{"id":127,"date":"2010-06-27T22:55:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T21:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2010-06-27T22:56:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T21:56:21","slug":"re-loaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Re-loaded"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally managed to restore my system to something usable but it involved reformatting the hard-drive and re-installing Ubuntu. Still it gave me the opportunity to re-partition the drive more sensibly.<\/p>\n

Originally I had one primary partition and one extended partition (with a couple inside) and the remainder, about 800Gs for datastore. That’s not too useful if you want to install several O\/Ss and boot between them (using Grub). At least Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Centos, Suse. vSphere boots from a USB device but it didn’t like having it’s datastore pulled out from under it. It does fully boot eventually but there’s a long pause at the end. I will need to look at the logs. I wonder why it wouldn’t let me delete the datastore before, even when I had deleted all the VMs and isos? Still like to get to the bottom of that.<\/p>\n

I downloaded Centos to a live USB but it doesn’t have the luxury of installing. In fact it looks a bit fiddly, involving booting over the network and playing with Grub etc. (no DVD drive). Not something I bargained for but all good practice I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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