For those of you using knoppix as your all-in-one rescue toolkit, don’t forget that you can easily create a bootable floppy if your BIOS do not supporting booting from CD.
On Linux its:
dd if=/cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
Otherwise use rawrite on Win.
Psst… Red Hat Linux likes to mount USB pen drives as the first available SCSI device. Pass it on.
It appears that Dell is no longer shipping driver disks to its Premier customers. I’ll wait to get a new boxed machine to be sure, but this makes it a pain to reinstall an OS with something other than their restore disks.
Here’s a lesser-known frustration with Red Hat 9. If you’re trying to compile the Tk perl module, you need to set the LANG environment variable to en_US, otherwise it generates a corrupt makefile.
A while back I did a write-up about installing Matlab on Mac OS X here at the University. Since Apple’s issuance of X11 I’ve needed to revise those directions. But the differences between the old and new instructions warrant a separate entry.
1. Obtain Matlab for Mac OS X on CD from Software Sales or mount it via the network.
2. Create a directory to install to (/Applications/MATLAB6p5) and copy your license file to it.
3. Start Apple’s X11 and cd to the directory you’ve created in the terminal. From that directory run sudo /Volumes/MathWorks_R13_1/install and complete the installation through the dialogue boxes.
4. Mount the MathWorks Jaguar Updater downloaded from here directly and also linked from the Mathworks knowledgebase. From the mounted disk (still within the X11 terminal) run sudo /Volumes/MathWorks_Jaguar_Updater/MATLABR13_Jaguar_patch.app/Contents/MacOS/MATLABR13_Jaguar_patch.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each Matlab disk. The patch must be applied after each disk’s installation.
6. Edit the Matlab startup script following these directions.
7. Launch Matlab via Finder.
I can’t help but wonder if rsync is powerful enough to be considered a workable solution for cross-platform file synchronization. Windows, Mac, Linux, they’ll all run ssh/rsync in some capacity. I guess there is no harm in trying, and this example from the Expert’s Exchange might come in handy:
rsync –rsh=ssh –delete -Cav master-copy/* user-name@remote.dom.tld:/path-to/slave-copy
That command will recursively sync everything found in master-copy to the remote. Any files found on the remote that aren’t in master-copy or one of its sub-dirs will be deleted from master-copy. Only changed or new files will be transfered to the remote.
See ‘man rsync’ for details and information about how it works and what it can do.
Note that the procedure for installing TeXshop (as noted here) has changed.
There used to be 2 packages for TeX: TeX Programs and TeX Foundation. The reason for this was to make it so that not all of the foundation needed to be downloaded if only the programs were updated (which happened frequently). As of i-Installer 2.26, i-Installer can handle packages with internally multiple archives, so these archives have been combined in one package and only those parts that have been updated will be downloaded.
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