I had a rough experience upgrading Edgy to Feisy. Hardware listing, for generations to come: Motherboard Abit IB9, including on-board IDE controller IT8211 with firmware 1.3.1.67 and no BIOS upgrade in the near future. Nvidia 7700 with 256MB RAM on PCIe Problems: 1. With IDE controller enabled in BIOS system hangs during startup. This is…
Boel initrd files are actually compressed cramfs files. This is a menuscript for authoring and modifying these files, if needed. Assume the file in question is /tftpboot/install-initrd-i386.img: cp /tftpboot/install-initrd-i386.img /tmp/ cd /tmp/ gzip -S .img -d install-initrd-i386.img mount -o loop install-initrd-i386 /mnt mkdir initrd cd /mnt/ tar cf – . | (cd /tmp/initrd/ ; tar…
Kickstart is a great method of hands-free installation of RHEL/Centos (and other derived systems). Its power is in its easy interface and rather powerful %post scripting directives. Its weakness is in its lack of flexibility where it comes to package selection and various custom actions. On some cases, companies use web interface (usually home-made) which…
Unlike the expected header, this is not about silently routing packets between interfaces, or bridging multiple networks. This is all about how ants, which find the summer the best time to start investigating our place, can show innovativeness, and can prove that even ants can use network bridges, when required. The cable was in-air, not…
If it works, don’t touch it. This is one of my mottoes. I have broken this rule just yesterday when I decided that I was too lazy to install Pidgin from source, and decided I wanted it to be installed directly from deb. Unfortunately, there was no pidgin deb for Edgy. None that I was…
As an administrator, I am responsible for many setups and configurations, sometimes hand tailored to supply an answer to a set of given demands. As a human, I err, and the common method of verifying that you have avoided error is by answering this simple rule: “Does it work after these changes?” In the world…
