Category Archives: system administration
Installing Cent OS 5.5 on EC2 with the Cent OS 5.5 Kernel
Amazon recently introduced the ability to boot a custom kernel using pv-grub on EC2. This opens the door for all kinds of interesting ideas that I've been thinking about for a while, like seeing if I can boot right into a web server and skip all that extra junk that comes with Linux distributions, but [...]
Upgrade to Fedora 13 from Fedora 12
After a week delay Fedora 13 has been released and it is time to upgrade of course. As always there are a decent number of features in this release but here are a few that stand out to me: boot.fedoraproject.org – A small bootable image to start the install from. IntelliJ IDEA – IntelliJ IDEA [...]
Fedora 12 Bootable Root EBS on EC2
I recently needed to create a clean EC2 AMI using a fairly new linux distro. It has been a while since I've needed to create a new AMI so I also wanted to move away from the older pre-packaged AMI and boot using EBS. After taking a look at what was currently available publicly I [...]
Building Chromium and Chrome OS with EC2
When the initial cut of the Chromium OS source was released last week I decided to use the opportunity to see if it would run on my EEE PC 900 netbook (check out EEE PC 900 running Chrome OS on Youtube to see the final result). The first roadblock I hit with the build instructions [...]
Upgrade to Fedora 12 from Fedora 11
Fedora 12 was just released and it is time to upgrade again of course. I almost thought this was going to be a version to yawn at but then I saw that there was going to be a new version of Fedora based on Moblin and it seemed exciting again. Of course that isn't the [...]
Upgrading to Fedora 11 from Fedora 10
It is time again to upgrade if you are using Fedora. Fedora 11 was released a few days ago and contains some nice enhancements. For people who can a complete re-install is probably best. One reason for that is the inclusion of ext4 in Fedora11. You won't get the benefit of ext4 unless you do [...]
Running Asterisk in the cloud with Amazon EC2
I have been sitting on a half post for a while now on setting up Asterisk on EC2 and then this past week someone else came out with a post on how to install Asterisk from scratch on EC2. I figured I would wrap up what I have since I take the path of installing [...]
Using scrub to destroy a hard drive
Recently I had a hard drive failure that pushed me into getting a little NAS device that I could back up to S3 easily. After consolidating a lot of data to the NAS I was left with a few old hard drives that I needed to do something with as well as some existing hard [...]
Installing Windows 7 on VirtualBox
I have been seeing people talk about the Windows 7 Beta being available to download so I went to see how hard it was to sign up. It turns out that it actually pretty easy so I decided I would give it a try under VirtualBox just to see if it would work. The following [...]
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