LUKS + LVM root on Debian is a breeze, in fact the installer does everything for you. And the Ubuntu Desktop CD? Well, not so much, unfortunately. You could use the alternate or server CD, but this was not possible for me, I only had the desktop CD on a USB Stick. In any case, since Ubuntu also uses apt, its really just more or less a matter of installing what’s missing, dpkg will do the rest!
Writing Archive
Hackintosh Bonjour woes (avahi-daemon)
After hours of searching, compiling avahi-daemon myself, crying and sleepless nights it turns out if you are running Mac OS on non-apple hardware, and you have a mainboard with a Realtek r1000 series card (i.e. my ga-ep45-ds4) you should definitely use the RealtekR1000 driver if you want bonjour!
Although the hardware is detected by default, somehting isn’t supported [...]
Restore from an unsupported Time Machine network volume from the Leopard DVD
So, I’ve been biting my nails the past week, that was ever since i decided that i want a bigger hard drive. And finally i can stop now, because i got my notebook back and i got time machine to do a “full” system restore, from an unsupported volume! I’m so relieved… and this means, [...]
NFS in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard
Okay Okay, so I haven’t posted in while. Well, now Its decided. In this world, one which lacks Leopard howtos, I’ll do my best to write some posts that will in the end save you the time you would spend searching google.
NFS and OS X
Anyway, some of us have had Leopard for a [...]
Parallels + Slackware 11 on OSX
So how easy is Parallels?.. Rediculously easy! I can’t believe how little time it took It even mounts .isos so save that empty cd/dvd All I did was dl the latest Slackware installation (Slackware 11) and mounted it as the ide:0:1 (aka /dev/hdb). Afterwards I installed Slackware like normal. Lilo worked [...]
UTF-8 and windows.
I really, really, really hope vista will fix this! I am so annoyed! Every time i send a message to my family in Russian i get a reply back that I used the wrong encoding… THAT I USED THE WRONG ENCODING. What they should ask themselves or better yet Billy “Bad Boy” Gates is why [...]
Hans Reiser Arrested
Found this on SlashDot and although this isn’t new news (although for me it was) it is still interesting…
Slashdot | Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder
I personally use reiser on linux but am now considering other file systems
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Booting Windows and Linux from seperate SATA/SCSI HDs
This might be the most usefull post that I have written so far! This is just my lilo.conf from my battle to get Linux and windows to boot from separate SATA HDs and all of this information should also be applicable to SCSI HDs and maybe even regular HDs if users replace the sda with [...]
Opal vs. Mac OS X (Darwin)
So i am still trying to compile OPAL (a programming langugage that we use at TU Berlin) on my MacBook. The problem is that the compiler gets linker errors
RussoBook:~/opal/ocs russo$ ./configure –build=i386
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checking how to produce position-independent code…
-fPIC checking how to link shared objects…
configure: WARNING: cannot figure out how to link shared objects (ignored) checking for [...]