This article will help you boot clonezilla using pxeserver. Clonezilla will be handy if you wish to backup / restore partition / hdd using network. So far with XP ghost was one of convenient way for many sysadmins. With the use of Windows 7, image size is increased to few GBs. Requirement PXE Server CloneZilla [...]
Full Story »Upgrade Fedora 15 to 16 -using shell
To upgrade fedora to latest version F16, run following commands. yum -y update rpm –import http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/i386/os/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386 rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-16-1.noarch.rpm yum upgrade -y If you get error, you may continue using –skip-broken. I was getting following error, hence had to remove libnih Error: Package: libnih-1.0.2-4.fc15.i686 (@fedora/15) yum remove libnih Or the easiest way would be to [...]
Full Story »Fedora 16 – How to change boot sequence -Grub2
This is for dual boot os users, there are many who prefers dual boot to keep another OS optional. For any reason if you wish to change boot sequence unlike grub, grub2 requires couple of commands to run. Here will take example to keep Windows as default boot. First of all find menuentry for Windows [...]
Full Story »Fedora 15- Howto Switch to LXDE & Fix Resolution
Install Following command will help you to switch to LXDE. yum groupinstall LXDE -y Once lxde is installed, you need to relogin your user with lxde session. Resolution Once LXDE is installed, you might find your desktop resolution switched to 1024×768 everytime you reboot / relogin. To make 1280×1024 resolution permanent. Add following command in [...]
Full Story »CentOS-5.6 -Continuous Release Repo
CentOS has released Continuous Release Repo for CentOS-5.6. This repo is to provide latest updates which are to be included with next release of CentOS-5.X i.e 5.7 Depending on your OS version you’ll need to install a rpm to get updates. for i386 x86_64 With the release of next version, 5.6/cr/ will be removed.
Full Story »Fedora 15- Howto Switch to Xfce
For any given reason, if you wish to switch to Xfce from gnome3, all you need is to run following command to get Xfce enabled. yum groupinstall Xfce -y Once Xfce is installed, you need to relogin your user with Xfce session.
Full Story »RHEL / CentOS 6.0 – mount ntfs partition
Since RHEL / CentOS are server class OS, one can not expect ntfs support out of box. If you are using these OS on laptop / desktop machines, you might need to access windows parition. Running following two commands as root will enable ntfs support. rpm -ivh http://fedoramirror.hnsdc.com//epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g -y Mount Partition [...]
Full Story »Howto Install Adobe Air on Fedora / Ubuntu
Fedora If you already have flash plugin installed using yum you can install adobe air using following command. Else you’ll need download & install yum package from adobe download yum install adobeair -y Ubuntu For Ubuntu you need to enable partner repository (if not enabled yet). add-apt-repository ‘deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu natty partner’ Or you can manually [...]
Full Story »Howto Install iotop on Ubuntu, CentOS & Fedora
Iotop is a Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on Ubuntu sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list Edit source list & uncomment universe repo. e.g deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty universe deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty universe deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-updates universe deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-updates universe deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-security universe [...]
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