To automatically mount a specified volume each time you boot into Fedora, edit this file: /etc/fstab Add the following line at the end depending on volume and mount point: /dev/sdb1 /var/hda/files/myvolume Save and exit. If the volume is formatted with NTFS, use the following syntax instead: /dev/sdb1 /var/hda/files/myvolume ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
How to mount a drive or volume to be accessible by Amahi home server: First you need to find out what the volume is called within Fedora. To list the drives recognized by the system type the following in terminal: ls /dev/sd* Let’s say you want to mount the volume named “sdb1″, then use: mount [...]
Here’s how to automatically login to a Fedora Linux box. Useful when you run a headless machine as home server, in my case Amahi Home Server. Fire up terminal, locally or via SSH and log in as root. Edit the following file: /etc/gdm/custom.conf Example: nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf Add the following to the end of the file: [...]
After watching movies on the 13″ for a couple of years I got meself a Samsung. Not the grotesque wallpaper sized one but still pretty ok-large. So how and what do I feed it with? Mini-DVI+the great free media center Plex seemed like a reasonable setup for a while. If you want to chain your [...]