Bubbling…

I recovered yet another fatally crashed computer with a linux live cd and yet the term Linux Life-saver(tm) given to that Fedora live-cd!!  and the credit goes to that specific cd!!  My friend called me, worried about his just-uploaded video files.  And he didn’t have any other copy.  Using some weird program he wanted to optimize his computer, and his computer crashed with the next restart.  So he called me, and I told him put your fedora live cd in and boot your computer with that.  Then we recovered his files with ntfs-3g (now the credit goes to developers of this utility).  So I thought I would post it here on how we did it, very simple.

1) restart your computer with any linux live cd ( really, all of them would work )

2) install ntfs-3g and ntfs-config.  In fedora:

$ su -c ‘yum install ntfs-3g ntfs-config’

3) GNOME:  go to System > Administration > ntfs configuration tool

KDE 3.5:  Kmenu > System > ntfs configuration tool

KDE 4:  Alt+F2 ( run command ) and search for ntfs and click on ntfs configuration tool

4)  it gives you some choices of HDDs.  check the one you want to enable and click on Auto configure

5)  fire up a file manager and put into your computer a cd, or even better, a USB disk and start moving your files and backing up your windows drive!

today I ran across this very nice walk-through for installing KDE 4 on Windows XP/Vista.  Nothing to note here, you can run usual KDE applications on Windows too!!

to install SSH on a windows system you should install cygwin.

just follow this guide

P.S. this guide is better

ok, I finally tried to unite my fedora system with windows XP pro SP2 ( fancy name ) and it worked. Thanks to softpedia.com for the great tutorial and thanks to virtualbox for making it possible. By the way, today I saw that Sun Microsystem has acquired Innotek.

Anyway, these are the screenshots, I just followed the tutorial ( refer to second previous post for that ):

The point is, you can have windows and linux running at the same time on one screen and work with both of them at the same time! Sounds amazing, doesn’t it? Doing it is very easy, just get the virtualbox into ’seamless mode.’

To do this, you need to install VirtualBox and have a legitimate copy of Windows, whether windows XP or Vista doesn’t matter, something that works ( which unfortunately is not the case with any of them ). Now, configure the virtual machine which is a virtual windows, like this:

1) On the ‘General’ section drag the “Video Memory Size” slider to 64.

2) On the ‘Audio’ section check the “Enable Audio” box.

3) On the ‘Remote Display’ section check the “Enable VRDP Server” box.

Now, run the virtual machine and install the guest additions.

Go to machine > seamless mode and you’re done

And don’t forget to leave comments if it worked for you

For very detailed walkthrough, click here.