I have forgotten my user password and cannot get past the logon screen. Is there a way to recover beside reinstalling Ubuntu Studio from scratch? (I am new to Ubuntu Studio).
View 4 RepliesI am trying to recover Grub2 after reinstalling Windows 7 on my computer (which always takes over everything). I downloaded the Ubuntu 10.10 image from here and have mounted the image using the given instructions.
After restarting my computer, changing the boot order, etc., the computer reboots and hangs at "Verifying DMI Pool Data............" I have done everything correctly, so what exactly is causing this problem? Should I restore Grub2 in some different way, then?
I just deleted my information panel. The top panel that contains the browser, applications, everything across the top of the screen. Is there a way to recover that information without reinstalling ubuntu. I am using ubuntu 10.04.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm currently using Ubuntu Studio Lucid and would like to use Ubuntu Studio Maverick, but I'm unsure how to go about the upgrade. Should I upgrade to generic ubuntu maverick then upgrade to ubuntu studio? Or install ubuntu studio maverick from a DVD?? Or something else?? I should say that I have a separate /home partition.
[Edited because what I first wrote was confusing:] when I started the process of upgrading with Update Manager it said that quite a lot of things would be removed (it would be upgrading only to generic Ubuntu for one thing)---I aborted that by the way. I was wondering if anybody knew of a way to avoid having to first sort of note everything that I have installed, then do the upgrade to generic Ubuntu, then do an upgrade to Ubuntu Studio, then reinstall all of the apps in their newer versions. Might there be a way to upgrade the OS itself first and then just directly update the apps without having to reinstall them, figuring out what to install all over again too?
I have a home computer that I bought to try Linux. first I want to reformat the HD so it is completely empty, it has xp now, then start from scratch. But I have not been able to format the HD. I have used all the tricks I know.
View 1 Replies View RelatedStarting from what I would think is completely from scratch, maybe worse. A friend set up this computer on unix/linux when I expressed interest. Truthfully I don't have even the slightest clue where to start other than to offer my complete humility. If I could start with getting my dvd and cd functions to work that would be a good start.
View 15 Replies View RelatedI am looking into creating my own terminal command from scratch. I researched online for some information on this subject was only able to view stuff related to OS X. I understand that they are both Unix based, are they both similar in creating these commands? Basically all I would like is for someone to point me towards the right direction to start or complete this task.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI recently installed CentOS 5.4 in my laptop. Initially I had difficulties in getting the machine up and running. So I went with the option of installing just the bare bones of CentOS 5.4. I did this by clearing all selections that are shown by default when you load CentOS 5.4 CD 1/6. This installed just the kernel and created only the root user. Right now, my laptop boots up in command line and I can login only as root. I would like to know if there is any document or any web URL that explains how to get a fully functional system from the scratch. Something like an installer manual or check list with instructions. Is there any document that you can refer to in situations where you have to manually install the drivers and configure the system because of some odd combination of hardware the machine has.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have only a CD Drive and the system is stand alone. Do I use the 5 CD set or Do I use the "Live" CD Thing?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a SUSE SLED system running without window manager (KDE or GNOME). I don't have the DVD but I have access to a network repository.
How do I install KDE from scratch?
I have C in a Nutshell but I'm learning Bash right now. I've gone through a lot of LFS, but didn't complete it. I'm still learning about symbolic links, hard links, libraries, and this sort of thing. I'm wondering about quite a few things at this point. How the hell can anyone make a distribution from the ground up? Even if they start with another distribution as a base, how do they know (I realize one person doesn't do all the work) what to do, what order to do it in, how to synchronize what they're doing with what everyone else is doing, etc. How do you know which software to compile and install first? etc.
Also, I'm entirely confused by this: how can everyone (even large teams) get everything working together? Knowing that this works with that and that doesn't work with this unless it's patched but that's what we're going with, etc. I can't understand how these things can be done without an almost unbelievable amount of effort unless a lot more is done by ./configure and make than I know about at this point.And I don't understand how libraries work at all. I mean, I'm going to learn a lot more and I've been reading a lot... but how can all the distributions just download and install 50 updates at a time and not have to restart the computer most of the time!? There are a hundred things happening in the background constantly. How does everything not just fall apart as soon as you update one package, let alone 50 at a time!? I realize this is stuff that you learn by reading, but I've been reading for quite a while now and I do not understand even the basics about why any of this works or how to know what works and what doesn't unless every single little piece of every distribution is gone over with a 50,000-page reference manual that's constantly updated. And all of this can't be as complex and hard to do as it seems, or there couldn't possibly be a hundred distributions that work and are updated constantly. Linux From Scratch is a good example. You have to download all the very specific versions of the software and patch it with special little patches, etc. How the hell can anyone keep track of all of this? Going by what I know about things, it's almost hard to believe that it's even done.
Is there any way to downgrade 10.10 to 10.04 without reinstalling linux?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI accidentally deleted the Me Menu in 10.04 when I installed global menu.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen the install button is pressed an error sign says "metalink is missing".Is there a way around this or better still a way of removing windows altogether and start from scratch?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a distribution called Easy Peasy on my netbook, it's Ubuntu-based.Today when I started it up it told me 'grub corrupt'. On subsequent start-ups it displays 'unknown filesystem.' I'm given a prompt labelled 'grub-rescue>' but I can't get any commands to work I've tried booting off a Live CD of Easy Peasy. That works fine, but I can't get to my files. I've tried using a program called photorec and it can recover files from the drive but it dumps out gigs upon gigs of unlabelled files, many of which are things like system files or web browser cache -- I only have a few dozen text files I actually need, so this is pretty unworkable.
I'm trying to reinstall grub, which I understand to be part of the booting process, but I've had no luck; any set of instructions I've followed has inevitably run into some error or a step I don't understand.How can I get at my files in an easy to recognise way (such that I can navigate the original directories and get what I want)? OR
How can I easily reinstall grub such that I can just use the system like before without having to reinstall everything and lose my files?I think my drive is sda or sda0. In grub's device.map it's called hd0.
Let's say I'm using one of those PCs that uses a SSD flash drive in place of a more regular HDD.
Say I burn my favorite .iso distro and install it on this PC. I install my favorite applications and seek out and install any missing drivers and generally tweak the system like you do. When I am finally happy with it, I make an image of this installation to an external USB drive.
Now, say 9 months later some of those SSD blocks have gone bad because they were erased too often. They're no longer usable. Also, because I'm a sloppy person who can't be bothered to delete redundant stuff and run make-cleans and so forth, the disk is getting pretty cluttered and takes longer and longer to do stuff.
I decide the obvious solution is to remove and save any data I need to keep, then just over-write the disk with the image I made 9 months earlier.
The question is: will the firmware be smart enough to re-map my incoming image to avoid these bad blocks on the SSD? Or am I going to wind up with some parts of the image being located on bad areas of the SSD?
When I reinstall my distro (MEPIS, for the last 2.5 years), making my new user account preserve all the old account's settings has always been a difficult and very messy process, especially if I have installed a new copy on another partition. (I'm doing that soon, so I have this copy as a backup until I have everything the way I want it on the new copy.) Most of my stuff gets saved, but not everything. The biggest problem is that, even if I select "preserve data in /home" in the MEPIS installer, my keyboard shortcuts become unusable (not completely erased) under odd circumstances. They're still listed in file /home/josh/kde/share/config/khotkeysrc, but they still can't be used, and I have to open hhotkeysrc and manually delete them and then reenter them in the menu editor (the K menu, by the way, gets completely overwritten).
I can't just overwrite the entire new user account with the old one; I've tried, and something goes wrong so that the new account can't be opened (probably because some important files are inaccessible--I can't tell which ones they become inaccessible).Anyway, is there a program that can preserve all the user account settings neatly for a new installation of the distro? I am supposing there is a program or at least a method, because I never hear others complaining about this problem. I probably don't know something I should know.
There are several articles, questionairres and forum threads around the net helping newbies to Linux choose a distro, but there appear to be none which specifically help people choose one suitable for design, studio or home recording.
- I'm a professional graphic designer who also dabbles in music production in my own time.
- I currently use Vista 64 on a reasonably powerful HP desktop.
- I'm not afraid of dabbling in basic programming, but overall I'm a beginner in that area.
My criteria:
- A OS that runs smoothly and reliably.
- Has a concise range of applications, but includes the best of the best. Quality over quanity.
- Has good hardware support.I don't want to spend weeks trying to get my audio interface, scanner and graphics tablet working.
- Is very secure. The main reason I'm moving to Linux is because my laptop eventually became riddled with Trojans despite my best efforts at keeping it clean.
- Preferably supports 64 bit.
- Looks slick (yes I know that's a bit superficial and it's not necessarily what Linux is about, but if I'm gonna be staring at a screen all day every day it might as well be attractive).
I've done a bit of research, and looked elsewhere on this forum for advice but it's strangely lacking (or I'm missing it). So far Ubuntu Studio, Sabayon, ArtistX and PureDyne look pretty promising. GNUartist, Open Artist and AV Linux also seem worth considering.Obviously I'm prepared to try a few different ones to see which one i gel with. I just wondered if my above criteria screams out for one or other of the available distributions, so that I can have a good starting point.
I have been developing real-time server applications in Visual C++ and C#.Net using Visual Studio IDE on Windows platform. Now due to organizational needs, we are planning to migrate to Linux Platform. provide an alternative IDE for Visual Studio in Linux.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to install Apache Directory Studio through eclipse 3.3.The procedure I follow: Go to help (Eclipse Interface)----> Software Updates ----> Find and Install When I press Find and Install nothing happens and eclipse becomes unresponsive.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a dell studio 1555 laptop , i m facing the very strange problem with my bluetooth , my bluetooth is not working on my F11 , means to say i cant be enable the bluetooth on my box , i thing its a driver issue.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install dynebolic multimedia studio on my hard disk. As per the instructions i copied the /dyne directory into the /(root) of my partition filesystem and booted from dyne cd but it is not working.they said cd will be automatically ejected during first phase of booting but it didnt It continued to read from cd.What should i do next.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have this old box that I used at school that I wanted to re-purpose and use. So i decided to that I wanted to run xp, ubuntu studio and slackware so I can learn about linux and do some other things with xp. I think I got through the installatiosa all fine and dandy, and I installed grub for my boot loader, I can boot into studio and xp, but I cant get into slackware. the grub boot menu is sorta funky too, it shows a generic and recovery mode for studio which is fine, and then another option for xp, some memory test boot option, but then for slackware it shows "Slackware Linux (Slackware 13.1.0) (on /dev/sda4) four times in a row. If I select any of them they all end up with some error; the third SW [slackware] option down the list of the repeated 4 allows me to sign into root, but when I type "startx" i get :
(EE) intel(0): No kernel modesetting driver detected
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration
Fatal server error: no screens found
but thats with a lot of other text above that. if you need any more details, please dont hesitate to request for them. I'm going to take some time and cool down. I'm trying to get these three OSes running from one HD. I've partitioned the 80 gig drive as follows
Primary 40 G NTSF for XP
Primary 2G Linux Swap
Primary 16G Slackware
Primary 18 U Studio
Primary
I want to install GNOCHM to (application to view chm files) view .chm files on ubuntu. Now, as far as from what ive learnt, it isnt available as a complete package on the web and has to be compiled, etc.. I have no idea how its done..
So iwould be really grateful if someone taught me how to start from scratch.. For a start, ive downloaded the gnochm-0.9.11.tar.gz from the sourceforge site.
Does anyone know how to start back from scratch? Im thinking Im just going to not do what did before and start all over *sigh*
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have just installed ubuntu 10.04 dvd version and ho and behold grub error 15 just amazing any way i enter the partition via live cd thinking i edit the menu.lst file and that it but the folder grub it completly empty what is going here and how can i fix this?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to reload windows xp + Ubuntu from scratch, I have no experience with dual-boot installation soNow we start with a blank 250GB harddrive in my Samsung N310 netbook, and then,Plan 1: partition the whole 250GB harddrive into 2 logical disk, namely drive c: and d:, both of them are NTFS, and then format them ==> install windows xp to Drive C: ==> boot from USB drive and run Ubuntu USB installer, and let the installer do its partition for Linux's EXT3Plan2:partition the whole 250GB harddrive into 3 logical disk, namely drive c:, d: and e:, with drive c: and d: being NTFS while drive e: being EXT3 ==> install windows xp to Drive c: ==> install Ubuntu directly to drive E:
The bottom line here is that 1) there must be 2 logical drives (both are NTFS) for windows xp; 2) I want a EXT3 partition where Ubuntu resides. Can any expert kindly advise me which plan mentioned above is more viable or feasible?
From what I have read around the net I should be able to set up my hard drive so that I have one small partition for Windows 7, one small partition for Ubuntu 10.04 and the remainder can be a third partition which contains all my files (accesible from both OS).irst question, is this possible?I tried to install Windows 7 first (I hear installing Ubuntu first creates havoc), then i tried to use the partition editor that comes with windows 7 and it wont let me shrink the partition any smaller than 700GB even though it is 98% free ( I have tried defragging thatdrive).Now Im wondering, can I use GParted to format my disk, then set up all the partition, and then install the OS's
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am dual booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10. When I am on Windows 7, I have no noise from the hard drive. When I use Ubuntu, every now and then I hear a short scratch noise from the hard drive. It didn't start doing it until installing Ubuntu when I was setting up the partitions.
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