There are a million pages devoted to initramfs so I won’t go in to what it is, but if you have a Dell 1655 or other machine with serial-attached-SCSI and use Debian or a Debian-derived Linux distribution such as Ubuntu or Kbuntu, you may have run in to an issue booting after installing a kernel [...]
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Debian-based machines and the (initramfs) prompt
August 9th, 2007 · 7 Comments
Tags: Debian · grub · How Tos · linux
Poor man’s calendar server with iCal and Mozilla
July 25th, 2007 · No Comments
It’s easy to set up a shared calendar system with free software that scales well for a few users (great for a home network) and has tons of support from third parties. What you need: iCal client like Sunbird or Lightning from Mozilla Apache web server with WebDav installed How to do it: Install WebDav [...]
Tags: Apache · Calendaring · How Tos · iCal · lightning · linux · Software · Sunbird · thunderbird · WebDav
Debian GCC libc package required
July 10th, 2007 · No Comments
If you use Debian with a “standard” or “desktop” install, you will not have GCC installed. Of course you can easily get it by installing the package: apt-get install gcc And of course you need make apt-get install make What you don’t know is that you won’t be able to do anything without your C [...]