Archive for the ‘SME Server’ Category

Howto setup mrepo in SME 7.3

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

I often need to test different Linux distributions, or the distributions on different machine types / architectures. And quite often, I need to either update the installed software, or install extra software, which needs to be downloaded from the Internet. SO, I need a way to preserve / save ...

Howto write an ISO image to a CD-RW from the Linux console

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

I need to / want to write ISO's to CD's from my Linux server, but since I don't have an X-Manager like Gnome or KDE running, I need to find a way to write the CD's from the command line with SSH. Luckely the server is right next to me, ...

Howto install the Realtek8110C/8169C driver in SME 7.3

Monday, February 18th, 2008

I have a Gigabyte GA-G31MX-S2 and I run SME Server 7.3 on it. The motherboard has an onboard Realtek 8110C Gigabit Ethernet card, which isn't supported in CentOS 4.6 (or even CentOS 5 for that matter), so I need to manually install a driver to get it to work. Since ...

Howto setup a local yum proxy for your LAN using http-replicator on SME Server 7.0

Friday, February 15th, 2008

So you want to setup a local proxy to apt & yum updates for your LAN. This will help save you some bandwidth if you have a a few PC's on the LAN that use yum to install & update any software. From the homepage, http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/http-replicator/, we can see the following: HTTP ...