Entries written in April 2009

Format a large drive in FAT32

Written April 14, 2009 in Note-To-Self

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This weekend, I had the need to format an 80GB USB drive as FAT32, so that the DivX AVI files on it would play on a standalone HDD recorder. To my dismay, Windows XP wouldn’t format the drive as FAT32, since it was larger than the 32GB “limit”.

I found this …

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Serial Port (ttyS0) pass-thru to Xen domU on CentOS 5

Written April 8, 2009 in Note-To-Self

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Recently we had the need to have a Xen domU interact with a device attached to the serial port of it’s dom0 host. It’s not as easy to setup as as one would think! Here’s a quick howto. We used CentOS 5.3..

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