Recovering GRUB after reinstalling Windows

Use any LiveCD (or other route) to access a Grub command-line and fix the MBR:

1. Boot into a LiveCD
2. Open a terminal
3. Open the GRUB Command-line utility by typing

sudo grub

4. Find where Grub is. If this gives a few different answers then you will need to find the correct one, perhaps by trial-and-error.

find /boot/grub/stage1

5. Tell GRUB which partition to tell the MBR your Grub is on by entering

root (hdA,B)

The coordinates A,B are where 'A' is the hard-drive number, starting at 0, and 'B' is the partition number, starting at 0. For example, if Ubuntu was installed on the second partition of the first hard-drive, the command should be

root (hd0,1)

6. Tell GRUB which drive's MBR to fix

setup (hd0)

Replace 0 only in the extremely unlikely event that your bios does not use the first hard-drive as the boot device. Typically Ubuntu might be on any drive but the bios will almost always go to the first drive's MBR to find out where to find the boot-loader.

7. Leave the GRUB Command line

quit

and reboot.

Sumit gupta
CSE Deptt.
NIT Durgapur

Installing SKYPE on FEDORA

Installing skype on Fedora could be a little tricky. I found out fast after spending about fifteen minutes yum-ming for the package.

A colleague was having trouble installing skype on his machine after a fresh installation of fedora 10. To kill time, I tried to help him.

We visited Skype site looking for the correct RPMs. All we could find was RPMS for Fedora 6 and 7. So upgrading to 10 was a mistake!

Google never ceases to amaze me! After a few minutes of googling we landed onthis page. At the bottom of the page, skype repository links were given. Here is how to yum install skype.

step 1: create a file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ by the name skype.repo with the following contents

[skype]

name=Skype Repository

baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/

gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc

enabled=1

gpgcheck=0

[skype]

name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/
gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

step 2: open  a terminal and issue the following command as root user

$ yum install skype


cheers!!!

Sumit gupta
CSE Deptt.
NIT Durgapur

MUKTI 2010
This is the time of the year when we at NIT Durgapur celebrate our FOSS festival called Mukti. Mukti is the FOSS festival of NIT Durgapur. With the sole aim of promoting Free Software, some contest, games, workshops, talks etc are conducted during Mukti. It brings together the FOSS enthusiasts, newbies and corporates together under the same roof.Like every year we will have a number of events and workshops to feed your hungry minds.So if you are somewhere near and want to have an awesome experience, come to NIT Durgapur, we are waiting for you.

Link: http://mkti.in
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mukti_nitd