Meeting Notes Nov 1 2005
Topics:
Debboot strap
Debian allows you to run other distros inside the primary distro. For example, if you have an application that only works with Redhat. You can install RedHat inside Debian using Debboot Strap. This will allow you to ‘chroot’ to the distro and run the software.
USB Net
|This was the first Tuesday meeting. Please remeber that all future meetings will be the first Tuesday of the month from now on.well documented but is in the 2.6.8 kernel.
Topics:
Debboot strap
Debian allows you to run other distros inside the primary distro. For example, if you have an application that only works with Redhat. You can install RedHat inside Debian using Debboot Strap. This will allow you to ‘chroot’ to the distro and run the software.
USB Net
– Not sure if this can be used under Linux. Someone was trying to use it with a westel modem. It may work. It is not very well documented but is in the 2.6.8 kernel.
setting hardware addresses for network cards
– Some applications have licences associated with network cards. If you change the network card, you can’t use the software anymore. So, if this is a Linux application one way to work around the licence would be to modify the mac address in the OS level. Linux is the only OS that I know that lets you do that.
You can do it from the command prompt with:
ifconfig eth0 hw ether FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:F0
beer
– John recommended a Dever beer called Fattire
fixing Dave’s laptop
– we discovered after some investigation that the laptop
had thosands of hidden files in the home directory. After deleting these files it started working properly. Find was used to delete these since rm could not handle the list.
mounting usb sticks
– modprobe ehci-hdc
– modprobe uhci-hdc
– modprobe usb-storage
– setup mount in /etc/fstab so any user can mount it
note this prevents automounting
/dev/sda1 /home/some_mountpoint auto noauto,user 0,0
building new machines
-new egg deals