This catalogs my experience with installing archlinux. Which of course, I’ve never used before, so it should be a nice learning curve. First off, navigate to the archlinux website, and download the iso. Then put that on a USB Flash drive. I used the following command to do that: dd if=archlinux-2012.09.07-dual.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M Next boot…
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Troubleshooting a non-responsive LPAR RPC connection
Recently I learned that one of the LPARs on the L570 had stopped communicating with the HMC via it’s Resource Controlling Subsystem Daemon. What this meant is you could control the LPAR, open terminal windows, etc, however, you are unable to dynamically add/remove resources to the intended LPAR. This of course, led me down a…
NFS export from Linux and mount on AIX
I have a similar article here which discusses the steps to mount a NFS exported directory from Linux. However, I never really went into the steps on the Linux side of actually mounting it and what-not, so I’ll give a real world example here. On the Linux box, I have already downloaded AIX 6.1 TL6…