The HDI (How-Do-I) is a series of documents which are
intented mainly for newbies, as a resource to point them to to
get them running ... This section will obviously increase with
time but till then you can see what all are there ...
A documentary resource for installing loadlin and booting into installations with the 1024-voodoo, or for people wanting to try out an alternate system of multiboot which also supports UMSDOS, QNX and BeOS boots.
A document for dual booting Linux with Windows-NT using the Windows-NT boot loader.
A documentary resource for various commonly used Hayes modem commands and init strings.
HDI : User writable and mountable M$ partition
A brief description of mounting M$ partitions as msdos, vfat or umsdos, so that users may have read/ write access as well as have the option of mounting and unmounting the M$ partition.
HDI : Mail autoresponder using procmail
A short document which explains how to use a procmail recipe to generate automated vacation responses using your installed MTA.
HDI : MTA based mailing list
A small document on how to set up a small mailing list using an MTA alone (sendmail), without installing major software like majordomo to achieve the same.
A example based short document on how to prepare the /etc/sudoers file to enable users to use "root only" commands, or commands as another user.
HDI : GUI booting under LILO
A small document on how to set up GUI booting under LILO with an image prepared by you. Newer LILO releases beyond ver 21.6 has facilities for the same.
A very short document about how to delete mails blocking your POP3 server, which cannot otherwise be deleted by fetchmail or other mail retreival software even though it is set for auto-delete after downloading. Usually occors with larger mails.
HDI : Initial Partitioning of M$ system
A detailed document on how to do initial partitioning of a system, already pre-loaded with some M$ OS. Takes you through the full process of partitioning the system before fresh Linux can be loaded.
HDI : Mounting devices as an user
A document dealing with tweaking with /etc/fstab to enable mounting/ unmounting as an user (without root privileges). There is also a bash script called 'mnt' linked in the scripts section of this site to automate the process. [ NOTE: This is applicable for stand-alone boxes only (and not on a networked system)]
HDI : Installing OpenOffice 2.0.x on a non-rpm system
Version 2.0.x of OpenOffice binary tarball does not have an installer unlike previous versions. On untarring you are left with 28 rpm files. This document-cum script is meant for installing such rpm based archives on a non-rpm system. You need cpio and rpm2cpio installed.
