P2V Slackware 11






P2V Slackware 11 2.4 Kernel 32bit


Slackware running on ESX 3.5u3

Needed media or ISO's


Use the VMWARE Convertor CD to transfer the environment.
Use cold boot from CD

FROM ESX/VMWARE

Change created VM machine settings to
  • Linux-32bit
  • BusLogic SCSI controller (default)
  • Add additional memory if required - recommended at-least 256Mb

Boot from Slackware CD media.
    Enter scsi module on LILO
    boot: scsi.s

Mount local root disk
$ mount /dev/<sda2> /mnt
$ cd /mnt/dev
$ ./MAKEDEV sda1
$ ./MAKEDEV sda2

Enter chrooted environment
$ chroot /mnt

Rebuild Slackware Kernel
As default kernel did have BusLogic support for me.

$  cd /usr/src/linux

Enable SCSI and BusLogic Support
Under SCSI/Advanced put a "*" next BusLogic kernel module
$ make menuconfig

Build images, took 45 minutes on 2.4Ghz CP 256MB Mem.
$ make bzImage
$ make modules
$ make modules_install

$ cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-ESX

$ vi /etc/lilo.conf

image = /boot/vmlinuz-ESX

root = /dev/hda1

label = Slackware-2.4-ESX

read-only

$ mount /proc
$ lilo
exit ;exit ;exit ; reboot

On reboot select Slackware-2.4-ESX on LILO screen


Done











Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Solaris 11 Locale en_GB.UTF-8 / en_GB.ISO8859-1 / en_GB.ISO8859-15

When you install Solaris 11/11 from standard text installer cdrom, the en_GB-UTF-8 locales are not installed, even if you select British locales on install. EDIT 4th FEB 2018 - Still valid for Solaris 11.4 Beta.  To make sure packages are have the correct localisation, IPS uses facet as a localisation personality. $ pkg facet FACETS VALUE facet.locale.pt_BR True facet.locale.es_ES True facet.locale.en_US True facet.locale.zh_TW True facet.locale.zh_CN True facet.locale.de_DE True facet.locale.fr_FR True facet.locale.it_IT True facet.locale.ko_* True facet.locale.ja_* True facet.locale.es True facet.locale.de True facet.locale.zh True facet.locale.ko True facet.locale.it True facet.locale.pt True facet.locale.fr True facet.locale.en True facet.locale.ja True facet.locale.* False As you can see no en_GB is described and " facet.locale.* False " is a deny everything else rule. So let change this. I'm assuming you have a Solaris 11 repository already ...
Read more

Scheduled network capture on Windows using Wireshark (tshark.exe)

A customer had an iSCSI issue and was required to capture network packets at a specific time on a Windows 2008 server. I came up with simple method using Wireshark's tshark.exe and Windows scheduler "AT". at cmd /c c:\capture.bat type c:\capture.bat rem Capture WireShark example rem Andy Paton rem WTL rem use AT to run batch rem example at 01:50 cmd /c c:\capture.bat rem debug at issues rem example at 09:50 /interactive cmd /k c:\capture.bat rem -a duration:1200 in seconds rem -B Buffer Size - default is 1Mb rem -i Interface number - use "tshark.exe -D" to list interface numbers rem -n don't resolve IP addresses rem -q Quiet output rem -w output file rem capture filter "host " c:\"Program Files"\Wireshark\tshark -a duration:1200 -B 2 -i 4 -n -q -w c:\network.out host 192.168.1.1
Read more

[Linux] X-server ScreenShots from the CLI "ImageMagick"

Build some documentation for a customer and required some screenshots, KDE has Ksnaphot . But I wanted many screen shots and need a simple cli command to capture various screens. ImageMagik provides the " import " command which does just the job from the command line. To capture the whole desktop as a JPEG use the following. $ import -window root screen.jpg To save in a diffrent grapics format change the extention of the output file. (gif,pnm,pmm,tiff etc..) To capture single window ie firefox You need to find the window name, two methods of getting the "window name" 1. use xwininfo, which will then ask you to click target window and display information. 2. xlsclients -l display list of windows Note you can use a window title or the DECIMAL window ID, xwininfo and xlsclients output in HEX. $ import -window WINDOW ID DECIMAL > screen1.jpg $ import -window " WINDOWS TITLE >" screen2.jpg
Read more