If you would like to read & write to your ntfs partition (windows’s partition), installing ntfs-3g on your machine is a better solution. This is the method I used to install ntfs-3g on my debian etch :
1. Remove old libfuse (if any) :
sudo apt-get remove libfuse2 fuse-utils
2. Get required package:
wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/n/ntfs-3g/ntfs-3g_1.328-2_i386.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/n/ntfs-3g/libntfs-3g0_1.328-2_i386.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.6.3-2_i386.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.6.3-2_i386.deb
3. Install [...]
Posted on July 13th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Debian | 10 Comments »
I have been using Eclipse for quite some time now. I prefer Eclipse as development IDE because its ease of use. The overall design of Eclipse keeps the tools you need immediately at your fingertips.
Using APT to install Eclipse on your Debian / Ubuntu machine will give you the old version of Eclipse. I [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Debian, Ubuntu | 22 Comments »
Qemu -smb option does not work on Debian/Ubuntu because of a bug in Samba package. Rebuild the Samba package without the –with-fhs option to work around it. But you still can use samba without “-smb” option. Lets say you have ubuntu as host OS and WindowsXP guest OS.
Install samba server on host OS :
sudo apt-get [...]
Posted on June 27th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Debian, Open Source, Ubuntu | 1 Comment »
If you’re still running kernel 2.4.x, to burn a cd you’re forced to use SCSI emulation (under kernel module ide-scsi). But in kernel 2.6.x, it’s easy as 123. We can use ide-cd.
Firstly, you’ll need to load it:
sudo modprobe ide-cd
And to burn a cd, you have to make an iso file. Use apt and get the [...]
Posted on June 26th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Debian, Open Source | No Comments »
Many distributions of Linux have an option to install MySQL. In this case, or even if you compile MySQL, the default password is blank.
Make sure that you set password for the root user. This is the command:
mysql -u root mysql
SET PASSWORD FOR ‘root’@'localhost’ = PASSWORD(’s3cr3tp4s5w0rd’);
Posted on June 24th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Debian, Open Source, Security, Ubuntu | No Comments »
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