Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu’

Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 upgrade NIGHTMARE

In: Personal

21 Dec 2009

Well, the Ubuntu team really screwed the pooch on the latest upgrade. I manage three Ubuntu machines, all with clean installs of 9.04. Well, I locally upgraded one of them, and tried to remotely upgrade the other two.
For the local upgrade I used the GUI, and for the remote systems I used do-release-upgrade as [...]

Setting up wview (5.5.4) on Ubuntu (9.0.4)

In: Technology & Gadgets

10 Sep 2009

This is an update to a previous post covering the new process for setting up a dedicated server running Ubuntu server edition connected to a Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station console via a serial port. There are a few changes because of the architecture of the wview program changing databases from MySQL to SQLite. The [...]

Ubuntu install error

In: Technology & Gadgets

13 Sep 2008

I’ve found a number of references to the obscure error on the web:
Failure trying to run: chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc
After careful diagnosis, I have come to the conclusion that this error has three causes (at least for me):

A bad CD drive. [replace it]
Bad CD-media or a badly written CD. [slow down the [...]

Setting up wview (3.9.0) on Ubuntu (8.04)

In: Technology & Gadgets

10 Jun 2008

I decided to document my setup of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron running with a weather station, the inexpensive WS-2310. I built this computer setup for a buddy who wanted to run a weather station, but didn’t want to buy a Davis Vantage Pro2. The machine is a Pentium 4 2.8GHz, 80G HDD, 1 GB of [...]

Booting Ubuntu installer off flash

In: Technology & Gadgets

8 Jun 2008

I was trying to setup a buddy’s old laptop to run Ubuntu and wviewweather, and having no luck because his CD-ROM drive was flaky. So i found this great utility (OK, google found it) that sets up a USB flash drive so that it will boot as if it were the CD-ROM. This is: UNetbootin. [...]

Playing house with Gutsy Gibbon

In: Technology & Gadgets

25 Nov 2007

Well, rumors of a user-friendly installation and easy compatibility for Ubuntu 7.10 are greatly exaggerated. Although it’s easy to use, it’s really quite difficult to install. Here are some of my trials and tribulations, and how I fixed them.

Linux installed

In: Technology & Gadgets

31 Mar 2007

Finally got my first LINUX server up-and-running for the fire department. It’s a great indication of how some distributions are much better than others. Read on to see how it progressed.


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David Kabal writes random bits about life, gadgets and computers. David is an engineer living in Boulder, Colorado, up in the mountains, where he's also a firefighter.

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