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
Adding NextCloud as a Windows Drive using Rclone Rumi, July 13, 2023 Pretty Straightforward- rclone config choose “n” for “New remote” choose name for Nextcloud –> rshare (or any name you want to keep as rclone config name) choose “Type of Storage” –> Webdav provide Nextcloud URL for webdav access –> https://<nextclouddomain>/remote.php/dav/uploads/<user>/ choose Vendor –> Nextcloud specify “user” –> (see `<user>` in… Continue Reading