So todays’ battle was installing linux (this particular install was Oracle Unbreakable) onto an IBM blade, that just didn’t want to load the X installer when running the installation in graphical mode. For those reading who are saying “just install in text mode” .. yes, I get it .. but that’s not the point. I [...]
When I created this most recent batch of webservers, I got a little stingy with the drive space. I skimped on the “/” partition, and as you can see, I’m paying for it now: [root@server ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 2.5G 2.3G 80M 97% / /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04 29G 9.1G 19G [...]
So the developers want a GUI on the system they use to develop our java file-serving app (I’ll rant about that later). Anyhow, I’ve installed a few VM’s with Gnome on them, so I figured VNC was an easy way to get them there, without dealing with the complications of running X across the WAN. [...]