Kick 1) Any Mac explorer close button is opposite side of windows. Funny. I took an hr before getting habituated to it. I always try to search it on the right hand side. After a week now i try to search the same close button in my office XP on left side. We the end user always suffer

Kick 2) Where the hell is the maximize button. Being from windows i always used to open every application and maximize it but there is nothing called maximize in Mac. I suffer a lot for this. Tried to figure out some apps to do the same but after some day those digit forum geek friends (http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57559) actually explained me that there is no concept of maximize in Mac. Actually now i like the Mac concept. The “+” button on the top maximize the explorer only to the limit it requires. So if you have two folders in a folder why do you want the whole screen to show that up. So i feel that’s innovative. Mac rocks.

Kick 3) Mac don’t have a refresh thing on its desktop. Crap that was useless. Why the hell we need refresh on windows. Mac do the same without refresh.

Kick 4) Cool so far until unless last Wednesday when i took a 1/2 TB Segate Free Agent Go. I use windows on my desktop and mac on laptop and wanted to use my PHD(Portable hard drive) on both of them simultaneously but the big question. What will be the file format?

Try1: NTFS >> Mac can read NTFS and cannot write to it NTFS anyways is windows property so no problem with windows.

Try2: FAT32 >> Mac and Windows are happy with it. Both can read and write. But the tragedy is Fat32 supports only 1GB of max file size. Most of my movies are above 1GB. Sad i cant compress each and every movie.

So who came to my rescue?

NTFS-3G: This is a mac software which will allow to read and write NTFS on Mac. Download it here. http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ God bless ntfs 3g org.

Kick 5) I copied all my movies to my new drive. Now i can move around with my movies. But wait! How to search the whole thing. OK Mac support spotlight search but it doesn’t search external drives. What the hell! Windows is so good. I can search any file any where. But there should be some hack. Ya there is.

How to add external hardrives and portable drives to spotlight search?

Easy. Pull up Terminal. Write Sudo -s and enter your password. Now execute the following.

sudo mdutil -i “on” “/volumes/drivename”

Once this is done your new drive is added to spotlight index and again i say Mac rocks for Geeks!

Story cont….

The interface and other features though looks similar.

To get a copy just follow the link:
Mac user: http://picasa.google.com/mac/
Linux user: http://picasa.google.com/linux/

Here is a video for Mac user. You can see the features.

Here are the list of features for Linux users:

Sync your Picasa 3 and Picasa Web Albums edits Tired of having to manually re-upload your photos after making further edits? By enabling ‘Sync to Web,’ edits made to your photos in Picasa 3 are automatically transferred to your corresponding online albums. You can sync the following changes: Picasa 3 edits (Basic Fixes, Tuning, and Effects) Photos added or deleted in Picasa 3 Captions, tags, or geotags Getting started The Sync to Web button is located on the right side of each folder or album header. When you click this button, you’ll first be prompted to upload the photos in that folder or album to Picasa Web Albums. You can change the upload size, album privacy setting, or even add a watermark to your uploaded photos. When the upload is complete, any subsequent Picasa 3 edits to those photos will automatically transfer to your online album. Troubleshooting You can disable the sync feature at any time by clicking the Sync to Web button again, or by selecting Disable Sync in the drop-down menu to the right of the Share button in the folder or album header. All your photos and their edits up to this point remain online, but any new edits and changes will no longer be synchronized. The following changes don’t transfer to your online albums: Reordering photos Changes made to folder or album properties Changes made to filenames

Retouch your images Always want to be airbrushed? Use the Retouch tool to remove unsightly blemishes and improve photo quality. It can also help you to restore old photos with marks, water stains, and scratches to excellent condition. When editing any photo, just click the Retouch button on the ‘Basic Fixes’ tab. Adjust the size of your brush, and use the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out of the photo for precise edits. Click once to highlight the area you’d like to retouch, and then find another portion of the picture that should take the place of your highlighted area. Hover over this replacement area and click a second time.

Add text or watermarks to your photos

You can easily personalize your photos using the Watermark and Text tools.

Print captions

Your captions are about to see a little more action. You can now print your captions or photo file names on or below your photos.

Upload easily to Picasa Web Albums

Use the Drop Box to hold quic
k
uploads and upload throttling to multi-task during your upload.

Control your Picasa Web Albums settings

If you have an online album in Picasa Web Albums, you can now control the online settings through the corresponding folder or album in Picasa 3.

Manage folders on your computer

It’s now possible to move entire folders around on your hard drive from within Picasa 3.

Get more information about your photos

We’ve added new icons and tools to the Library view to quickly communicate useful information about your photos.

allright people.. lots of ya all seem to be interested in this.

it is quite simple. Since things have gone multi-giga-byte now a days, handeling one DVD is way easier then poppin n jiggling six CDs one after the other.

Ok here are the steps.

What u need:
1. The CD isos of Fedora core 5 ofcourse(the 1st five only, as sixth is rescue)
2. Magic ISO to edit images. or any other free alternative
3. An editor.
4. A Dvd Burner.
5. Daemon tools(makes life easier and lessens the free space req.)
6. 4 Gb free HDD space(+ the space the CD isos are taking up)

HowTo:
1. Copy the CD1 to a temp folder.(there should be 4 GB space on this drive)
2. Open Magic ISO and browse for the file.
3. From the root of the image see for a file named “.diskinfo”
4. Right click and extract on desktop.
5. Open a command promp and type “edit”(notepad doest work with this nicely, u can use textpad too)

6. Browse to the “.diskinfo” file. it will look like this:

1142397842.393345Fedora Corex86_641Fedora/baseFedora/RPMSFedora/pixmaps

7. Edit the file to look like this, basically append “,2,3,4,5″ after “1″ in line 4.

1142397842.393345Fedora Corex86_641,2,3,4,5Fedora/baseFedora/RPMSFedora/pixmaps

8. Save the file.

9. Drag and drop it to the open iso in Magiciso.

10. Right click on daemon tools in the taskbar and goto virtual CD/DVD-ROM>set no of deviced>4 Drives.

11. After the drives have been created left click on daemon tools again and select “Device 0″ and Browse to the 2nd CD image to mount it.

12. Repeat the above step for Cds 3 thru 5. (and select device 1 thru 3 respectively). You should have cds 2 thru 5 loaded in virtual drives. check thru My computer.

13. Next, for each drive(mounted image) go to Drive:FedoraRPMS and select and drag and drop all files onto the magic iso window under the folder FedoraRPMS.(alternatively add then thru magic iso, whatever, just add all). You will be asked to over write a file “TRANS.TBL” each time u drag and drop. just select yes(for explanation see page 3 of this thread).

14. After you have added all rpm files. select File>save under magiciso. rename the file to DVD from CD.

15. You are all done. Now Burn and enjoy!!!

Clean UP:
1. Left click on deamon tools and select unmount all.
2. Right click deamon tools and goto virtual CD/DVD-ROM>set no of deviced>1 Drives
3. Delete the CD isos if u want to free up space(1st check the DVD Image to be sure)
4. Delete “.diskinfo” from desktop

SHORTCOMING: This media will NOT pass the media check. so do no test it. If u are paranoid’nf then load a virtual machine and emulate the linux setup and “media-check” the individual cd isos there. To make it pass the media check u need to regenerate the checksums. which is beyond the scope here and worthless for home users. others google.

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EDIT: src2206 and aditya.shevade were interested in the reverse i.e. DVD to CD iso…
(this is a painfull method)

1. Go to the fedora website hosting the CD isos.
2. Directly mount the CD isos one by one in deamon tools via the webaddress(suppose drive x)
3. Run “CMD” and execute the following commands:
4. Change directory to drive x by typeing “x:”
5. type “copy .diskinfo c:cd1.diskinfo”
6. Type “tree > c:cd1.txt”
7. Load the next iso in deamon tools and repeat the two commands above but keep changing the ‘cd1′ to cd2 and so on(in both commands).
8. Now after u have all the directory structure u gotta get working. load the DVD iso in deamon tools
9. Now using explorer create five folders named CD1 … CD5
10. See the directory structure but running CMD and using the edit utility.
11. Now for each folder duplicate the contents by copying the files from DVD according to the CD structure.
12. Rename each “cdx.diskinfo” file to “.diskinfo” and place in respectibe CD folder
13. Make iso using magiciso or nero.
14. Varify the file size.
15. Any files u dont find in the DVD, copy them off by loading the CD iso
again in Deamon tools directly from the web.

I sincerely dont think u will go thru the above painfull process.
I am not aware of any simpler processes except downloading the ISO images.
Just think of my effort to write this procedure and try it. give feedback.
I havent tried the above so no promices but logically it should work.

Having trouble figuring out how to install anything in Ubuntu? Have you been thinking questions like these? “Where’s the EXE?”, “Where do I need to extract this to?”, “How do I run it?”, “Where did it go?”, “Why is it so complicated?” Is it really? It’s just as easy in Ubuntu as it is in Windows, only different, and that is what this guide will teach you all about.

* The package manager

* Installing software with Synaptic

o The 3 steps: Search, mark and apply

o But what if my program isn’t available through Synaptic?

o I installed it, but where did my program go?

o How do I uninstall the program?

* Installing software with the terminal

* Installing a package manually (.deb, .rpm, .tar.gz, .sh, .bin, .exe, …)

* Appendix

o Enabling extra repositories

o Using CDs as offline repositories

o Navigating the terminal

o Adding a launcher/shortcut to your desktop

The package manager

Linux applications are almost all open source ^[1] and they’re, unlike typical Windows programs, highly dependant on external libraries to work. You don’t have to understand what libraries are, but just that Windows programs typically include parts of libraries in their installers, taking up lots of space after they’ve been installed because the same libraries have duplicates many places on your harddisk; Linux programs usually don’t do this.

Most Linux operating systems have evolved a system where you can download the program, along with any needed dependencies, without having duplicates scattered all over your harddisk saving you lots of space. At the same time, this system allows you to have a central location from which to install and update packages. This system is called the package manager and on Ubuntu you’ll meet it in the form of apt-get, aptitude, Add/Remove…, Update Manager and Synaptic. All these programs are frontends to the same package manager^[2] built right into Ubuntu.

Installing software with Synaptic

Synaptic is a graphical program for installing packages and probably the one you’ll feel the most comfortable with. You can launch it from System → Administration → Synaptic Package Manager (paths will vary depending on your locale, the System menu is the third menu on the menubar at the very top of your screen); as a safety precaution it will ask you for your password before proceeding! It’s not because it’s dangerous, Ubuntu is just very strict with trying to keep you, and more importantly, non-administrator users, from messing up your system.

The Synaptic Package Manager

The 3 steps: Search, mark and apply

1. First you search for the package you want to install. Note that there are thousands of themes, applications, libaries and documentation available right away in Synaptic. All of these packages are located on the Ubuntu servers for you to download and update; the package manager essentially works like a kind of improved Windows update that will not only keep your operating system updated, but also all of the non-critical programs you’ve installed through it. You can find packages by looking for them inside the categories on the sidebar to the left or search for them. Click the search icon in the toolbar to search.
   

   The search popup that will pop up when you hit search

2. When you’ve found the package you want to install, right-click on it and mark it to be installed. Most likely it will inform you of a bunch of dependencies that will also be installed in the same procedure; this is all being taken care of automatically! Note that you can also remove packages in the same way (right-clicking and selecting remove instead). Also note that you can mark more than one package to be installed, speeding up the install procedure significantly.
   

   Selecting a package for installation in Synaptic

3. Once you have marked all the packages you want to install, you can click the apply icon. This will download, install and set up everything! It’s that easy.

But what if my program isn’t available through Synaptic?

Trust me, it probably is. If it isn’t, here are some of the reasons why it’s not and how to fix it:

• The Ubuntu package manager gets its package lists from the main Ubuntu repositories, but there are more repositories than just these default ones. There are even more official Ubuntu repositories! Try enabling extra repositories before you give up all hope!
• If you’re not connected to the Internet, you’re not completely out of luck. There is a chance that your package is available on a CD.
• Even if the package is not available in any repositories, you can still do the old Windows trick: installing it manually. But remember, there are more types of package-formats in Linux than you can think of. You might want to look at the explanation of how you go about installing a package manually.

I installed it, but where did my program go?

Usually your Applications menu is updated with a launcher to your new program, but sometimes this doesn’t happen automatically. Here are some ways to find a link to your new program:

• Install the Debian menu. The Debian menu has a much more thorough list of your installed applications, and it will be available as a category in your existing Applications menu. You need to install the pa
  ck

  age called menu and possibly restart X (ctrl + alt + backspace) for it to show up.

• They will very likely be available as a terminal command with the same name as the package. Try running the package name as a command in the terminal. Say I’ve installed the package muine^[3] through Synaptic, then I open up the terminal and enter muine ending with a press on the return/enter key. Muine fires up. Note that the application will close when you close the terminal window! To avoid this behavior, press Alt + F2 and the Run Application window will show up; Type in muine to start it. Sometimes the command isn’t called exactly the same as the package; try typing the beginning letters and then press tab twice. This will either give you the name of the command or a list of names to choose from.
• Right-click on your package in Synaptic, select Properties from the menu and click on the tab labeled Installed Files. There will be a list of installed programs; the ones installed inside the folder /usr/bin are most likely the name(s) of the command(s).
  

  The installed files of the music player Muine

How do I uninstall the program?

When you want to remove a program, you do exactly the same as when installing – just select Mark for Removal instead of Mark for Installation in step 2. If you want to remove configuration files as well (maybe you want some weird modifications undone) select Mark for Complete Removal. Remember to apply the changes!

Installing software with the terminal

Very often, you’ll see other Ubuntu users saying “You can install program ABC with this code …” and then they’ll provide you with a command you can input in the terminal. This not unlike what Synaptic does. In fact, Synaptic uses these commands below the friendly user interface! You can find the terminal at Applications → Accessories → Terminal. The two commands that you can use are:

sudo apt-get install ABC and sudo aptitude install ABC

ABC is just a fictious package in this case, not a real one. The sudo part of the command means you temporarily grant super-user/administrator rights to the command, provided you supply a correct user password. It’s the same thing that happens when you open up Synaptic, only in the terminal instead! If you run aptitude by itself like this sudo aptitude, you get something that looks like a command-line version of Synaptic.

The Aptitude user interface

It’s also possible to search from the command-line like it is in Synaptic. Try this:

apt-cache search ABC or aptitude search ABC

To uninstall a package:

sudo apt-get remove ABC and sudo aptitude remove ABC

Removing configuration files as well:

sudo apt-get remove --purge ABC and sudo aptitude purge ABC

Though the command-line can be scary for new users, as you can see it’s fairly simple and straight-forward to use and has many of the same features as Synaptic when it comes to installing software. Some users prefer installing software through the terminal, others don’t. You decide for yourself what you like best.

Installing a package manually

Are you absolutely sure you can’t find the package in Synaptic? Did you try enabling extra repositories? If you’ve tried all this with little or no success, here’s how you do it the Windows-style way. Download a package (.deb, .rpm, .tar.gz, .sh, .bin, .exe) and let’s have a look.

Installing a …

Debian Package (.deb)

When you download a program with the package manager, you actually download Debian packages! It’s possible to install individual Debian packages you’ve downloaded yourself, but unless they’re built specifically for Ubuntu, they’re not guaranteed to work. Installing them is rather simple in Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake: double-click the package in Nautilus or on your desktop and a package installer will show up:

The Debian Package installer (GDebI)

You simply press Install Package to install. If you have a missing dependency, it will inform you of that. It will also inform you if there’s a newer version available from the repositories!

Another way to install a Debian package is to use the command dpkg which is what the package manager uses to manipulate Debian packages (or short: debs). The syntax is as follows: if your package is located on your desktop and your username is carl, then you install the package test.deb with dpkg -i /home/carl/Desktop/test.deb. You need to take care of dependencies yourself, so it’s not the optimal way of installing software.

RPM Package (.rpm)

RPM is another popular way of packaging software, and it’s used by popular distributions such as Fedora Core, SUSE Linux and Mandriva. RPM is not used by the Ubuntu Package Manager, but there does exist a command for converting an RPM into a Deb; this doesn’t mean that any RPM will work on your system, though! The same program can also install the RPM directly so that you won’t have to do this yourself. The command is not available right away so you’ll need to install it yourself – the package is called alien and is of course available through Synaptic. If the user carl wants to install an RPM called test.rpm located on his desktop, he will enter sudo alien -i /home/carl/Desktop/test.rpm.

Desktop Theme (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, …)

Installing themes^[4] is relatively painless in Gnome. You open the Theme Preferences which you’ll find at System → Preferences → Theme. With this application you can change icons, controls and window borders to your liking. To install your theme, simply drag and drop the package onto the Theme Preferences window and confirm the dialog window that pops up. To use your new theme, edit one of the existing themes to use your new icons, controls or window borders.

Click Install to install the new desktop theme

Login Screen Theme (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, …)

Installing themes for your login screen is as simple as installing desktop themes. You open up Log

in Window Preferences in System → Administration → Login Screen and drag and drop your theme onto the window. Confirm the dialog window that pops up. To use your new theme, select it in the list of themes.

Click Install to install the new login screen theme

Source Package (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, …)

Sometimes all you’ve got is a package full of uncompiled source code. Luckily, you don’t need to be a programmer to know how to compile and install a package with source code. Back in the old days, this was the only way to install software on Linux and there is a standard way of installing these files. It will not work in every case, but it will in most (if you have the right dependencies installed). To compile a package you must first extract it somewhere. This is easily done, simply right-click on the package and select Extract Here.

To proceed you must have the compiler tools installed. They all come with the package build-essential, available in Synaptic. When you’re sure you have the compiler tools installed, you fire up the terminal and change directory to the one you’ve just extracted (if you’re not sure how to do that see: Navigating the terminal. When you’re in the correct directory you execute a configure script: ./configure. Don’t worry if it complains that there is no configure script – many packages don’t come with one! Then you compile it with make and after it’s been compiled you can install it. There are two ways:

Normal install: If you want to install it the normal “primitive” way, type sudo make install. To remove the temporary files you run make clean. To uninstall the program you run sudo make uninstall. These two clean-up commands don’t always work, though, the programmer needs to have enabled them.

Package manager install: If you want to install it in a way that means it can be easily removed from inside the package manager, first install the package checkinstall. To install the package type sudo checkinstall. This will take slightly longer than a normal install and quite possibly you’ll have to supply a description of the application yourself (and edit the other information slightly). If the need arises, this will be easy to take care of from inside the checkinstall program.

Shell Script Installer (.sh, .bash)

You can run the shell script inside a terminal with the command sh. If the script is called test.sh and is on the desktop of user carl, you can install it with sh /home/carl/Desktop/test.sh.

Binary Installer (.bin, …)

If the installer is called test.bin and is located on the user carl’s desktop, you can run it inside your terminal with /home/carl/Desktop/test.bin. Keep in mind that the installer might not have permission to execute in your file-system. To change permissions so that the file is executable, you right-click on the file on the desktop and select Properties; a window will open. Click on the tab labeled Permissions inside the window. There will be some boxes you can tick which tell the system what you’re allowed to do with the file. Tick the box that says Execute outside the label that says Owner.

Permissions are tied to every file in the file-system

You can also run the command chmod +x /home/carl/Desktop/test.bin to make the file executable.

Windows Executable (.exe)

If you, after having searched around the Internet for a Linux version or a viable Linux replacement for the Windows program you want to install, find that there is no Linux program that will replace it, there is a slight chance the Windows executable will run on Linux^[5]. This is not a proper solution to your problem, not in any way, but for some people it’s the only way. To run Windows executables you need to install a package called wine. When that is done, run the command wine PATH in the terminal where PATH is the path to your EXE. If the user carl has an EXE called test.exe inside his home folder, he’ll run the command wine /home/carl/test.exe to execute it. Be adviced that running Windows programs in WINE is often very buggy and probably won’t work to your satisfaction; very often it doesn’t work at all!

If the executable you ran was an installer wizard, your program will be installed in a hidden folder located inside your home folder. If the user carl has installed a program called Test, it will probably be installed to the folder “/home/carl/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Test” (remember to include quotes around paths with spaces in them when typing them in a terminal). EXEs from inside this folder can be run with wine. You might want to create at launcher/shortcut for your desktop to easily start up your app. Here is a Windows program run with wine:

The Windows application Graph

Appendix

The following isn’t directly connected to installing software and themes.

Enabling extra repositories

On a standard Ubuntu installation, Ubuntu is configured to use the main repository. There are however, other official repositories (or sections on the Ubuntu server) that aren’t available right away. There is one called Universe which is the largest one. It’s a pool of community-maintained software, but it is not officially supported by Ubuntu. There is also a section called Multiverse which has software under questionable licences. The third section is called Restricted and is a very small pool of software with restricted copyright.

To enable the rest of the Ubuntu repositories you open Synaptic and select an option in its menubar: Settings → Repositories. Here is a list of the current repositories. To enable the missing section select each of the packages that are labeled binary, click on Edit and tick the boxes outside the sections of the Ubuntu repositories you want to enable.

Enabling the universe, restricted and multiverse repositories

When you’re done, Synaptic will probably ask you to reload your list of packages; agree to do that. Now your list of available packages should have increased significantly.

Using CDs as offline package repositories

The best way to install new software in Ubuntu is to be connected to the Internet, but sometimes this is not possible. When you install Ubuntu the first time, your install CD should have been added as a repository. If it isn’t, you can add it from the same window you

href="http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing.html#enabling_extra_repositories">enable extra repositories from. There’s a button labeled Add CDrom; press this, insert your install CD and it will be added to the repositories.

Adding a CD to the package manager

You can now install software through Synaptic without being connected to the Internet, provided the install CD is inserted. Note that the install CD has software solely from the main repository, not Universe, Multiverse or Restricted! There is an ongoing project to create an Addon CD or DVD with select packages from the other sections of the Ubuntu repositories. You can download a preliminary CD ISO file for Ubuntu 5.10 ‘Breezy Badger’ and try it out if you want to, but this guide will not go further into the subject^[6].

Navigating the terminal

The standard terminal on Ubuntu is Gnome Terminal which can be found in Applications → Accessories → Terminal. A terminal is in a way very similar to a file manager in that it’s always inside a specific folder and is able to navigate to other folders and do regular file management. By default it will be inside your home folder when you run it. To confirm that your terminal is indeed browsing your home folder, type pwd ending with a press on enter. The pwd command will output the path to the current folder.

To see a list of files and directories inside the current directory, run the command ls. If you want to navigate up the directory tree run cd ... If you want to navigate down the directory tree run cd NAME where NAME is the name of the folder you want to navigate to. Example: if Tom is inside his home folder and there’s a directory called test inside it, he will run cd test to change directory. If he wants to go back he can run cd ... I he ever gets lost he can run cd by itself; this will take him back to his home folder.

Adding a launcher/shortcut to your desktop

These are well-known from Windows. Launchers are shortcuts to your application allowing you to easily run it. To add a launcher, right-click somewhere on your desktop and select Create Launcher…. This will open a dialog from which you can enter information about the launcher. Remember to enter a name as well as a path to the executable. This is what carl would enter if he wanted a launcher for the executable named test located in his home folder:

Creating a new launcher

source: Ubuntu

# yum -y install yumex

2. Once the installation is over, get into yumex [Applications->System Tools->Yum Extender]

3. Go to the Install View once it’s done updating everything and add kernel and kernel-devel packages, but for the i686 architecture

4. Go to yumex again and remove kernel and kernel-devel packages currently for the i586 architecture

5. Once it is done, reboot into the non-xen kernel and remove kernel-xen and kernel-devel-xen packages

6. Boom you are done and you can get to installing the packages for nvidia/ati drivers, ntfs support etc.

7. # yum install kmod-nvidia –enablerepo=livna-testing

8. Reboot the maching, before the login screen you must see the NVIDIA screen.

9. After loging in Click over Enable 3D effects Tab and Bang. Enjoy the 3D revolution.

10. Here are some of the command line short cuts:

ctrl + alt + down = unfold

ctrl + alt + right/left = next/back cube face

ctrl + alt + + shift+ right/left = next/back cube face, with current window

ctrl + alt + Button1 (usually left click) = rotate cube

ctrl + alt + d = show desktop

alt + tab = switch window

pause = Scale / Previously exposé

super + mouse scroll = zoom

alt + scroll = transparency

1. The first thing you will have to do is copy all the ISO files to your hard disk. Make sure that you copy all the files to the root of the partition and the partition must be formatted in FAT32. If you do not copy the ISO to the root of the partition (i.e. keep inside a folder) the setup will not able to detect the files.

2. Now use winrar to open the first ISO file (disc1). Go inside the folder “isolinux” and copy the files initrd.img and vmlinuz to your c:boot. You will need to enable viewing of hidden and system files in order to locate c:boot.

3. Now download the file called grub4dos from here. Extract the folder “boot” and the file “grldr” from the downloaded zip file. Inside the folder “boot” is another folder called “grub”; copy this folder to c:boot. Copy the file “grldr” to c:

4. Then open c:bootgrubmenu.lst and add these following lines.

title Fedora Core 5 Installkernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuzinitrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

5. Now you have to add grub to your c:boot.ini file. Open boot.ini and add this line in the end:

C:grldr=”Start GRUB”

6. You are now ready to install FC5. Restart your PC and from the boot screen select “Start GRUB”. This will load GRUB.

7. From the grub screen select “Fedora Core 5 Install”. The setup will now start and you can now select the hard drive partition where you copied the ISO files.

Now sit back and let it install. No more burning and wasting discs and even no more changing CDs during install. After the installation is over you can delete the folder c:bootgrub as well as c:grldr and also the reference to this file from your boot.ini file, as these are no longer needed.

I just installed FC5 by this method so I can guarantee you that it will work. Enjoy!!!

UPDATE:

For Suse its a bit different. Instead of initrd.img and vmlinuz, you have to copy initrd and linux. So the changes to c:bootgrubmenu.lst will be this

title Suse Installkernel (hd0,0)/boot/linuxinitrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd

Also you have to type the full name of the first ISO when it asks for the path. So write it down before you begin installation.