Charles

WTF is right. I guess power bricks get lost or something.. I know the ones for my router/switches have D-Link on them, but my cable modem doesn't have any branding on the power pack (old linksys modem). *shrugs*

Give yourself a static IP and then follow the link that sparta posted. Note: The dd-wrt wiki is a bit slow atm.

Running an browser in a VM in "Seamless/fullscreen" mode > sandboxed browser.

Both suck tbh.

Meh, either/or. Anyhow, I got it to work by adding the CASPERPATH option to initrd: http://www.hak5.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t14346.html That should work for anything that uses casper on the root.

Well, I messed with some of the kernel options and got it to error out at: Warning: unable to open initial console. Failed to execute /multipass/bt4final/initrd.gz. Attempting defaults. Kernel Panic - not syncing: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. EDIT: Same error occurs after recreating initrd*.gz and messing with the path. Any ideas? EDIT2: I replaced the new initrd800.gz with the original initrd800.gz (with casper at the root of the drive) and it booted fine. Is there a reason that it's not able to load the new initrd.gz file?

Tried booting without the quiet option. VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(8,1) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the partitions: hda1 ide-ge hdb1 ide-ge hdc - cdrom Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1) Pid:1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30.9 #1 There is no listing for the thumb drive. I don't know if I screwed up something when I modified the scripts or what.

Thanks for the info VaKo. That sounds like the same deal that Newegg and the like do here in the states.

How do you go about doing that? Stupid question I know, but I've only really seen unlocked phones on sites like newegg or amazon.

Spam is big money apparently.

They have spam hot dogs too.. The internet is for bullshit, isn't it?

+1 for asus netbooks. I've been using a 1005HA for about 6-7 months and I really like it, even if the screen could be a bit bigger.

Hi, I tried changing the location of the casper folder using the script by H@L0_F00 here: http://hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=15600 Unfortunately, it looks like the path is correct, but all I get after booting off it is an error then drop to shell. I don't know if my menu.lst entry is correct or not, since the path to casper is: /multipass/bt4-final/casper title Start BackTrack FrameBuffer (1024x768) kernel /multipass/BT4-final/vmlinuz BOOT=casper boot=casper nopersistent rw quiet vga=0x317 initrd /multipass/BT4-final/initrd.gz Any help is appreciated since I want to have both BT4 Final and BT4 R1 on my multipass. Thanks.

I wonder if the OP means a cmd window. If so ipconfig /all will tell you the MAC.

Run Memtest86+ and see if it returns any errors. I've had memory that was touchy with the mobo I picked and had to return it and get something else. Since it just started happening recently, and it freezes up regardless if the OS is running or not, I would guess either the PSU isn't good enuff or yer mobo or ram is going out.

I've tried to use FreeNX, but I wasn't able to get it working for whatever reason. I don't really use a GUI on my server anymore, since I discovered I was able to forward X over SSH. I tried to start a VM, which would crash putty, and it seemed to work ok with KiTTY. I suppose time will tell if I got around the problem or not. :) EDIT: Scratch that, KiTTY just decided to crash on me too. Meh. I think I'll just deal with the crashes when they happen. >.<

I actually tried out KiTTY, and it appeared to work better, but I don't know for sure, since I cannot exactly force a crash. However, I was able to have 2 VMs running by forwarding X11 over SSH without any problems.

Thanks.

Glad I am not alone. Heh. The strange part is that it's Putty that crashes, not XMing. *shrug*

That could be it, I don't know. I was thinking about trying KiTTY, but I don't know. I just want something that won't go tits up on me when I am in the middle of doing something (and make me reinstall the VM, since it causes it to crash and be unable to start up again)

Anyone else experience Putty crashing when forwarding X11 over SSH? Putty works great for just normal SSH but it seems to crash on me quite frequently when I am trying to forward X11 to my local machine (running XMing). I haven't really used X11 forwarding on any machines other than ones running Win7 (x86 and x64 have the same problems), so I don't know if it's just that Putty doesn't like Win7 or what. Anyone else experience problems with it? I've found it happens more often when I am trying to run a VM Window in Virtualbox over SSH, but it can happen if I launch any graphical app. Any ideas?

Try using id_rsa.pub instead. That's the one I've been using. Haven't touched id_dsa.pub. Permissions should look like this: -rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 394 2010-07-03 20:58 authorized_keys -rw------- 1 charles charles 1743 2010-07-15 09:11 id_rsa -rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 442 2010-07-30 17:15 known_hosts The id_rsa.pub should be added to authorized_keys (the rename you did should be fine) I tried the same thing with the id_dsa.pub key and id_dsa private key without success. It only allowed me to use my password to authenticate. The debug looked the same as yours. When I switched to using rsa keys, it authenticated without any problems.

Thanks. That looks like it would be a bit of a pain in the ass, since from what I can tell, the ubuntu server install needs: /.disk /dists /install /pool /preseed .disk was created by using the Startup Disk Creator on Ubuntu Desktop as far as I know, it wasn't listed in the iso.

What are you having problems with when trying to set the keys? You need to change two settings, which are: PubkeyAuthentication and PasswordAuthentication. Change Pubkey to yes and password to no and add your public key to ~./.ssh/authorized_keys You can recreate keys by using ssh-keygen. Here's my sshd_config file for reference - it needs some clean up, but it works for me. # Package generated configuration file # See the sshd(8) manpage for details # What ports, IPs and protocols we listen for Port 22 # Use these options to restrict which interfaces/protocols sshd will bind to #ListenAddress :: #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 Protocol 2 # HostKeys for protocol version 2 HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key #Privilege Separation is turned on for security UsePrivilegeSeparation yes # Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key KeyRegenerationInterval 3600 ServerKeyBits 768 # Logging SyslogFacility AUTH LogLevel INFO # Authentication: LoginGraceTime 30 PermitRootLogin no StrictModes yes RSAAuthentication no PubkeyAuthentication yes #AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys # Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files IgnoreRhosts yes # For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh_known_hosts RhostsRSAAuthentication no # similar for protocol version 2 HostbasedAuthentication no # Uncomment if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for RhostsRSAAuthentication #IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes # To enable empty passwords, change to yes (NOT RECOMMENDED) PermitEmptyPasswords no # Change to yes to enable challenge-response passwords (beware issues with # some PAM modules and threads) ChallengeResponseAuthentication no # Change to no to disable tunnelled clear text passwords #PasswordAuthentication no # Kerberos options #KerberosAuthentication no #KerberosGetAFSToken no #KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes #KerberosTicketCleanup yes # GSSAPI options #GSSAPIAuthentication no #GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 PrintMotd no PrintLastLog yes TCPKeepAlive yes #UseLogin no #MaxStartups 3:50:10 #Banner /etc/issue.net # Allow client to pass locale environment variables AcceptEnv LANG LC_* Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server UsePAM yes AllowUsers charles GatewayPorts no AllowTcpForwarding yes KeepAlive yes IgnoreUserKnownHosts no PasswordAuthentication no

Wow, just wow.