Software :: Ubuntu LiveCD Allow To Install Package On Hard Drive?
Jul 7, 2011I want to install Minimal Ubuntu onto my laptop which only has Windows.
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OpenSUSE Install :: Cannot Boot LiveCD When Hard Drive Mode Is RAID
Jul 29, 2010I burned the live version of OpenSUSE 11.3 (Gnome, 32bit) to a CD to test the compatibility of an HP Pavilion p6510f. Although Xubuntu 10.4 booted up fine, OpenSUSE did not. A message about RAID would appear (too briefly to read) and then the computer would reboot.I checked in the BIOS and found that the SATA drive has 3 modes: IDE, RAID and AHCI. The hard drive was set to RAID.
When I changed the hard drive mode to IDE, I was able to run the OpenSUSE live CD; but the change ruined my Windows installation. Windows doesn't boot under IDE or RAID mode. (I have reset the mode to RAID and am restoring the Windows installation.) Is there an option/argument that I can pass to the kernel so that OpenSUSE will work under RAID mode? (Since Xubuntu 10.4 was able to do it, I'm assuming OpenSUSE should be able to.)
Ubuntu :: Check Hard Drive For Errors From LiveCD?
Sep 24, 2010I have a laptop, running Windows Media Centre unfortunately, and I think the hard drive is hosed. I was wondering is there away of checking the hard drive for errors using the ubuntu livecd? I would put ubuntu straight onto it only there are various items within Windows that the owner needs to get.
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Jun 22, 2011I am concerned about the LiveCD touching my HDD at all. Is this a factor, such as using HDD space for a swap file? I thought the whole thing ran off my RAM. Anyway here's my specs:
MacBook Pro 500GB:
HFS+ Partition w/Snow Leaopard ~400GB
NTFS Parition with WIndows 7 ~100GB
EFI Partition ~200MB
1) Does this mean I have a "swap file" on there I don't know about? I assume both WIndows and OSX use virtual memory to manage RAM when running in their respective operating systems but does that mean Ubuntu LiveCD will use one of my winows or OSX partition's "swap file"?
2) Or is there an invisiable partition created for LiveCD to use on some unallocated space on my HDD (I don't think there's any but idunno)?
3) How can I be sure the LiveCD is not writing ANY data to the HDD? I don't believe I have ever explicitly created a swap file in either OSX or windows.
Ubuntu Installation :: How To Install The Livecd On A Usb Drive
Apr 13, 2010I want to create a live CD that runs from my USB flash drive.How can I do this in Ubuntu. I am running Karmic 64bit.I found the programs:Universal USB InstallerLive Linux USBHowever these are both Windows based programs.Is there anything out there that will work in Linux that will do the same thing?
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Jan 25, 2010I got a dell inspiron 1501 laptop with a 80Gb sata drive what is the best solution to add data storage space for someone that love to have multiples operating systems at hand Note: I use mostly linux so I won't need to change my laptop for many years maybe ...
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Mar 16, 2010My parents bought a new hard drive for a laptop that I've owned for several years. It's much larger than the current one, so I plan on splitting it up to dual boot it with Ubuntu.I have no problem with partitioning a drive (I always keep a LiveCD handy), but my question is this: how can I go about moving the existing partition to the new drive? This is a laptop, so I can't simply plug the new drive into another slot.
Also, even if I manage to move it, will Windows still work on the new drive in a larger partition? I've had this laptop for quite a while, and I've lost the recovery discs that came with it a long time ago. I also have a lot of software without CDs to reinstall them with. This makes not reinstalling Windows a high priority.
Fedora Installation :: EIDE Hard Drive Recognized As Sda Hard Drive
May 1, 2010Trying to install Fedora 12 using the 6 CDs. Trying to install on an older x86 box.Problem is that when detecting my hard drive, Fedora 12 recognizes it as a sda hard drive instead of hda hard drive. I have no SCSI connected to my computer what so ever. It's an old fashion PATA Western Digital hard drive.If I proceed with the install, Fedora 12 only installs 200MB of the OS from the first CD only. No options for additional software or anything.
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Jul 27, 2011I have a setup with 3 hard drives. The first hard drive has windows 7 and is a solid state, for my fast computing needs. The second hard drive has another copy of windows 7 on one partition and Ubuntu 11.04 on another (and SWAP space).The third hard drive is just storage.Grub is installed on the first(SSD) hard drive, as well as the MBR (master boot record) for the two windows installs (select win7 in grub, then it lets me select which windows install to boot).Now I want to get rid of my solid state drive, and just run from the second hard drive with dual boot.How can I install a new MBR on the second hard drive without having to re-install both OS's?I've tried removing the first hard drive and using bootrec.exe to re-write the MBR and it will not work.I can install grub, and it boots to ubuntu but when I try windows 7 it says there is no MBR.
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Jun 3, 2011I have a laptop with only 30GB storage and I want to install Lubuntu in virtual box but Lubuntu needs 5GB of storage space which i dont have. Could i use an external 160GB hard drive to act as the hard drive for the virtual machine without affecting the files that are already on the external hard drive
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Apr 11, 2010I am currently using XP and I would like to try ubuntu 9.10. I already tried ubuntu 9.10 using virtualbox and Im impressed by the look and performance. However, I still need more time before I fully install ubuntu in my notebook.
I'm aware that linux's distro is possible to be installed and boot from USB. Most tutorials that I google provide step by step on how to install linux distro (fedora,ubuntu,mint) to USB stick and flash. The dilemma is that I don't have USB stick instead I only have 320gb USB hard drive. And I tried to install ubuntu 9.10 using unetbooting to my USB hard drive but my hard drive is not listed in the USB drive box option.
For information, I created two partition in my USB hard drive, 150gb each. Is it possible to install ubuntu 9.10 on partition 2 and boot the OS from there?
how to install ubuntu 9.10 to a USB hard drive (second partition).
Ubuntu :: Install From An .iso On Hard Drive
Mar 7, 2011I have dowloaded a new flavor I want to try on a laptop, I do not have a DVD burner and its 1.3GB...will it install on the hard disk if I can extract the ISO and just run the install from a directory, or something to that extent...basically can you install from an ISO without booting it?
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Apr 14, 2011From long ago I think I remember that, in order to install a new hard disk, I must:
1. create a mountpoint (mkdir ...)
2. enter one line (for each partition) in /etc/fstab
Is it still like this, or has this become automatic so that a new (common, internal IDE) disk will be automatically mounted without manually editing fstab?
Ubuntu :: 11.04 Install Won't See Hard Drive
Jul 25, 2011I have an existing Windows 7 machine that I am moving to Ubuntu. This is important, it will NOT be a dual boot machine.
Here is the system setup;
320GB Seagate SATA drive split into a 40GB OS partition (where Windows 7 was) and the rest partitioned for extra storage. In addition, I have a LSI MegaRAID 8480E RAID card with four 1TB Seagate SATA drives configured in a RAID 5.
The plan was to install Ubuntu on the 40GB partition, overwriting and erasing Windows 7. The RAID array is storage only, NOT for any OS operation, so it really doesn't matter here, except for the oddity that this is the ONLY partition the Ubuntu installer sees, not the 320 or any of it's partitions.
Now, here's the best part. When I go into GParted or the Disk Utility, both show the 320GB installed, in fact, when I go into the Computer section, I can open and access the data on the 259GB storage partition while using the live CD. The hard drive is working, and the system sees it...it just does not list it as an option to install to.
I used GParted to delete and reformat the Windows partition (set it as ext4), and it still will not show anything but the RAID array as an install point. I made sure to unmount the 320GB hard drive before installing as well, no luck.
Ubuntu :: Re-install To Take Whole Hard Drive?
May 21, 2010I recently installed Ubunutu Notebook Edition on my notebook, and i had dual boot with Windows XP Home.However i was wondering i could just have Ubuntu as my main OS and just wipe Windows XP Home edition off my harddrive from within Ubunutu and just reinstall Ubunutu to take the whole hard drive?
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Feb 20, 2010I've got a computer where Comodo Time Machine totally wiped out the hard drive..Now when I try to boot up it says I have a registry problem..K, I thought I might be able to save my files, etc., by installing Ubuntu 9.04 to recover them..I put in the disk and Ubuntu booted up fine..I first tried to run Ubuntu without any changes to the computer..It keepsscrolling, fast at first then slows down and it says things like 1238.50734 sr 1:0:0:0:[sr0] Add.Sense:No seek complete or the number and beside it buffer I/O error on device sr0 logical block..The numbers started out in the 600's with basically the same thing but with logical block 321537..I tried to do an install, and it did the same thing..Does anybody know what this is and is there a fix or am I just spit out of luck and my hard drive is nrecoverable..I just did the check disk for errors and it found errors in 2 files.
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Aug 19, 2010here is my setup I have win xp dual boot with Ubuntu Karmic, on hard drive I now want to install Bt4 on usb hard drive, will i just be able to install as normal then reinstall grub afterwards, also will the machine still work ok if usb drive is not attached on some occasions
My machine dos,nt allow booting from usb, ( i,e install from usb drive )
Ubuntu :: Transferring An Install To A Different Hard Drive?
Mar 23, 2011The HDD in my HTPC is giving off a really annoying grinding sound, and we all know what that means.Luckily, my movies, songs, games, etc. are stored on a brand new 400 Gig external drive- the install is all that's on the failing one. I've got about a half dozen IDE drives big enough for a base install, and at least half of those *aren't* failing, I just don't know what to do. Do I just create the ext and swap partitions then copy/paste the file system, or what?
View 1 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Can't Install Ubuntu On My New Hard Drive ?
Dec 9, 2009I had to replace my hard drive, so now i have a new blank hard drive that i set partitions and formatted but when i try to load ubuntu from cd i burned(which i checked and downloaded correctly) it stops at the check hlt. i tried ALL the option settings, and still no good. it either restarts or gets stuck at that point again. am i doing something wrong? i can install ONLY ubuntu as my os right? like i said there is nothing else on hard drive-blank.
View 5 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: 9.1 Unable To Install On Second Hard Drive
Jan 2, 2010Am trying to install Ubuntu 9.1 on hard drive 2 rather than hard drive 1(7 year old XP machine with 74 GB drive 1) Hard drive 2 is a Firewire-connected External Western Digital.)
with only a 41 MB partition avaialble for Linux).
Allocations are:
After install finsishes the boot process fails with:
Restored the MBR from a Windows CD, and thinking the boot loader needed to be in the MBR area of sdb, installed again with "Install Boot Loader" specified as sdb. Same results.
Restored the MBR and installed again with "Install Boot Loader" specified as hd0. Same results.
Restored the MBR and installed again with /boot allocated on sda2 (the 41 MB partition on the first hard drive). "Install Boot Loader" specified as hd0.
Booted successfully, but when installing updates, there was insufficeient space in the boot partition and could not restart.
Ubuntu 9.1 uses GRUB2 for the first time, so thinking "perhaps there's a glitch", installed Ubuntu 8.04 with the first set of specs described above - except "ext3" instead of "ext4". Got "Error 21" from GRUB which is the same as "no such disk".
OpenSUSE Install :: Command To Install To Hard Drive?
Dec 31, 2009I have a Chrome OS .iso that I can booting from CD but only in text mode [the computer has issues] and I want to live install it to the hard drive, but all I have is the linux prompt. Is there a command to do that? I tried install, but I still don't know what to do.[I'm fine with a complete install overwriting everything]
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Apr 8, 2010is there a way to install Ubuntu -from- an external hard drive. For example, let's say, you have a complete Ubuntu system with everything (no need to download additional packages/softwrae/etc anymore) , but you can't use remastersys to create an ISO with it because it is way over 10GB in size. Much larger than any DVD you could burn that newly created ISO to.. (besides remastersys is limited to the size of a DVD-r anyways)
Maybe someone has tried this before? Someone has created a dedicated large hard drive that is essentially the same thing as a ubuntu installation usb flash drive, to boot from an then install Ubuntu onto another "new" hard drive? I think it would be nice to have a hard drive (external usb or even better, an internal hdd drive i could hot swap to each new computer I have that I wish to install it onto.. ) And I think it would be so much faster to install from a Sata internal HDD drive than a USB pendrive or a cd/dvd rom, right?
Ubuntu Installation :: Format The Hard Drive And Re-Install?
Jun 23, 2010An upgrade %100 pwnd my system: I performed an upgrade to Lucid from Karmic and I lost my keyboard input and sound etc etc etc. I then made a Karmic boot-run/install CD, & a USB startup stick. I then backed up my important information on flashdrives etc. At this point in time I have 2 partitions one with my old user account & info on it, and the other as a new (re)installed Karmic partition. My question is: What is the procedure for:
a) formatting the drive,
b) not keeping the 2 partitions, and
c) re-installing Ubuntu (karmic) back onto it?
I have GParted ( but I can't see how to use it to format ), and I have no clue how to format the Drive from either within the GUI or at the command-line. How do I format & re-install Ubuntu? What is the sequence or steps? I can probably do the re-install intuitively but I'm concerned there may be Ubuntu tricks I don't know about! Also- does this 2 partition thing cause any complications to formatting?? So honestly my question is simply how to format the drive from within the system.
Ubuntu :: Formatting A Hard Drive - Install Windows
Jul 26, 2010how I can format my hard drive with Ubuntu on it. I have a disk with windows vista home basic on it and it wont let me install windows until I have formated the hard drive.
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Nov 9, 2010Ive got a Sony GRt816S laptop which Im trying to install 10.10 on to a freshly formatted hard drive. I downloaded the file burnt it to disk and tried to run it. I get to the first screen where It asks me if i want to run for CD, install or do memory check. - memory checks works fine but the install and run from CD options just hang before I get anywhere near an actual install screen (or anything that remotely looks like one)
I just see a purple ubuntu screen with 4 dots which alternate between red and white ocassionally. I've left it running over night and nothing happens.I read on the forum that it might be the original file, so tested it on a different pc and it worked fine. I know what Im doing with PCs but am a total novice when it comes to Linux, ubuntu or anything thing non-windows related .
Ubuntu Installation :: How To Install From External Hard Drive
Feb 14, 2011I have downloaded UBUNTU 10.04 and saved to external hard drive since I have no CD drive in my note book. I want to install it from external hard drive what is the command and how can I install it.
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Feb 16, 2011Ok so my laptop runs Ubuntu/XP 64 I want to encrypt my Ubuntu install, but I don't want to reformat it. All the encryption methods I see require you to reformat, which is ******* ***. Like in Windows you can just use Truecrypt to encrypt your whole hard drive, how would I achieve the same thing in Ubuntu? I've installed TrueCrypt here, but unfortunately there is no enrypt hard drive feature.Also one more thing, if I encrypt my Windows partition with TrueCrypt, how will I access it inside of Ubuntu? Because i have my DropBox folder in my Windows partition and I set up my fstab to auto mount my Windows, but if I truecrypt it, how will i do the same thing?
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Feb 22, 2011I used unetbootin to put ubuntu 10.10 on a 2 gb usb key. I started up using the "try before installing" option and when I try to install in full it says I do not have 2.5 free gb's for the install. So I open up gparted only to find that only drive there is my 2bg usb key and I have no idea how to find my main hard drive.
I tried searching and tried the following; I checked the sata setting in the boot menu and it is IDE. The computer has also never been used in a raid setup.
Ubuntu :: Dell SC440 And 10..10 Won't Install On Hard Drive
Apr 6, 2011I can boot up with a live CD (Ubuntu 10.10 or 11.4) but it does not find the hard drive to install. Once it loads I can click on the install icon and I see Application at the bottom then it disappears and nothing happens. I know the hard drive works cause I installed windows xp on it.
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