Questions tagged [operating-system]
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OS / Distribution for a small network firewall / gateway
I'm planning to setup a small network (< 10 computers) and intend to set up a server to serve as my gateway / firewall. What Operating System (I'd prefer something *nix) and distribution should I use?
Things to consider:
Security
Low…

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Instruct Hetzner installimage to use SSD as primary OS drive
Purchased a dedicated Hetzner server with 2x small SSDs and 2x large HDDs paired with hardware RAID. Running installimage from Rescue OS shows this as config:
# Adaptec RAID (LD 0): no name
DRIVE1 /dev/sda
# Adaptec RAID (LD 1): no name
DRIVE2…

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How can I deploy a Linux OS on a VM skipping the installation steps?
If I have a virtual machine, how can I install on it an operating system skipping the installation steps?
In other words, when I choose an operating system to be installed on the VM, I want to use it immediately without bothering with the…

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Debian safe backup of server system drive?
I would like to backup a Debian 9 server system drive, SAFELY, using cron (thus non-GUI solution is wanted) to a remote ISCSI drive through local network. Using EXT4 as system partition format.
By "SAFELY", I mean: the backup should be atomic, race…

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What is the best setup to have around 5 VMs running simultaneously?
I am trying to run a bunch of VMs to have a dedicated web testing environment for a massive corporate type project. I will need VMs for xp, vista, 7, ubuntu, and maybe hackintosh otherwise 2000. The base OS will either be windows 7 or ubuntu I…

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Generating and testing variable from a MAC vs PC in Linux Bash script
I am supporting two groups. I have one script, and I would like to keep it at one. I am having trouble with a test function:
convtype=./Sample*/
if [[ -n convtype ]]; then
where it runs fine for some users but not others. The one thing I've…

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Creating a file server - How can I use a large VHD file in Hyper-V? (700GB)
After a few discussions (here, here, and here), I am still unable to create a simple VM that will be used as a fileserver hosted on my Hyper-V box. I have created a fixed 700GB SCSI drive (.vhd file), as I have learned an IDE drive of this size is…

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How do I check the IaaS image hasn't been compromised
We are deploying in Chinese datacentre, it took us a while to get our account approved with Aliyun (some kind of Amazon AWS).
We are protecting all in and out data transfer but what guarantees that the OS itself hasn't been compromised? How do I…

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GRUB does not load OS, displays grub> prompt
I have booted my server, getting some GRUB error and I pasted the error below.
Error Code:-
GNU GRUB version 0.97(502k Lower/496556K upper memory)
[Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.
For the first word, TAB lists possible command…

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Linux Server OS on LVM on Software RAID: Best Practices and Considerations
I am preparing for a minimal Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS that will simply run libvirt/KVM to host a handful of Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS guests. On my KVM host I created a RAID 1 comprised of two physical disks. With the resulting volume I used LVM to…

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System Center: Agent Proxy
Specific Error: Agent proxying needs to be enabled for a health service to submit discovery data about other computers.
Microsoft.SystemCenter.DiscoveryWriteActionModule.AgentProxyingNotEnabled.Alert
We use Microsoft System Center 2007. The…

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How to upgrade a single instance's size without downtime
I'm afraid there may not be a way to do this since we're not load balancing, but I'd like to know if there is any way to upgrade an EC2 EBS backed instance to a larger size without downtime.
First of all, we have everything on one instance: both our…

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Problem with Minimum Certificate Key Length and WinXP
The problem all started when Mircosoft updated the security of systems by requiring a minimum key length of 1024. Please refer to Microsoft Security Advisory (2661254). In the past, we were using the "Smartcard logon" template that is built into…
Tony
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What is the difference between Sever and Consumer OS?
Possible Duplicate:
How is Windows Server different from regular Windows?
What is the difference between server and consumer operating systems - the examples I have in mind being Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2?
Why shouldn't I run Windows 7…

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check what os your servers running?
How can I check what OS my servers are running?

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