Tag Archives: Debian

Force Debian console into text mode

Modern server hardware offers a lot of possibilities for administration. One of them is the remote access port, HP’s iLO. This remote access port allows to access the server even when shut down and allows a lot of control over … Continue reading

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Install HP ProLiant Management Utilities

The HP ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) for Linux allows reading out hardware details from a HP ProLiant server. this set of tools can be used to read out hardware information, state and logs. Install HP ProLiant Management Components HP provides … Continue reading

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apt – install the package that contains a specific file

Sometimes a command that you execute complains about a dependency being missing on the system. From the file name in the error message it is often not possible to know exactly which package needs to be installed to resolve the … Continue reading

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Resize Proxmox VM disc via command line without LiveCD

To increase the disc size from the command line, login to the Proxmox host. In the command line you can list the VMs configured by this command to find the VMID needed. For this example the VM with the VMID … Continue reading

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Network Interface order with Proxmox

When you create a Proxmox virtual machine (KVM), the network interfaces may not always be in the order you want them to be. The order of the network interfaces is not only defined by an order in Proxmox. It is … Continue reading

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