The Ubuntu documentation mentions using preseeding files to automate the Ubuntu 8. I may end up having the Ubuntu installs be automated into VMWare anyway, so maybe just a clean VM is the way to go.
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Showing posts with label Linux. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Using 'screen' on Linux
A friend of mine at work, Greg Fast, introduced me to 'screen' while we were locked away in a conference room for 3 weeks. We took over the conference room to do a "Lan Party" of sorts. The idea being, you get a few dedicated developers in a room and we all work together, without interference, to accomplish the mission. But I digress...
Screen is very cool, especially if you're ssh'd into some remote server for a few hours and can't pop up new terminals all willy-nilly. The simplest use of Screen is to have a few terminals going inside one shell.
To get the most use out of screen, it's best to have this config setup (I stole it from Greg):
Save this little snippet as ~/.screenrc.
What does this config do you ask?
Well it puts a bar at the bottom of the screen that shows you how many 'screens' you have going. You can rename them and switch between them using ^A0 ^A1, or just ^A^A to cycle through (the ^ meaning CTRL).
That string full of goofy characters and symbols? Well that's a typically Linux pile of undocumented gibberish that only the most uber of geeks will ever know to use. Passed down from generation to generation...
Screen is very cool, especially if you're ssh'd into some remote server for a few hours and can't pop up new terminals all willy-nilly. The simplest use of Screen is to have a few terminals going inside one shell.
To get the most use out of screen, it's best to have this config setup (I stole it from Greg):
vbell on
#escape ^ww
deflogin off
startup_message off
#screen -t "random" 0
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string '%{= KW}%-w%{= gW}%50> %n %t %{= KW}%+w%< %{= kG}%-=%{-}'
Save this little snippet as ~/.screenrc.
What does this config do you ask?
Well it puts a bar at the bottom of the screen that shows you how many 'screens' you have going. You can rename them and switch between them using ^A0 ^A1, or just ^A^A to cycle through (the ^ meaning CTRL).
That string full of goofy characters and symbols? Well that's a typically Linux pile of undocumented gibberish that only the most uber of geeks will ever know to use. Passed down from generation to generation...
Monday, October 30, 2006
Fedora Core 6
I tried installing Fedora Core 6 this weekend. The install itself went without a hitch, which is usually the case with Fedora. The problems came when I tried to boot into it.
My computer at home is setup with two drives. The primary being Windows XP, and a secondary drive that install random Linux builds to. I had no troubles with Ubuntu 6.06 on that drive. Fedora begins booting (and looks really cool doing it), then it hangs at one of two points. Either "Starting sendmail", or "Starting yum-updatesd". Well I re-installed a few times (to mess with the grub setup really). And no luck, same result.
I was truly disappointed by this as the Fedora distro has been decent in the past, and Core 6 looks really exciting with the built in AIGLX Compiz stuff.
Well, I burned Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft" last night. I guess I'll install that next and wait for some update from Fedora.
My computer at home is setup with two drives. The primary being Windows XP, and a secondary drive that install random Linux builds to. I had no troubles with Ubuntu 6.06 on that drive. Fedora begins booting (and looks really cool doing it), then it hangs at one of two points. Either "Starting sendmail", or "Starting yum-updatesd". Well I re-installed a few times (to mess with the grub setup really). And no luck, same result.
I was truly disappointed by this as the Fedora distro has been decent in the past, and Core 6 looks really exciting with the built in AIGLX Compiz stuff.
Well, I burned Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft" last night. I guess I'll install that next and wait for some update from Fedora.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Ubuntu stuff
Ubuntu and XGL
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=916
I'm gonna give this a shot later on my Ubuntu install.
I'm excited :P
Also, fluxbox
http://www.petersblog.org/tags/130
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=916
I'm gonna give this a shot later on my Ubuntu install.
I'm excited :P
Also, fluxbox
http://www.petersblog.org/tags/130
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