I have XP currently installed on my work machine, which is getting a bit outdated and sluggish. I was hoping to install Ubuntu 32-bit through Wubi and use VirtualBox to run XP.Would it be possible to mount my current XP installation?Would this even be advisable in order to speed up the XP applications I need to access?
View 4 Repliesvlock works, however it requires that I return to the shell to run it. Is there a way to assign a key combination to run vlock, so the current program doesn't have to be ended?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI need to run Windows XP on a virtual machine using my 64 bit Slackware -current box. Does anyone have a procedure for installing the non-free version of Virtualbox (USB support is a necessity), or failing that can anyone recommend another solution? The only virtualization software I've ever run has been Virtualbox.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am unable to select an option that just shows the applications designated to a current desktop and hides the rest. After all these years, I do not even know why KDE does not have this set by default.
My system is openSUSE 11.3 64-bit with KDE 4.4.4
If it helps, I installed my system through the openSUSE 11.3 LiveCD.
The following are images of my Multiple Desktops and Pager Windows respectively.
Multiple Desktops Window
Pager Window
I'm trying to create a live CD of my current CentOS installation. I want it to be almost like a backup, so whenever I want to copy my current installation to another computer I would simply install from my custom live CD.I know this is possible, and I found some resources on the net, but they all seem to only create a minimal version of CentOS; I want to have all the current functionalities available to me at present, including all of my development functionalities, Apache and samba settings, etc.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would like to uninstall my current opensuse 11.3 installation and start again with a different distro. How do I go about doing this?
View 4 Replies View RelatedHalf of my hard drive is an unused partition, which is formatted ext2 which is just temporal and has no specific intention of mine. This unused partition has its own swap area, which is also a temporal and not important.
So my HD is:
Now, I'd like installing Windows 7 using these sda2 and sda4 partitions without corrupting current Linux installation and its GRUB2 setting(I'd likt to reconfigure the GRUB2 after successfully installing the Windows image, for the dual-boot).
I am a new user to Linux and am trying to install (Red Hat Linux Fedora Core 2) in Virtual PC. The installation seems to be going fine until it finishes and reboots.
After rebooting I get 2 error messages about the kernel. (Both below in the links)
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My system information is:
OS: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
Processor: AMD Athlon Dual Core Processor 5050e ~2.6GHz
Memory 4096MB RAM
Motherboard: JetWay JM26GT4-LF AM2
Harddrive: Western Digital Caviar Blue WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA
I would like to configure and SAN disk. But I do not have a physical SAN disk. Is it possible to create and configure a Virtual SAN disk and work on it with virtual machines?I have around 400GB of space in my Laptop.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have installed virtualbox because i wanted to run .exe files for my job. After installation and configuration it asked me to reboot. From that moment when reboots it returns the full symbol of fedora and then the screen becomes black with white letters. I couldn't login ever again. I am new in Fedora, i don't have a backup of my files and i cant't work. I think that this could be a command line or something like this. Is there any possibility to login even once to copy my files to another disk and then to setup Fedora again?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI installed Ubuntu Lucid Lynx a while ago. but then upgraded it to 10.10
I don't have the CD with me right now and i need to fix some mistakes of mine (being a n00b to ubuntu) urgently i.e. i can't wait for morning. Is there anyway i can rollback to the time when my ubuntu installation was in mint condition?
One more thing. Let me tell you my mistake. Almost a month ago i installed Apache2 on my Laptop (for LAMP). and now i have to install Apache Tomcat for JSP development. but the problem is that the files made by Apache2 and the PHP5 installation i made are not removed with
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So now the apache2 files are superseding the Apache Tomcat. hence i cannot distuinguish between apache2 or apache tomcat when i goto:
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So if anyone has a way of ridding my laptop of this disease without complete overhaul, please post your replies here.
Until then, I will have to defect back to Windows.
I want to install Ubuntu 10.04 to another machine alongside that other machine's XP. I know I could just run the install disc; but I'd like to take what changes I've made to Ubuntu along with it - for instance, TrueCrypt, Simple Backup, AdobeReader 3 (I think that's an addition), K3b, MuseScore, and some other applications I've added along the way. Also, I went thru some Terminal commands to get Brasero to copy CD's recently and would like to avoid doing that again.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAll am running on 2.1Beta for Skype and would like to find out if they is anyone who knows how I can upgrade from this version to the latest version.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI bought a 30 GB SSD and I need to install Ubuntu on it. I currently have a 1500 GB harddrive, on it my current 60gb ubuntu partition and the rest is Windows 7.Out of the 60 GB for ubuntu I have used 9 GB, so I want to transfer that 9GB to the SSD to preserve all my settings. Then I want to format the original 60GB to something else, probably NTFS since both linux and windows can read it.I tried sbackup but that creates a back up on my current drive, not what I intended. If there is a gui program that will work that would be great, if not I'll still give whatever suggested a shot.
View 9 Replies View Relatedthis is the message i keep getting when trying to install ubuntu software.I am reading all sorts of walkthroughs trying to get such things as java and am unable to do anything they keep failing at some point or another.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to create an ISO file of the current installation that I could burn to a CD/USB? I want to make a bootable disk that already has certain packages, drivers, etc. already on it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI had recently upgraded my 9.0.4 ubuntu to the latest version, but something must have gone horribly wrong during the upgrade. On boot, it says it has problems and errors loading stuff and when it gets to the desktop, it gets no input from the keyboard or the mouse. Same goes for recovery mode. When trying to run from a live CD the keyboard and mouse work just fine. I have the CD and I wanted to simply reinstall but problem is I don't know how to reinstall over the current installation.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am going to dist-upgrade my 10.10 installation to 11.04, but as precaution, I would like to replicate my existing installation onto another hard disk and perform the dist-upgrade there. When I am in booted into my current 10.10 installation, the hard disk (MBR, 4GB) is partitioned as such:
/dev/sda1 - /boot
/dev/sda2 - swap
/dev/sda3 - /I have an empty hard disk (MBR, 10GB) connected to the PC, and I partitioned to have a similar layout.
/dev/sdb1 - /boot
/dev/sdb2 - swap
/dev/sdb3 - /Since the 2 HDDs are of different sizes, I made /dev/sdb3 larger.
My question is: what is the easiest way to create a backup of my current working Ubuntu onto my secondary hard disk? I hope to perform the backup while booted into my existing 10.10 system; or I have no other choices but to boot from a LiveCD (e.g. Clonezilla) for backup?
I have 11.04 installed, but I want to go back to 10.04 due to issues. I plan on installing off of my USB drive. I am currently downloading the image.I plan on backing up my important files. Can I install 10.04 and keep the files that are on my machine at the moment? That is, will installing delete them? I am mostly concerned about /home/me/ files which are separated from /
View 1 Replies View RelatedI run Ubuntu 10.04 in 64 bit. My current hardware specs are:
(2) Nvidia 8800 GTS
Asus Crosshair 1
AMD Athlon X2 5200+
2GB DDR 3 Corshair ram
How can I utilize my hardware to it's full potential using Ubuntu?
I am having lots of problems with fresh install of ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS (dual boot with Win7) and would like to reinstall, however if i just insert the ubuntu CD and boot off of that, when i go to install it wants to create another partition that uses space from my partition for win7. How can i reinstall on my current ubuntu partition?
View 7 Replies View Relatedi have a live cd i had sent to my address a while back but now i am outdated and would like to upgrade to the current version. is there any commands i can run to upgrade? or will i need to order another live cd
View 4 Replies View RelatedCan I upgrade my current version of FF (3.5.7) to FF 3.6 without uninstalling it first?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there was a way to update from 8.04 directly to the current version without going through all the others (8.10, 9.04, etc..)?
or ...
Will it be easier with the next LTS (10.04)?
about this ....!
Will it be possible to migrate directly from 8.04 to 10.04, one LTS to another?
I have a P.C. with Windows XP Pro installed and now I want to put Ubuntu on the H.D. Will the partitioning of the H.D. damage the Windows OS meaning a reinstall of Windows. If it does then I may be a bit stuck as I do not have the Windows install disc. Windows XP was put on the machine by the vendor.
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow do I do this without damaging my current installation of Ubuntu?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am wondering that if I install ubuntu as my os, will my current files be backed up to a directory like when installing a new version of windows, or would I need to back them up externally before hand. How much ram does 32bit ubuntu support upto, and which would be better for me out of 32bit + 64bit? I have 4gb of ram and a dual core 2ghz processor.
View 5 Replies View RelatedAssume I call a certain tool in terminal like
foobar -myoption
But a) there exists more than one installation of "foobar" on the system or b) I don't know where "foobar" is installed.
How can I find out WHICH foobar resp. WHICH path belongs to the currently active foobar tool?
I prefer a cmdline command with option similar to:
findactivepath -tool=foobar
....
Output: Used location=/usr/bin/foobar
I don't want to dig around with PATH investigations by searching every PATH component. Furthermore I don't want to get recommendations and expectations like "normally tools are installed in...". Think of unusual installed software.
I'm about to change colleges soon, and my new college (Full Sail University) requires us to have MacBooks. The university distributes the MacBooks to us with loads of class-related software pre-loaded. I'm unsure if they give us recovery discs for the Mac installation and the software.I have used Macs before, but I'm not all that Savy with them. What I need is a walkthrough on how to do certain things:
I want to backup the hard drive of the Mac, including the OS, and all the included programs.I want to wipe the hard drive, and install Ubuntu as a single OS.I want to take the backed up OSX and run that in VirtualBox, with full functionality: (internet, video making, graphic work, multimedia, etc)After that, I want to install Windows 7 as another guest OS, but I think I can handle that.
After a failed upgrade from 10.10, I went for a complete reinstall. What I'm seeing is that when I install the nvidia-current driver x / gdm doesn't seem to load. I get a blank screen for a bit, then it drops to the last lines in the terminal from loading up. I can ctr-alt-f1 to get to the first tty.
What I'm seeing in my .xsession-errors file is:
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Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":1".
What I'm seeing in my Xorg.0.log is
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[17.511] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-1): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:4:0:0. Please
[17.511] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-1): check your system's kernel log for additional error
[17.511] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-1): messages and refer to Chapter 8: Common Problems in the
[17.511] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-1): README for additional information.
[17.511] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-1): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
[17.511]
Backtrace:
[17.511] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x80eab1b]
[17.511] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x5fac8) [0x80a7ac8]
[17.511] 2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0x44940c]
[17.511] Segmentation fault at address (nil)
[17.511]
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[17.511]
I'm running on an nvidia 295 gtx. On 10.10 with a completed updated system I saw no issues.