It's quite easy to get tied in knots when dealing with the early stages of an Arch install because you're offline. So what do you do about this? Get online ASAP. Sometimes via ethernet, sometimes WiFi is the only option. Here's a quick set of instructions including a couple of gotchas that might hel...
Today we will cover configuring a Linux system to boot using systemd boot on a UEFI system.
Firstly you'll need to check you're booted into EFI mode. You can do this with dmesg | grep "EFI v".
Sometimes it's possible to boot your system from legacy BIOS mode instead of UEFI mode - look for the...
I'm really excited about the current influx of new people to building computers for the first time to mine cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and more. Spending time browsing Reddit I get the impression some are completely new to building PCs and even newer to Linux. This guide is (hopefully...
In order to use ipmitool to gather metrics as part of my Telegraf, Grafana and InfluxDB (TIG) setup (read more about how I set that up here) I needed to find a way give non-root access to run ipmitool.
The solution turned out to be quite simple in the end. Modify a udev rule to give the teleg...
Let me begin by saying if you are reading this article considering whether or not to purchase the Dell XPS 13 (9350) Skylake revision to run Linux, just do it. The build quality is fantastic, it runs Linux extremely well and dat display. That display…
This article will get you up and running from...
I’ll leave a lot of the theory out and just focus on trying to get you up and running as quick as possible providing example commands. I found the biggest hurdle when learning Docker was understanding exactly what it was and why I should care. I wrote a little post sharing my thoughts on Docker on...
This post is aimed at making setting up KVM with virt-manager a breeze. If you havn’t already, set up X11 forwarding to a remote host or install some kind of a GUI on your Arch install then load up virt-manager via Pacman.
It is assumed that you have created a user, added them to at least the wh...
There comes a point where it is useful to run Linux GUI apps elsewhere every once in a while and in my case virt-manager. Thus I set about figuring out how to use X11 forwarding from Arch Linux to Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks. This is how it’s done.
As usual, most of this inf...
This post is aimed at simplifying the process of installing Arch on Logical Volume Manager (LVM). The info in this post came mostly from this excellent Wiki article, with a couple of additions later on of my own.
Why LVM? You can create a snapshot (see my blog post for these) then install some...