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uefi and pxe warning (nothing to do with secureboot)
by Craig Sanders 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

tl;dr version: this is just a heads-up for those, like me, who install machines using PXE rather than USB sticks or CDROM. UEFI is going to make this a PITA until there's a EFI compatible ipxe or gpxelinux.0 and syslinux. This is entirely unrelated to secureboot/restricted boot, it's just an added complication. the story so far: I just bought a new notebook a few days ago to take to linuxconf, an asus x401u. it's nothing special, i just wanted a cheap xterm & ssh terminal. anyway, rather than blow it away completely and just install debian, I decided to use gparted to shrink the win7 partition and set it up for dual boot. most of that procedure went perfectly smoothly - pxeboot clonezilla to backup its pristine original condition (so i had something to revert to if i screwed up), pxeboot gparted, reboot, then pxeboot debian installer. debian installed w/o a problem until i got to the point of installing grub. The disk has a GPT partition table, and the system is configured for UEFI boot. Apparently Win7 needs UEFI in order to boot from a GPT disk. The latest debian installer fully supports installing to GPT on UEFI systems - the catch is that to load the efivars kernel module (needed so that grub-efi-amd64 and efibootmgr can update the efi boot table), you have to have booted a UEFI boot-loader. Fortunately, the BIOS has an option to enable UEFI network stack, which can then do a tftp boot. so far, so good. Unfortunately, unidonly.kpxe from the ipxe package is not efi compatible. nor is gpxelinux.0 from syslinux. and AFAIK, there aren't any. and none of the syslinux tools like menu.c32 or chain.c32 are efi-compatible (apparently there is an alpha-quality syslinux 6.x series which will be efi) What this means is that (currently) you can't use PXE to install linux on a UEFI system. your only option is to use a USB stick or CD-ROM, and even then only if you can make the system use UEFI to boot from it. (well, you can install linux, you just can't boot it afterwards) this, to put it mildly, sucks. anyway, i've finally made myself a debian live (wheezy) bootable usb stick, and i'm about to try booting and chrooting to get grub installed so i can finally boot linux from the hard disk. craig ps: i kind of wish i had just given up on making it dual boot. i could have disabled UEFI entirely and had far less problems, and i'm not sure i even have any use for the windows partition except maybe for some low-end games. -- craig sanders <cas(a)taz.net.au>

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SSDs extending the life of & IBM Racetrack memory
by Andrew McGlashan 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Hi, On the subject of SSDs I posted on this g+ post about IBM racetrack memory and SSD advances we'll see down the track; hopefully both not to far away..... https://plus.google.com/107532714495314593816/posts/HwNYkoGrxYM Cheers A.

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Re: New Motherboard/System Selection
by Andrew Voumard 06 Jan '13

06 Jan '13

Hi Bianca, I have tried USB adapters, but this mouse has a specialcustom protocol & drivers & it just won't work with the (various) adapters I have tried. Thanks Andrew At 09:52 AM 5/01/2013, Bianca Gibson wrote: >Hi Andrew, >On 5 Jan 2013 09:22, "Andrew Voumard" ><<mailto:andrewv@melbpc.org.au>andrewv(a)melbpc.org.au> wrote: > > > 7. Either a PS/2 mouse port or 9 Serial port is essential (for the > > special mouse I use) - either onboard or via a PCI/e expansion > board are ok. > >Have you looked for a USB adapter for either of those? That would >probably give you more options. > >Cheers, >Bianca >_______________________________________________ >luv-main mailing list >luv-main(a)luv.asn.au >http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main

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Ubuntu OS Phone with video link about download in next couple of weeks for Google Nexus devices
by Andrew McGlashan 06 Jan '13

06 Jan '13

Hi, This looks very promising, what do others here think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXWnMTm7We8#t=1m08s "Canonical promise that they'll have the images for you to download and install on your Galaxy Nexus within the next couple of weeks..." Ubuntu is working on a base of the Google Nexus device and the GN port will be available for anyone to use very soon. Ubuntu's "own" hardware will follow later, but anybody whom wants to be involved, can be ... soon. Engadget did a video with Mark Shuttleworth: Ubuntu On A Galaxy Nexus - Engadget Hands On Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLtcj7FdIYA XDA has even got a new forum area just for Ubuntu OS phone. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36190363 Ubuntu will also be taking phones to CES and talking with people there too, not that I'll be there... ;) Ubuntu's own site (they have their own longer video): http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP Current Land Line No: 03 9012 2102 Mobile: 04 2574 1827 Fax: 03 9012 2178 National No: 1300 85 3804 Affinity Vision Australia Pty Ltd http://affinityvision.com.au http://securemywireless.com.au http://adsl2choice.net.au In Case of Emergency -- http://affinityvision.com.au/ice.html

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samba4
by James Harper 03 Jan '13

03 Jan '13

Has anyone used samba4 yet? My home network is mostly Windows but I have a Linux server so samba4 would be nice to keep the windows machines under control... Any particular distros that support it better than others? Thanks James

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Fwd: [MLUG] Sir Tim Berners-Lee Down Under
by Bianca Gibson 03 Jan '13

03 Jan '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jafaruddin Lie" <jafaruddin.lie(a)gmail.com> Date: 3 Jan 2013 16:33 Subject: [MLUG] Sir Tim Berners-Lee Down Under To: <mlug-au(a)googlegroups.com> Cc: Thought you guys might be interested: > > Free event, from the event site: > > The Melbourne public event is being hosted by the University of > Melbourne. This event is scheduled for Monday the 4th February from > 6pm till 8pm. Full details will be emailed to you by January 14th. > Registrations are limited to 4 tickets per person. > > http://tbldownunder.eventbrite.com/ > > -- > Registered Linux user no. 384430 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mlug-au" group. > To post to this group, send email to mlug-au(a)googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > mlug-au+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mlug-au?hl=en. > >

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Am I going insane? Leapsecond?
by Tim Connors 03 Jan '13

03 Jan '13

Dec 31 23:59:59 howww-a kernel: Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC But but but, the last leap second was Jun 30! Does anyone else see this? This has appeared on the 2/2 of RHEL5 machines I've checked so far. Google is being as dickish as google has been for the past couple of years and returns results not relevant to my search at all. -- Tim Connors

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chroot Postfix
by chris＠chrisbailey.au.com 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Hi All, I've just moved to Postfix from SendMail on a new hosting server I have built, just wanting to hear of any issues anyone has had, if any, with putting postfix in a chroot jail. Config:- CentOS 6.3 x64 ISPConfig 3 Postfix 2.6.6 Roundcube Webmail client 0.7.3 Looking to install MailScanner and MailWatch on the server too. TIA Chris

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Re: chroot Postfix
by Christopher M. Bailey 31 Dec '12

31 Dec '12

Hi Hannah, Can you elaborate? Cheers Chrishannah commodore <hannah(a)tinfoilhat.net> wrote:On 30/12/2012, at 21:08, chris(a)chrisbailey.au.com wrote: > I've just moved to Postfix from SendMail on a new hosting server I have > built, just wanting to hear of any issues anyone has had, if any, with > putting postfix in a chroot jail. > > Config:- > CentOS 6.3 x64 > ISPConfig 3 > Postfix 2.6.6 > Roundcube Webmail client 0.7.3 if you are concerned with security, I'd entirely avoid running roundcube.. I've had nothing but trouble with it

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Linux RSS/ATOM feed readers... alternatives to liferea ?
by Anthony Hogan 31 Dec '12

31 Dec '12

Hey all, I've been using liferea for awhile to keep up to date with the various feeds I follow. Of late, it's started segfaulting a lot :( .. Has anyone either fixed this behaviour, or is using another feed reader program? Something with a GUI? I've been resisting importing the .opml into Google Reader, but like a lot of things, may have to go in that direction it seems. Anthony

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