Upgrade Ubuntu 14 to Ubuntu 16 Rumi, August 28, 2023 I had a long old ubuntu 14 into my network, had an inevitable action to upgrade it to 16. Apply the simple 2 commands to make the updaration happening- sudo do-release-upgrade Use the below command for Ubuntu 14 machines: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Continue Reading
Convert Xen XVA to KVM Rumi, August 23, 2023 Citrix Xen uses a custom virtual appliance format for import/export called “XVA”. it’s basically a strangely crafted tar-file. You don’t need this program to unpack this tar-file, just use your favourite tar unpacker (tar, gtar, bsdtar). Once unpacked you will end up with a lot of different files, ova.xml (which… Continue Reading
Debian 8 (Jessie) repo updated-2023 Rumi, August 23, 2023 This worked for Debian 8 (Jessie) replace original /etc/sources.list with: deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security/ jessie/updates main non-free contrib deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian-security/ jessie/updates main non-free contribapt-update It will give a keyring error. I tried both: Continue Reading
XOA on XCP-NG import and install Rumi, August 23, 2023 Start a new SSH session to your XenServer host and run the commands below. ### Using curl ### [18:18 xcp-node-01 ~]# bash -c “$(curl -sS https://xoa.io/deploy)” ### Using wget ### [18:18 xcp-node-01 ~]# bash -c “$(wget -qO- https://xoa.io/deploy)” If you are using an old XenServer version, you may encounter SSL… Continue Reading
Install transmission on Centos 7 Rumi, August 22, 2023 Step 1. First, you need to enable the EPEL repository on your system. yum install epel-release yum -y update Step 2. Installing Transmission on CentOS 7. Just run the following command to install Transmission: yum install transmission-cli transmission-common transmission-daemon Once complete, you can verify Transmission is installed by running the… Continue Reading
Install Proxmox 7 on Debian 12 Rumi, August 9, 2023 Install a standard Debian Bookworm, for details consider the Debian installation guide, and configure a static IP. Note: The Debian installer performs network configuration by IPv6 autoconfiguration and DHCP by default, if available. To force manual network configuration in the UEFI installer, press E and add netcfg/disable_autoconfig=true to the linux command line. For the… Continue Reading
Fixing Proxmox Delete user failed: cannot update tfa config, following nodes are not up to date: Rumi, August 2, 2023 Please check if all the nodes are on the same package versions: run pveversion -v and compare the outputs. If they’re not matching, you can run apt update && apt dist-upgrade To upgrade the nodes. if there’s a kernel upgrade you will also need to reboot the machines. If after… Continue Reading
Fixing Yum Update on Centos 8 Stream Error: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘AppStream’: Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: No URLs in mirrorlist Rumi, July 24, 2023 I had installed a minimalist CentOS 8 on one of my servers. Installation went successful, however, when I tried to update the system using yum update I see this error message: Failed to download metadata for repo. Below is the complete error. [root@autocontroller ~]# yum update CentOS-8 – AppStream 70 B/s |… Continue Reading
29 organisations listed as ‘critical information infrastructure’ under DSA Rumi, July 18, 2023 The ICT Division on Monday declared 29 organisations as ‘critical information infrastructure’ under the Digital Security Act for the safety of sensitive data under which any illegal access to computers, digital devices or networks is a punishable offence. ‘Critical information infrastructure’ in the controversial Act means any external or virtual… Continue Reading