Technical

Installation


Asianux Server 3 SP2: Advice when using the encrypted file system on machine with several hard drives.

If you want to use the Encrypted File System in a machine that has two or more hard disks connected to different SCSI devices, you must create the Encrypted File System for the "/" partition on the first hard disk (sda) or your system may experience some problems.

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Asianux Server 3 SP2 can not be installed on machines equipped with Highpoint SATA RAID card RR2240, RR2310, RR1820A and RR2220

  Problem:
Asianux Server 3 SP2 can not be installed on machines equipped with Highpoint SATA RAID card RR2240, RR2310, RR1820A and RR2220(2224). the system can not boot after installation.
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I can not create initrd.img for kernel 2.6.18-53.*

Problem:

I can not create initrd.img for kernel 2.6.18-53.* (SP1 maintenance kernel), I get the following error message:

No module dm-mem-cache found for kernel 2.6.18-53.*, aborting

Solution:

Please add the option “--without-dmraid” when creating initrd.img. See below:

mkinitrd --without-dmraid /boot/initrd-...

With Asianux Server 3 SP2 as the guest OS, para- and full-virtualizations show different base packages.

Question:

Why when using Asianux Server 3 SP2 as the guest OS, when installing para-virtualization or full-virtualization, is the list of “base packages” different?

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AX2 SP3 does not install on machine with Highpoint SATA RAID card RR1640(hpt374)

Problem:

On machines with Highpoint SATA RAID card RR1640(hpt374), the system does not boot after the installation in complete.


Solution:

Please follow these steps to a successfull installation.

1. Run "linux dd"
2. Choose driver disk and load driver ( ex. RR1640.img )
3. Complete installation
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AXS3 SP2: Problems when trying to install XULRunner

"XULRunner" is a runtime package required by Firefox 3.x. Trying to install
"XULRunner" with a previous version of Firefox (<3.x) installed on your system
will generate some conflicts.

Update Firefox to version 3.x to install "XULRunner".

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AXS3 SP1: Impossible to correctly input Chinese characters when installing DB2(v9.1) in Text mode.

Description:

This happens in Asianux Server 3 SP1 whith locale set as Simple Chinese,  when installing DB2(v9.1) in text mode.

In terminal:

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AXS3 SP1: Impossible to correctly input Chinese characters when installing DB2(v9.1) in Text mode.

Description:

This happens in Asianux Server 3 SP1 whith locale set as Simple Chinese,  when installing DB2(v9.1) in text mode.

In terminal:

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In Asianux Server 3 (not SP1), AXTU does not function after it has been updated

Explanation:

 

This will happen when a version of AXTU that is lower than axtu-1.4.0-1AXS3 is used and when Redcastle is enabled. Redcastle is an application that secures the OS. The rules that Redcastle follows prevent the complete update of AXTU. AXTU needs 7 packages to run, including axtu-gui and axtu-tui. When AXTU updates itself, those 2 packages are blocked by Redcas...

Configure a multi-boot system

With a multi-boot system, Asianux 2.0 and other operating systems can share a computer. Each operating system boots from its own hard disk or partition, but only one can be booted at a time.

 

As operating systems are similar, the following description shows the...