General :: Looking To Install System From CDROM While Other Distro Running?
Mar 19, 2010
Laptop has broken internal CDROM. I booted with floppy to get Puppy 431 installed from USB stick. Now I have USB CDROM access thru Puppy. I can mount and see the CD fine.
Is it possible to boot or install from a currently installed linux distro (Puppy)?
I have a second free partition ext2 available, sda2, and GRUB is working fine for me on boot.
(machine also doesn't have boot from USB option, yes, it's old, a project I am working on, I have Nimblex in CD now, I think it's a live cd, I would like to try a few different ones by installing to sda2 and wiping if ng.)
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Jun 25, 2010
I'd like to build a compact x86 host running off a CompactFlash or some equivalent solid-state memory instead of from a SATA disk, to reduce the risk of failure once they're deployed at customers' premises. Those are SOHO users, so performance is not an issue, but stability is (The less I have to drive to replace faulty hardware and restore data, the better.)
Do you know if the usual suspects (Ubuntu, CentOS, Gentoo, etc.) can easily be made to run from solid-state memory, and if yes, is there some good documentation to customize them thusly?
I assume it's just a matter of tweaking /etc/fstab, but it could be more involved.
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Jan 3, 2010
i have vmware workstation with ubunutu server installed now i need to install samba , i use this command
apt-cdrom add after that i check the source.list and the cdrom uncomment then i use sudo apt-get install smbfs, instead of using the cdrom as the source he use internet .
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Apr 3, 2010
I'm trying to run backtrack from a usb drive on my netbook. Upon loading it, i get "Fatal server error: no screens found".
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May 10, 2011
I searched and found several solution but those are distro specific. I need to find out if distro is running in live mode (from CD, USB) instead it's installed on hdisk. The solution should be independent of distribution.
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Apr 12, 2010
when i use kickstart to install centos from cdrom (i make it myself in my way),i got a %post script problem with the kickstart file. 1.%post script used to copy my own software from cdrom to hard disk.then make install automaitlly with bash script.
the %post script like :
%post
mkdir -p /myownsoftware
cp -r /mnt/myownsoftware/* /myownsoftware
cd /myownsoftware
[Code]...
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I just wanted to know which is best distro of linux...
And in particular which version of ultimate edition of ubuntu involves
almost all features....
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I want to know what is the best linux distribution for java EE development. Is it Cent OS or Fedora 15.
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Mar 2, 2010
Find a distro for a gamer like me?
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mor fonts to Open Office
can I use the fonts that comes with windows XP?
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Jul 5, 2011
I got a new laptop with 320 gb hdd,2 gb RAM and intel core i3 processor...the manufacturer is lenovo..its pre installed with windows 7 ultimate pack..i'm interested to install a linux distro..so i wanna know which distro suits my laptop configuration.in a best way.
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Dec 9, 2008
An amazing machine with huge and allmighty capabilities 380 MHz AMD-K6 gratefully powered with 64MB of ram
Could it own Debian? which Debian distro/cdrom would you recommend? Just for a internet, got with wifi running and surfing with X.
I guess that kde 1.0 or kde 2.0 was running very fast on it.
From scratch or can I get an already sources.list for old pc with old stable stuffs - debian ?
I found some debs there, might I use them? and concerning the cdrom?
http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/
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I'm sure the answer is yes but, I'm wondering if you could put a newer distro of Linux on an older Mac (for example an iMac G4 or G5).
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Oct 31, 2010
We are having a lot of trouble with this.
We need a command line version of Linux like ttylinux. Any command line will do with the latest kernel. It should be around 50 megs.
But the problem is, all these small Linux versions are LiveCD or have a compressed file system.
We need a SMALL linux distro, that we can install UNCOMPRESSED (no squashfs etc) on a hard disk.
This is so simple I'm sure I'm missing something..
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Jan 24, 2010
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Aug 29, 2010
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Feb 18, 2010
I think the title says it all really - I've installed Mint onto a Acer aspire 5315 laptop. Its a dual boot system using Vista Basic. Grub works perfectly and to be honest Mint is great. really enjoying playing and learning. My problem is that the laptop overheats when using Mint - the cpu fan doesn't cut in and the laptop shuts down to protect the system. According to a swift google this seems to occur with mint (possibly particularly with Acer's) and maybe with other distro's too. However I'd like to keep trying to see if i can find one that works.
So my rather obvious newbie question is can I just get another distro dvd and install this onto the partition containing mint thus deleting the previous install? If I did this would Grub show the new distro ok or would it keep searching for Mint. I have a back up so if all else fails I can reinstall everything but that will have to wait till I get home
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Feb 19, 2010
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Jan 9, 2010
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Jul 2, 2010
I bought laptop HP ProBook 4520s (Core i3, ATI Mobility Radeon 4350, 4GB 1333MHz Ram).I'm looking for the best Linux distro to install on it. With which distro do you think it will cooperate best?I had a problem with Ubuntu 10.04 (stripes when playing video).
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Feb 10, 2011
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Mar 14, 2011
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Jan 5, 2010
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