Archives For November 30, 1999

This simple and brief tutorial will show you how to backup live CD or DVD to iso image on Ubuntu Linux using dd command.

dd is a command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems whose primary purpose is to convert and copy a file. On Unix, device drivers for hardware (such as hard disks) and special device files (such as /dev/zero and /dev/random) appear in the file system just like normal files; dd can also read from (and in some cases write to) these files. As a result, dd can be used for tasks such as backing up the boot sector of a hard drive, and obtaining fixed amount of random data.

To make iso image out of CD or DVD:

Insert your live CD or DVD into computer, then you can check the device name by running below command:

df -lh

You’ll get a similar output. The last line tells the device name /dev/sr0 and mount point /media/handbook/CD-Rom

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 92G 47G 41G 54% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 870M 4.0K 870M 1% /dev
tmpfs 176M 980K 175M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 878M 3.5M 874M 1% /run/shm
none 100M 56K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sr0 807M 807M 0 100% /media/handbook/CD-Rom

Now, use below command to create iso from it:

dd if=/dev/sr0 of=~/backup.iso bs=1000000 count=512 &&sync

Here if reads from file /dev/sr0, of write to file backup.iso, ~/ means user home directory. The value of ‘bs’ means read and write up to 1000000 bytes at a time.

For more, run:

man dd

Install Fluxbox on Ubuntu 13.04

Last updated: July 14, 2013

Fluxbox is a stacking window manager for the X Window System, which started as a fork of Blackbox 0.61.1 in 2001, with the same aim to be lightweight. Its user interface has only a taskbar, a pop-up menu accessible by right-clicking on the desktop, and minimal support for graphical icons.

Fluxbox

Below steps will show you how to install Fluxbox on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring.

1.) Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal window, run this command to install Fluxbox:

sudo apt-get install -y fluxbox

2.) That’s it! Once installed, log out. Click the gear button and select Fluxbox.

Enjoy!

This tutorial will show you how install Dolphin Emulator on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, 12.10, 12.04 and Linux Mint using the ppa repository.

Dolphin is a free and open-source GameCube, Wii Triforce game emulator for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.

To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, follow the below steps:

1.) Copy and paste this command and run to add the ppa repository to your system:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:glennric/dolphin-emu

2.) If you installed Synaptic Package Manager, open it and then click Reload button. Search for and install the dolphin-enu package:

If not, run 2 commands instead:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install dolphin-emu

Enjoy!