RHCE6 Preperation (2) – yum source and auto mount

1, configure the YUM source to the instructor location. in the folder, ‘/etc/yum.repos.d’, create the file, vim serverX.repo the content is as: 【serverX】 name=serverX baseurl= the location of the YUM source in my case the location of YUM source is “= http://instructor.example.com/pub/rhel6/dvd” make sure you have network connection to http://instructor.example.com/pub/rhel6/dvd, this has already been done […]

Ubuntu Android system setup(2)

1, setup the bin directory in you home directory and include in your path, $ mkdir ~/bin $ PATH=~/bin:$PATH 2, download the repo tool and make sure it is executable $ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo $ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo 3, make the working directory and download the branch, $ mkdir WORKING_DIRECTORY $ cd WORKING_DIRECTORY $ […]

RHCE6 Preperation (1) – change root password and network setup

1, change the root password, in the startup process, when in menu selection interface, press ‘e’ to enter the edit the command line, at the end of the command line add space and ‘1’, press enter, subsequently will enter to the single user mode,use ‘runlevel’ command to check whether it is in single user mode. […]

Ubuntu Android system setup(1)

To record of setting up the Android system in Ubuntu, 1, enable the copy in and out of XTerm,copy and paste is different with other command line terminal, copy just select the text, when paste you need to Shift + Insert or click the middle button of your mouse. sudo apt-get install parcellite 2, install […]

Solving Konqueror cannot display Chinese

Just installed the KDE on my Ubuntu, and the Internet explorer comes with the KDE is the Konqueror, however the first time I was using the Konqueror found it cannot display the Chinese properly, all becomes gubbish characters, found the solution by google, by copying the fonts from the windows system, 1, mount the windows […]

Ubuntu desktop installation problem and solving

Tried to install Ubuntu desktop on my Dell Inspiron 1420 but failed, finally work around it and solved the problem. All the problems encountered might be caused by my computer graphical card “NVIDIA GeForece 8400M GS”, it has hardware failure before and I replaced once and still not working 100% well. 1, Install the Ubuntu […]

Ubuntu 14.04.1 installed on Dell Inspiron 1420

Installed the Ubuntu 14.04.1 on the Dell Inspiron 1420, now this computer had installed three OS, Windows Vista, RHEL7, Ubuntu 14.04.1, generated the USB bootable drive to installed the system by using the software Rufus. I installed the server version amd64, why not desktop, will explain it in next entry. the Ubuntu 14.04.1 installation will automatically […]

Ubuntu wireless network connection in command line

After installed the the graphical card driver in Ubuntu, the gnome desktop was not working anymore, needs to install and setup the wireless network in command line, herewith the procedure, 1, scan the available wifi network, sudo iwlist scan 2, receive the wifi network password wpa_passphrase YOURSSID YOURWIFIPASSWORD the result is similar as: […]

LVM test

Did some LVM test, recorded the procedure, I have a disk having space as 160G, showing as: [root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes, 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes […]

add exfat support to RHEL7

Installed exfat support for RHEL7, based on the link below, same as RHEL6: http://docs.gz.ro/node/162 1. Download the following RPMs: http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/6/x86_64/repoview/exfat-utils.html http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/6/x86_64/repoview/fuse-exfat.html 2, install rpm -Uvh exfat-utils-1.0.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uvh fuse-exfat-1.0.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm 3,mount your usb dirve fdisk -l Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 * 2048 61521919 30759936 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT [root@localhost Downloads]# mount.exfat /dev/sdd1 /mnt