Ivan Versluis August 3rd, 2008
Since I am dual booting between Ubuntu and Windows Vista on my desktop workstation I am missing my linux volumes on Vista. I have three large 500GB SATA2 disks and one of them is partitioned and formatted with Ext2 linux file system. I have two options to read my linux volumes from windows:
a) Explore2fs which is a simple tool and I don’t need to install any low level system drivers. Explore2fs only operates in Read-Only mode.
b) Ext2IFS which is a pure kernel mode file system driver Ext2fs.sys, which actually extends the Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista (x86/x64) operating system to include the Ext2 file system.
I want to have full read-write mode on my linux volumes and I installed option b.
Drive L:\ is now mounted in READ/Write mode from my Windows Vista SP1 x64 operating system.
Tags: ext2, file, howto, linux, mount, system, Windows
Ivan Versluis June 29th, 2008
Since two weeks I am becoming Ubuntu fan and I am missing some of my windows applications. Nero is one of those and thanks to Nero they ported their burning solution for Linux also. Download the trial from Nero.com website here.
Start a new terminal session and run dpkg to install the Linux version of Nero Burning Rom.
sudo dpkg -i nerolinux-3.5.1.0-x86_64.deb
Go to Applications / Sound & Video/ Nero Linux and start the burning solution.
Pretty straight forward; right? Think about when installing Nero on Windows ;). First we have this 100MB+ installation source and than install the complete suite of tools; with Linux installation I get what I want.
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Tags: howto, install, linux, Nero, screenshots
Ivan Versluis June 28th, 2008
I am using the following CSS font-family setting for Networknet.nl font-family:”Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;. When opening Networknet.nl blog on a Linux machine Firefox displays my blog as show below; the fonts are not corresponding with my style sheet. Why ;)? My Ubuntu has no Lucida Grande fonts installed. Common Windows Fonts are not installed by default on Linux and some can be installed afterwards. After installing the msttcorefonts package I was still missing the Lucida Grande.
The msttcorefonts contain the following fonts:
- Andale Mono
- Arial Black
- Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
- Comic Sans MS (Bold)
- Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
- Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
- Impact
- Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
- Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
- Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
- Webdings
These can be installed with running sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts .
I found a good post how to get the Lucida Grande font but than I was forced to install wine and safari applications. If you own a Windows installation and than you can copy the fonts from your C:\Windows\Fonts directory and place them /usr/share/fonts/ttf and that’s what I did.
Don’t forget to get them configured. Run sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. After restarting Firefox my blog was pretty much as on Windows.
Font is OK now, but still some things with spacing. Anyway this is how I quickly got my Windows fonts on Ubuntu Desktop 8.04 desktop machine.
Some links for Linux and Fonts
http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/msttcorefonts
http://www.convexhull.com/mandrake_fonts.html
http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/Font.html
Tags: font, howto, linux, lucida
Ivan Versluis June 25th, 2008
I am running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition 64bit edition and after I installed VMWare Workstation 6.04 Linux x64 edition I got the following error when trying to start my virtual machines sitting on a NTFS USB disk volume.
VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)
Failed to allocate page for guest RAM!
A log file is available in “/media/USB_DATA/NET-DC-01/vmware.log”. Please request support and include the contents of the log file.
To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click “Collect Support Data”. You can also run the “vm-support” script in the Workstation folder directly.
We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.
Please click OK and locate the vm file. Open the vmx file with nano or another text editor and add the setting below. Save the file and try to start the virtual machine again.
mainMem.useNamedFile = “FALSE”
This setting doesn’t use named-file - use for VMs on USB-disks or other slow disks
Windows: useNamedFile= “FALSE” causes memory to be backed by the host’s swap space.
Linux: useNamedFile= “FALSE” causes a hidden file to be created in a temporary directory, which is immediately deleted when you power off the VM
Tags: 64bit, allocate, Error, failed, linux, page, Ubuntu, vcpu-o, VMWare, workstation
Ivan Versluis May 22nd, 2008
Today I hit my first problem when creating a new JeOS virtual appliance based on Ubuntu. After I mount and extract the VMWare tools; I tried to run the ./vmware-install.pl script and got the warning below.
/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-config.pl
The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were
not installed by the VMware Installer. Please remove them then run this
installer again.
vmnet
vmhgfs
vmblock
vmmon
Execution aborted.
I did not install any VMWare tools before, but somehow these VMWare modules were included in the ubuntu-7.10-jeos-i386.iso file. Go to following directory and remove the mentioned directories.
cd /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-virtual/ubuntu
ls
sudo rm -r vmnet/
sudo rm -r vmhgfs
sudo rm -r vmblock
sudo rm -r vmmon
That’s all. Rerun the install script.
Tags: aborted, linux, Tools, Ubuntu, VMWare, vmware-install.pl
