20 Mar 2010 • debian • en_us
For installing Emdebian grip on a flash or USB drive (ext2 or greater required):
mkdir /media/grip/
mount /dev/sdc1 /media/grip/
sudo debootstrap lenny /media/grip/ http://www.emdebian.org/grip/
cd /media/grip/
mount -o bind /dev/ dev/
mount -o bind /proc proc/
chroot . /bin/bash
aptitude update
aptitude install linux-image-2.6.28-1-686 initramfs-tools
aptitude install what-you-want
aptitude install grub
grub-install /dev/sdc
update-grub
exit
umount dev/
umount proc/
cd ../
umount grip/
More … 13 Mar 2010 • debian • en_us • software
Recently I’ve achieved a good setup for a virtualized environment, using Debian Lenny as host, with a RAID10, and LVM for managing VM disk images.
More … 28 Feb 2010 • debian • en_us • software
Remember: if you are using a privileged port for your openvpn (<1024, like 53/udp for bypassing captive portals), don’t configure privilege dropping, otherwise after the first timeout, the vpn will die with “TCP/UDP: Socket bind failed on local address [undef]:port: Permission denied”
More … 21 Feb 2010 • hardware • it_it
Il DNS-323 è un NAS (disco di rete) di fascia bassa (170 euro senza dischi) con due slot SATA, l’ideale per mettere al sicuro (sempre relativamente parlando) i propri dati. Purtroppo dispositivi del genere (ma anche router/modem/acess-point), nonostante siano dei bei pezzi d’hardware, nonostante siano basati su software GNU/Linux, nonostante sulla carta abbiano tantissime feature (SMB, NFS, FTP, UPNP, DAAP, Torrent), spesso si scopre che il software è una mezza ciofeca.
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