Install Ubuntu 8.04 from Hard Disk

• Make an ISO file ubuntu804.iso from Ubuntu's LiveCD (8.04 desktop), put the ISO file in D:/ubuntu804.iso
• Mount the ISO file or the LiveCD, copy two files CDROM:/casper/{initrd.gz,vmlinuz} to Windows drive D:/
• Download grub4dos, extract its files to C:/
• Edit C:/boot.ini, add one new line: C:\grldr="GRUB4DOS"
• Edit C:/menu.lst

title Find and Install Ubuntu
find --set-root /ubuntu804.iso
kernel /vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/ubuntu804.iso
initrd /initrd.gz

• Reboot Windows XP
• Select GRUB4DOS from the boot menu
• ... ...
• Will boot to the same screen as if you're directly booting from the LiveCD.
  

Less' history file

偶然发现看 man page 的时候 search 过的字符串是有 history 的, 猜想是 less 的功能, 查了一下根目录下的文件, 发现有一个 .lesshst, 查 less 的 manual, 里面有说到 .lesshst:

. . . Name of the history file used to remember search commands and shell commands between invocations of less. . .

Compile GNU screen from source

• $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/screen.git
• $ cd screen/src
• $ aclocal --force
• $ libtoolize --copy --force
• $ autoconf --force
• $ autoheader --force
• $ automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
• $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/screen-dev --enable-colors256
• $ make && make install

N.B.: Run mktar.pl to make traditional screen-X.X.X.tar.gz

See full screen man pages on Fedora Core 3

ubuntu 6.06 上看 man pages 的时候能全屏显示, 但 Fedora 3 上却不能, 研究一番, 可以自己编译 man-db 来解决:

• Get lastes man-db from http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/man-db
• $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/man-db-2.5.2
• $ make && make install
• Add path to man-db/bin to PATH variable
  

编译 man-db 可能需要依赖 gdbm-devel 或者 db4-devel (ubuntu 上对应 libgdbm-dev 或者 libdb-dev).