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January 2017

Deploying MySQL on Oracle Clusterware – Part 5

Installing MySQL There are a few ways to get the MySQL software set up for clustering.  One option is to install the rpm for MySQL on both cluster nodes.  There is also a tar file containing what you need to create a yum repository that can be used by multiple servers.  You could also use a tar of the software and just extract it to a shared filesystem.  The benefit of the last option is that you can have multiple instances of MySQL hosted on the same cluster running different versions. I decided to have MySQL 5.7 installed from a yum repository, but also have a MySQL 5.6 home extracted from a tar in case you needed to run an older version concurrently. At the time of writing, I used the following patches from MOS as they had the latest versions of… Read More »Deploying MySQL on Oracle Clusterware – Part 5

Installing Qubes OS 3.2 on a HP Zbook Studio G3

I recently got a demo unit of an HP Zbook Studio G3 to play with.  It is a tricked out one with a 4k display and a NVMe drive.  I wanted to try out Qubes OS on it, but the installer would lock up when I tried to boot it. Getting Qubes to install and boot The rough steps for getting a HP Zbook Studio G3 to install Qubes OS 3.2 are: Get a copy of the Qubes OS 3.2 ISO Write the ISO to a USB Drive Mount the EFI boot partition of the USB drive Windows will automatically mount it if you plug in the USB drive – a Mac won’t recognize it at all Modify the EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg file so that all of the kernel lines contain acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=”Windows 2009″ I found this useful tip on the ArchWiki Disable Secure Boot… Read More »Installing Qubes OS 3.2 on a HP Zbook Studio G3