I have a bootable flashdrive for the complete slackware distribution, and I want to install it on my dell dimension 2400, which has Windows XP and some useless files. I don't want to run Windows anymore on that PC, just Linux & Linux-based software. How do I get rid of what's on there now, including Windows, and at what stage?
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My laptop has had it, so I am getting a new net book instead. So with my old laptop, I am giving it to a charity who refurb them and send them overseas.Not that I do not trust them, but they say they wipe the hard drive to US Department of Defense standard 5220.22M. But I would feel a lot happier if I did it myself first, so how do I go about doing it? I have tried using wipe but as it was a tar file I got stuck trying to use the tar file.
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhat are the benefits of wiping out windows and have your system running on linux only?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI recently did a fresh install of ubuntu 11.04 and seemed to have made a mistake with re-partitioning perhaps? I cant boot into windows anymore. I know all files are still there and intacct as I can access them from Ubuntu, but Something is wrong with the Booting of Windows now. I get to a screen which gives me system recovery options. When I perform the startup repair it scans for a few secnds and comes up with an error message "...System volume on disk is corrupt. Repair action: File system repair (chkdsk)...error code 0x1f" I even seems to have access to files on windows from this screen when I try a "Windows Complete system restore" It gives me the option to look on the hard drive or on a disk (I only have a Toshiba windows 7 upgrade disk and it doesnt seem to be helping)
View 9 Replies View RelatedI upgraded from ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04. I was wondering if there was a way to downgrade back to 9.10 without wiping the hd. 10.04 has to many problumes right now
View 1 Replies View RelatedA friend of mine threw me an OLPC (original model with 1GB of storage) that he was trying to put slackware in. He managed to install a minimal installation, but now it asks for the e2fstools (the stuff to run fsck on ext(2/3/4) partitions) which he didn't install (he formatted the "disk" as a single jfs partition). Is there any reason why it would want to have those tools given that there are no ext(2/3/4) type filesystems in that machine? And is there any specific init script (or udev rule) that can be edited to make it not try and check ext(2/3/4) partitions?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just bought a netbook, HP DV2-1039WM, which comes with Vista. I wiped the hard drive and installed Ubuntu 9.10. A problem has arisen in that it doesn't see any wireless card. There is a button on the side with an indicator light that is used to enable/disable wireless. The light is amber and, according to the manual, it is supposed to be blue when wireless is working. The manual just says "push the button" to turn it on, which doesn't do anything.
I recently installed a dual boot on my desktop with Windows 7/Ubuntu, which doesn't have any problems. Are there driver/hardware issues with the setup I am trying on this netbook? The HP website only has drivers for windows OSes listed. Theoretically, I could reinstall windows and/or do a dual-boot, but I'd rather just keep only Ubuntu on it if possible.
I have Debian installed and I want to install Fedora. Is there a way to install Fedora without erasing the drives? I have my /home directory that don't want erased, plus several GB of files stored in other partitions as well as other drives.
If not, then is there a fast and easy way to back up everything?
For example, I run a program called "luck" and it outputs a sentence like "good luck". Then "./luck -> logfile" will save the output content to logfile.But when I run another program called "hello" and it outputs a sentence lie " Hello world".Then "./hello-> logfile" will save the output content to logfile and wipe the previous contents.Is is possible to keep both sentences in the logfile? Just like
View 2 Replies View RelatedI didn't back up the blasted /etc/httpd stuff.
I do a "clean" root-only install; i.e., the only partitions that are formatted are the root and usr partition leaving the others untouched (so I don't have to restore the entire thing every time or fiddle with updating). That leaves almost everything in place with only a few edits and additions to make to get back in business; smart and dumb and the same time, sigh.
The partitions look like this for what it's worth:
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Anyway, my web server comes up just fine and other applications work as expected except for Bugzilla and I can't remember what the heck it is I have to do to get it going again. I add a file, httpd-bugzilla.conf in the extra directory and include it at the end of httpd.conf:
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In the above, /var/www/htdocs/bugzilla is not a symbolic link, Bugzilla is actually installed there (and has worked just fine for a long, long time). And, yeah, I know I'm not really supposed to do that but there it is.
I also run checksetup.pl which completes cleanly (it also sets permission masks and group) and double-check that localconfig looks like it ought to.
Seems like that ought to do it, but...
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As per the subject line, the latest slackpkg doesn't honor the blacklist when using the clean-system option. It tries to make my multilib system unhappy.I fixed this by changing line 656 in /usr/libexec/slackpkg/core-functions.sh
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checkblacklist
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My Ubuntu partition is just about out of memory, and I need to do some cleaning of the windows.I couldn't find a lot on here (maybe I wasn't using the right terms), and when I looked on google it seemed like the only results I found were from people that wanted to remove linux from windows.What I'd like to do is create a very, very small partition for windows for when I need it (burning MP3s to CDA and my printer only).I wouldn't mind re-installing windows and starting from scratch (I have all my software backed up) and then installing Ubuntu a backed up version of Ubuntu. Except I can't get Clonezilla to install for the life of me after several attempts.So is their any (hopefully easy) way to clean up windows without going to extremes?
View 9 Replies View Relatedi created an USB Ubuntu [10.04], that i want to keep with me. people sometimes ask me to hep them with all sorts of windows problems, and i wanted to have a usb linux, that i could load with all kind of tools/ software to help.So, i tried doing some research, into what would be most useful. Antivirus-wise, all the links pointed at Clam AV (i also found a pdf describing how to clean a windows drive from linux - will try that soon - if this thread gathers followers, I'll post the results).Do you have any ideas what could i install more ? different AV ? some defragmenting tool? I searched a bit, but on all kinds of forums people just said that linux did not need defragmenting. i know that, but i want a linux tool that defragments NTFS drives.
View 10 Replies View RelatedMy windows partition is infected and I recall that it is supposed to be possible from the linux partition with ClamAV. Now I'm running Fedora12 but this forum is much more active and I suppose that doesn't make a big difference. I tried to find something on google but most procedures seem to involve a Live CD but it would be more convenient for me to just do it from my linux distro running. Is there anything I have to be aware of or is it literally just scanning the windows partition with ClamAV?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have problem with my printer HP Deskjet D1460. My printer is configured and works. When I send a file on the print, the printer clings a sheet of paper and starts to print, but a paper as was clean so clean and remains, after printing.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI configured cron to clean my /tmp directory, should I also add other locations to clean and especially /var/tmp.
View 4 Replies View RelatedFirst how can I clean install Ubuntu 10.10? I am currently using Windows 7 and want to clean install Ubuntu 10.10.
Secondly, I have Apple iPod Touch 4th generation 32GB model. So how can I install iTunes on Ubuntu??
installing Ubuntu. I want to completely delete my windows data and want to clean install Ubuntu 10.10
A couple of months ago I decided to use the wubi installer to install ubuntu on my comp in a dual boot configuration. Yesterday, I clean installed my windows drive with windows 7.I have my windows install on drive C: and my wubi install in Drive D: ( they are on completely different hard disks ), so the ubuntu virtual disks are still intact and the wubildr.mbr is still there.
The bootloader screen at startup doesn't appear at all! I tried to manually boot into the D: hard drive but come up with a error 17 grub loading error, which was because the grub loader doesn't recognize the file system on the drive (ntfs). is there a way to somehow recover the wubi installation?
EDIT: I did some research on the net, apparently if I backup up the root.disk file, erase everything else on the drive, install wubi again and overwrite the root.disk file with the backed up one I should be able to restore my previous ubuntu installation! However, I don't want try something until I'm certain that it would work.
Is there any difference between apt-get clean and aptitude clean? Do they both remove the same caches? Should I know any other commands for cleaning up wasted space on my ubuntu laptop?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have an Ubuntu 10.04 live CD it works I would like to know how I could wipe the HDD, but there are some complications. It doesn't run the live CD because of something on the HDD so I'd like to be able to wipe the HDD without having to run or install Ubuntu i can get up a command line thing though by pressing Esc from the graphic setup. By the way I can get to the setup screen with the options install run scan for defects etc but when i click on install or run it stops after a while.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs there a handy program that wipes my RAM at each shut down to prevent RAM attacks and recovering passphrases? Is this even possible? I have a truecrypt volume and have read that it is vulnerable to these RAM attacks.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI did a clean install of fedora 13 on my sys, however when i run
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rpm -qa |grep fc12
lots of and lots of fc12 packages pop up. below is the list. if there is fc13 version of these packages, and if there is (which I suspect for at least some of them there should be) why my sys doesn't update to those packages?
here is the list of fc12 packages:
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~$ rpm -qa |grep fc12
ctan-cm-lgc-fonts-common-0.5-17.fc12.noarch
plexus-compiler-1.5.2-4.3.fc12.noarch
texlive-texmf-errata-fonts-2007-7.fc12.noarch
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Laptop has a fault and needs to go back to dell. I have no idea what they may or may not do it; regardless I want to completely wipe the hard drive (and then put windows back on to keep them happy).
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have an Asus Eee 1000H with win7 installed dual booting with the NBremix. I installed Adobe CS3 to the win7 side and everytime I run CS3 it wipes out grub causing me to use the live-stick and re-install grub.
View 3 Replies View RelatedBecause I install/uninstall a fair few operating systems, I occasionally run Kill Disk off Hirens Boot CD to clean my drive.Being a 500GB Drive this takes about 12 hours.Is there any benefit to doing this? ie. drive longevity, speed, etc
View 5 Replies View RelatedSomehow I've messed up something in Handbrake that causes queued items to not run. I'd like to wipe out my settings and start over. What file/directory are these stored in?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm having trouble since I installed the newest kernel update. I only have one desktop. I unistalled compiz. Then I get the message 'you don't appear to have a window manager installed' I reinstalled compiz, but it gives me a misty screen, with the cube desktop. How do I set compiz to a default setting? Plain and simple? Where is the config file? This may have started when I clicked a box 'enable indirect rendering' just to see what happened. I have an nvidia 9200 card on an Asus laptop.Failing that, how do I reinstall Fed 12 without wiping out my home directory?
View 14 Replies View RelatedNewb here and this is my first time installing Ubuntu. Created the LiveCD from download of ISO 9.10. PC is a Dell D505 laptop with a clean reformatted, defragged HD. Install goes ok up until first screen with a background and the software asks me to login using a username and password. I haven't been asked to set up a u/p up until this point so I'm stuck. ENTER doesn't work, root/root doesn't work. I've downloaded other ISO files, reburned etc and its the same each time.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy current laptop (purchased off of a local computer store owner, I think it's brand is generic but it is called a SPARTAN for those that need to know) is running windows 7 professional and I am attempting to install Slackware 13.0. Now, I did the whole partitioning thing under windows (computer>manage>etc.) but for some reason whenever I boot the DVD to install it seems like it cannot read my hard drive. I then went directly into setup > target partition and I notice that it is reading my hard drive because my two partitions that windows exists on is there.
Now, what is says when I use cfdisk is that it seems to be reading the DVD and it gives me an error saying that the disk is read-only (which I see why). Is there a step I'm skipping while preparing the hard drive while under windows or is there just something wrong with my computer completely? I tried to read the readme and attempted to use fdisk but it's really confusing for me considering I have never used terminal type code before (except random DOS commands). I can get it installed in virtualbox but I just can't install it on the main computer. If it's worth mentioning, I downloaded the DVD ISO off of the website.
I did a fresh install of Ubuntu Karmic on a separate partition the other day, and mistakenly formatted the dedicated boot partition. This has left the boot entry in Fedora's fstab incorrect, and - obviously - removed the initrd and vmlinuz images for Fedora from the boot partition. Is there any way to reinstate these? Someone on the Ubuntu forums recommended chrooting into the Fedora partition, but I'm not sure I understand how that works. It's my own stupid fault for formatting the boot partition, but we live and learn!
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