LibNi How To

Run LibNi live CD
Download LibNi iso image, burn it to DVD.
Restart your PC with BIOS option set to boot from CD.

Install LibNi to Hard Drive
Installing LibNi is very easy. You may install LibNi to your PC hardisk or even to your USB storage or PENDRIVE. We will discuss both the installation procedure.

Install LibNi to PC Harddisk
Boot from live cd
Right click on desktop and click open terminal here
Then enter the following command

$nano LInstaller

Now edit the line 'export SD=/dev/XXXX' replace XXXX with the partition on which you want to install LibNi...Example 'export SD=/dev/sda2'....to look for the partitions available on your PC click on 'My Media' icon on your desktop.
After Editing press ctrl+x to save and exit
Now Run the following command in terminal

$./LInstaller

After the complettion of this script enter

$nano Linstaller2

In this file edit the line 'grub-install /dev/XXX' replace XXX with the storage device name like 'grub-install /dev/sda'. Press ctrl+x to save and exit. then run

$./Linstaller2

and your installation is complete.

Installing LibNi to Pendrive
Process of installation is similar as harddisk above with small difference.
To install LibNi to PENDRIVE simply replace 'export SD=/dev/XXXX' with your pendrive device name like 'export SD=/dev/sdb' in LInstaller.
And in Linstaller2 simple replace 'grub-install /dev/XXX' with 'grub-install --force /dev/sdb' (replace XXX with the device name).

Configuring LibNi
After installation boot into new system.
Default user name and password is

username: root
password: root

After you have Logging in create xorg.conf file. Simply run in terminal.

$cat > /etc/xorg.conf << "EOF"
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "vesa" #Choose the driver used for this monitor
EndSection
EOF

In Place of 'vesa' you can use 'intel' for Intel card or 'radeon' for Radeon card

In case you have Nvidia card installed then rather than using above command use

$nvidia-xconfig

After this change your time zone. Use the following command to change time zone Example If you want to change time zome to Asia/Calcutta run following command

$ ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta /etc/localtime

you can look for various timezones in '/usr/share/zoneinfo' folder & choose accordingly.

Enable Compositor
Open The Terminal run

$xfwm4-tweaks-settings

under compositor Tab tick enable display compsiting. There are many options under this tab which you can explore.

Configuring Printer
LibNi support most of the HP printers. To configure your printer::
Connect the printer to PC & turn it on.
Then run

$hp-setup

It will ask your model name. It also display the model name of connected Printer just copy paste it and press enter. Then it will ask for 'location description for this printer' and even display one possible location description of your printer just copy paste it and press enter, press enter again and then print test page. Its Done.