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Comment on Debian on Sunfire V120 by magvar

magvar — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:02:15 +0000

Thanks so much for this guide! Since installation didn’t work out even if I left the network cables unplugged until after network configuration was completed, I continued looking for a tip.

This is what solved it for me;
http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Problem-with-a-SunFire-V120—-Kernel-panics-when-trying-to–install-p32278745.html

Plug two network cables in. When the installation screen appears, unplug the cable connected to NET0, leave NET1 plugged in and choose “eth1″ as the primary interface to use in the Debian installation. The result: No problems while installing.

Comment on Debian on Sunfire V120 by [OvO]wl

[OvO]wl — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:45:28 +0000

Further update about the kernel panic issue. When you are going through the configure network stage of the installation, unplug all the network cables (apart from LOM) from the V120. The Aiee crash thing happens when a network card receives a packet while the network cards are being initialized.

So unplug the network cards while the hardware is being configured and the network card is being configured and Debian wont kernel panic. Replug the network cards afterwards

Comment on Debian on Sunfire V120 by [OvO]wl

[OvO]wl — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:20:16 +0000

Same thing happened to me, the installer probes USB storage then crashes. But once it actually got past that stage so there must be a way around it!!

The problem then was I couldn’t get debian to recognise an official mirror, even when i gave it the mirror, it couldn’t see the mirror at all, I will try again tonight.

Comment on Debian on Sunfire V120 by jamie trenchard

jamie trenchard — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 21:15:22 +0000

I would be concerned about the logs still getting rubbish written to them. Do I have basis for this concern or am I just worrying for no reason?

In my netra, I’ve forced eth1 into 100mbps full duplex, plugged a loopback adaptor in, and downed eth1. Driver thinks theres a cable in, so it doesn’t bother with forcing negotiation.

Comment on PmWiki Clean URLs on nginx by Marc

Marc — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:38:49 +0000

This, and your previous PmWiki/nginx post, are an excellent quickstart to getting PmWiki running in a clean fashion on nginx. Thanks a lot.

Two things:

1. config.php lives in /local not / (wiki root). So you want

cp pmwiki/docs/sample-config.php pmwiki/local/config.php

2. /docs can be deleted after installation. So, I just added it to the deny all list:

# configs from pmwiki .htaccess files
location ~ ^/(cookbook|docs|local|scripts|wiki.d|wikilib.d) {
deny all;
}

Thanks again for saving me a lot of time.

Comment on Debian Squeeze on a ThinkPad X201 by antiquity

antiquity — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:26:53 +0000

Hi, Michael,
I did a stupid thing before I am reading your article. I did over write the MBR after I made the factory recovery disks. But when I again want to restore Win 7, the rescue and recovery works at the beginning. But it soon says the recovery has been finished before actually doing anything. The whole local drive is still there intact.
Do you have any suggestions about the next I can do? Thanks.

Comment on Debian Squeeze on a ThinkPad X201 by romje

romje — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:47:19 +0000

You’re right Michael, with my VAIO I fine tuned the battery usage using powertop , laptop-mode and all other tools … I hope that the SSD drive will contribute to get a low power consumption… I should receive my machine next week so more coming soon…

Thanks
jerome

Comment on Debian Squeeze on a ThinkPad X201 by michael

michael — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:28:12 +0000

My X201 has an i5 M520, so it’s not an exact comparison, but using a default Debian Gnome install, banging away on all my normal activity, with the screen 2 ticks down from full brightness (which is where I normally keep it), I get about 4 hours on my 9-cell battery. If I disable everything possible in powertop and crank the screen down to barely readable, I can probably get another 30-45 minutes.

The amazing numbers that OEMs give for battery life (and most other numbers..) are usually contrived.. proc scaled all the way down, disk parked, fan off or barely running, all radios disabled, screen off, running DOS 6.22, with a stopwatch that just happens to run a little fast..

Comment on Debian Squeeze on a ThinkPad X201 by romje

romje — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:26:54 +0000

Thanks for your reply Michael…
Just a small question more, what is the average autonomy seen with your laptop ?
lenovo seems to be proud to announce 9-11hours with a 9 cells battery on the X201 with i7 620M processor … It sounds fantastic and far more superior than the one seen with my VAIO with the same processor (about 4 hours maximum)

Regards
Jerome

Comment on Debian Squeeze on a ThinkPad X201 by michael

michael — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:26:34 +0000

Hi Jerome – just use the disk tool of your choice