Sometime it's necessary to check BIOS, UEFI, or motherboard information, mostly for hardware upgrade and troubleshooting purpose. Its possible to get those information by checking the hardware manufacturer's site, but […]
Booting Slax Linux from OpenWrt PXE server
First of all, if you don't know what is Slax, it's a highly usable and compact slackware based GNU/Linux live CD distro just around 230 MB. It's one of the […]
How to update CPU microcode in Linux
What is microcode ? Simply for a CPU, microcode could be assumed as firmware of the CPU, which generally adds more functionality to the processor and patches hardware level bugs. […]
How to use Debian as a rolling release distribution
Debian stable versions are notable for their stability, security and performance. Debian team maintains a time based stable version release and the software repository is somewhat outdated. So isn't it […]
Debian minimal install guide step by step
Here's a debian minimal install guide with step by step instruction and screenshots. No doubt that Debian and it's forks are the most popular GNU/Linux distributions. Debian gained popularity for […]
How to setup a multiboot PXE server with OpenWrt
PXE servers are cool, boot one or many machines over the network, install a new OS, run live CDs on disk-less machines, etc. etc. Why not setup a multiboot PXE […]
How to setup an OpenWrt PXE boot server
Have a router with OpenWrt installed ? Why not use it for something else ? As a OpenWrt PXE server for booting your favorite Linux/UNIX distro. Possibilities with a PXE […]
How to setup OpenWrt extroot, rootfs on USB storage
Here I'm going to share my experience with OpenWrt extroot on a TP-Link MR-3220 v2.4 router. Though I did this on a MR-3220, this guide also applies to other routers like […]
Generate package download list with apt-get for offline install
No internet, it's costly or too slow ? Don't worry, you can download the Debian packages (deb files) somewhere elsewhere, I mean where internet is fast and affordable. In this […]
How to setup a 32 bit chroot environment with ubuntu live CD
What is a chroot ? Basically chroot is an almost complete Unix like operating system running inside another host operating system. But the differance is the chrooted system system runs […]