I recently got stuck while trying to install Headless Virtualbox on a Centos 5.2 server per the directions at Howtoforge here. The RPM failed with the error that it couldn’t find the kernel source. I thought I had already installed kernel-devel, and confirmed that I did. The instructions were to define the KERN_DIR variable like [...]
Categories: Configurations,Linux,Programs,Shell,Software,System Administration
Tagged: error, kernel, virtualbox
Readers should note that this applies to Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex only! ZFS is a relatively new filesystem created by Sun. It is released under the CDDL License which is incompatible with Linux’s GPL License, meaning that it can not be installed natively in the kernel. Therefore, for not it is relegated to addon packages [...]
Categories: Configurations,Linux,Shell,System Administration,Ubuntu
Tagged: filesystem, RAID, sysadmin, zfs
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