Monday, March 3, 2008

Starting OO-BOON-TOO: Basic - System Management

How to install i386 .deb on AMD64 platform
dpkg --force-architecture -i packagename.deb

You can get more forcing options from "dpkg --force-help" command.

ATI Graphic Card Driver on Ubuntu
System > Administration > Hardware Drivers > "Activate"
Application > Accessories > ATI Catalyst Control Center

Enable NTFS Write Support

  1. Open Synaptic Package Manager
  2. Search with keyword "ntfs"
  3. Install "ntfs-3g" and "ntfs-config"
  4. Application > System Tools > NTFS Configuration Tools > Check "Enable write support for external device" and "Enable write support for internal device"
  5. Restart

Terminal Server Client
> Add to Panel > Terminal Server Client Applet

File Synchronization
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows.
其实,简单的文件同步已经可以满足我们大部分的文件备份需要了。当然如果想全盘恢复操作系统的话,那么我们就要另外求助于全盘备份的工具了。

Backup
Clonezilla

PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost)
http://ping.windowsdream.com/

UNetbootin
UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Ubuntu usb startup disk
System > Administration > Creat a usb startup disk

Add XFS support to Webmin

Install xfsprogs package to get the XFS support.

Partition Editor
GParted http://gparted.sourceforge.net
Parted Magic http://www.partedmagic.com

StartUp-Manager
StartUp-Manager configures some settings for grub and splash screens.
http://web.telia.com/~u88005282/sum/index.html

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