Mounting an ISO image with linux

By using linux, you are able to mount an ISO image by the loop network device, which is quite easy. You can do this only as user root. Follow the steps below:
Change to user root:

# su

Mounting the ISO image to a directory or your choice, for example /mnt

# mount -o loop disk1.iso /mnt

How to uninstall VMWare from a Linux System

To uninstall the VMWare Software from a Linux System is quite easy. VMWware comes with a pearl script for this. Just open a console and change to user root.

localhost:/# su
localhost:/# vmware-uninstall.pl

Editing “message of the day” – motd

The message of the day is a nice thing to show informations to a user, who is connecting via console. You can put funny ascii figures there, or important informations and how-to’s.
The message will be shown prompltly after authentification:

WHOIS services and IP location

If you want to know, where an IP adress is located, or who has owned a domain, choose one of the links below: