Manual kernel installation on Debian
Recently I had to manually install kernel on one Debian machine. Steps are as follows: Download kernel-headers and kernel-image deb packages Install these packages with dpkg --force-architecture --force-overwrite --install Still we are missing initial RAM disk and this one c…
Create fake loop device on Fedora
First question – what is the purpose? Such fake loop device can be used as pv in lvm in case we want to play around and don’t want to add a new disk. Prepare a binary file with dd e.g. /srv/swift-disk.bin Create a script in e.g: /usr/lib/systemd/scripts and ensure that it is e…
Installing additional packages for Python on Windows
On Windows 7 I have tried to install paramiko package so as to have possibility to SSH from Python scripts to network devices or any other SSH servers. Install setuptools Install VC++ compiler for Python2.7 Install a required package: pip install paramiko VC++ compiler install…