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to fix your autologin try
fixvesa echo "startx" > /root/.bash_profil echo -e "exec /sbin/rungetty tty1 --autologin root
just type the following as root:
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv CB2F6C86F77B1CA9 && gpg --export --armor CB2F6C86F77B1CA9 | apt-key add -
just type the following as root:
cd / && mkdir media -v && touch /media/.hal-mtab
here is our conky config, with some nice features
NOTE : this only works with the installed version
chown debian-tor /var/lib/tor chown debian-tor /var/log/tor chown debian-tor /var/lib/tor/* chown debian-tor /var/log/tor/*
download the konboot image for floppys
cd /tmp && wget http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/data/FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.zip
make a directory on your first usb partition
mkdir -v /mnt/sdb1/konBOOT
unzip konBOOT to it
unzip FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.zip /mnt/sdb1/konBOOT
add your syslinux.cfg entry
vim /mnt/sdb1/boot/syslinux/sys
LABEL Konboot MENU LABEL KonBoot KERNEL /boot/memdisk APPEND initrd=/konBOOT/FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.img
and done !
when you reboot with konBOOT just login as kon-usr. if you have problems, or logout, fix it again by typing kon-fix.
you can secure your bt4 backups easily using trucrypt.
download truecrypt
cd /tmp && wget http://www.truecrypt.org/download/truecrypt-6.2a-ubuntu-x86.tar.gz
install it
tar -xf /tmp/truecrypt-6.2a-ubuntu-x86.tar.gz -v && /tmp/truecrypt-6.2a-setup-ubuntu-x86
follow the instructions …
cleanup afterwards
rm -fv /tmp/truecrypt-6.2a-ubuntu-x86.tar.gz && rm -fv /tmp/truecrypt-6.2a-setup-ubuntu-x86
and your're done :)
to use it, simply type
truecrypt
and you should get a gui.