom HamiltonFebruary 27, 2020February 27, 2022 by Tom HamiltonFebruary 27, 2020February 27, 20220230 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 UbuntuLinux Ubuntu Distribution UpgradeTom HamiltonJuly 22, 2019February 26, 2022 by Tom HamiltonJuly 22, 2019February 26, 20220885 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...