Archive for December, 2007

  • This tip is handy if you have a need to specify a new frontpage node on your Drupal site and cannot get into the admin pages to change it. You can specify a number of configuration items in the settings.php file for your site.<br /> <br /> In this case your are going to set the frontpage configuration. Near the bottom of your settings.php file is a section that is commented our by default for overriding configuration settings. Just add the following code below and change 'node/1' to whatever node you want for your new frontpage.<br />

    Force a Frontpage Node in Drupal

    Posted on December 28, 2007 | No Comments
    This tip is handy if you have a need to specify a new frontpage node on your Drupal site and cannot get into the admin pages to change it. You can specify a number of configuration items in the settings.php file for your site.

    In this case your are going to set the frontpage configuration. Near the bottom of your settings.php file is a section that is commented our by default for overriding configuration settings. Just add the following code below and change 'node/1' to whatever node you want for your new frontpage.

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  • <p> By default, the Ubuntu installer has configured our system to get its IP address and other network settings via DHCP. This is not what we want so we have to change the server to have a static IP address. Edit <i>/etc/network/interfaces </i>and adjust it per your requirements. For this example we are using an IP address of 192.168.167.210 for this server. </p> <p> <br /> Now, there are a myriad of examples on the web and I am including a few links to them for convenience sake in case they explain this better. (they probably do) ;o) </p>

    Ubuntu 6.06 Server LTS Part II – Configure The Network with Static IP

    Posted on December 6, 2007 | No Comments

    By default, the Ubuntu installer has configured our system to get its IP address and other network settings via DHCP. This is not what we want so we have to change the server to have a static IP address. Edit /etc/network/interfaces and adjust it per your requirements. For this example we are using an IP address of 192.168.167.210 for this server.


    Now, there are a myriad of examples on the web and I am including a few links to them for convenience sake in case they explain this better. (they probably do) ;o)

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  • <p> Well, victory is ours....sort of. See our previous post.<br /> <br /> The long and short of it is that we ended up just removing that Promise FastTrak TX2 controller card and placed the two drive on the built-in motherboard controllers. Since we have some other devices we piggybacked both drives from the same controller which is not going to be as performance minded as put each drive on a different controller but for this application it is fine.<br />

    Ubuntu 6.06 Server LTS Installation with Software RAID Support – Part I

    Posted on December 6, 2007 | 1 Comment

    Well, victory is ours....sort of. See our previous post.

    The long and short of it is that we ended up just removing that Promise FastTrak TX2 controller card and placed the two drive on the built-in motherboard controllers. Since we have some other devices we piggybacked both drives from the same controller which is not going to be as performance minded as put each drive on a different controller but for this application it is fine.

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  • Whew....this is a bit of an enigma right now. I know I read about some potential issues with this controller card but it is what we have to use. I thought those issue were primarily around driver support and bit write issues. What I did not expect was the difficulty in installing Ubuntu 6.06 LTS onto a mirror array created with the controller. Perhaps this is a symptom of the
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    Ubuntu Installation with a Promise FastTrak TX2 RAID Controller

    Posted on December 5, 2007 | 2 Comments
    Whew....this is a bit of an enigma right now. I know I read about some potential issues with this controller card but it is what we have to use. I thought those issue were primarily around driver support and bit write issues. What I did not expect was the difficulty in installing Ubuntu 6.06 LTS onto a mirror array created with the controller. Perhaps this is a symptom of the "poor driver support" issue?

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