Category: Ubuntu

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Make isc-dhcp-server PXE boot into WDS

The normal Linux way for DHCP to give direction for PXE boot is :

next-server 10.10.10.10;
filename "/pxelinux.0";

However WDS takes a different approach as it does not have a pxelinux.0 file.
Instead it presents a program called wdsnbp.com.
Easy fix, we just replace the lines above with:

next-server 10.10.10.12;
filename "boot\\x64\\wdsnbp.com";

Remember to restart the service :

/etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server restart

UPDATE: Also have a look at this post to add support for UEFI:
http://tomas.solamail.no/2019/03/20/wds-uefi-bios-dhcp-options/

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fdisk – force start sector 63

When you try to create a partition on newer distributions you get “out of range” error message when trying to create a new partition starting at sector 63 :

First sector (2048-2930277167, default 2048): 63

Value out of range.
To force the use of the now deprecated “dos style” :
fdisk -c=dos /dev/sda
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Steam – Ubuntu 16 Fix

Try this if Steam won’t start on Ubuntu 16. Will probably be fixed in future releases.

cd $HOME/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.bak
cd $HOME/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.bak