( 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

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

I wrote this charater device driver for learning how they work.This is actually an assignment that we got today. .  Prof. TS Reddy  from JNTU helped me to debug the code.  I am planning to make a tutorial on it once I reach home. The course is becoming more and more exciting.  The internet access… Continue reading Learning device drivers

I learned this technique from a fellow participant . $ yes |nl |head -100 |cut -f1 You can remove the  new lines as below. $  yes |nl |head -100 | cut -f1| tr ‘\n’ ‘\t’ Cool. Otherwise, my course is progressing well. I wrote a simple file transfer daemon and implemented  the client..  Now, I… Continue reading Generating number sequences in shell scripts