/dev/hda1 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced I had this problem after installing BT3. Every time I booted into BT3, I was faced with a forced check and then a second reboot. So off I went to http://forums.remote-exploit.org and came across THIS POST about the issue. This is how I fixed the problem: Become root: [...]

Dual-Boot Backtrack 3 Well, I have Backtrack 3 installed, and as you know, it uses Lilo, which to be honest I’m not all that keen on. Using Grub from another distro I reinstalled Dreamlinux 3.5 and chose “Install Grub to MBR”. So, back to Grub, but now I have to add Backtrack 3 which doesn’t [...]

This howto relies on the fact that your card is recognized and working. If you configure your network and when you reboot, the operation has to be repeated, it’s because your network configuration data hasn’t been/isn’t being stored. I have already shown how to configure a network manually via the command line, now you need [...]

I always get this with wireless and MTA when booting Debian due to the way I configure my network card. My Wireless card config is setup in /etc/network/interfaces, nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf, but I use /etc/rc.local to issue my ESSID, WEP pass and restart the network which means that MTA (Mail Transfer Agent, exim4 to be [...]