Archive for May, 2008

Fedora 9 Sulfur is out

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

I downloaded it today (The final), and waiting to try it out.

The DVD for the 64 bit came out with the MD5SUM 05b2ebeed273ec54d6f9ed3d61ea4c96, before calculating the sum i did check that the SHA1 is correct (For those of you who just want to throw in an md5sum Fedora-x86_64-DVD.iso and get a number.

Anyway, i downloaded it since everyone is saying the reasons i left fedora for are no longer true, and hardy (Ubuntu 8.04) has bugs i never could imagine might come out in an milestone release that has LTS).

Somewhere on the fedora website, they said they are doing XEN kernel differently to keep it in synch with the linux kernel (Since the xen kernel lags behind allot)

Anyway, i will finish my review for this as soon as i try it out.

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XEN on Ubuntu and intel MB

Friday, May 9th, 2008

I have been trying to install XEN-Server for ubuntu for a few days, my problem is that if i boot the xen kernel i get a black blank screen, if i boot the generic Kernel, it boots just fine.

I have LOOKED EVERYWHERE but no use, if i boot the patched xen kertnel, i don’t get the lovely GNOME login screen.

So, i was looking at my extreemly untidy desk, under the piles of paper i noticed a VGA card (NVIDIA 7300LE), then i remembered that i took this out because Ubuntu generic would not boot with this claiming 7676 stolen memory or something similar, i even remember fedora beta not booting with this same error message, Anyway i had a baseless idea (At least it was not my smarts that got me to the idea, i don’t know why i did it), i put the Nvidia VGA card back on the DQ965GF mobo, booted what i had already set as default kernel and got the No-Go stated above, then rebooted to the XEN kernel, and surprise, it is working again…

I thought people reported success with the DQ965GF motherboard… maybe the had PCI-e VGA cards that ran bothe XEN kernel and Generic Kernel !

Anyway, i will report this probably, when i get the time later today.

The computer runs an INTEL Quad Core that supports virtualization.

Happy XENNING….

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WYTRON DVD-393 issues

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

An older DVD duplicator had some serious issues, The firmware needed an update, some writers needed to be rolled out, a hard disk to be installed, and a bunch of other stuff

It took me ages to get the firmware, and ages more to learn how to install it.

1- Get this CD ISO file, burn it in closed session and finalized disk.

2- Unattach all drives but the reader… if you are sure the writers are properly attached, Just put the CD in the reader

3- Press Mode for 4-5 seconds, then click MODE a few more times to get to update

4- Click GO until it tells you to restart

Now i have a WD800BB HDD i want to have there, i connected it to the second spot on the IDE cable connected to the reader (The one comming from the back of the unit), Now to where do the 7 writers go ?

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