It might seem a little odd to some, attempting to install Microsoft Windows XP into a Virtual Machine running on VMware’s ESX 3.5. That’s more of a job for VMware Workstation or Player. However, I wanted to install a Windows XP VM in my ESX test environment, to try some things out. I was a little surprised when I was greeted with this message during the initial install though:
I’ve installed countless Windows Server 2003 VMs, and not had any issues. Pre-morning-coffee, it wasn’t immediately obvious why Windows XP would have any issues installing, especially as its listed as a supported VM type during the virtual hardware configuration steps. Continue reading 'Installing Windows XP on VMware ESX/ESXi – No Hard Disk Drive Found'»
I have a small low-power x86 machine at home running Debian 5.0. I regularly check for updates to any of the packages I have installed on it, and for a while its been offering an upgrade to MySQL. I dont use MySQL much at home, so I havent been too bothered about keeping that up to date. However, I got fed up of it nagging me, so I decided to proceed with the update. The following is what happened:
Preparing to replace mysql-server 5.0.51a-24 (using .../mysql-server_5.1.34-0.dotdeb.1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mysql-server ...
(Reading database ... 120744 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mysql-server-5.0 ...
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
Removing mysql-client-5.0 ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Selecting previously deselected package mysql-client-5.1.
(Reading database ... 118764 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mysql-client-5.1 (from .../mysql-client-5.1_5.1.34-0.dotdeb.1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mysql-server-5.1.
Unpacking mysql-server-5.1 (from .../mysql-server-5.1_5.1.34-0.dotdeb.1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Setting up mysql-client-5.1 (5.1.34-0.dotdeb.1) ...
Setting up mysql-server-5.1 (5.1.34-0.dotdeb.1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/mysql ...
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed!
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