It all started with perl. No this is not a spelling mistake. I am sure about that. perl is a scripting language. I had played around it with a little. And it seemed quite easy. So I thought I will learn it thoroughly to improve my job prospects (what an optimist!). Well perl comes with Red Hat Linux which is present in my computer in other partition. But somehow when I boot using Linux internet is not working. I found that the reason is Linux is somehow saying a wrong ethernet adapter 3c501 and telling that is not present. What we have is intel pro 100. I googled and found the driver for this device in Linux. Now how to transfer this to Linux partition?
It is possible to read windows files from Linux if you mount the Windows partition in mnt directory. I tried mounting the disk partition I got error - wrong file system type. I tried fat32, msdos, ntfs. Nothing seems to work. Again rebooting with windows ( mine is windows xp) and googling. Ok, I right clicked on the drive and found my file system is ntfs. But my linux kernel is not supporting ntfs. So what must be done. Rebuild the kernel.
So I started with learning perl and ended up with rebuilding the kernel. Here I remember a story. A sadhu one day realised that his only loin cloth is being eaten away by mice. He goes to the village and begs for another one. This repeats 3 or 4 times. The villagers advice him to keep a pet cat. OK, sadhu brings home a cat. Cat eats the mice for some days. But then it wants to eat and there is no food at home. It is emancipating.(OK this I will check in word synnonyms). Sadhu again goes to take the advice of villagers. They ask him to keep a cow. And to feed and milk the cow he is advised to bring a wife. So sadhu started with mouse and ended up getting married.
Now you ask me, what happened to kernel, ntfs, driver for ethernet and internet. Nothing. Kernel did not compile!!! (ha ha ha) Now I am going to try a short cut. Copy the driver into a pen drive and use it in Linux.
It is possible to read windows files from Linux if you mount the Windows partition in mnt directory. I tried mounting the disk partition I got error - wrong file system type. I tried fat32, msdos, ntfs. Nothing seems to work. Again rebooting with windows ( mine is windows xp) and googling. Ok, I right clicked on the drive and found my file system is ntfs. But my linux kernel is not supporting ntfs. So what must be done. Rebuild the kernel.
So I started with learning perl and ended up with rebuilding the kernel. Here I remember a story. A sadhu one day realised that his only loin cloth is being eaten away by mice. He goes to the village and begs for another one. This repeats 3 or 4 times. The villagers advice him to keep a pet cat. OK, sadhu brings home a cat. Cat eats the mice for some days. But then it wants to eat and there is no food at home. It is emancipating.(OK this I will check in word synnonyms). Sadhu again goes to take the advice of villagers. They ask him to keep a cow. And to feed and milk the cow he is advised to bring a wife. So sadhu started with mouse and ended up getting married.
Now you ask me, what happened to kernel, ntfs, driver for ethernet and internet. Nothing. Kernel did not compile!!! (ha ha ha) Now I am going to try a short cut. Copy the driver into a pen drive and use it in Linux.
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