Matt Holthe's Fleeting Thoughts

The next step of rebuilding my SUSE Linux Domino server as a Ubuntu Domino server was installing and setting up Domino. Many of these steps were taken from another web site . Log on as my main user and create the "notes" user. Note that almost every command listed here needs the "sudo" prefix so it can run as root. To save space, that is removed and just the command is listed. useradd -d /local/notesdata notes passwd notes     -- then give the "notes" user a password mkdir /local mkdir /local/notesdata chown notes:notes /local/notesdata Change programs around as instructed: cd /bin rm -i sh     -- answer "yes" to the prompt ln -s bash sh cd /user/bin ln -s mawk gawk FTP Domino from the server where I was holding it. I put it into my home "Documents" folder. I also FTP'd the ID files needed to recreate the server to the same directory. Then I needed to unpack the TAR file and install Domino 8.5.3: tar xvf lotus_dom...

I decided to switch my SUSE Linux Domino server at home to Ubuntu. So today I started the process with phase 1 - getting the OS going. First, I downloaded an ISO of Ubuntu 12.10 from the Ubuntu web site, then made a boot DVD on my Windows 7 home computer. Next, I put the DVD into the computer and started it up. There were only a couple questions that needed to be answered to install Ubuntu on the machine. Once finished, there was a prompt to reboot. Ubuntu opened up the DVD drive and then just sat there. I figured out from trial and error that I was supposed to press ENTER (after removing the DVD, of course) to get the machine to reboot. Upon reboot, I got a "[drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on [CRTC:10]" error. I found a very similar error -- CRTC:6 on the Ubuntu forums. That entry had a solution. Press CTRL+ALT+F1 to bring up a text entry where you can enter in your user name and password. That logs you in, but you're in command mode. Then ...

It looks like that, yet again this year, I'm going to BARELY make keeping my status for 2013. (I wanted to make it with room to spare this year, as I mentioned last year ). I haven't quite hit it yet, but I'm scheduled for the 6 segments I need on American and the 4 hotel stays I need at Hilton properties. The 4 hotel stays is by far the more difficult to accomplish with just a few weeks left in the year, but I'm working the system to make it (assuming everything goes as planned).