Archive for December 2006
Fedora Core 6 Installation on iDeq 210v by ftp
I decided to move from FC4 to FC6 today.
As I only have a CDROM on my iDeq 210v box I used Nero on my Windows machine to mount an image of the Fedora DVD.iso (using Nero ImageDrive) I had previously downloaded.
I then did a ftp install courtesy of Filezilla Server on the Windows machine. Filezilla is excellent by the way!
Making the Fedora CDROM bootdisk for the iDeq box was a straight forward affair. There is an iso image on the Fedora distro called boot.iso you can use to make a boot cd.
So I am currently running Fedora Core 6, I think I will let you know about the install problems I had in the next post.
Turn off Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200
I bought a 320Gb External Maxtor drive in the PCWorld sale today (half-price) for £70.
I am very happy with the drive althought there seems to be no option to shut the drive down. This isn’t a real problem, I’m not an energy-saving freak, but it would have been nice if the documentation pointed this fact out.
FC4, SSH and a public key
I tried several times to get putty to work from my windows machine to my Fedora Core box using a public/private key pair with no avail.
The problem was as simple as the fact the key file on the linux box needed to be called
.ssh/authorized_keys2
Most stuff I had read didn’t point this out…good luck!
