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How to get llama 2 up and running , in a VM, with no GPU, and limited memory on Ubuntu

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OK I decided to write this up after unsuccessfully being able to find all the required info I needed in one place. In this setup we will be using Ubuntu Server 22.04.2 LTS as the OS. I have this running on a home lab ESXi server 8, on a HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF CPU = Intel Core i7-3770 Installed Memory 16 GB I have some 10K SAS drives installed for the VM's If you have not already, navigate to  Get Ubuntu Server | Download | Ubuntu and download the 22.04.2 LTS ISO Next Lets create our VM that we are going to run this in. *Note Im using ESXi however you can probably do this in Workstation, Fusion, VirtualBox etc The main things to note on the VM creation. Set Ubuntu 64 bit as the guest OS Set your CPU relevant to the physicals CPU, I will be starting with 4 VCPU Set your Memory to as much as you can tolerate, I will be using 12 Disk Space - we are creating a 100G swap file, and the rest of the file can take up some room , so more is better if you can afford it Dont forget to add the U...
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Recovery of data off a Netgear Ready Nas NV+ SPARC edition

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Ran into an issue where the NIC got fried on my Readynas , I had backups of most of the data through USB but some data (expendable) was not backed up. However I still wanted to recover this data and found this post: http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306 This actually worked with a few changes: First remove your drives from the ready nas 1 by 1, and mark on each one the number it is starting from left to right ( 1,2,3,4) Now place them in a PC and this is probably important , put them on each sata port in order, in my case my ports are 0,1,2,3. Download ubuntu 1604 LTS desktop IS for ease of use Down load Rufus to convert the ISO to a bootable USB https://rufus.akeo.ie/ make sure you computer has internet access boot the linux USB , choose try Ubuntu once booted to the desktop open up a terminal run the following: sudo su gedit /etc/apt/sources.list This will open up the graphical txt editor, Add the following line to the end of the file deb http://us.archiv...
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