i have a macbook air, just recently got it. and i am trying to experiment a little bit and use DSL instead of a full fleged version, I have the ISO, and a pen drive, and acsess to startup manager, but the pen drive never shows.
View 3 RepliesI am too stupid to run a live Linux on a Macbook air. I used both, an openSUSE 11.3-KDE Live-CD and a Live-USB key and tried several boot options.
(i) I held down "C" to boot from CD → didn't work. It's an Apple CD drive but came with an older Macbook air a few years ago.
(ii) Found the bootmenu by holding down the option (ALT) key. Neither Live-CD nor Live-USB were shown. You can only choose the harddrive (and available wireless networks).
(iii) "Command-Shift-Option-Delete" to boot from an external drive didn't work either. I assume my USB key is an external drive, right?
I don't want to install openSUSE on the mac I just want to run a live system from time to time. Therefore I want to bypass Boot Camp or rEFIt and that's probably why I am stuck here. I wonder, if I really have to setup one of them to boot into a live system? The wiki article "openSUSE on a Mac" is under review right now.
I was searching for a long time for a Linux Live USB that I can boot my MacBook Pro from. Is there such a distro I can install on Snow Leopard or Windows 7? Update: I've found this:
"isohybrid" CD images (..) are special in that as well as the normal CD-based ISO9660 filesystem they also contain a valid-looking DOS-style partition table. Thus, if you simply copy one of these images raw to a USB stick a normal PC BIOS will boot the image directly. (...)Finally: I'd like to add support into xorriso for creating the nasty HFS hybrid images that are needed for booting Macs. The code that does this in cdrkit is probably some of the worst that I've ever worked with, and,I'd like to get away from it. If only Apple hadn't stupidly built their proprietary platform around this and had used open standards instead
In the end, I am trying to dual boot my MacBook Pro with Fedora 14 and OSX. I am having issues getting the bootloader working for Fedora though. I have setup my partition table like this:
/sda1 - EFI
/sda2 - OSX
/sda3 - /boot
/sda4 - LVM (root, home, swap)
Fedora installs fine, and the bootloader installs to sda3. I use rEFIt to allow me to boot to my Linux partition, but when I do I get "no bootable device". I have done a little reading and have found people have problems doing with this with GRUB (default Fedora bootloader). So what I would like to do is try installing LILO or maybe even GRUB2. how to change the bootloader Fedora installs from the Live CD?
I'm on a Macbook 7.1, and I got that every time I tried to boot Linux off a CD & tried to install it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've been asked to move data from an old external hard drive to a new one, and to make the new one compatible with the Macintosh. (The old drive's USB connection has died, and I'm connecting to old the drive using a PC card that provieds an eSATA to the drive. The recipient's Macintosh doesn't have a PC card slot, so she can't access the old drive anymore. Hence, the new drive.)
Naturally, I'm doing this data transfer using Linux. I've discovered that I can format the drive as HFS+ using mkfs.hfsplus from the hfsprogs package. But I need to know: do I need to do anything special with the partition table? Is there a special Macintosh partition table format that I need to format this disk to? If so, what tools can I use to get the right format for the partition table?
I am having issues on playing music in Linux (Ubuntu 10.10). I installed windows and linux on my macintosh computer. windows and linux are not on virtual machines and they are directly installed on my hard drive and have their own disk partitions. When i am on linux, the speakers on my mac does not work with linux. I suspect that the sound driver may not be compatible, but i am not sure. When I stuck in the bootcamp cd into windows the disk took out windows driver called "realtek audio" and replace it with sigmatel audio and/or cirrus audio.Also i was wondering if their was some cd like bootcamp for linux to make sure all the proper drivers are installed so then it works on my macintosh?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm working with an employer as part of a college internship. I work on anyone's computer that brings it in. Some lady brought in a macintosh. I'm not here to give my opinion on evil, controlling corporations, but I can't figure out how to get the thing to change boot order.
It has an old and unsupported version of OSX, it's "panther" and I can't even install any firefox after 2.0. It has 256mb ram and a 1.8ghz single core so I thought to dual boot it with debian.
-Tried holding "C"
-Tried holding "option key" (alt)
-Tried holding command (windows) + option + shift + delete
-Went into system prefs and chose "startup disk" but it doesn't list the CD drive at all.
The bios, or whatever it is, is completely blank at startup besides an apple logo.
I tried searching the Internet, but could not find a decent tutorial explaining how to create a bootable Ubuntu Linux (10.04) USB installation that could be run not only on a PC but also on Macs and MacBook Pros. In addition, I tried refit, but ended with "Missing operating system" error.Here is basically the layout of my bootable under PC Ubuntu USB drive (using MBR):Partition 1 (ext3, bootable) - Ubuntu Linux 32 bit, contains also grub2 bootloader.Partition 2 (ext3) - Ubuntu Linux 64 bit.Partition 3 (fat32) - contains data.What would be the best way to enable this drive to boot under Mac OS X? And if refit has to be used, could I simply have one more partition on the USB drive containing it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a Dell Inspiron 1525 running Jaunty Jackalope. I have a good working wireless connection.
My daughter has a lot of iPod tunes stored on an old white chiclet Macintosh, which she needs to download to her iPod. Because the iPod is "corrupt" (meaning it was last connected to Windows!), we need to connect to internet.
Simplest way to do that would SEEM to be to plug an Ethernet cord between the two machines and let her Mac access internet via this Dell.
My experience with ethernet is, either it works out of the box, or it doesn't. If it doesn't, I have no idea how to make the connection work.
What do I have to do on BOTH the Jaunty and OSX sides to make the connection?
I have a Macbook Pro 5,5 with Ubuntu 9.10 installed using rEFIt. When I mount the Macintosh HD in Ubuntu, I am unable to access any of the folders under Users, except Public. I tried changing the permissions in OSX, setting "Read and Write" for "Everyone" on a couple of folders, and, when I log back into Ubuntu, I can see that those are the permissions for the folder, but Ubuntu still tells me that I do not have permission to access the folder. I've tried setting the folder to share, thinking that this must be the reason that I can access Public with no problems, but it didn't work.
I've browsed the internet extensively, and the only thread I could find related to the issue was by someone who had the exact same problem as me (I don't know if they had the same macbook though), and it was never solved (the only advice given was to either change the Ubuntu user number, or change the permissions of the folder).
I run ProFTPd with TLS authentication on my Debian Lenny server. My problem is that despite of the fact that my users connect chrooted, one of my friends had root privileges after logging in form a Macintosh and could browse the root directory, too.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a 650 GB ext3 LVM partition with RAID 1 on. The partition is 85% full, but the system says "no space left on device" - where did the 15% go?I ran "tune2fs -m 0 /dev/mda1", so it is not the space reserved for the root - so Nautilus reports the same free capacity as GParted now.Some more info:- Ubuntu 9.10 x64- GParted says 650 GiB, 104.83 GiB free- Nautilus says 104.8 GiB free- The system thinks the disk is completely full - I cannot even create (touch) a new empty file
View 9 Replies View RelatedI can use dvd+rw-mediainfo to report the capacity of a loaded blank recordable DVD. Does anybody know of an equivalent program for CDs?
View 10 Replies View RelatedFirst of all, this isn't really a problem for me, but I'm just curious. In the past when I started a data CD project, I remember that k3b used to start me with a "blank CD" of 700MB and then expand to a "blank DVD" of 4.4GB when the amount of data exceeded the capacity of a CD. Normally I just make an ISO image for the CD and burn on another machine (for a reason not relevant here).
Today, it started me off with a "blank DVD" right away. It's not a problem because the ISO format isn't different and the data is under 700MB anyway. How come? Ah wait, I think I know what it is, there's a DVD+RW in the drive at the moment so k3b got too smart and assumed that I wanted to write to it, even though I selected Create image only.
What is the maximum amount of ddr that can be installed in a 64 bit ubuntu linux system computer?
View 1 Replies View RelatedJust rebuilt my file/print server using an ECS 945GCD-M Atom motherboard. Running it under 9.10 (2.6.31-20) using the same cable and port on my Netgear switch that my old server connected to at 1GB/s without issue (old server's NIC was Intel-based).
Found the driver is an AR813x, & downloaded & installed the latest driver from here (1.0.1.9). sudo lshw -C network now shows that it's using the new driver, but still sitting at 100MB/s:
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*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: Attansic Technology Corp.
[Code].....
I can't seem to get it to come up at the full 1GB/s. I also tried ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 without success. why networking restart ignores eth0?
my laptop battery capacity has gone low due to constant charging or whatsoever reason. previously it was at 62% and within 2 months its gone down to 32%. I use the laptop atleast for 18hrs every day. so is ther any solution to prevent my battery from losing the capicity.
i use dell studio 15 laptop, with 3 gigs of ram, lithium ion battery(56Wh), ati card, using compiz, p8600 processor. i use this for app development and for listening to music and videos.
I've recently completed a fresh install of 10.04 on a home file server and upgraded the hard drives in my storage array. My PREVIOUS hardware was:
Old version of Ubuntu (I forget which one exactly, but I know I had missed a few upgrade cycles)
3X 500 GB Seagate Baracuda's (for the array)
Areca 1220 Hardware RAID controller
Intel Core 2 Duo 6600
320 GB Seagate for the boot drive
I was running that hardware for about five years or so and it was rock solid. After the upgrade the hardware specs are:
Ubuntu 10.04
Areca 1220 hardware RAID controller
4x 1000GB Samsung
Intel Core 2 Duo 6600
320 GB Seagate for the boot drive.
The fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 went remarkably well. The drivers for that raid controller are in the kernel, which is great. I was able to access the old array after upgrading Ubuntu. Now I am trying to create a new array with the four 1000 GB drives in a RAID 5. Obviously that gives a maximum storage capacity of 3 TB, greater than the 2 TB threshold that seems to be so important. I've been doing some digging and here is where my questions start:
it appears as though gparted doesn't support file partitions greater than 2 TB, correct?
it also doesn't seem as though parted supports ext3 or ext4, is that correct?
If this is the case, how do I create a partition with ext4 that is greater than 2 TB?
I can see the array volume in gparted (which is a relief) but it lists the size as 2.73 TiB, which I find curious because that is over 2 TB, but not the full capacity of the volume. I can also get to the volume in parted. But I see in the parted documentation that using the makepartfs command is discouraged and instead, one should use the command mkpart to create an empty partition, and then use external tools like mke2fs ( to create the filesystem.
how to proceed from here. What does the community think is the best course of action to create a partition of 3TB in ext4? Then I need to change fdisk to automatically mount the array at every log in, right?
I have window 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop.As you know if I extend the capacity of my ubuntu partion in window, I will lose ubuntu and I should reinstall it.I want to know if there is a way for extending my ubuntu partition from 20 Gb to 30 Gb without loosing ubuntu and windows?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an 8gb sandisk cruzer flash drive that I wanted to remove the U3 software from. I used with this:and ran it on my windows machine because wine didn't work for itbut after it removed U3 my card only had 3.8gb. Is there any way to restore it back to 8gigs?I've already tried reformatting with the disk utility and it just doesn't give me the option to format higher than 3.8gb.
View 4 Replies View Related1 Areca controller 1222 divided into 2x250Gb in RAID 1 for my Ubuntu installationm6x 2Tb in RAID 5 for my data (mounted as logical drive) resulting in 8Tb of available space (also visible in the disk utility of Ubuntu) Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Now the problem; when I check the capacity in the file browser on my mounted data drive, I only see 5,1 Tb of total space.
I just bought a laptop with a T4400. Looking through lshw output turned up the following for the L2 cache:
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*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 6
slot: L2 Cache
size: 1MiB
capacity: 4MiB
capabilities: burst internal write-back unified
I'm curious as to why the size (1Mib) and capacity (4MiB) are different. Surely it can't be possible to stick something on the CPU to increase the L2 cache size, right?? So what does this mean?
I'm running 64-bit Linux Mint (derivative of Ubuntu). The kernel config says CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES=64 but I found nothing about the L2 cache.
Can I somehow unlock more cache to get a 4MiB L2 cache for free?
My specs: Debian Lenny i686, 7gb ram, 1tb hdd, Pentium 4 2.2 the rest not important.
Now, i did clean install of Debian on to my 1tb hdd as such:
- 14 gb swap (as far as I understood it has to be twice as ram)
- / root 25 gb
- /home the rest
I don`t know if it`s important, but I am under Gnome+Compiz+Emerald.
So the first question is: There is a program in: Applications/SystemTools/Disk Usage Analyzer It tells me thisScreenshot-Disk Usage Analyzer.png
Correct me if I am not right, but i am running out of disk space on /home?
bash-3.00$ df -h Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/md/dsk/d5 44G 40G 3.1G 93% /u01 but bash-3.00$ du -sh /u01 9.7G /u01 My question is: Why the fist command tell me 40G used but the second command tell me different result? My system info: SunOS INSP-DB1 5.10 Generic_142909-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
View 3 Replies View RelatedCurrently, I installed CentOS 5.4 into 2 HDDs in my PC. I have bought a larger capacity HDD and would like to clone/image everything over and retain my settings and preferences. How can I do it?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhenever I unplug my laptop it gets slugishly slow, and I don't understand why. I noticed that when on battery I cannot by any means make the cpu work at its full speed (1.7Ghz) even with the performance governor; it always stays at 1.2Ghz. When unplugged from AC, cpufreq-info also tells me the speed can vary between 600MHz and 1.2Ghz, even though it reports the max hardware speed of 1.7Ghz. Besides, I have tested the laptop on AC power at 1.2GHz and it seems a whole lot faster than when on battery at the same speed. Are there any more "power-friendly" reductions in... say for example, graphics card? It would impact UI redesign significantly (and it sure as hell looks slow). How can I customize (or at least disable) these inconvenient cpu speed reductions?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhy when I create ext partitions it reserves 10% of hard capacity?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a Lucid Lynx server running with a 6 GB for /home and a data partition of 400 GB mounted inside home (/home/user/data). The data partition is shared through SAMBA for access by other windows machines on the network. However, the capacity of the samba share shows up only as 6 GB (or less) while the actual capacity is 400 GB. I am assuming that this because it is mounted within the home partition. I understand that 400 GB is still available even though the SAMBA drive shows only 6 GB (or less) capacity.
The problem is, I am trying to setup Windows 7 Backup and Restore on one of my laptop. The backup stops with an error that the network drive does not have enough disk space. I think that this is because the samba drive only shows up as 6 GB or less capacity even though it can store more.
How do I fix this problem? How can see the actual size of the SAMBA drive (in my case 400 GB) in stead of the remaining space in /home partition? I know I can reformat my drive and make my /home 400 GB. But I am not sure if this will fix the problem. However, I will prefer to this without formatting.
my brother was trying to burn some dvds, and he asked me about capacity. I told him that they only held 4.7 GB, but he found some that advertised 8 GB and 8.5 GB. Then, I saw the wikipedia article. According to that, there are even 17 GB disks? I knew about Dual Layer but not all this. Is the capacity dependent on the burn settings or the DVD media itself? I have a newer SATA DVD burner, so it should support everything.
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