HowTo: Creating virtual interfaces in solaris/Redhat/Debian
Sometimes it’s useful to create a virtual network interface on your Solaris box, so that you can associate multiple IP addresses with the same host and not have to go through all the trouble of buying...
View Articleuser alias and command alias with sudo
sudo is a package which will allow privileged users to run commands as other users. This is sort of like assigning users to different groups to give them special permissions to files. However, this can...
View ArticleIncluding non-free firmware within Debian netboot images
Problem - It can be seen this approach does not work well with netboot images which need Ethernet firmware… the Ethernet firmware really needs to be in the initrd.gz before the kernel boots. One...
View ArticleDHCPD.conf for TFTP image
The minimal configuration for a dhcp server to point to the tftp boot image - # The ddns-updates-style parameter controls whether or not the server will attempt to do a DNS #update when a lease is...
View ArticleMounting ntfs drive in Linux
Debian System The process has two dependencies, ntfs-3g and libfuse 2. You will need these two packages installed before you begin the process. Ntfs-3g is a third party package that allows reading and...
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