General :: Automatic Drive Usability On Startup?
Nov 5, 2010
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and I have a 1TB NTFS (internal) hard drive where I put all my files. The drive shows up in the "Places" menu, and if I select & open it, the drive and all the scripts & text files in it work. But, if I go to run the scripts without opening the dive in the places menu first, it just gives an error.
1. What is being done when I select the drive in the places menu?
2. Can this be set up automatically, so I don't have to open the drive every time after I start up?
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Feb 1, 2011
I'm looking for a way to automatically startup Ventrilo when my linuxbox restarts. At the moment I have to manually start it up. I know there is a way and I've tried to follow other threads but I can't seem to find a tutorial on how to do this with the Fedora 12 distro.
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I would like to go in the config files and selectively choose the apps to start. When tomcat is started, if anyone needs an app to be started, i would like to do it from the manager. But when I restart TC, i would like my choices to be up and running only.
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Jun 9, 2011
after installing Debian, I typed the command:
Quote:
update-rc.d -f exim4 remove
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Quote: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
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Oct 8, 2010
I had windows vista on one partition, xp on another documents on another and programs on another.When I installed ubuntu on a new partition it very kindly let me see all the other partitions and mount them as necessary. I would like all my ubuntu files, documents music downloads to go right on to the documents partition so when I back up that drive to an external I have it backs up the documents drive it has all the files I have created in vista or ubuntu. Eventually I want to leave windows completely but I would still want to store all the ubuntu files on the documents drive.
I can go to "places" and mount the documents drive but what I would like to do is when I fire up ubuntu that the documents drive mounts automatically.
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Method of automatic backup from my hard drive to a usb drive when plugged in.
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I would prefer something that is in the repositories that is easily configurable via command line rather than some complicated script.
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Apr 5, 2011
I'm trying to make a simple task as complicated as possible, so bear with me.
I'm going to force a friend onto Ubuntu soon, and the biggest requirement is photo management.
He wants his extensive photo library backed up, and backed up some more, and then when all feels safe, backed up even again.
Currently, all his photos reside on a 4 disk striped RAID array, based on his cousin's recommendation. The intent was a RAID 1+0, but they failed, and that needs to be fixed immediately.
So, instead of going with more mirrored hard drives in a RAID, which I know Ubuntu will do just fine, I'd like to simplify and just do manual backups of each hard drive.
So, I'm looking for a program that could possibly be set up to automatically back up a hard drive onto another hard drive on a weekly basis or something like that. Ultimately, doing a manual copy/paste of the data in the drive could work, but would be time consuming.
I'm scared of RAIDs lately because of a recent fiasco with a BIOSTAR motherboard and how it set the RAID mirror on a set of hard drives for a Windows load that rendered the harddrives basically useless for anything but a RAID mirror, with that motherboard and a Windows load, and I almost lost a lot of data because of it.
I'm also not sure how well Windows would recognize a RAID partition created in ext3, if he ever wanted to go back to Windows.
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Note: Novice is someone who has no experience in working with OpenSUSE?
Task1: This task involves making two slides of a course presentation using OpenOffice Impress.Org
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Task4: Involves copying music from an audio CD in to mp3 format using K3B
[code].....
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I was running 10.10, and it was fine - except for some reason the mouse just stops working - nothing is clickable at all. Apparently this might be the official NVidia drivers, but I've not found a solution to that yet, but I do know that plenty of other people experience this. So today, I thought I'd check for updates to see if something would fix it.
1. I open the update manager, and see 11.04 is available, and several security fixes. I opt for the security fixes first, but they fail, saying 'check your internet connection'. My internet connection is perfectly fine, so this is a pretty bad error message to be showing people.
2. I then try the upgrade to 11.04 button instead, and it gets a small way in before saying it was 'unable to get exclusive lock' due to me having an update manager open - what, such as the one I used to launch this upgrade? Another bad error message.
3. I close everything, try again. Now it complains that not all upgrades can be installed due to a "previous upgrade that didn't complete". As a programmer I have to wonder why, if they're sensible enough to know how to use an exclusive lock to ensure a safe upgrade transaction, why they aren't sensible enough to treat the upgrade as a transaction which they could have rolled back when they failed to acquire that lock? Luckily this doesn't seem to be a serious problem but again it's a bad error message to display and one that is completely unnecessary.
4. I start upgrading. Eventually 'Defconf' pops up and asks me what I want to do about 'modified configuration file grub'? THIS IS NOT A SUITABLE QUESTION TO ASK A TYPICAL USER! My options are "Show differences, show side by side, show a 3 way comparison, do a 3 way merge (experimental), start a new shell to examine the situation, install the package maintainer's version, or keep the local version currently installed." Oh, while I'm doing this, the input periodically hangs every 10 seconds so I can't type. And I do have to type, because my mouse isn't working. Luckily, unlike 99% of computer users, I'm a programmer so I am not scared of comparing files, but I'm pretty horrified to see it pop up what looks like a text-based unified diff - how on earth is a normal human meant to act on that? And it did all this because it claimed I had changed something locally, but it became quite apparent on looking at the diff that I had done no such thing, and that some system program had done whatever it had done. So I was being asked about changes to a core piece of system functionality for no good reason.
5. I let it upgrade the file and it seemed to work when I rebooted. Now imagine my dismay when I notice that my desktop has been changed into a Mac. All my menus have disappeared and I have no idea how to get them back. I can still edit and reorder my menus in the System Settings but I'll be damned if I can work out how to get them on the screen again. Plus all my apps are uncomfortable to use now because the menus no longer appear unless I press the Alt key first. I'm not going to claim that the Mac approach is worse than what we had before but this is a MASSIVE usability change to spring on someone without any real warning or any guidance to simple things like "where did my menus and everything on them go?" I am aware most of this won't be news to most of you, but I'm sure that if you look at it from a pure usability perspective you can appreciate how awful an experience this would be for most people who now have to re-learn their system.
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I have a server designated as F: drive. This server is a linux server. All computers that access this server are windows machines.
In windows, you can make a "Short Cut" that links a Executable program to the F: drive on the server. When you click on this "Short Cut", Windows will "Run" your program in the exact directory the Executable is located.
Thus, if you Make a "Short Cut" called "Customer" on your network F: drive, you can click on that shortcut and "Customer" will run as if you ran it directly off the F: drive, NOT your station drive of C:
Now *MY* scenario what I WANT to do:
I want to copy the above scenario and be able to do the same thing with Linux and WINE.
I have tried to make a "Shortcut" to my Linux laptop, but it fails. I can only "Copy" the program to the laptop. And when I run it on the laptop, it will not run, because it does not recognize the "F:" drive having all the data files, it only recognizes the C: drive of my linux.
When I tried to make a "link", it says something like "LInk not supported by this file".
So, is it possible to make a "shortcut" to a executable file on the network server, so that if you run the shortcut, it will run the program as if it is located on the F: server instead of the linux station? In Windows, it has a field that says "Target", in which the file will be ran in that directory.
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Feb 9, 2010
I have installed ubuntu in automatic mode. when i removed it from computer by removing partition(let E by going to disk management in xp, the portion of drive where the ubuntu was installed automatically get primary partition. then i created the new drive from that partition in XP(let E. Later on when my XP got corrupted and i installed fresh xp then when i tried to access the drive i created(E says the file system not supported need to format the disk.
Also when i tried to install fresh copy of linux in those partition it never get install on those partition.
Now the issue is i cannot use those partiton due to fear that incase windows get corrupted my all data in that partition will be gone. Currently i am not having any linux on computer due to shortage of disk space.
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