Deleting Simple Partitions on your Hard Drive Using FDISK
KB ID 0000080 Problem You want to remove the partitions form your carved up hard drive. Solution Deleting a Partition 1. First ensure you have a windows 98SE Bootdisk, you can download one, CLICK HERE 2. Boot the PC with your boot disk, ENSURE the boot order is set in the BIOS to boot from the floppy disk BEFORE the hard drive 3.To launch FDISK simply type fdisk {enter} at the command prompt, when the program launches press the Y key...
Simple Partitioning of your Hard Drive Using FDISK
KB ID 0000079 Problem You want to carve up the space on your hard drive. Solution Creating a Partition 1. First ensure you have a windows 98SE Bootdisk, you can download one, CLICK HERE 2. Boot the PC with your boot disk, ENSURE the boot order is set in the BIOS to boot from the floppy disk BEFORE the hard drive 3.To launch FDISK simply type fdisk {enter} at the command prompt, when the program launches press the Y key and {enter} to...
Hard Drive Partitioning
KB ID 0000078 Problem This page deals with “Simple Partitioning” though reference will be made to how newer operating systems use partions. Common Misconceptions “All Partiions have a drive letter” NO “All drive letters are a separate partition” NO Solution OK then! Take a hard drive, I will show it below as a “large block of space” If you are only going to have one partition and its...
Cannot Format a SDHC Card to NTFS
KB ID 0000187 Problem I had a 16 GB SDHC card, and windows would format it to FAT but not NTFS, this is how to cure the problem. Solution Option 1 Download this and use it to format the drive. Option 2 1. Click Start > In the Search/Run Box type devmgmt.msc > Device Manager will open 2. Navigate to your SC Card reader > Right Click > Properties > Policies > Select Better Performance > OK > Reboot the PC >...
Freecom Tough Drive – Remove Password and CD Drive
KB ID 0000403 Problem I’m a big fan of Tough Drives! My old 260GB was getting a bit full – so I bit the bullet and replaced it with a shiny new Tough Drive Sport 750GB. As it comes with password protection I turned this on – fast forward to the next day (this morning) and it’s bugging the hell out of me. I mailed the nice folk at Freecom and within twenty minutes they mailed me back with instructions to...
GNS3 – Initial Setup, Adding Routers, Hosts, and ASA Firewalls
KB ID 0001079 Problem I dip into GNS3 every so often, (depending on what I’m working on). And each time I install it, I spend just as long remembering how to set it up, as I do using it! So, if for no other reason than I can use this page as a reference in future, here’s how to get it up and running.</p? Solution Note: At time of writing the latest version is 1.3.6</p? 1. Download GNS3, I usually accept all the...
GNS3 – Assign an IP Address to Linux Microcore QEMU Guest
KB ID 0000932 Problem The whole point of having these guest machines is for testing communications, putting an IP address on them so you can ping things, is a pretty basic step. Solution 1. Console in, and execute the following commands, obviously change the IP addresses to the ones you require. sudo su ifconfig eth0 10.10.10.10 netmask 255.0.0.0 up route add ip default gw 10.10.10.1 route add default gw 10.10.10.1 Related Articles,...
GNS3 – Routers Lose their Certificates When Restarted
KB ID 0000955 Problem I was doing some work with PKI and routers today, and after spending ages enrolling all my routers for certificates, I thought I’d save my hard work and return to it later. When I started the project up again, I was less than happy all the devices certificates had ‘Disappeared’! Solution This is default behavior, to change this select Edit > Preferences > Dynamips > Locate...
GNS3 – Error ‘ghostsize is to small for device’
KB ID 0000935 Problem While doing a quick lab in GNS3, I tried to add NAT to a router, and it fell over with the following error; R3(config-if)#ip nat outside % NBAR ERROR: parsing stopped % NBAR Error : Activation failed due to insufficient dynamic memory % NBAR Error: Stile could not add protocol node %NAT: Error activating CNBAR on the interface FastEthernet0/0 R3(config-if)# *Mar 1 00:01:11.655: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory...
GNS3 – Network Cards Are Missing
KB ID 0000964 Problem Like most techies, I am always fiddling with things. One of my mottoes is “If you never break anything, you never learn how to fix things”. So after messing around with the networks in VMware Workstation (What I typically use for connecting GNS3 to either real machines, or the outside world). I lost the network connections in GNS3 and could not get them back. Seems like any new NICs that you add are...