How to create ISO image from your Harddisk, CD or DVD

Sometimes we want to do back up from our CD/DVD even files from our harddrive

Here are the how-to's:
dd if=/dev/dvd of=dvd.iso (if you want to back up from DVD)
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cd.iso (if you back up from CDROM)
dd if=/dev/scd0 of=cd.iso (if you back up from SCSI CDROM)
mkisofs -o /tmp/cd.iso /tmp/backup/ (to make an ISO image from files on your hard drive)

Install Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy on ACER 4530 with Mac4Lin Leopard Desktop

Here are the captured screen of my laptop just installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy and tweaked to resemble Mac Leopard Desktop.



Acer 4530 is a great notebook with a good price comes with great graphic controller card GeForce 9100m G. However, you have to install the nvidia driver in order to get the 1280x800 resolution.

Currently, after recompile kernel using 2.6.26.5, I still cannot get the sound and wireless works even they're detected.

Here is for sound using ALSA taken from dmesg:
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:728: hda_codec_cleanup_stream: NID=0x2 ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:728: hda_codec_cleanup_stream: NID=0x3

For wireless card here is what I've got from ifconfig, however, somehow, I just cannot connect
to my Access Point.

nprasetio@student1:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Here are the great links to follow in order to tweak your ACER 4530 to resemble Mac.

Recompiling Kernel To Detect Wireless Card, Sound and Other Cool Features

Turning your ACER 4530 to Mac OSX Leopard