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Shell Script: Create Linux Bootable USB Sticks

Posted: 27 Feb 2008 04:44 AM CST

This may come handy, from the project page:

Mk-boot-usb is a perl script to create multiple-bootable usb sticks (usb keys / usb flash drives). It wipes out an entire usb stick, partitions it, creates file systems on it, installs grub, and installs a minimal linux on it. Mk-boot-usb is meant to speed up and lower the barrier of entry for creating bootable usb sticks. The usb stick will immediately become bootable (using the minimal linux), and more useful distributions can then be installed into other partitions manually simply by (1) copying any Live CD into each partition (2) modifying grub’s configuration file.

=> Mk-boot-usb: a Script to Create Multiple-Bootable USB Sticks

-bash: enable: PrinterName: not a shell builtin Error and Solution

Posted: 27 Feb 2008 06:21 AM CST

Q. When I type the following command under CentOS 4.x / Fedora Linux: enable hplj2 I see the error message: -bash: enable: hplj2: not a shell builtin How do I fix this error?

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FreeBSD WARNING: Vulnerability Database Out of Date, Checking Anyway Error and Solution

Posted: 27 Feb 2008 06:02 AM CST

Q. While installing any FreeBSD port I’m getting following error message: …. ===> FreeBSD WARNING: Vulnerability Database Out of Date, Checking Anyway … How do I fix this warning message?

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Reconfiguring FreeBSD Ports - Remove OPTIONS config For Any Port

Posted: 27 Feb 2008 05:35 AM CST

Q. While building Apache port I was presented with a menu from which I selected certain build options. However, certain option giving out error as follows: ===> apache-2.2.8 mod_mem_cache requires WITH_THREADS. *** Error code 1 All I wanted to do is disable mod_mem_cache and build Apache again. Unfortunately, it is not allowing me to clear out [...]

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