Linuxers March 2006

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by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray

You can order some free Ubuntu Breezy Badger CDs from shipit.ubuntu.com. Although I have some, I am too far away geographically to help you. The Ubuntu guys will shipt it to you completely free of cost. You might as well wait a few days dor Fedora Core 5 (mar 15) and Ubuntu Dapper Drake (april) to be released. Cheerio, Debarshi

17 years, 6 months

Re: help plz

by Roshan

>Hi all, > > i wish to install linux on my home pc. Wow!.. > I don hve any CD. i stay in Thane. is there anyone I have many friends who stay in Thane and nearby locations. "Probably" they could meet you at Thane Station. > who can help me for geting a linux CD? I can give you 'a' GNU/Linux CD! for FREE...yes you saw it right! "FREE" . BTW, which distro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distro) are you interested in? Let me know, and then, we may communiate over the phone for further details ;) > i jus need the CD..i'll install it myself. Good! >thanks in advance, > > BTW..im a software eng. working in Atos Origin. I haven't heard of it..but that does not matter much ;) > bye all _____________________________ If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu You have the ability to change things so that they, not only benefit you but others as well, but you might resist to...think about it! The internet is the biggest Library, laboratory and the Classroom independent of location but dependent on computer with an internet connection! "Intentions are written with pencil. Commitments are carved on Stones!" - CLINT A. D'SOUZA __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

17 years, 6 months

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installer hangs on "Installing bootloader" of Fedora Core 4

by Mandar Khanolkar

ANY HELP !!! -Mandar On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 Mandar Khanolkar wrote : >Hi, > >I am facing following problems while installing Fedora 4 on my machine. > >1 Probem: > When I start the machine with CD#1, I get boot: promt. If I hit enter to proceed installation it starts checking machine resorces. Here it gives me this error followed by some exception trace. > *** > RAMDISK: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. > VFS: couldn't open root device or unknown block "NULL" or (8,3) > *** > After this messages it prints out some exception trace. > > If I enter some invalid value at boot: promp like "/" and enter, it gives error that not a valid boot image. After this it shows again boot: prompt. Not if I hit enter it proceed with instllation and doesnt give above error message (problem#1 error). > >2 Problem: > a# After this I went ahead and selected drives for / and swap through disk druid. I had prepared these partitions through partition magic. > b# I selected boot loader to be installaed on /dev/hda4 (Linux partition) and kept default starting os as windows partition. > c# I went ahead and selected custom packages to be installed. It asked me for all the cds one by one as installation made progress. > d# After completing the packages installation and post installation tasks it displayed a message box stating "Installing bootloader". Here it went wrong. It was showing me hour-glass mouse icon but I guess it was hung. It didnt give me any error message. Finally after waiting for a long time I restarted the machine and my windows os started w/o showing Fedora Grab loader window. > e# I thought it couldnt write bootloader on the /dev/hda4 linux partition as it physically appears in the end of my hard-disk. So i repeated the whole procedure by selecting boot loader installation on MBR (step b#). But this couldnt resolve the problem and I found the same result. > >Can anybody explain the reason behind these two problems? Also any solution to get Fedora core 4 installed on my machine without formatting existing windows partitions. > >The System Details: > MB : Intel D865GVHZ > CPU : Intel P4 2.4 GHZ > H-DISK : Samsung 80 GB (Linux ext2 "/" and swap partitions lies at the end of the physical hard-disk) > RAM : 256 + 256 Total 512 MB > >-Mandar > >-- >http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

17 years, 6 months

help plz

by Ranjit Sapre

Hi all, i wish to install linux on my home pc. I don hve any CD. i stay in Thane. is there anyone who can help me for geting a linux CD? i jus need the CD..i'll install it myself. thanks in advance, BTW..im a software eng. working in Atos Origin. bye all -Ranjit cell phone : 9892536237

17 years, 6 months

Re: BE Project

by Venkatesh Hariharan

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:35:19AM +0530, Sanket Medhi wrote: > Hello friends, > > I am in my sixth semester of the B.E. (I.T.) course right now. I am required > to submit an abstract for my B.E. project within a month's time. I am > thinking over a few ideas but am not sure if they are feasible enough. So I > need you guys to suggest me some good ideas for a project that would serve > not only my purpose but also be a considerable contribution to the FOSS > community. Any suggestions are welcome. Sanket, take a look at the Red Hat Scholarships program. Details are at; http://www.in.redhat.com/community/rhscholarship.php Venky

17 years, 6 months

BE Project

by Sanket Medhi

Hello friends, I am in my sixth semester of the B.E. (I.T.) course right now. I am required to submit an abstract for my B.E. project within a month's time. I am thinking over a few ideas but am not sure if they are feasible enough. So I need you guys to suggest me some good ideas for a project that would serve not only my purpose but also be a considerable contribution to the FOSS community. Any suggestions are welcome. -- Regards, Sanket Medhi.

17 years, 6 months

Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 35, Issue 7

by Gary Bonzo

> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Ranjit Sapre" <ranjitsapre(a)gmail.com> > To: linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org > Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 17:38:21 +0530 > Subject: [ILUG-BOM] help plz > Hi all, > > i wish to install linux on my home pc. > I don hve any CD. i stay in Thane. is there anyone who can help me for > geting a linux CD? > i jus need the CD..i'll install it myself. Please have a look at LUG's wiki. You can get informations including contact number and distributions available. http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php Gaurav Khatri

17 years, 6 months

[OT] Biometric stand alone device. for access control

by Abhishek Daga

Is anyone out here using a biometric access control device? I'd reckon that the simplest/most popular ones are thumb or fingerprint based. Say If I want a standalone device which can be used as a lock (or in conjunction with) is that possible? The only one I saw in the market was supporting Win platform (for pc access). So does it have a backup key? in case the batteries fail? I may be wrong here, but someone on this list had mentioned a long time ago that they program such devices. thanks abhi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

17 years, 6 months

[OT] Why are you here?

by Philip Tellis

Out of curiosity, I'd like to know how many people on this list work with computers because it's their job, and how many do it for other reasons. If computer programming/sys admin was the worst paying job in the industry, paying something like Rs 2000/- per month, would you still do it? Philip -- Only great masters of style can succeed in being obtuse. -- Oscar Wilde Most UNIX programmers are great masters of style. -- The Unnamed Usenetter

17 years, 6 months

Minutes: Feb 2006 GLUG meet at HBCSE

by Anurag

*Minutes of February GLUG-Meet @ HBCSE* The GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai held its February GLUG meet on 19th February 2006 at HBCSE, Mankhurd. Meet was attended by about 25 people coming from all over the city. This meet consisted more of technical sessions with handson demonstrations. Following talks were held. * Backup and restoring We started with a talk about backup and restore of data. We saw the demonstration on how one can use the utilities like tar/cp/rsync to create incremental/differential backups. * Professional Certifications - By Mr. Shankar Iyer (RedHat) Shankar talked about the value of professional certifications in today's scenario, and the various certifications available from RedHat for upcoming professionals. --- tea break :-) * LaTeX document preparation system - By Ms. Meena (HBCSE) Meena talked about the oldest and best document preparations system availabe, LaTeX. Starting with few simple examples demonstrating the basic text formatting capabilities of LaTeX, we moved on to see how good LaTeX is at rendering mathematical equations, creating books, thesis, letters etc. LaTeX sources of examples covered in the talk are available here: http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/lug-meetings/Feb-2006/latex-examples.tar.gz ---- *Details of next GLUG meet* Date: To be decided -> Agenda : Talk on Qt/KDE development -> Location: To be decided * Pictures: Pictures taken in this meet have been posted on ILUG-BOM picture gallery ``http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/pics/''. Anurag -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

17 years, 6 months

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