Archive for the ‘Debian’ Category

Upgrading Hyper-V Beta to RC0

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

There is never enough time in the day but I have managed to get on with it and found an article on how to upgrade Hyper-V.

The steps are pretty short, the only bad point is that you have to recreate all you VM so make sure Screen capture or jot them down.

Hyper-V kicks ass is working better than it did. Linux VM’s are much more stable.

I had one issue which was my Debian VM’s lost there NIC. I will dig out the fix and post another article.

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John Howard : Hyper-V RC0 Release is available for download

Debian(Ubuntu) Package Management Hack

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

For those of us using the Debian package management systems, i.e. anyone using “apt-get” or Synaptic for management, there’s a better way to organize your repository sources. Here’s a simple tutorial to keep your repository lists more organized.

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Switching Made Super-Easy: Installing Debian GNU/Linux Etch(stable) From A Windows System

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Debian-Installer Loader is a Debian GNU/Linux Etch installer for Windows which adds an entry to the boot menu that allows you to start the Debian installation. Unlike the Ubuntu installation with Wubi, real Debian partitions are created during the installation. In the end, you have a dual-boot system (Windows/Debian).

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