Minimal Gentoo Installation
Gentoo OS Installation from Minimal Disk
This artlicle will show you how to install Gentoo OS from a minimal installation CD on your computer. Before proceeding, please ensure that you have the following:
A computer infront of you.
Available connection to internet – you will need to download certain packages during the installation.
At least one and a half hours of free time.
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Gentoo Tutorial part 2: Adding goodies to the system.
This is the second part of the Gentoo Tutorials. In the first section “Minimal Gentoo Installation” we have built a fresh Gentoo system using the minimal install disk and downloading the stages/ports and building the kernel. This left us with a bare Gentoo OS. In this second Gentoo Tutorial we are going to customize and add different software to the system. To summarize the tasks:
Do post-install configuration.
Install VIM editor. The default nano/pico editor is good … but not...
Posted by Stan on 05 1st, 2009
Magento: “Fatal error: U...
That’s a known bug and is present in Magento since version 1.1.2 and still isn’t fixed. The solution is quite easy and takes less than 5 minutes :)
Simply edit the following file using cpanel’s file manager:
app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php
in it around line 558, you should find the following:
$id = $this->_currentStore;
which is the culprit. The solution is to chnage this...
Posted by Stan on 04 25th, 2009
Unable to upload product i...
This is a very rare bug and the chance to experience this problem isn’t very big, but I hope it will save the hair pulling for someone :)
The problem manifests itself in products -> edit -> images. There, when you click on the “Browse” button to locate the image on your local PC, nothing happens and the browse window doesn’t appear. It only happens when using Windows (Mac...
Posted by Stan on 04 13th, 2009
Magento error — Noti...
This will most likely occur when migrating Magento from one host to another. The fix, while not so obvious and easy t find turned out to be quite easy ;) During the installation, Magento sets two IDs to 0 in its database. However, when importing the database dump to your new host, MySQL doesn’t like this and changes these ID’s to 2, which of course is not what Magento needs to load, thus...
Posted by Stan on 04 1st, 2009
Magento ‘404 error: ...
The resons for this issue can be quite a few. The issue itself however has the same root in most of the cases. If this error appears, chances are you will nor have access to magento’s admin area either, so reverting the changes which lead to the problem is out of the question. This is literally a 2 minute fix and is quite easy for everyone. Simply open Magento’s index.php file for editing...
Posted by Stan on 03 27th, 2009
How to create a file of ar...
Sometimes you might need to test certain functionality of a file system, e.g. if quotas are reported correctly. For this purpose you might want to upload a file on the server in specified size. You can easily create such a file using the command below:
dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1024 count=1048576
if – input file
of – output file or the file to be created
bs – block size in bytes
count...
Posted by Stan on 03 27th, 2009
Types of DNS records...
If you have a website and often communicate with your host’s support/sales team, I bet you’ve been told at lest once to change some records for your domain. Since not many of you are familiar with the DNS system, I will try to briefly explain some common records, which you will most likely have/use for your hosting account. The most common types of DNS records, most of which every domain...
