Posts Tagged fedora
how to deal with broken time zones during a CentOS 5.3 kickstart
Hello again fair readers ! Today’s quick tip concerns the problem with missing time zones when deploying CentOS 5.3 (and some of the more recent Fedoras) in a kickstart environment. It’s a known problem, and unfortunately, since the source of the problem (an incomplete time zone data file) lies deep in the heart of the [...]
where to specify ethtool options in Fedora
Hi everybody – here’s a super-quick update for you concerning « ethtool », and how to use it to set options in Fedora properly. Ethtool is a great little tool that can be used to configure all manner of network interface related settings – notably the speed and duplex of a card – on the [...]
(complex) partitioning in kickstart
Bonjour my geeky friends ! :) As you are likely aware, it is now summer-time here in the northern hemisphere, and thus, i’ve been spending as much time away from the computer as possible. That said, it’s been a long time, i shouldn’t have left you, without a strong beat to step to.
Now, if you’re [...]
force disk geometry with sfdisk
Hello again ! This is a quick and dirty update which covers a handy little trick when dealing with writeable removable media – especially USB drives, compact flash cards, and the like.
I end up using a lot of USB keys in my environment for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is as [...]
pohmelfs – the network filesystem of the future !
Hello again fair readers ! Today we’re going to take a look at POHMELFS, which is a network file system that was just recently integrated into the Linux kernel. This is an excellent exercise for three reasons : we’ll learn about some great new concepts related to network file systems, we get to compile and [...]
initrd, modules, and tools
An explanation of initrd, how modules live within it, and an example of how it can be modified on a Fedora-based system. Contains supplementary information about gzip, tar, and cpio.