Dec 29 2010

Office 2007 installation error on XP and fp4autl.dll (FrontPage extensions)

Office 2007 installation error on XP

One day I had the surprise of being unable to install Office 2007 on a custom XP SP3 install (from a USB stick). The error was “The Windows Installer service cannot update one or more protected Windows files.”
In Event Viewer “System” log, I see this MsiInstaller error 1193: “Product: Microsoft Software Update for Web Folders (English) 12 — Error 1933. The Windows Installer service cannot update one or more protected Windows files. SFP Error: 21. List of protected files: c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\40\bin\fp4autl.dll”.
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Nov 29 2010

Ubuntu raid 1 resize

Going from 2x320GB HDD Raid 1 to 2x500GB HDD Raid 1 on Ubuntu 10.10

   In this tutorial I’ll show you how I replaced my 2×320 HDD’s with 2×500 HDD’s. In my case the transition was simple because I only needed to resize one partition of the array (the last), leaving the first two untouched. My server setup looks like this :

  1. /dev/md0 – 500 MB for /boot
  2. /dev/md1 – 2 GB for swap
  3. /dev/md2 – 310 GB for /

I only needed to resize the / partition.
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