Projects 2008

Troubleshooting

Wireless in RHEL4
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-enterprise-47/cannot-get-wireless
http://vijayk.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-to-enable-wireless-lan-on-wifi-fc-6.html

Can’t save bookmarks for Firefox 3
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-iew_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&comments_parentId=57587

How to get rid of multiple windows which open one after another in RHEL5
In your File Browser:
edit
preferences
behaviour
click in always open in browser windows

Recover Password
http://www.wallpaperama.com/forums/how-to-reset-linux-root-passwords
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-recover-password-under-ubuntu.html

KDE Help Center
http://taufanlubis.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/khelpcenter-%e2%80%93-kde-help-center/

How to recover RHEL Grub boot loader
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more to come …

August 27, 2008 Posted by aes | troubleshooting | | No Comments Yet

Installation Notes

Tips to solve common problems during and after Linux installation.

For multiple partitions:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installing

Guided Partitioning” is a tool that needs to take advantage because it does some of the job for you. My favorite method is to free a partition in Windows (shrink) and later during Ubuntu installation use “Guided – use the largest continuous free space

How to access your Windows hard drive from Ubuntu
http://technical-itch.co.uk/2006/11/06/how-to-access-your-windows-hard-drive-from-ubuntu/

How to recover a Grub if:

1. Hard Drive with Grub installed was removed.
Use the Ubuntu cd
Choose “recover broken system” option
Enter the correct info such as root location, username, etc.
In the menu, choose “reinstall grub”, and after “reboot”

2. Ubuntu overwrote the previous Grub, and now you can’t see you previous Linux installation
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/112474-adding-red-hat-my-menu-lst-file.html

More info about GRUB
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-natively.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351

Recovering Ubuntu after installing Windows
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows

Mounting a hard drive in Ubuntu
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=687376

Mounting a hard drive in RedHat
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsmount

Boot from USB
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromUSB

Fix to initrams
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=767154&highlight=busy+box&page=3

August 10, 2008 Posted by aes | troubleshooting | | No Comments Yet