Some News of progress....
Yesterday( 12 Oct ), was a holiday for Dasera and I reinstalled Win98
(without messing up Win98 dual-boot with Win2), partitioned the hard
disk () and also installed Slackware.

Things are working fine as far as the booting and data safety is
concerned, only Kde config is remaining (without that keyboard and
mouse are not working in KDE ).

I installed LILO to a boot floppy and then again to the root partition.
Boot both linux and windozes perfectly.

It is really simple..... Thanks to everyone here for their help.

I did not need the System rescue CD.

Hi,

This weekend, I finally configured Xwindows and the mouse, keyboard
etc. worked fine.

KDE works like a charm and I am amazed at the grest variety of sotware
(touch typing tutor and spanish verbs excercises.... wow... Linux is
really oriented to user's needs now).

I also had to reinstall LILO and formatted some old floppies with
fdformat and mtools. i am gaining a lot of skills now...;-)

Can anyone tell me how to go about learning programming skills (shell
programming, C++ on unix/GNU-linux, multi platform development on linux
etc. ). A few links would help too.

I have to confess that I took a Linux training session yb Subhash Jain
(a RHCE certified engineer ) way back in Dec 2001 (as a part of a
hackneyed PG course. things looked so complex that none of us ever
tried it on our home PCs. ( BTW, He taught installation ...all types,
to configuration of all servers under RHL 6.2 and RHL 7.)

Linux installation is much more user friendly now than a that time.
Even partitioning, LILO install and Hsync and Vsync selection in
Xconfig is easier and prevents errors.

I have to admit that slackware works faster than Knoppix ever did ;-).
Now, I can install Oracle DB and learn Oracle Forms & Reports.:-)

Hemant_ng wrote:

> Hi,

> Can anyone tell me how to go about learning programming skills (shell
> programming, C++ on unix/GNU-linux, multi platform development on linux
> etc. ). A few links would help too.
>

glad it is working well for you, as for links, check /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/
directory.