Linux | With the left and the right

Dual booting Multiple OS 5

Jun

2008

Hosting more that one OS on your hard disk can be a pain if you’re not really sure on configuring the boot loader. I’ll confine the scope of this post to parenting only Debian based Linux OS ( Ubuntu ) and WIndoze. Because for the most part of it, I’ve only worked on them. Why ...

Passwords and Security 2

Jun

2008

Just ten minutes before I was supposed to leave for work yesterday, I had this remote urge to get back Hardy running on my desktop. I had it installed but because of a windows re-install, the GRUB boot menu was overwritten. So all that I had to do was to re-install Grub! Powered the CPU , inserted Gutsy’s ...

The Heron's up there in the Servers! 4

Apr

2008

The Ubuntu family has now doled out their latest OS – Ubuntu 8.04 code named – Hardy Heron. This release is more than different when compared to it’s previous releases. Majorly because it’s got a Wubi installer which facilitates installation directly from a Windows platform. The OS gets installed on the same partition just like ...

The Heron’s up there in the Servers! 5

Apr

2008

OpenSolaris Installation 2

Feb

2008

I’d ordered the Solaris 10 DVD from a third party agent a few days back. It did avoid the hassle of downloading the code from the website and burning it on to a ROM and the service by Rainbow Computech was pretty good. I got the DVD delivered to my home in three days with ...

Who says Wine ain't smooth!!!

Jan

2008

Just installed WIne on Ubuntu a few minutes back. Installed a couple of other windows based softwares too! Now they really work . Haggard installations are now things of the past. Probably it’s time I move over to something more challenging.

Who says Wine ain’t smooth!!! 1

Jan

2008

Gutsy Gibbon 7.1O – Ubuntu 9

Dec

2007

Finally, Installed Gutsy on my system today! After failed attempts to install it last weekend, I was a bit apprehensive this time. But today, two minutes into the install I realized where I was faltering. I’d created four partitions on my Hard disk of 30 Gigs each for Windows. Fiesty was running on the remaining ...

Transition… 9

Dec

2007

Two weeks and counting! I’ve got Ubuntu and Microsoft Xp installed on my system with dual boot configured. Still I haven’t logged into Windows for two weeks! The moment I’m in front of my desktop once I’m back from office, It’s Grub> modprobe> Ubuntu. I care a damn about windows now. Last year connectivity and ...

Ubuntu: BSNL Broadband Connection 91

Aug

2007

Holla… My first post typed in from Ubuntu with it hooked to the net!!! Just managed to configure the Broadband connection in Ubuntu!! Am on cloud nine, given the fact that I’d been struggling in vain for the past few months to get a few Linux flavours hooked on to the net. Believe me, There ...