Instalasi MilaX ke USB Flash

Baru-baru ini saya download MilaX, distro mini berbasis OpenSolaris. Mulanya saya mengira mudah untuk install di USB karena ada script yang dibuat oleh Anil Gulecha. Meskipun demikian, setelah dilihat-lihat, ternyata script yang bersangkutan mengandung banyak tools dari Solaris, jadi saya nggak bisa menggunakannya di mesin Linux saya.

Hmm ... ok, jadi saya harus googling dulu. Owaladalah, ternyata nggak ada blas info tentang itu (am I too stupid for Google or what?).

Jadi saya harus punya mesin Solaris? Huh ... lha ya jelas sulit deh. Mau menghapus ArchLinux, saya masih kepepet waktu untuk ngerjain suatu project development dengan Ruby on Rails, jadi mustahil deh. Untung saya ingat kalau saya juga punya Belenix 0.7, jadi saya akan install dari Belenix saja.

Dengan bantuan Belenix, ternyata instalasi MilaX benar-benar a piece of cake. Berikut ini adalah langkah-langkah instalasi dengan menggunakan script dari Anil Gulecha:

1. Boot live CD dari Belenix
2. Setelah masuk ke desktop, aktifkan terminal
3. Saya meletakkan usbcopy dan milax03.usb ke USB flashdisk lainnya, jadi saya copy dulu ke homedir jack (Belenix akan mengaktifkan secara otomatis USB flashdisk)
4. Setelah itu, umount USB flashdisk dari desktop XFCE tidak berhasil (lack of permission), jadi harus manual. Saya menggunakan pfexec umount /media/ClipDrive (karena secara otomatis di mount disitu) dari terminal.
5. Setelah itu masukkan USB flashdisk calon korban ( :-D ) yang akan diisi MilaX, jangan di mount. Jika otomatis di mount, harus di umount dulu dengan cara seperti langkah 4.
6. Jalankan script usbcopy seperti di bawah ini:

jack@belenix:~$ pfexec ./usbcopy milax03.usb
Found the following USB devices:
0: /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0 953.5 MB Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00
Enter the number of your choice: 0

WARNING: All data on your USB storage will be lost.
Are you sure you want to install to
Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00, 953 MB at /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0 ?(y/n) y
umount: warning: /dev/dsk/c4t0d0s0 not in mnttab
umount: /dev/dsk/c4t0d0s0 not mounted
Copying image to USB device
7744+0 records in
7744+0 records out
126877696 bytes (127 MB) copied, 57.9422 s, 2.2 MB/s

real 0m57.950s
user 0m0.011s
sys 0m0.304s
Installing grub to USB device /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s0
Completed copy to USB
jack@belenix:~$



Setelah selesai, berarti siap untuk booting. Di mainboard Gigabyte saya, ada fasilitas untuk booting dari USB flash. Setting di BIOS dengan urutan pertama USB Zip dan voila... you are on MilaX!

Soal UTS - Administrasi Jaringan

Silahkan ambil soal UTS untuk mata kuliah administrasi jaringan.

New Ruport 1.6.0 Ruport::Renderer Causing Trouble when Using Documatic 0.1.0

When I updated my Ruport gem to 1.6.0, Rails can not be started. Here's the errors:

[bpdp@bpdp-archlinux bowencms]$ script/server start
=> Booting Mongrel (use 'script/server webrick' to force WEBrick)
=> Rails application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000
** Starting Rails with development environment...
** Rails loaded.
** Loading any Rails specific GemPlugins
Exiting
/home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:263:in `load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant Ruport::Renderer (NameError)
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:453:in `const_missing'
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/documatic-0.1.0/lib/documatic/formatter/open_document.rb:12
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in'
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/documatic-0.1.0/lib/documatic/init.rb:3
       ... 30 levels...
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/commands/server.rb:39
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
      from script/server:3
[bpdp@bpdp-archlinux bowencms]$

The key to this error was this:

    uninitialized constant Ruport::Renderer

Curiously, I started to look at Ruport API 1.6.0 and found that there were no Renderer class anymore. It's been changed to Formatter. While Documatic 0.1.0 gem still use Renderer, this will cause server can not be started.

So, if you experienced this problem, remove Documatic 0.1.0 gem and reinstall it again when it's already changed properly.

What's so funny in IT?

Though I firstly hoped that this is only April's fool day joke, looks like it is not. More than one standard is really really anoying and tend to raise some questions. Why do we have more than one standard? What standard should we adopt?

On April 2nd 2008, ISO finally agree to adopt OOXML from Microsoft as ISO standard. You may take a look at NoOOXML.org web for more information.

Having many standard for one thing is really ridiculous. Looks like this is not a normal voting process. :)