This is an example of customizing Mandriva 2008.0
First copy the contents of the CD to a directory
auto-boot/ |-- VERSION `-- isolinux |-- alt0 | |-- all.rdz | `-- vmlinuz |-- boot.cat |-- custom.msg |-- isolinux.bin |-- isolinux.cfg |-- memtest `-- target.msg
To change default auto configuration file, edit:
isolinux/isolinux.cfg
Did you know that Windows also has equivalent to /etc/hosts where you can set IP addresses for domain names? It’s a plain text file in the same format, and it’s typically found in one of these two places:
OpenOffice.org distributes their binaries as rpms. That’s great for a majority of the people who can install them, but in a couple of situations I’ve found myself wanting to use the most updated version but didn’t have root access to do the install of the package properly.
Here is how I installed it for my own user. You will need the cpio utilities installed including ‘cpio’ and ‘rpm2cpio’ which are installed on many rpm based systems. (more…)
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Shakespeare
“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”
Henry David Thoreau
A philosophy that not only should you do what you believe is right, but more deeply that you cannot be anything else but who you are. If you try to be someone or something else, if you try to live by a code in which you don’t really believe, you will have internal conflict until you accept your Way.
