New computers with an Intel Chipset like this one support RAID and AHCI. Unfortunately you can’t install Windows XP without the use of the F6 + driver disk method of loading drivers for installation, but only using a floppy. What happens when you don’t have a floppy drive? You have to jump […]
Recently I needed to compile Python for an embedded target. I used version 2.5 though it looks like that choice may have made it harder for me. I used 2.5 because I didn’t want to have to figure out how to cross compile the cElementTree extension. Unfortunately I still ended up having […]
In a comment to my last post, Installing Ubuntu on a drive with an existing RAID and LVM, Jay Parlar asks, “Why the switch to Ubuntu?” Well Jay, I’m glad you asked.
To answer that, I have to go back to the beginning, back to my first experiences with Linux. If you just want […]
I recently switched this server from running Gentoo Linux to Ubuntu Linux. In the process I only wanted to replace the OS and not loose my home directory and other data. 160G hard drives which are partitioned identically so that I can used RAID in a mirrored setup (RAID1). There are 4 […]