Making GRUB Splashimages

Here is a simple way to make your own Grub Splashimage:

Create your own Graphic image.png

convert -resize 640×480 -colors 14 image.png image.xpm && gzip image.xpm

copy image.xpm to /boot/grub/

vim /boot/grub.menu.lst

Add the following line

splashimage (hd0,1)/boot/grub/image.xpm
Note: Assuming your Linux partition as /dev/hda2

Setting Java (Sun JDK) Class Paths

After you’ve downloaded and installed the latest JDK form the Sun servers, you need to set up the class paths so that you can run java and javac from the terminal (Sun’s JAVA instead GNU GCJ). Here is the steps to set the classpaths

Move the extracted files to /usr/java (if not exist, create a new [...]