Nathan Zachary

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The Parker Fund

Hello all, I don’t usually post very personal things here on The Z-Issue, but rather use it for 1) posting information that may be of interest to others (e.g. solving technical problems [especially with regard to the world of Linux Engineering]), 2) mentioning articles that I found helpful, amusing, or otherwise interesting, or 3) just …

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RHEL/CentOS Kickstart partition scheme with disk by-path IDs and automation via PXE

So, for several weeks now, I’ve been struggling with disk naming and UDEV as they relate to RHEL or CentOS Kickstart automation via PXE. Basically, what used to be a relatively straight-forward process of setting up partitions based on disk name (e.g. /dev/sda for the primary disk, /dev/sdb for the secondary disk, and so on) …

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Three new quotes to the database

Today I added three new quotes to the “My Favourite Quotes” database that you see on the right-hand side of my blog. “The evil people of the world would have little impact without the sheep.” –Tim Clark “Apologising does not always mean that you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means that …

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