Thursday, March 12, 2009

Making ubuntu LiveUD

If U have to install Ubuntu and you do not have CD drive .You can make a LiveUsbDisk to install ubuntu from your usb disk.

UNetbootin is a cool util with which U can do it. They have well documented how to make it in their wiki so there is no point in repeating it here.

I installed ubuntu 8.10 through it haven't really tried other linus distros.But they offer the option of many other distros.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

rsync for windows

Transition from *nix to windows platform is hard..it's high time someone writes "*nix to *dos for dummies". Last day I had to sync two folders and I was searching something similar to rsync in unix.Usually most of my search for tools in windows ends up in a free trail installers.Luckily this time i was blessed. Although not so feature rich as rsync it does the work done .I am talking od xcopy command in windows command promt.

enough of bla bla bla tell how do we sync to folders..

xcopy [source] [destination] \s \d

\s : for subdirectories (similar to -r in *nix)
\d : for copying just the folder differences