Phillip Pearson - Second p0st

tech notes and web hackery from the guy that brought you bzero, python community server, the blogging ecosystem, the new zealand coffee review and the internet topic exchange

2003-4-9

Philip Greenspun

... has a weblog. Nice.

Getting PuTTY to work well with FreeBSD

My SSH client doesn't like FreeBSD very much - the DEL key seems to be treated the same as the '~', and colours don't work.

Here's how to fix it.

chrooted Debian install (on Red Hat)

Someone mentioned this concept to me a while back: you can run different Linux distributions simultaneously. You can run Debian on top of a Red Hat install (if you really like apt-get but want to use one of the JohnCompanies Linux partitions, perhaps).

--> chroot Debian Install From A Booted System mini-HOWTO

(Link found via Marc Nozell.)