Archive for February, 2007
Building MySQL from source
After the introduction of the MySQL Enterprise Server, and the subsequent source-only release of Community Server 5.0.33, there was concern that MySQL would no longer provide official binary builds of the free Community Server. Fortunately, these concerns have now been addressed, but we will have to wait longer for binary releases.
In the meantime, you can [...]
Posted: February 25th, 2007 under MySQL, Windows.
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Read only and read/write NFS mounts on Fedora
I share several directories from my Debian server to other machines on the network using NFS. On one of these machines, which runs Fedora Core, some of the directories are mounted read-only, whereas others are mounted read/write. After upgrading to FC6 recently, I noticed that they’d all become read-only.
After looking into this I discovered that [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2007 under Linux.
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Removing the hard disk from a VAIO VGN-FE31H
Removing the hard disk from a VAIO VGN-FE31H is pretty easy. It’s located on the right hand side of the laptop, at the front (to the right of the touchpad).
Posted: February 18th, 2007 under VAIO.
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GFS2 errors on a VAIO VGN-FE31H?
My VAIO has an 8GB recovery partition at the beginning of its hard disk. Windows identifies it as an “EISA Configuration” partition. When I first got the VAIO I booted into Fedora Core rescue mode using the FC6 DVD. I couldn’t mount the partition:
sh-3.1# mkdir /mnt/sda1
sh-3.1# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 failed: Device [...]
Posted: February 17th, 2007 under Linux, VAIO.
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