There are lot of things that need to be done so if you are willing to help plz contact lugmanipal[at]gmail.com

PS – this is just an initial announcement, detailed announcement will be made after things are finalized….

Linux Users Group

Manipal

presents

Linux Install Fest

• LUG Manipal is holding an Install fest on 23^rd and 24^th January to guide people in installing Linux on their systems. Complete basic guidance will be provided.

• On pre-install fest, people will be guided about the installation, uses of Linux and more queries which they have.

• On the second day installation will be done.

• Students who missed out the first LUG meet are specially invited in this pre-install fest day.

   

NOTE : Please bring your Laptop on both days.

Please bring a BLANK DVD on Pre-install fest meet i.e. 23 Jan, Wed.

Venue: NLH 303

Date: Pre-Install Fest on 23^rd January(Wed)

Install Fest on 24^th January (Thurs)

Time: 5:30PM

Charge: FREE

Website: www.lugmanipal.co.nr

Contact:

Ankur Shrivastava: 9901726825 queries.lugmanipal@gmail.com

Manish Sinha: 9844411705

Ayush Pranshu: 9448984741

To install WAMP check this post. Click Here

To install LAMP check this post. Click Here

Apache is a webserver whose work is to accept connections and provide you the page which you intend to open. e.g. You want to open a page abc.php , then you ask the webserver to provide you this page. webserver fetches this page from the hard disk, executes it and returns the result to you. The concept is quite simple.

Next lets move on to PHP translator. Every high level language needs a translator to convert it to low level language which the computer can understand. The translator is a generic term. C has a translator which is called *compiler*. PHP does not have a compiler. Instead it has a interpreter. When the php pages are executed over apache the php interpreter is called into service.

Next and last is MySQL. This is the far and most simple system software. It work is just to fetch the data which has been requested when the php scripts are being executed. You need to connect to this software using a username and password to gain authorization. This method prevents misuse and theft of highly critical data. A database can have multiple users, each of them maybe assigned databases exclusively or shared.

Whenever you go to install any php software, you can be asked some server information. They can be:

Database Host: Enter localhost in this field. localhost is the hostname for the IP 127.0.0.1 . It means the database software is on the same computer on which apache is running.

Database User: The username which you need to connect to you database. You can create a new user. All database have a root user which is the super-administrator.

Database Password: Enter you password for the user you provided. The default installation of WAMP has a blank password for root user. Means a string of zero length which is equal to leaving the field blank. For LAMP, you have to set the root password at the time of installation.

Your email Id: Just enter the email id for your installation or admin user. This may not be useful for installation which have been done locally as you cannot send mails from your computer (you dont have an SMTP server running).

Most of the PHP apps coming these days are very simple to install, only place where people get stuck up are these infos.

You can try installing a few PHP apps like MediaWiki, phpBB 3, WordPress. If you have any problems just comment and keep a check.

ok so lets come to the point how exactly did i solved these problems for installing ATI driver i have already explained it earlier here and here , so now moving to ndiswrapper
you need to download the source code (the .tar.gz file) from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net well from any other computer if you have net access only by WiFi, after u have the tar.gz file copy it to any folder like your home folder ( /home/<username>/ ) now simply right click on it and select extract here, now you have a directory with all the files of source code but to compile the source you will need to install some more software from the DVD for this go to Add/Remove Software in the Applications menu, enter your root password when it will open it will give you error saying something like Repository could not be updated so go to repositories in that and let the tick be there only in front of Install Media remove that tick from every other option, here select Development then tick Development Tools (remove them after compiling if you wont use them), after that go to Search tab and select All packages, there search for ‘Kernel headers’ you will find a package with name of Kernel-headers – 2.6.23.1-42 select that, click apply it will ask you for the DVD insert it and packages will be installed, now you can happily compile your ndiswrapper source

For compiling open up a Terminal from Applications >> System Tools >> Terminal type ‘ su ‘ , enter your password now type cd /home/<username>/<name of ndiswrapper directory>/ now when in the ndiswraper directory type make uninstall to remove any previous non working installs of ndiswrapper, after that type make here you if you see a error then you probably dont have the correct/complete source or are missing a required package, if it proceeds without a error which it will then you just need to install ndiswrapper type make install your work is now over you just need to install the windows driver by the method which i have described here all done now let us proceed to the xserver problem

For this just login as root ( which i wont prefer but is best for this time ) and type ‘ startx ‘ at the prompt after logging in then go to /etc/ in the file browser there right click on ‘ inittab ‘ file and select open with “Text Editor” in the file there will be some thing written as
id:3:initdefault:
change that to
id:5:initdefault:
and save the file, reboot and you will be greeted by a nice Fedora Infinity Screen enjoy!!!!