Archive for May 2008

How can I repair a missing (or corrupted) initrd?

Somehow my initrd broke (read: disappeared) while installing some critical updates on my OESsp2 server. Not sure how, and I’m not sure I care, but it ticked me off. The system will not boot without an initrd! Arg! Anyway, while researching, I found a great write up by Sander van Vugt, that I used for [...]

How can I disable IPv6 on an existing Suse system?

Please, I beg you, don’t get into a philosophical debate with me about why IPv6 is enabled by default on many OSes today, and why I should not disable it, and the future of IP, and so on, and so on… We’ll save that abstract aspect for a future post… Now, back to the point… [...]

How do I set up iFolder3.6 on Opensuse10.3?

Here is my version of a “cheat-sheet” for installing iFolder3.6 on Opensuse10.3. This cheat-sheet kinda’ leaves you out on your own once you get to the part about running the configuration script (see below), but I don’t want to over-do it here and try to help you with every option you could possibly choose. Other [...]