Angelo’s Notepad

This will work with other filesystems, not just ext2, so you may want to choose a filesystem that is similar to what you currently run (if you care). The idea is that instead of creating an ISO image that is very flexible (can be read by Windows), you create a filesystem image and burn it to disc. The advantage of this is that you can preserve filesystem properties such as permissions, ownership, etc. The disadvantage is that the straightforward approach (everything on one disk) only gives you about 4.5 G of space to work with (depending on the media size).

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This is an example of customizing Mandriva 2008.0

First copy the contents of the CD to a directory

auto-boot/
|-- VERSION
`-- isolinux
|-- alt0
|   |-- all.rdz
|   `-- vmlinuz
|-- boot.cat
|-- custom.msg
|-- isolinux.bin
|-- isolinux.cfg
|-- memtest
`-- target.msg

To change default auto configuration file, edit:
isolinux/isolinux.cfg

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Did you know that Windows also has equivalent to /etc/hosts where you can set IP addresses for domain names? It’s a plain text file in the same format, and it’s typically found in one of these two places:

• C:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
• C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

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OpenOffice.org distributes their binaries as rpms. That’s great for a majority of the people who can install them, but in a couple of situations I’ve found myself wanting to use the most updated version but didn’t have root access to do the install of the package properly.

Here is how I installed it for my own user. You will need the cpio utilities installed including ‘cpio’ and ‘rpm2cpio’ which are installed on many rpm based systems. (more…)

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Shakespeare

“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”
Henry David Thoreau

A philosophy that not only should you do what you believe is right, but more deeply that you cannot be anything else but who you are. If you try to be someone or something else, if you try to live by a code in which you don’t really believe, you will have internal conflict until you accept your Way.