Author Archives: larry

Incredible Timing

Posted on February 26, 2018 by larry

So recall I been working on a kickstart USB disk Timing was right, an SSD crashed and I was able to get it back up and running. Unfortunately samba is not working, most everything else is.  

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Got Most Of Testing Done

Posted on February 25, 2018 by larry

I got most of my testing done for my AWS mail server document. I am going to clean it up, make it look nice. Technically looks good though.

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Documenting Setting Up Mail Server

Posted on February 24, 2018 by larry

I am finally getting around to setting up a mail server at AWS. Using an extra domain I have L887.COM My goal is to Get it to accept mail for L887.COM Be secure (use ssl) Automate, make it easy for … Continue reading →

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Backup Systems

Posted on February 23, 2018 by larry

Still trying to figure out a good automated backup system. I think in the end stuff is going to have to go on USB disks that is used for restore. I decided Tuesday that I am going to engineer my … Continue reading →

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Prepping for Linuxfest

Posted on February 22, 2018 by larry

This is the earliest I started preparing for Linuxfest. One of the things I ordered from Amazon were some 433Mhz Motion sensors, weird that it was cancelled. Anyway, I have to keep an eye on lead times. Hope to get … Continue reading →

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Menu Kickstart Wokring

Posted on February 21, 2018 by larry

Decided to improve my kickstart menu, got a little addicted. Now I am adding logos and stuff. Here is how it looks like Looks good, menu needs a bit cleaning up.

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Great Workout Today

Posted on February 20, 2018 by larry

Went on the recumbent bike today at the Y. Hung in there for 30 minutes, pretty proud of myself. Then there was a 5 minute cooldown I was not expecting. Too tired to do it. Weight: 294.6

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Booting and Kickstarting CentOS 7 from USB

Posted on February 19, 2018 by larry

I figured out a huge portion of what I was doing wrong. Here is a snippit from syslinux config label kickstart1 menu label ^1 Minimal Kickstart kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img inst.repo=hd:LABEL=CENTOS7:/ inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CENTOS7:/ inst.ks=hd:LABEL=BOOT:/ks/minimal.cfg I prefer grub and it translates to … Continue reading →

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Cold Day Knee Hurts

Posted on February 18, 2018 by larry

Today was cold, snowed a bit too. Tired as well, sore knee. Going to try and do some pushups and situps.

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Resting Today Body Sore

Posted on February 17, 2018 by larry

Body sore from those laps yesterday. Also wanted to get my new build up. Granted this is a budget build, but I am pretty disappointed with the performance. Motherboard is an ASUS PRIME A320M-A so I can go faster with … Continue reading →

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