XceptN’s IT Blog

I have been playing with this for some time .. Below are patches over Cisco VPN client 4.8 rev 490 some are compiled from around and some are my own ports (especially for 2.6.24+ ):

For 2.6.18 based kernels (OEL/RHEL/CentOS 5), download and apply vpnclient-4.8-2.6.18-XceptN.patch on your vpnclient build directory. e.g.:

# wget -q http://xceptn.com/patches/vpnclient/vpnclient-4.8-2.6.18-XceptN.patch
# cd vpnclient
# patch < ../vpnclient-4.8-2.6.18-XceptN.patch

For 2.6.24/25 (Fedora 8, 9 (Beta)) series I have used vpnclient-4.8-2.6.25-XceptN.patch. e.g.:

# wget http://xceptn.com/patches/vpnclient/vpnclient-4.8-2.6.25-XceptN.patch
# cd vpnclient
# patch < ../vpnclient-4.8-2.6.25-XceptN.patch

The patches are just dirty workarounds. But they work well 🙂

to find files that has “TeXt” in them:

   find . -exec grep “TeXt” ‘{}’ \; -print

dd if=/dev/sdX of=/tmp/sda-mbr.bin bs=512 count=1

I decided to have Debian Sarge (3.1) – www.debian.org on the new disk
that I installed on my home server. The new disk is a 250GB SATA Maxtor
and my SATA controller is SiS 180.

Installing from ISO-burned DVD’s I got error:
Disk error 80, AX= 4280 drive 9F
First I thought it was due to Sata, but it was actually due to the non-very-good 1st DVD.

I had created boot floppies (boot, root, cd drivers) and tried to continue the installation with DVDs but that time,
the DVD could not be read.

I re-burned the DVD and booted from floppies. 🙂

I got a weird shutdown during ext3 formatting (250 GB)
It was simply giving black screen, no fan etc. running. But:
– I cannot startup the box
– And the DVD-ROM device becomes active from time to time.

I could reboot after shutting down everything including the UPS.

This time I started with
expert26 noapic nolapic
And it went fine with the ext3 formatting. Following steps, I started installing the base linux, and went to bed 🙂

In the morning I had the weird shutdown again. I’ll see later, but I think I’ll try with the netinstall soon.. 🙂

Whee .. It worked .. The shutdown and a ghost using the DVD problem has
been sorted out .. Who would know it was “again” a “check the cable”
problem where the UPS connection was loose and the “Use CD when off”
was configured in BIOS 🙂

I could do the installation with floppies:
boot
root
cd drivers
and the DVD-ROMs.. No SATA problem.. Nothing .. Works like a dream

Hmm.. I got this weird reboot again ..

And sorted that out probably 🙂

I
had my CPU fan disconnected from power, and the box was heating up. And
my intelligent motherboard decides to shutdown. Cute thing ..