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Backup solution for linux Hi all... I have an almost stable opensuse 11.1 in my laptop now... I need to know how to backup the root partition so that at a later stage I can restore the entire OS in case it is corrupted...plz suggest an opensource software to take a backup.... I heard about...

OUTPUT Of the Above Programm is In-Order Traversal: D B H E A F C G I want to know How the Function BUILDTREE is Working, The Problem is When we Calling the Function buildtree recursively by the expression LINE 1,HOw Compliter would be Able to Read The LINE 2 and LINE 3, After Recursive...

I am running openSolaris and trying to learn to use linux presently the screen resolution is limited to 1024x800 I came across this post which showed me how to go about increasing it. *blogs.sun.com/paulkasper/entry/customizing_opensolaris_screen_resolution_running it asks me to edit the...

I dunno if Iam allowed to discuss this in this forum.Didnt see any mod online to ask. I use Windows 7 build 7000. I downloaded and burned Kalyway mac 10.5.2 I booted the DVD,pressed F8,typed -v and pressed enter. But it is showing "Still waiting for root device" again and again repeatedly. Is...

After unmounting the pendrive, and using fdisk to set the partition as W95 FAT32, I used the following command sudo mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sdb1 Now everything was successful, but when I try to paste files as user I cannot because the owner of the filesystem is root (I had to be root to fdisk...

plz help me my sys has stared giving Error 17 :( when i try grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 it gives following error Error 15: File not found Now when i try mounting root partition using the livecd: I dont know what is my root partition to be put in this command sudo mount...

Hi there.! I have an Arch Linux installed on a 5 GB partition.I plan on buying a new hard disk soon and have only Arch's root partition plus a home partition on it.Will gzipping the current root partition and then gunzipping it on the new hard disk's root partition work, since I really don't...

I'm unable to open Gnome for the root user. This problem started when I once changed the setting of Gnome to open last opened applications i.e., to save the session. When I rebooted and tried to enter Gnome using the root a/c, it just played the starting music and the screen gets hanged with...

i m using ubuntu 8.04 when i click on syn manger for installing packages from internet....it opens and requires the root password ..when i submit the password...it gives error like cannot open gnome-help ...contact ur system administrator and we cannot login as root from the main login...

I am new to Linux World and now i have started to learn Linux from basically. Lot of professional tech guys says that linux is more secure than windows in lot of ways,such as file system, process architecture, core component of OS, execution of root account, etc.. Digit has also an article...

I posted this here as it deals with both OSS and propriety OSes :-P Anyway here goes I formatted and reinstalled my Windows XP home edition today, updated it and imaged the system partition, considering that we won't get support/patches after June 30th except critical ones. In the bargain I...

I am completely newbie to Linux, I forgot the root password for my Ubuntu 8.04 distro, Is there a way to get it?

This is the first BETA release for Linux Mint 5, codename Elyssa, based on Daryna and compatible with Ubuntu Hardy and its repositories. What's new in Elyssa 1. mintMenu improvements In Daryna, mintInstall and the Software Portal made it easy to install applications. In Elyssa...

I formatted my Hard disk & installed Windows Xp & Fedora core 8.Now when I start fedora the services are loaded & after that it presents me with a black screen that says local host login.Why it is not booting into GUI.i tried logging typing login as root and password as root its says login...

By Federico Kereki on February 15, 2008 (9:00:02 AM) The /proc directory is a strange beast. It doesn't really exist, yet you can explore it. Its zero-length files are neither binary nor text, yet...

i install fedora 7. installation completed succesfully. But i cant login [as root & user]. When i enter username and password i get error that cannot start session due to some internal errorwhen i click OK i get message that Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds...

Everyone's heard and seen the "new" Time machince in Leopard. But what exactly is that? and how does it function? What happens under the hood? People may haf heard about flyback and other "time machine equivalents for linux" But here is an insight. All you guys would be surprised to know that...

Hi, I purchased a www.OffersIndia.info domain today and I want to setup that for my site which is at www.OffersIndia.xtreemhost.com. Now I want to setup Add-on domain in my free hosting account. I have a folder called "htdocs" in root directory where all the original files are located...

Hi guys, I really like to start using Linux.. But i'm a noob. Everytime i install linux i will have some problem or the other and ill just format the drive containing Linux. But this time i thought, i could start to learn something from this forum.:) I'm using Ubuntu that was given in Digit...

Hey guys, I just created a new partition on my SUSE box with YaST named as /Backup and with filesystem ext3. Now the problem is that only root can write on it whereas i want to give the permissions to normal users (which is me, root is also me). What should I do. This partition was created to...