Just what i find

Creating a VM to test Docker – migrating from Unraid to Napp-It

onwards… downloaded the Ubuntu 16.04 Server LTS CD Created new VM Connected ISO to virtual DVD in console in VMWare vSphere client booted to the ISO pressed F4 and selected “minimal” pressed F6 and selected minimal VM walked through and added SSH at the right point SSHd to the server I installed docker using these instructions, Continue reading →

January 15, 2017
Fix: Flashing an M1015 – Error code = 64 Failed to flash the image. Please retry recovery

I purchased an IBM M1015 to use as an HBA in my server. As part of that, I wanted to flash it with the IT firmware, however, I was getting errors, even when I used the original IBM firmware from their website (my mirror copy): I’d never seen an M1015 before, at least not close Continue reading →

December 21, 2016
Installing VMWare – migrating from Unraid to Napp-It

get image installed to internal 32gb microSD steps: https://seiler.it/vmware-esxi-5-5-installation-hp-proliant-microserver-gen8/ Remember to use the v88 driver: http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/11159-esxi-6-cant-degrade-the-hpvsa-driver-to-v88/?p=116554 Continue reading →

December 20, 2016
How to flash IBM ServeRaid M1015 to LSI9211-IT for ZFS in HP Gen8 Microserver

First things first – you do this at your own risk. I take no responsibility for anything going wrong – and it can go wrong. If you are in doubt – don’t do it. And if it goes wrong – don’t blame me… The original instructions for this task are here, with my additions to update to the Continue reading →

December 16, 2016
Preparing for migration – migrating from Unraid to Napp-It

This post is the second in my series describing how i migrated from Unraid to Napp-It, and describes how I prepared for migration. So – preparing for migration… First, i wanted to capture the docker configuration for each of my existing containers. To do this, I forced the container to update, then when unraid presented me Continue reading →

December 15, 2016
Fix: Emby Docker fails to start when config on mounted share – SQLite “database is locked”

I have a clean VM running Ubuntu 16.04 on VWare ESXi 6.5. I have a CIFS share mounted at /mnt/appdata with the noperm flag. The share is writeable. I installed Docker using the instructions here: https://hub.docker.c…mby/embyserver/ then the next command, sudo systemctl enable emby-server.service, didnt work. Instead I had to do: then I ran emby-server and configured Continue reading →

December 6, 2016
HP Gen8 Microserver error “Embedded media manager failed initialization” – how to get HPQLOCFG

During the process of installing VMWare on to my Gen8 Microserver, I had trouble writing data to the internal SD card – in fact, I couldn’t even see it. Looking in the ILO Event Logs I saw this: Embedded Flash/SD-CARD: Embedded media manager failed initialization. googling this didn’t get me much – just forum posts with people Continue reading →

December 4, 2016
Hardware required – migrating from Unraid to Napp-It

I’ve been a user of Unraid since 2012, when I had to find a solution to my home storage after Windows Home Server was abandoned by Microsoft. Unraid has been very good for me, and the introduction of a Docker engine with Unraid 6 was very welcome. That said, I’ve recently encountered issues with bitrot, and the fact Continue reading →

November 15, 2016
error processing package apt-show-versions on Ubuntu 14.04 or Ubuntu 16.04

When installing Webmin, I’ve sometimes come across an error installing a dependency package, apt-show-versions: This is caused by the fact that apt-show-versions can’t read compressed index files. Thankfully, the solution is quite simple: First, we need to tell APT not to compress the index. To do this we create an entry in a file called /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02compress-indexes: If the file is Continue reading →

November 6, 2016
How to ensure you can revert changes to function apps

As I’ve been playing around with Azure Functions I’ve slowly outgrown the web-based editor. It’s not that it’s not useful, it’s just that I miss intellisense (I’ll come back to this in a later post), and I accidentally deployed a change which broke one of my functions. I’d made dozens of tiny changes, but I simply could not Continue reading →

November 1, 2016

About me

I’m rob. I spend my time exploring the world, playing board games with my family, solving complex technical problems, and learning new things. Sometimes i write about them here, or code them on GitHub. I believe a few things that guide what I do and how I do it:

Hard things are hard. It takes time, effort and practice to be good at them.
Everybody can learn something new every day. When we’re born we know how to eat and cry and that’s about it. Everything else we’ve learnt, and we can keep doing that all our lives.
Great teams are fun to work in, and great teams achieve great outcomes. The wider the range of people and perspectives in the room, the better the work.

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