The Linux Juggernaut

Here I am giving some steps how to complie kernel? By default RedHat will not support the ntfs partitions mounting. So we will do kernel recompilation and get the job done.

Step1 : Before Compiling the kernel the following packages should be installed in order to compile kernel
a. Glib-devel
b. Gcc
c. Ncurscs-devel
d. Binutils
e. Kernel-sourcecode

Step2 : Download the latest kernel from http://www.kernel.org/ and copy the .tar.bz2 file to /usr/src folder
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In Linux you can install packages through many ways like.

1. Through RPM,

2. Through shell script

3. Through source tar balls etc.

YUM(Yellow-dog Updater and Modifier) is another and advanced way of installing the packages in Linux distro’s such as Red-hat, Fedora and CenOS.

In RHEL4 installing packages is a tedious process, some times its headache to install all the dependencies. So Red-hat come with a solution to overcome this dependencies problem in most … Continue Reading

Many Windows users are familiar with different modes of execution of their operating system:
a. Safe mode
b. Command prompt only
c. Safe mode with network support
d. Safe mode with vga

And other such options that are presented during the boot-up process. Similarly, Linux has different modes of executing as well, which are known as runlevels. But unlike Windows, we can change runlevels on a fly.

Definition for runlevel : The term … Continue Reading

This article totally deals with how to get access to root user in UBUNTU? So going in to topic, by default Ubuntu will not allow us to log in to root user because root user is super user and we can do any thing if we have root access.

Actually be default in Ubuntu root user is disable(means there is root user with out password set). So if we try to login to root … Continue Reading

There is one command which will show how many USB ports are there and how many usb devices are connectted to the linux system. The command is lsusb
lsusb is a utility for displaying information about USB buses in the system and the devices connected to them.
#lsusb -v will show all the details about usb devices

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