Docunext Technology

For my first High Availability project, I’m using HP t5135s, powered by debian on USB drives. I chose the Corsair 1GB USB drive and installed Debian on it using the guided partitioning method, 1 partition, and no root account. The choice of using no root account has proven problematic, because the system clocks are set to 2003, and “sudo su” produces an error. Not a big deal, but annoying nonetheless. To work around this, I booted into single user mode, set the system clock, then set the hardware clock to the system clock and rebooted into normal mode. Upon reboot, sudo su worked fine.

I’ve also updated /etc/fstab to include the following:

tmpfs           /etc/network/run tmpfs defaults,noatime                   0 0
tmpfs           /tmp           tmpfs   defaults,noatime                   0 0
tmpfs           /var/lock      tmpfs   defaults,noatime                   0 0
tmpfs           /var/log       tmpfs   defaults,noatime                   0 0
tmpfs           /var/run       tmpfs   defaults,noatime                   0 0
tmpfs           /var/tmp       tmpfs   defaults,noatime                   0 0

Thanks to: http://feraga.com/node/30