About

I am a *nix geek hiding in a corner of Bangalore, India’s Silicon capital. I am also the creator and the lead developer of BeleniX, one of the more popular community-built OpenSolaris distros. Check out: http://www.belenix.org/. Also check out my linkedin profile for all the gory details of my background: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/aba/876

3 Responses to “About”

  1. Sean Hassett Says:

    June 26, 2008 at 1:32 am

    Hi Moinak, While following your instructions for installing Solaris SXDE on a system that already had Windows, I accidentally found an easier method. Once I had already installed SXDE on a second partition, before I found your blog. Windows was now unavailable and my HP laptop doesn’t come with a real Windows disk, so repairing wasn’t an option. I didn’t have an MBR backup for Windows, so my plan was to restore a backup. I did the installgrub command in your point 7 and then backed up the MBR. I figured at that stage that I needed to restore Vista from backup and start all over again. I restored my Vista partition, then when I booted, I was totally surprised to see the grub menu offering SXDE and Vista. It even worked, and it was very easy. I now have dual boot, but Vista is not the active partition, Solaris is. I have since installed OpenSolaris on the partition where I used to have SXDE and it worked straight-off without having to tweak anything to keep Vista working. It’s pretty cool to have OpenSolaris and Vista dual-boot on my laptop. Feel free to write to me with any questions.

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  2. Sudipto Chanda Says:

    October 1, 2008 at 6:09 pm

    Hi Moinakg,

    Read your profile on LinkedIn, pretty interesting. I too started with the BBC micro in school and the first PC I owned (1990) was a 286!! Been a ‘computer worm’ since then, but have also included behavioral science in my interest area – so maybe I have stopped qualifying as a geek.

    Anyway, it will be good to connect to you.

    regards
    Sudipto

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  3. Matt Garcia Says:

    February 11, 2009 at 7:26 am

    Hi Moinakg,

    I’m interested in using Belenix, but I had come across some problems. I posted this in the Belenix bug tracking.

    I’ve just installed Belenix on an Hp mini 2133, the installation was
    correct, but when I tried to connect to the Internet assuming that Belenix
    was going to detect my connection automatically it failed. I tried to
    configure it manually, but it seems that Belenix doesn’t support the
    Ethernet device on my Hp mini 2133.

    When I insert an USB it is not detected. Without an Internet connection
    and USB it’s not possible for me to work. What would you recommend me? How
    do I uninstall Belenix?

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