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Archive for March, 2009

32bit force install on 64bit OS.

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mount drives on startup. still a few bugs with external ntfs, I’ve experience after like an hour or two. Doesnt seem to like the external drives after that point. But in the begining is all works fine. Thats just my system might be different for u.

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require: Imagemagick installed

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This is a step by step guide on how to mount external hard drive in Linux for Ubuntu server beginner and Linux beginner in general. The guide includes error happened during the process to show how it to mount device in real situation.

Mount external hard drive in Ubuntu server

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The Linux shutdown command has several options that you can use to bring down the Linux system. In the previous post, we’ve seen how to reboot Ubuntu server with shutdown command. In this post,  we are going to use the Linux shutdown command again. This time is to power off the Ubuntu server.

There are several options available with shutdown command that can be used to power off Linux system. One example is -h option, which means to halt the system after it has been brought down. We can add other things such as a comment message when invoking shutdown -h command. As you can see from the example of Ubuntu restart post before, we have to specify a time argument after the shutdown option so the system know when to shutdown the system. Here are some examples on how to power off Ubuntu server using shutdown command with other things that you can do:

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mount with gui, more user friendly

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Restart Ubuntu server

Mar-3-2009 By blinks

There are many commands that can be used to restart Ubuntu Server. We are going to look at some of them that I remember. The first one is the reboot command. In Linux reboot means restart. To use the reboot command, invoke reboot at the command line terminal. You must have root privilege, so add sudo before reboot.

Restart Ubuntu server with reboot command example:

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