( This document was written in connection with a one day ubuntu ramastering workshop held at College of Engineering Attingal. See this post) System Requirement You need a reasonably good PC with Ubuntu 9.04 installed. It should have plenty of free space ( say 4 GB ) and minimum 1 GB Preparing the host system… Continue reading Remastering ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
( This document was written in connection with Ubuntu Re mastering workshop held at College of Engineering Attingal on 25th of April 2009 . See this post ) On an Ubuntu CD kernel and the associated initrd.gz are found under casper directory. initrd.gz is an initial ram image which helps the kernel to boot the… Continue reading Remastering Ubuntu CD : Exploring initrd.gz
( This document was written in connection with the one day Live Cd workshop held at college of Engineering Attingal. ) 1. Introduction This document describes how to build a minimal live CD based on ubuntu 8.10.. The most recent version of this document can be found at http://brainstorms.in. 2. System Requirements A Host System… Continue reading Building an Ubuntu Live CD from Scratch
India is going to polls during the months of April and May 2009. Elections in India employ Electronic Voting machine(EVM). These machines are manufactured by two companies owned by the defense department. I had the opportunity to get hands on training in operating the machine as a part of pre election training for polling officials.(… Continue reading How do we vote in India with Electronic Voting machine
I am planning to conduct a one day workshop on re-mastering Ubuntu CDs on 25th of April 2009. The agenda for the workshop will be 1) Exploring the ubuntu Live CD i) isolinux – How it works Config files. Customizing boot splash and boot messages. ii) Casper Directory – What is squashfs How to mount… Continue reading One day workshop on Re-mastering Live Cds