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On Solaris on Sun hardware L1-A will drop you into Sun openboot. From there you can change firmware options, the boot device and reboot the box.
What is the equivalent, if there is one, for the various linux distros?
Started by Jeff Leonard on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Press 'ESC' in Grub on Linux, then oress 'e' to edit and add the word 'single' to the linux line.
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On our Linux servers, we currently use HPs qla2xxx drivers, because it has multipathing (active/passive) built in.
The are, however, various other options, like Red Hats device-mapper-multipath with the stock qla2xxx drivers (multibus and failover) and...
Started by wzzrd on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Some that linux is....
It worked well, but to avoid kernel taint required specific Linux kernel, I typically stick with whatever comes with the Linux kernel, since it also works with dm-multipath.
An AIX driver ported to Linux.
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Why do Linux distros have different package managers?
I find this very strange because other software such as text editors, desktop environments and graphics software (Inkscape, Blender, GIMP) are shared among distributions. Why not have a common setup...
Started by Agnel Kurian on
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The nice thing about Linux is choice and multiple package management.
Management system to another.
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It it possible to multiboot between various Linux installs on the same disk drive. Do I use the same /boot partition to install each of them, is there a way of automatically getting the bootloader to detect all installations on the disk and including ...
Started by Nick_C on
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The reason is that grub2 recognizes legacy grub and the update-grub will accommodate... .
You'll be okay if you install CentOS first, then the other two .
The answer is "Yes, but..." openSUSE and Fedora use the newer grub2 bootloader, but CentOS uses legacy grub .
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What kind of SCTP support is there on various Windows versions?
Started by Robert S. Barnes on
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Version 7 and above HP-UX, 11i v2 and above Operating systems using Linux kernel 2.4 and newer QNX Neutrino Realtime OS, 6.3.0 and above Sun Solaris 10 and above Various third-party implementations of SCTP.
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I'm looking for ways to generate pdfs on-the-fly preferably using a command line tool as this will be done from a web-based system.
My requirements include must work on Windows and Linux, should be able to convert Microsoft Word, Excel and HTML into PDF...
Started by Brian Fenton on
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It has an API interface....
Check the documentation for Bullzip PDF for examples on how it can be automated .
Check this
PDF Creator
Have a look at biopdf , and a PDF printer that uses it called Bullzip PDF .
I think this has a command line utility, but not sure .
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I've never used the checksum when downloading various executables or zip files from the Internet. I know it is used to check for consistency and add a bit of security. But is it necessary for when you download from a respectable project like Apache or...
Started by daub815 on
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When downloading files where integrity is critical (an iso of a linux distribution for example) i tend.
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This isn't a "Which IDE should I use?" question and I'm not interested in text editors no matter how awesome they may be (and I don't consider either vim or emacs to be an IDE so... unless you have a couple of days to explain precisely and in full gory...
Started by gaoshan88 on
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And this means Windows....
I develop on Linux, for deployment to LAMP version 3.2.
There are mac and linux versions, but these seem to be the windows version running on a VM of some kind open source software for the freedom as much as the price.
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I've looked through various such tools,but none of them are to be used in linux:
http://mashable.com/2007/08/24/web-screenshots/
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Not command line, but either Linux or Windows, and handy..
We're using it in headless mode status bar.
KHTML2PNG does that for Linux, using the KHTML rendering engine.
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Does anyone know if these stats are collected or exist anywhere? Any anecdotal evidence is at least slightly helpful
Started by Luke on
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To add some Linux / Mac figures into the mix?
I know Ubuntu comes with Mono installed by default.
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