Friday, October 2, 2009

Part 1 - 8 Monitor Project - Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty and ATI/FGLRX

I have spent a considerable amount of time setting up the first 4 monitors on Ubuntu Jaunty with Catalyst 9.9. I can honestly say, depending what you want to do, it is not an easy feat. My ultimate goal is to have 8 running.

Video Cards: HSI IceQ4 HD Radeon 4850, 512MB

Part 1: Initial Setup

Comming Soon!

Important References

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Jaunty_Installation_Guide
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=301941&highlight=radeon+4850+big+desktop
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=301951&highlight=radeon+4850+big+desktop

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Video on using Clonezilla

I found this fascinating quote today:

Clonezilla is an open source disk imaging, cloning and backup software. It supports ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, and HFS+ of Mac OS. You can use it to clone single or multiple machines. It is more feature-rich than commercial Norton Ghost. In this video tutorial, I will show you how to create an image of a hard drive using Clonezilla live CD which you can download from clonezilla.org. I assume that you have downloaded and burnt the CD. So let’s get started.Amjad, Creating and restoring an image of hard disk with Clonezilla

You should read the whole article.