Partition Wizard

Partition Wizard is a tool used to create/delete/manipulate the partitions easily.I have mentioned about Gparted in my earlier post.I was searching for similar tool which can be used in windows,and when i searched cnet.com,i found a tool called Partition Wizard.I really got impressed with this tool.It is a very easy and a handy tool,which can be used to manipulate partitions within seconds.It takes a lot of time to create partitions using diskmanagement(ControlPanel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management)utility in windows.This tool is very easy to understand.Those who dont know much about partitions can also easily understand everything using this tool,everything thing is graphically displayed.



I recommend readers to use this tool and save a lot of time in manipulating partitions.

Are you tired of burning the latest distros released onto DVD’s/CD’s to try them out?

Here is a solution to directly install a distro by directly booting the image files from the harddisk of a GNU/Linux operating system. The steps to be followed are prescribed below(Eg. Fedora 10 from Ubuntu 8.10)
1. Mount the iso image of the distro to a mount point
$ mkdir /media/fedora10
$sudo mount -o loop /home/jp/Fedora10.iso /media/fedora10

wget: Download entire websites easy

wget is a nice tool for downloading resources from the internet. The basic usage is wget url:

wget http://linuxreviews.org/

Therefore, wget (manual page) + less (manual page) is all you need to surf the internet. The power of wget is that you may download sites recursive, meaning you also get all pages (and images and other data) linked on the front page:

wget -r http://linuxreviews.org/

But many sites do not want you to download their entire site. To prevent this, they check how browsers identify. Many sites refuses you to connect or sends a blank page if they detect you are not using a web-browser.

GParted-Partitioning Software

No matter which operating system you want to have installed on your machine, there's one thing they all have in common: partitions. These are logical pieces of your actual hard disk space, defining the size and the file system format for the operating systems and data that are going to be placed on them.

Being able to control the partitions is one of the most basic, most important aspects of mastering your operating system. If you have the knowledge and confidence to manipulate the layout, create it, change it or delete it, you can adapt your hardware to your varying needs, without having to blindly rely on default setups defined by vendors or other people.

I will tell my experience in using GParted ...
Around two months back,I installed ubuntu 9.04 on my friend's lap by partitioning

Thanks to VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.