Monthly Archives: February 2019

Back in the Pool

Posted on February 28, 2019 by larry

Got a month to get my weight down at least in to the 250’s so 259.8 would qualifiy (3 days in a row). Fool felt good though. Looking to kick it up a notch. Getting out of the pool still … Continue reading →

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Mint and RDP

Posted on February 27, 2019 by larry

Toying with mint and rdp. Wish cinnamon would work, but seems to heavy. Going to try other desktop environment, maybe mate or xfce. Hoping one of these will look nice and work via rdp.

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Leaning Towards Debian

Posted on February 26, 2019 by larry

It will be several more years, but EOL was announced for drupal 7, which most of apolonio.com runs on. So I must look to the future, debian sure does keep with the trends. An there is another option, just calling … Continue reading →

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Frustrating Problem Was Easy Fix

Posted on February 25, 2019 by admin

So I was wondering why my USB builds were taking a long time. I would start a build, come back an hour later and it would still be building. Also to my surprise the desktop image was building even though … Continue reading →

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Kickstarting Profiles

Posted on February 24, 2019 by larry

Looks like the home server kickstart profile is good. Tested it in USB BIOS and PXE boot, now will test USB UEFI. Looks like it is booting OK. Now at least I have a common starting point.

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Finally Got A Plan

Posted on February 23, 2019 by larry

Took a little bit of time out today to map a plan to get this USB boot drive going. Finally got something going. Going to test the kickstart via PXE and move things over to the USB and test.

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Changing Desktop

Posted on February 22, 2019 by larry

I really like the Cinnamon desktop that is on the EPEL repos for CentOS. Nice eye candy but it is a beast to run. I ran system monitor and CPU spiked to 80%. If you give it enough horsepower it … Continue reading →

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Settled in on USB

Posted on February 21, 2019 by larry

Decided to stop getting branding working on USB drive and go with what I got so far. No am focusing on builds and going through testing. Can’t believe how much I have to do so far. Haven’t even started documentation.

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Struggling UEFI Boot

Posted on February 20, 2019 by larry

Not sure why, but I cannot seem to get in image working on my boot usb. Works for a BIOS boot. Tried several things, may try another boot image. Working out a few more things, may have to give up … Continue reading →

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Remote Desktop On Mint

Posted on February 19, 2019 by larry

Got remote desktop working on Linux Mint. I found some instructions on a youtube page I also even got it to work with AD authentication. I ended up using a the xfce desktop though. Trying to figure it out on … Continue reading →

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