public/private key authentication with PuTTY on fedora 10

December 27th, 2008

First, check sshd is running on your server service sshd status This will say whether its running or not. If not running check whether its installed and the service is made to run on boot. Once you do that, you need to generate a set of public and private keys. Download puttygen from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Following […]


Virtualization tools

December 23rd, 2008

I was breaking my head installing Fedora core 10 on my microsoft virtual PC without any success. I went on searching more virtualization tools as I needed to get my fedora 10 get going… Here are some info 1. Microsoft Virtual PC – Available for free from microsoft. Just go to microsoft.com , downloads section […]


Partition Magic 8 Error 510 – The version of the file system is not supported

December 17th, 2008

It all started with Partition Magic 8 Error 510 – The version of the file system is not supported I ended sleeping at 3:30 am on yet another day ! It isn’t new to me sleeping early in morning than at night. I had two hard disks, one 80GB IDE and one 250GB SATA. The […]