Autoyast: Retaining/reusing existing partitions

If you plan to do automated installs of openSUSE or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), you will sooner or later meet their installation automation solution, Autoyast. Since there is not much info on the Web on Autoyast control files and scripts apart from the official documentation, I thought I could contribute some of my own… Continue reading Autoyast: Retaining/reusing existing partitions

Getting rid of NetworkManager authorization prompts

Not exactly rocket science but since it took me a while to find out I’ll keep this here for future reference: to get rid of NetworkManager authorization prompts in openSUSE Leap 15.0 and similar distros, create /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/80-networkmanager-allow-users-group.rules: polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) { if (/^org\.freedesktop\.NetworkManager\./.test(action.id) && subject.local && subject.active && subject.isInGroup(“users”)) { return polkit.Result.YES; } });

Building an 90° angular power adapter for the C64

Some might know that I’ve been building a piece of furniture on my own to contain all of my retro computers, the “Retroaltar”, about which I might eventually blog in the future. Among these computers are two Commodore 64, a classic breadbox C64 and a C64-II. Unfortunately, when designing the shelves I only accounted for… Continue reading Building an 90° angular power adapter for the C64

My LOADays 2018 talk “Simple system testing with Roundup and Ansible”

In 2018 the LOADays conference returns to Antwerp, Belgium on April 21st/22nd. LOADays stands for “Linux Open Admin Days” and is a small non-commercial conference targeted not only at the Belgian sysadmin/infrastructure scene, run by many of the fine folks that also brought you cfgmgmtcamp in Ghent. As with cfgmgmtcamp, instead of pissing off people… Continue reading My LOADays 2018 talk “Simple system testing with Roundup and Ansible”