Tagged: Linux

May 21, 2016

Install Windows/Linux OS from a bootable USB Pendrive created using Rufus tool

If you want to install Windows OS or Linux OS in your computer using a USB Pendrive, then you need software Rufus to do so.

Download Rufus : https://rufus.akeo.ie/

You need to have ISO image file of Windows/Linux OS installation disc image in order to create a bootable USB pendrive using Rufus tool.

CREATE A LINUX OS BOOTABLE PENDRIVE

Insert a USB pendrive of size 4 GB or more into the computer.
Start “Rufus”
Select the pendrive in “Device” menu, in which you want to create the bootable USB pendrive

Click on Icon as shown below

Select the Linux OS ISO image file

Click “Start”

If shown this message click “OK”

Click “OK” to start creating bootable USB pendrive

When completed click “Close”

Linux OS bootable Pendrive created which can be used to install Linux OS

CREATE A MICROSOFT WINDOWS OS BOOTABLE PENDRIVE

Insert a USB Pendrive of size 8 GB or more into the computer
Start “rufus”
Select the pendrive in “Device” menu, in which you want to create the bootable USB pendrive

Click on Icon as shown below

Select the Windows OS ISO image file
Click “Open”

Click “Start” to start the creation of bootable USB pendrive

CREATE A LINUX OS BOOTABLE PENDRIVE

Insert a USB pendrive of size 4 GB or more
Start “Rufus”
Select the pendrive in “Device” menu, in which you want to create the bootable USB pendrive

Click on Icon as shown below

Select the Linux OS ISO installation file
Click “Open”

Click “Start”

Sometimes Rufus will download files from internet for Linux OS
Click “Yes”

Click “OK”

Click “OK” to start creating bootable USB pendrive

Linux OS bootable USB pendrive is being created

On completion click “close”

Linux OS bootable installation USB pendrive created

June 12, 2014

Settings To Do After Installing Linux Mint 17 Qiana MATE

After installing linux mint 17 MATE edition there are some good settings that can be done . I am merely suggesting you to do these settings. Your computer needs to be connected to Internet. Better you have a fast Internet. Enter password whenever asked during the whole process.

Start Control Center

You can do a lot of settings

Start the terminal

We need to install some themes and icons before we are able to use it.
To do so write these in terminal. Press “Enter” or “Y” whenever asked during installation.

THEMES

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ambiance-radiance-colors
sudo apt-get install mediterranean-theme
sudo apt-get install ambiance-lime
sudo apt-get install mintx-colors-gtk-theme
sudo apt-get install delorean-dark

ICONS

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/icons
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme
sudo apt-get install faience-icon-theme

Open appearance from “Control center”.
Click “Customize” as shown below.

Select a theme.

Select a “Windows border” theme

Select a “Icon set”

Select a “pointer”
close window

Start synaptic package manager

Search “times new roman”
Right click “ttf-mscorefonts-installer” .
Select “mark for installation”.
Click “Apply”

Goto fonts tab .

Select “Arial” font as shown below.
Close window

start desktop settings from “control center”.
Select which icon you want to see in desktop.
Close window

Start “notification settings” from “Control center’
Select position ” Top left”.
close window

Start “preferred applications” from “control center”
Select default applications

When done close window

Start “Screensaver preferences”.
Select screensaver.
Select other options as required.

Start “disks” from “control center”
here you can see all the hard disks and partitions
here i will do settings to automount partitions . When linux boots , it does not mount some partitions be default. It better you do settings to auto mount some partition that you use.
You can see star mark in partition which gets auto mounted .
I need partition 8 to auto mount.
Select the partition 8.
Click on setting icon as shown below and select “Edit mount options”

Turn off the “Automatic mount options”
Tick “Mount at startup” and “Show in user interface”
click “OK”

Now you can see star mark in partition 8 which will get auto mounted .
close window

Start “mouse” in control center.
increase the mouse sensitivity

i disabled the touchpad while typing.
close window

Start “power management” from control center.
Do settings as required.

When done close window

Start “sound” from control center.

By default Vlc media player is installed.
Start VLC .
Select Tools-> preferences.

Tick “allow only one instance”

Tick “Always on top”

Select “all” as shown below.

Untick “resize interface to the native video size”

Select resampling quality to 8

Select ” Sinc fuction (best quality) “
Close window

Right click on panel and select “properties”

you may want to increase the size . for me 30 pixels was good enough

you may want to change the theme of panel .
you make the panel trasparent

about 50% transparency.
When done close window

Select “add to panel’ as shown below

there are various applets that you can add in panel

Select “network monitor” .
Click “Add”
close window

Addtitionally you may install softwares. Install Variety

Variety is more of a fully featured application than just a simple AppIndicator, but I’ll add it here anyway since I’m sure many of you will love it.

Variety is a wallpaper changer. Variety automatically downloads and changes your wallpaper on a given interval. Using Variety , you’ll get cool, fresh wallpapers each day. Or each hour. Or… well, it’s up to you when the wallpaper changes.

To install Variety in Linux Mint 17 Qiana, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peterlevi/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install variety

start variety.
Tick “Start variety when the computer starts”
untick all under ” images “

Add images files or the folder with images

untick “enable sharing on facebook … “.
when done close window.

Start “Software manager” as shown below

Un-tick “search while typing”

Clementine is a good audio player.

Search “Clementine”.
Double click on it.

click “install”

Conky is a system monitor that can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window. Conky has many built-in objects, as well as the ability to execute external programs or scripts (either external or through built-in lua support).

Similarly you can install others softwares.

Deluge is a full-featured, multi-platform, multi-interface BitTorrent client using libtorrent-rasterbar in its back end and featuring multiple user-interfaces: GTK+, web and console. Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.

GPRename is a complete batch renamer for files and directorys. GPRename easily can replace, remove, insert, delete and number consecutively files and directorys.

OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source, non-linear video editor. It can create and edit videos and movies using many popular video, audio, and image formats. Create videos for YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Metacafe, iPod, Xbox, and many more common formats!

gufw is an easy and intuitive way to manage your Linux firewall. It supports common tasks such as allowing or blocking pre-configured, common p2p, or individual port(s), and many others! HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Furius ISO Mount is a simple application for mounting ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NG image files even without burning them to disk. uGet is a download manager. uGet is a very Powerful & Lightweight download manager application with a large inventory of features. uGet is an Open Source download manager application for GNU/Linux developed with GTK+.

You also need to install flashgot downloader manager addon in firefox .

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashgot/

Now when you download files from firefox, you get this message . Select “Flashgot” then “uGet” . Now the file will be downloaded by uGet download manager.

You can install more software from synaptic package manager

Search and install GNOME Nettool is a network information tool which provides user interfaces for some of the most common command line network tools i MediaInfo-gui is a utility used for retrieving technical information and other metadata about audio or video files.

Installation through terminal

Simple screen recorder Write following commands in terminal to install

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder

I-Nex is free system info tool which is used to gather information on the main system components (devices) such as CPU, motherboard, memory, video memory, sound, USB devices and so on.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:i-nex-development-team/stable
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nemh/gambas3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install i-nex

CPU-G is useful utility to show hardware information. It detects hardware and display details about everything, it shows information about CPU(Processor), RAM(Active/Inactive, Free, Used and cached), Motherboard and Chipset, Bios Details, Graphic card details, and details of installed Linux.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cpug-devs/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cpu-g

Firefox font settings

Select default font “Arial”

To Resize desktop icons right click on the desktop icons and select “Resize icon”

Now you can resize the desktop icons

Update manager Preferences

LINUX MINT 17 MATE Update Manager_003

increase the Auto-refresh time

May 21, 2014

Linux Mint Debian Cinnamon – installation & configuration

Linux Mint Debian Cinnamon

System requirements:

x86 processor (LMDE 64-bit requires a 64-bit processor. LMDE 32-bit supports all x86 processors, non-PAE included).
1GB RAM
5 GB of disk space
Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
DVD drive or USB port

Download link

http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

Select your language

Select your location

Select keyboard layout

Enter username and password

Select the hard disk where you want to install Linux.

You need to have a linux partition to install linux. I am using ext4 type partition.
As you can see below that /dev/sda3 is already a ext4 type partition and /dev/sda10 is a swap type partition.
To install linux in dev/sda3 double click on it .

Select Mount point ” / ‘
Select format as “ext4”

Select the ext4 partition. Click “forward” to install.

If you do not have a partition in which Linux will be installed, then click “Edit partitions”.
gParted window will open as shown below.
Delete an existing partition

/dev/sda3 installed. now i get 28.87 GiB unallocated space.

I also delete /dev/sda10 partition just to demonstrate.

Right click on unallocated space and select new.

Select as shown below. click “Add”

Select another unallocated space.
Right click and select “new”

Select as shown below.
click “Add”

Click “Apply All Operations” .

Click “Apply”

ext4 and swap type partition created.
Close “GParted”

Click “refresh”

Select ext4 type partition and double click.

Select as shown below.

Select ext4 type partition and click “forward”

wait few minutes for installation to complete.
restart.

Start “update manager”

Click “Install Updates”

When asked click “Forward”

Linux mint settings

power management settings.

install software from software manager.

system monitor

May 21, 2014

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Installation & Configuration

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Select your language

Select “yes”

Connect to internet if possible

Select something else

You need to create a ext4 type Linux partition and if possible a swap partition.
If you already have a partition in which you want to install Ubuntu, then you can select it and click “change”.

Select “use as ” “Ext4 journaling file system”.
tick “Format the partition”
Select Mount point “/”
click “OK”

click continue

now you are ready to install Ubuntu. Click “install now”

If you do not have linux partition the you can create one from free space.
I have 31001 MB free space.
Next i will delete /dev/sda10 swap partition by clicking ” – “.

Now I get free space of size 35434 MB.
Select free space. Click ” + ” to create a partition.

Select as shown below. Select type of partition is primary if possible.
Click “OK”

Now i have created /dev/sda3 an ext4 type partition where linux will be installed
Select free space.
Click ” + ” to create another linux partition of type “swap”