Linux Mint and Windows Vista ~ (Info) Dual Boot-2

Nov 18,2007
Ok...
So I am back here after having a rough time with my system after I did the above installs.
My system crashed after I installed another OS called Centos and tried one more...
I had taken backup of whole data so it did not cost me much except precious time of my life....
SO then the issue was like this...
I reinstalled two times the same OS(mint) and had mounted partitions from windows here too.
But then I dont know y it happened.
After the third install...OS did not let me unmount it...
None of them...
So then I tried reinstalling another OS and then too I was failure...

Next thing I did was restoring the Vista from my recovery CD, but then it also hung...
I suppose this happened because the unmounted partitions were not kind of free...

So I created a new disc image from Linux Mint installation on the whole disc ( which I did unknowingly or accidently without looking at the note that this would erase all the data on my HDD)
So I was left with a system not more than a machine minus OS...

Next thing is back to restoring Vista...
I could do it now...Successfully did it(created three primary paritions)

So today after I completed my CAT exam(which was My God very very hard and threatening kind of) I sat down installing Mint again....
Installed mint on third primary part and then installed SUSE 10 on additional logical partition I had to create...

The GRUB boot loaded, is showing all three systems now during boot....
Congratulations to me...

Linux Mint and Windows Vista ~ (Info) Dual Boot

Hi Guys,
Recently I got an attack to dual boot install Linux and windows on my lappy.
Actually when I bought the 500 GB hard disk(WD) I could easily take backups of my current data and do whatever I wanted to my current disk.

I went searchiyng for Linux bootable discs.and got lot of them
viz. Linux Mint,SuSe 10.3,SuSe Enterprise and others

The first one I tried was Mint.I booted it thru DVD and the way it turned out was an awesome piece of code.

Though I decided to give try to this one finally, i tried the other ones too, but they did not much appeal me in terms of speed and GUI both..

While doing all this stuff, Vista went dead.... The I had to restrore Vista too.
Installed SUSE KDE too.But it did not let properly do a dual boot..
There some problem with SUSE10.3 boot loader.
When I installed it,I could not load it from disc.It always threw an error saying that "Kernel is not loaded.It should be loaded first"

So I deleted it too..Then I went to my first choice, Mint , and what I am currently having on my lappy is a dual boot Vista + Mint.
GRUB loaded works cool here.automatically detected Windows Vista partition...

although I did take a risk by doing all this, I am happy with the performance I am getting with Linux Mint..
If any of you guys is having thoughts similar to me, please share here.

I afterwards found out in office about a site that gives a step-by-step process to dual boot vista,XP and linux on same system in all combinations
viz. [URL="http://apcmag.com/node/5162/&

quot;]http://apcmag.com/node/5162/[/URL]

Another thing I would like to share is that Now I want to try some thing different.
I am thinking of partitioning my portable hard drive and install 1/2 linuxes there.
I am not sure whether this will work or not.
All I know is that unlike windows, you can install linux on a portable hard drive partition too.
Windows says it cant install itself on a portable hard drive which I had (a USB one).

What I actually want to try is whether I can port an OS to some other machine and actually boot there by obviously making some modifications in some or other config in the other system.(But I am not sure, not much time I get to do this after my office timings and other stuff)...

Try Mint...
[URL="http://www.linuxmint.com/index.php"]http://www.linuxmint.com/index.php[/URL]
Its a debian based OS(And I dont much know what a debian based system is-might be kernel or shell)

I am able to have a very good aero experience wth Mint...
You dont always need a Windows for your work...

Dombivali Fast(Madhav Apte's Dialog)

चित्र…..

माती……….

माती, माती, त्यावर शेणाने सारवुन, त्यावर रांगोळी, चित्र असं होतं.

मग तिथे डाम्बर टाकुन सुरु झालं हे सग्ळ हव्यास…..

हव्यास जडला, अधिक जास्तीच हव्यास आंगण वावर पूरेना,

मग नौकरी धंदे सुरु झाले नौकरीत पगार पूरेना,

धंद्यात नाफा पूरेना मग तो मिळ्वणं सुरु झाल पगार वाढी साथी संप, दमदाट्या, मोर्चे नाफा वाढवण्यासाठी खोटेपणा, चिरिमिरी, चोरी शेवाळ वाढतच गेलं दलदलीत फसत गेलं सालं कमळ.

छान लिहायचो चित्र काढायचो पण मग पैसे हवेत स्थिरता म्हणून बेंकेत बी.कोम पर्यन्त एवढ शिकलो, एवढ वाचलं पण पुढे काय तर लेजर भरा, परिपत्रकं लिहा जेवढं नाहायलो आधी तेवढच कोरडं होत गेलो थेंब सुद्धा उरला नही……… ओलाव्याचा….दाखवायला सुद्धा

एका रेशेत उभे रहा….

एका रेशेत लिहा….

एका दमात पद्वी मिळवा…

एका वर्शात कायम व्हा…..

एका इच्छे सठी लग्न करा…

आणि ती दुहेरी करण्यासाठी….मुलं जन्माला घाला एक एक करुन अनेक गो करा आणि मग एकदा….. मरा...

म्हणजे एका कडून एकी कदे एकटं यायचं एकटं जायचं

आणि मधे हा….साला जीवघेणा प्रवास….सालं

आणि मग हा साला प्रवास, प्रवास सरळ नको का?…..मनसारखां नको का?

अरे ठरवल न सग्ळ्यानी की नियम करायचे, पाळायचे? मग ओढायची घाई का? सगळ्यानि मिळून खायचं की सागळ्यांच आपणच खायच?

ठरवा शिस्त नको, मग व्हा बेशिस्त व्हा लाज सोदायची तर मग सगळ्यानी सोदा…… एकट्यानी कशाला? एकट्याला कशाला ते ओझं? जगू आणि जगू द्या हा जर नियम नको असेल तर मग सगळ्यानी मिळून ठराव करा आणि म्हणा…

मारू आणि मरुया….सगळ्यान मारू संपवून ताकू हे सगळ आणि… सांगु त्या विधात्याला….. नाही आवडला तुझा खेळ…… नाही आवडला मला तुझा खेळ

I undersigned …….. Madhav Apte
Making this declaration at
due to my own philosophies
I am not eligible to live on this planet
so please take away my services
and I don’t expect any payment from you… I don’t
infact I would like to give all dues on my accounting
so please lord…. god
and I am enclosing my body with my soul…..intact with this declaration
so please accept this and relieve me at earliest…. please
Thanking you…..your faithfully

( Perhaps if you are reading this then you probably know that this is from "Dombivali Fast" marathi movie about a man who is tired of the tyrant system he lives in and takes up a fight against people co-operating with it. This movie bagged several awards and was acclaimed.)

N Finally...The three RuLeS

Rule#1 : You can only, get smarter by playing a smarter opponent.

Rule#2 : The more sophisticated the game, the more sophisticated the opponent.

Rule#3 : If you change the rules on what controls you..., you will change the rules on what you can control.

What is Guru...Not a definition of Guru though....

There are two types of states where a mind is in...they are :
Practical Nonsense
Sensible Impracticability....

The mixture of these two in different proportions creates a unique state of mind that is responsible for the present state....
These are affected by the following solvents:
Love, Hate, Lust, Agony, Pride, Ego, Prejudice...

Calculations for adding these to the already dense and complex mixture is difficult...but not impossible....
The recipe is freely available everywhere.It cannot be bought but as other all recipes, it cannot be created by everyone, but is created by the chef who has mastered the way to do so..
Such a chef in your life will be called ~The Guru~

Why are we reluctant to stand up for our National Anthem?

Its really a wierd thing to say this at the same time it feels bad to say that this is infact a truth. I am not at all saying that we dont respect our National Anthem, nor do we have a feeling or thought of disrespecting it....

But still the fact remains with major of us that we are reluctant to stand up for our National Anthem. One person looks through the corner of eye to check who is standing up and whether he has really stood up or not. The moment someone stands up, we feel safe as if if nobody would have stood up, it would really be a mess of us to stand up alone. The main thing that causes this is the feeling of insecurity that what will others think if I just stand up with anybody else doing so..They will think I am an over-patriotic guy....Seems cool to let others stand up and we will stand up in a sync with them thus making it not a personal thing but a public thing.....(this is what comes into our minds...believe it or not)

No...this is not criticism...But yes this is a serious problem....

And what more is that a certain sect of the population which is a part of the hip-hop-have-money-will-spend-and-enjoy-without-thinking "culture", that is spreading itself very fast.... These are the ones who believe that freedom is there game of play and they have got it for free as they get everything for free in their lives... These are the ones who believe that celebrating you independence day is by spending you entire day freely roaming around the capital and sitting at Baskin Robbins or Pizza Hut and eating what you want, in whatever quantity you want....

Why are theatre's running a full length Anthem before the movie starts. Now thats a topic over which there's too much of debris all over and I don't want to add to it. But still does it mean that running it in a theatre will really make people respect it? No I dont think so....Because 50% of those who come there still "have" to stand up because others are paying respect to the Anthem..... Such kidney stones can be identified easily since these would sit down even before its over and shall be letting off a sigh of relief as if a big burden has been taken away from them....

Why are we reluctant to stand up for our National Anthem?

Its really a wierd thing to say this at the same time it feels bad to say that this is infact a truth. I am not at all saying that we dont respect our National Anthem, nor do we have a feeling or thought of disrespecting it....

But still the fact remains with major of us that we are reluctant to stand up for our National Anthem. One person looks through the corner of eye to check who is standing up and whether he has really stood up or not. The moment someone stands up, we feel safe as if if nobody would have stood up, it would really be a mess of us to stand up alone. The main thing that causes this is the feeling of insecurity that what will others think if I just stand up with anybody else doing  so..They will think I am an over-patriotic guy....Seems cool to let others stand up and we will stand up in a sync with them thus making it not a personal thing but a public thing.....(this is what comes into our minds...believe it or not)

No...this is not criticism...But yes this is a serious problem....

And what more is that a certain sect of the population which is a part of the hip-hop-have-money-will-spend-and-enjoy-without-thinking "culture", that is spreading itself very fast.... These are the ones who believe that freedom is there game of play and they have got it for free as they get everything for free in their lives... These are the ones who believe that celebrating you independence day is by spending you entire day freely roaming around the capital and sitting at Baskin Robbins or Pizza Hut and eating what you want, in whatever quantity you want....

Why are theatre's running a full length Anthem before the movie starts. Now thats a topic over which there's too much of debris all over and I don't want to add to it. But still does it mean that running it in a theatre will really make people respect it? No I dont think so....Because 50% of those who come there still "have" to stand up because others are paying respect to the Anthem..... Such kidney stones can be identified easily since these would sit down even before its over and shall be letting off a sigh of relief as if a big burden has been taken away from them....