Install Ubuntu 7 on a 800X600 Screen

Posted by Tres Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:57:00 GMT

Trying to install Ubuntu on a new Dell Dimension today I found 1024x768 isn’t available. This makes it impossible to unstall Ubuntu 7 because the installer window is larger than the viewable space. The next buttons aren’t visible.

Changing font size didn’t work.

Rebooting with the monitor disconnected didn’t work.

My co-worker Pierre clued me in to the answer: hold down alt and drag the installer window with the mouse so the buttons become visible.

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Install yum Into OpenVZ centos-4

Posted by Tres Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:18:00 GMT

Don’t ask me why, but yum isn’t enabled by default on the OpenVZ distributed centos-4 template. Luckily, getting it running is just a matter of installing a few RPMS. Paste the next few lines into a console in your CentOS 4 VE

rpm -ivh http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/rpm-python-4.3.3-18_nonptl.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/python-urlgrabber-2.9.8-2.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/libxml2-python-2.6.16-6.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.2.1.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/sqlite-3.3.3-1.2.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/yum-2.4.3-1.c4.noarch.rpm

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