Showing posts with label Earn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earn. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Create a GRUB Boot Splash Background

Here i show you how to change the background of GRUB Boot splash. To do this you have follow some requirement. They are
  • It must be sized at 640x480. 
  • It must be a .xpm format image file.
  • It must contain no more than 14 colors.


Now we start, Suppose that you got a image in .png format. How do you convert it into .xpm format. You should have to installed ImageMagick and issue following command syntax to convert .png image to .xpm image.

# convert sampleimage.png  -colors 14 -resize 640x480  sampleimagee.xpm

First convert .xpm image to gz. Then copy that .xpm image in to /boot/grub directory

Convert sampleimage.xpm to gz
           # gzip sampleimage.xpm

Copy sampleimage.xpm.gz to /boot/grub
           # cp sampleimage.xpm.gz /boot/grub

Now configure the grub.conf to set your image.
           splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/sampleimage.xpm.gz

Now reboot the system and see whether you Grub Boot Splash Background has change !

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Use Virtual Machine for Linux

Do you use Linux before ?.Would you want to install and test Linux ?. But do you have fear to install Linux to your PC and that will corrupt your PC's existing partitions. Don't worry !. There is a best solution for it. That is using a Virtual Machine (VM). Virtual Machine software can install any supported operating system inside Windows or Linux or MacOS. Virtual Machine gets all physical resources of your existing PC, as an ex : Network card, CD-DVD ROM, Modem, HDD, eand etc. This VM do not corrupt your HDD drive partitions. VM create all things in virtually. So no need to fear.

VMware and Virtual Box are best Virtual Machine Software we can found today. Just try it if you interested.

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