To install/shift environments in linux
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 1:10 AM | 0 comments  
Linux distros usually give the option of choosing various environments while setting up itself and the chosen one is installed but not others!
Iam presently doing it in Mandriva 2009.

Sometimes if u want to shift tp another environment
Usually the process is you log out and see that there is an icon to shift another enviroment...so the process is actually Shifting to another session that is another environment like kde , Gnome, etc.

But it may also be the case that the environment you want to shift is not already installed.
So below is the command to install the new environment!
You have to execute this while in root mode or super-user.
Its better to put the Installation CD/DVD in the CD/DVD-Drive as the system may copy the necessary files from the DVD to the system.
Or else if you are connected to the internet it will download itself.


urpmi task-kde

Usually once you type this command it will display the possible options that come with kde specifically.
Like the versions....kde-3, kde-4.1, kde-3-devel, etc

So u can choose the one you want and install accordingly
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How to format a pendrive in linux
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 9:36 PM | 0 comments  
The basic command actually is mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1
vfat is a filesystem for pendrive and is mostly used because it is the filesystem through which u can access the pendrive in linux as well as in windows

The /dev/sdb1 is the address of my pendrive which i have seen after sing the more command.So see accordingly and change the address in the command respectively in your computer.

The Problem i faced while doing this was that mkfs.vfat command was not found.
So when i did some googling i found out that all this things are actually in a package called dostools .

So while in su(super user mode or root) i installed the package dostools by

urpmi dostools

and this installed the dostools package and i found the missing package installed.

So Finally learnt to format a pendrive.
Posted by Anvesh
'more' command
at 9:20 PM | 0 comments  
more /etc/mtab
This is the command we can use to see the devices(external and internal) loaded in your computer in linux.

Im using Madriva 2009.
Posted by Anvesh