General :: (on Tgz) Of A Hardisk / Installing A Back-up File
May 12, 2010
I have a complete back-up file (on tgz) of a hardisk. I have already installed a SuSe Linux system on my computer. Can someone please provide a step by step procedure on how to install this back-up files?
My friend borrowed my laptop for a while and when he gave it back he said he replaced Windows 7 with Ubuntu. I asked him to switch it back simply because I prefer Windows. He claims not to know how. I don't want to go buy a new windows 7 disc I just want to figure out how to get rid of this Ubuntu and Windows 7.
i just finish setting up my new file server with two hardisk(80gig for first hd for my filesystem and 2nd 250 gig for my data files) now iam wondering can i umount my second drive "live" and replace a new hardisk without shutingdown my computer? can i damage my hardisk? i know there is a hotswapble hardisk. but i my case i cant not afford a upgrade in my unit(clone pc only) but guy i try several time to change live hardisk without turning off my pc? i just umount the 2nd disk and insert a new disk and nothing happend wrong in my system?
I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 and every several reboots my hardisk is checked for errors. It tooks about 1 hour or more. Is there a simple way to disable it and to perform these checks only when requested
after so many times deleting staff for mistake.I am unable to get it back from my external hard drive.I use Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and I have all my staff on external hardrive.
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Z:----> Media -----> FreeAgent Drive
After delete I knew was her
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/acousticmetal[1]/
, I did all the search I can possible think of.and i dint have any good look can any one please help me out on this issue?.
still cant seem to get my file coloring back. normally directories are colored blue, devices yellow etc, ever since i made a change to my shell, and back again, i lost my coloring for directories
I want to ask, its is possible to install ubuntu in a harddisk as a non persistent environment? i mean, i want my ubuntu is always clean everytime it is restart, like a live usb.
I recently reinstalled karmic, after upgrading lucid messed up my display.
I did not do a hard disk wipe, but just installed karmic in a new partition.
This presents a problem, which I think is due to permissions, that my other partitions does not mount automatically. Boot up shows a message that there's error.
After looking through the forums, most related issues i see are external devices (I may have missed it). Mine, however, is internal hard drive.
I have to manually mount it in desktop, by password authentication
Here's my fstab:
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I would like to auto-mount it during boot, and perhaps get rid of the weird UUID.
I rip the DVDs that I own to my hard disk using a straight-up 1:1 copy, ie to an ISO image. This works great usually, but for this specific DVD that I'm presently trying to rip, I'm being told that the DVD is literally 64GB in size. It's definitely not a BluRay disc, and I don't even have a BluRay drive, so that possibility is ruled out.
I'm not having any problems playing back the DVD file in VLC. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 64bit. How on earth could it be a 64GB DVD?!? Isn't the max capacity of a DVD around 8 gigabytes? I don't even think that BluRay discs hold 64GB of data!
I have a problem to gain my hardisk size after deleting a large amount of files. i have root partition size with 196 GB. actual used size in that partition is about 70GB, with command df -h, the used size 139GB. I have no idea to find out where is the hidden files. this happend after I delete the large amount of files because the hardisk almost full. the file i have deleted is almost 60 GB size.
In my bash file I have asked to navigate to some subdir, unzip a file and stay there but when I type pwd I can see i'm always back to home dir.Any way to get shell stick to subdir?
In order to make this conversion I have to use a text editor. This is tedious. Is there an easier way to do it, like some program I can run from the Linux or OSX terminal?
remove a line starting with specific word with grep. Here is what I found
grep -v '^cc$' data.txt
Here I remove all lines with on 'cc' in that line. But I want the result write back to data.txt
I try several ways
grep -v '^cc$' data.txt > output.txt # works but to another file echo `grep -v '^cc$' data.txt` > data.txt # didn't work, all carets gone, become one line grep -v '^cc$' data.txt > data.txt # data.txt is empty after running this
How can I save the result of grep to the input file?
I am running Ubuntu 9.10 and had hoped to use Synaptic to find and install Truecrypt. As Synaptic couldn't find it I downloaded it from [URL]. In case it helps the file is called "truecrypt-6.3a-linux-x86.tar.gz". Apart from not knowing how to get a working program from the .tar.gz file, I don't know whether the installation process sorts out where the file should go and puts it there, or whether I have to create a directory for it and put it there myself.
after i made the change to my shell type, that from SH to TCH, and back again, i lost my coloring for my file system, if you know what i mean, folders always come in blue, and devices in yellow hope you understand? now everything i do can't seem to differentiated between files colors anymore.
I have a harddisk which is partiotioned in C & D. I've installed WIN XP on C and WIN 7 on D. Then I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on D beside WIN 7. Now I can't access to WIN 7 and also to drive D in XIN XP and in Ubuntu. What can I do to get back WIN 7 and drive D ?
When I'm doing an installation, I select the installation from CD/DVD option for CentOS, but then I don't know how to specify that it should use an anaconda-ks.cfg file that is either on a USB key (or on a Samba network share).
How could I install using the installation DVD, as well as a kickstart file that would specify which packages to enable and other installation settings?
I have an harddisk which is old, since many years >10 years, and I recall I crashed few clusters using windows programs which were old and harddisk stuffs doing. So the pc lives with bad clusters, this pc lives very well since many years.Question, the pc has woody debian, which let us to install and exclude bad sectors during install. Bad clusters was an usual thing in the past, but today not anymore.Unfortunately debian squeeze installer coders had the good idea to remove the " bad cluster checking " before installing debian, during install (cdrom netinst).
I recently purchased a VPS based on CentOS 5.5 and only CentOS is available, One of the problems I have is that I have no experience with this distro at all. I want to install FlexGet [URL] but it depends on either Python version 2.5 or 2.6 which my install has version Python 2.4.3 installed. Now after doing some reading I have seen many post saying if I upgrade Python system wide It may break something else that is needed, and to install it side by side with the older version of Python and point the application to that specific version of Python it needs. The only problem with this is that I haven't got a clue how to do this.
So I was wondering if anyone could put together a very noob friendly guide for me to get the newer Python build installed side by side with the current one and then help me configure FlexGet from the .egg file it comes in installed using the newer version of Python it needs.
I need to achieve a particular effect using bash's redirection facilities.I know that I can redirect a file to some program's standard input:[user@host]$ application < file.txtThe thing is, I'd like to know can I regain control of this program's input after the file content's have been passed to it. In other words, I'd like to run a command similar to the above, and then, instead of the termination of the application, I'd want it to wait for further commands from standard input (keyboard).
As I write this question, it occured to me that I could probably write another application (or a script), that would at first write some data to standard output and then act as echo, like:[user@host]$ stdin_proxy.sh | applicationWould it work, and is there any better way to do so? There are a bunch of Googleable tutorials covering this issue, but they all amount to one advice - "reopen the stdin after the file contents have been read".
I recently installed ubuntu studio 8.04 on a new partition and now ubuntu 9.10 is no longer showing up in the grub boot menu. How can I boot into ubuntu 9.10 and how do I edit the grub menu so it shows up again?
I use Ubuntu 10.04. I'm not sure what other info is relevant, Gnome, I suppose.
Yesterday I installed wine-1.2 (using Synaptic), in order to be able to build programs for Windows. This in itself seemingly succeeded, but as a result of the installation, fonts in Firefox changed (one can say immediately - when the installation was done, the fonts had changed).
For example, in this forum, the non-monospaced font changed in some way I can't put my finger on. Right now, posts feel less readable, but getting used to it may just be a question of time.
Some other pages (in existing tabs, and when looking them up again) changed the font size, some increased the size, some decreased it. This can be fixed by using Ctrl-+ or Ctrl-- quite easily, but <whine> I would like these kind of changes not to happen at all </whine>.
I uninstalled wine (not removed completely - I don't know what the difference is), but this didn't undo the font change.
The font settings within Firefox (Preferences) don't seem to have been changed.
The point of this post is to ask what may have happened, where such dependencies between fonts are stored, and how to undo the change, in case I'd like to.
I am trying to install rails 3.0.1 on ubuntu 10.10. I am getting this error towards the end when i execute this command sudo gem install rails --version 3.0.1.
I downloaded the easyids.iso file. Put it on a usbkey tried to boot with it, it didn't work. I put the .iso on a cd and I have the same problem. why can't I boot with the iso?
I,m using Ubuntu 10.10 with Gimp. Ive got a lot of photos etc and need to back these up. Can I anyone suggest a good backup solution which does not require e to keep copying the same files? IE: Once the files are backed up I only want to back the files used since last back up?