I have an Acer Aspire 1 Netbook - this is running Ubuntu 10:10.My question is - can I continue to have Ubuntu as the Main Op System and install Windows Xp as a secondary running alongside. My Hard Drive !! is on SD Card and is only 8 Gb. Can this be increased easily? Windows would be used only in rare circumstances where Linux will not "fit the bill".
View 2 RepliesI'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on an old HP Pavilion 710 PC, dual-booting with WinXP. I followed instructions and successfully partitioned my primary hard drive, and installed Ubuntu just fine (I think--everything seems to work, anyway).
Here's my partition setup:
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The secondary disk is strangely set up for unrelated reasons, and I haven't done anything to it since moving to Ubuntu. My plan is to keep most of my data on that disk, and use the primary disk for system files and applications, but I don't yet understand how Ubuntu decides where to keep things, so I haven't done anything with that disk yet.
Here are my questions:
1. I want to run a MySQL database locally, to test a php/MySQL web site I'm developing. I thought it would be a good idea to set aside a partition just for the database, which is what /dev/sda7 is supposed to be; but I have no idea how to make Ubuntu or MySQL use that partition. (I'm also brand spanking new to MySQL, or I'd probably know.) How do I do that?
2. It occurs to me now that I ought to put the database on my secondary hard drive, which is much bigger and faster than the primary. If the answer to #1 doesn't tell me, how do I do that?
3. My home directory is on /dev/sda right now. Can I move my data files to /dev/sdb without moving the whole home directory? Or must I move everything and keep it all together in one directory?
I have an HP computer which I recently installed Ubuntu on with a secondary HD that I installed. I set this new hard drive as the primary hard drive and it was working fine booting up GRUB and asking if I wanted to use Windows 7 or Ubuntu. This morning, however, it has stopped doing this and goes straight into Windows 7. If I go into the boot menu and tell it to boot with the primary hard drive it will go into GRUB, but otherwise it seems as if it is going straight to my secondary HD with Windows 7 on it. This seems weird since up until today it was working fine.
Does anyone know why this is and how to fix it? I tried reinstalling Ubuntu but that didn't change anything.
I have a second 8GB partition but for some reason I cant write in it at all. I formated it but still doesn't let me write in it. I tried doing this:Quote:sudo chown -R username:username /media/BTBut this is what I get:Quote:
chown: changing ownership of `/media/sda2/FOUND.000/FILE0000.CHK': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `/media/sda2/FOUND.000': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `/media/sda2': Operation not permitted
My question is that simple, how can I find out what is my primary and secondary DNS? I've tried commands: $ cat /etc/resolvconf and less /etc/resolv.conf but they didn't work. Also, when I open the resolv.conf file, it only says code...
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have 2 laptops. Currently I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 on one of them. I have Windoze XP installed on the 2nd laptop. I would like to use my second laptop as my secondary monitor since I hardly use Windoze. Is there a way we can use a laptop as a secondary monitor with Ubuntu installed on the first machine (again a laptop in my case).
View 2 Replies View RelatedCurrently I am running Ubuntu 9.10 on an older P4 system with EIDE harddrives. My primary HD has a WinXP installation and GRUB. Ubuntu is installed on the secondary HD.
I am happy enough running Ubuntu that I would like to remove my WinXP disk, move the disk with Ubuntu on it to be the primary boot drive, and then install a new drive as the secondary.
However when I tried to simply move the drive with Ubuntu on it from the secondary to the primary EIDE position the system would not boot. I assume that this is because there is no boot loader currently on that drive.
how do I put GRUB on the Ubuntu drive so that it can become the boot drive? Or is there some other way to accomplish what I am after without having to reinstall Ubuntu?
My system is setup like this: 1 250 gb HDD, with a 20 gig partition for /, 200 gigs for /home and the rest is a swap file. I also have a 1 TB (ext3) and 1.5TB (ext4) hard drive that are also installed, mounted to /Shared_1TB and /Shared_15TBI just installed Ubuntu 9.10 and everything seemed to be fine. I installed all the updates, install the Nvidia proprietary drivers and got my HDMI audio working. I went to try and play a video to see what would happen.... there are no files in /Shared_1TB. It is totally blank. I tried making myself the owner, and while this worked it didn't help anything. I tried unmounting and remounted, however it kept saying it was busy and wouldn't remount it. At this point I was a little panicked, so I threw in a LiveCD and low and behold once I mount it in the LiveCD all my files are there.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI live on a property with 3 other units and we all share a cable connection. There's a modem connected to a wireless router (I'll call it the "main" router), which until recently I connected to with an 80' or so long ethernet cable because I don't get a good signal, and all I've got is a desktop anyway. When plugged directly into the main router, I can get very fast download speeds - the fastest I've seen over bittorrent, for example, is about 2.2 Mb/s, and it's over 1 Mb/s most of the time for popular torrents or sites with good bandwidth. A friend with a laptop is staying with me for a month, so I wanted to set up a wireless router in my home, and my desktop needed to be moved to a location where running a wire is kind of awkward, so I planned on using the wireless too.
I don't have a spare proper router with an uplink port laying around, but I did have a spare DSL modem/wireless router combo (which I'll call the "secondary" router) that I used to use at a former residence, and I thought I'd try to use it here. I plugged it into my computer, configured its security settings how I wanted (64-bit WEP) and looked through for settings that seemed like they might pertain to using it in this capacity. I didn't really find any except for something that seemed to turn off its DHCP, which I did. Then I unplugged my computer and plugged in the ethernet cable that runs to the main router (which is a normal ethernet cable, not crossover). I found that this setup does "just work" for the most part - our computers see the signal and can log in and access the internet through the main router's cable connection. However:
1. I can't figure out how to access the secondary router's settings once it's been plugged into the main one, even if I unplug it from the main one. What happens is that as soon as I connect the two routers together, it's almost like the secondary ceases to exist independently until it's settings are purged via the reset button. I plug it's IP address into a browser like usual, and nothing happens (it's an Actiontec whose stock one is 192.168.0.1 and the main router is a Netgear with an IP of 192.168.1.1).
I can log into the main one like normal through a wireless connection to the secondary, though. If I look at "attached devices" in the main router's config, it lists all the client computers in the network, but there's no IP that could be for the router (I'm sure of this). Each computer connected through my secondary router gets assigned its own IP like normal, and port forwarding works without a hitch. Again, this persists until the secondary is reset - after the two routers are connected but until the secondary is reset, there doesn't to be a way into the secondary's config. The security settings are acting as they should, though (ie, you need the secondary's WEP key to log on).
2. Internet download speeds when connected to the secondary over wireless are extremely slow compared to what the connection is capable of (can't seem to top 90 Kb/s) but for some reason the max attainable internet upload speed seems to be about the same as normal (around 200 Kb/s). This is puzzling to me. Back when I was using the secondary router for it's intended purpose as a DSL gateway under XP, I downloaded at around 300 Kb/s all the time with it using the same wireless card I am now, so I know the hardware I have is capable of it. Now both of our wireless cards are getting the same mediocre speeds (seemingly bottlenecked at around 90 Kb/s), even with a full signal (ie, the computer right next to the router).
If we connect to the secondary router with a cable rather than wireless, there's no problem and downloads are really fast (note again though that the max upload speed doesn't seem affected whether wired or wireless, as determined by running internet speed tests in both configurations). Ping times over wireless are also extremely high - ie, 800ms+ even when pinging the main router at 192.168.1.1.
It almost seems like there's something inferior or bottlenecked about the wireless signal the secondary router puts out, but I don't know what that could be or how to change it. (I also don't really understand anything about the setup I created here though, other than that I plugged it in and crossed my fingers and it works for basic, non-bandwidth-intense tasks). basically I'm curious whether there's a way to have normal access to the secondary router's settings in this setup, and whether there's a way to make the bandwidth over wireless less mediocre.
I just switch from windows to use ubuntu 10.04. I am still learning how to set things in ubuntu.
One of the problem is that I can't set my secondary (external) display to my favorite one. I have 22'' screen (max 1680x1050) but I love to set it to 1280x800.
I follow instruction from this website https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution and my display detail is like this code...
Somehow, I get the new mode in LVDS1 but not in VGA1. How could I add this new mode in VGA1?
I am trying to access a mounted secondary drive through FTP, and when I try to connect to it I am not able to see any of its contents. Any suggestions? I am using Gadmin-proftp to configure. I can point it to any other folder on the main drive and see it perfectly.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOur main DNS resolves to a windows 2008 server box. What I want to do is have a secondary box with Ubuntu to receive sent emails (our@our.com). The problem my brain cannot get around is the DNS resolves to the windows server 2008 box(which host the website as well), how can we allow the email (ours@ours.com) to go to the Ubuntu email server even though the DNS name resolves to the windows server? We need the Windows Server but just Don't want it hosting our mail.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have been reading through the linux guide as the bash tutorial said i should before learning bash.
The Guide told me i shouldnt use the administrator account as my everyday account so i added a new user but the network manager doesnt show and i cannot connect to my wireless internet. I have approved the secondary account to access the net and everything but i cant figure this out.
I have a dual monitor display with my Ubuntu 10.04 x64 setup and I need to configure Vino to default to the secondary monitor (which is actually screen 0.1). Does anyone know if this is possible?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just installed ubuntu, this is my first time with it so excuse my ignorance regarding it. My issue is that ubuntu does not show my secondary slave seagate hdd .. it only shows and installs on my western digital master primary one. I need to have access to my slave drive because it has data on it which i wanna use.
My secondary slave shows up in my windows and bios just fine. So what gives?
I completely switched to Ubuntu 6 months ago. I kept my secondary sata hd as ntfs for a while but started having permission problems. I switched it to ext4 and that worked for a while but then it started having permission problems again. Specifically, I can't execute anything on that hd drive. I converted it to ext2 and it still didn't help. I have 2 executable modules that I moved up to the root directory to make this simple and they look like this:
tom@tom-desktop:/media/sda1$ ls -l
total 3088
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tom tom 3099451 2011-04-23 16:36 bochs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tom tom 26064 2010-09-11 08:48 bzip2
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I am trying to run flash video on my secondary monitor IE my 32" lcd tv which I have hooked up via DVI. my problem is when I bring the window over to the secondary monitor, which I would like to watch whatever on while browsing, and try to put it in full screen it defaults to the primary monitor which is my laptop. can anyone tell me how to change the defualt full screen to the secondary monitor and not the primary?
View 2 Replies View RelatedSo, I have a netbook with a 320GB harddrive and I'm testing all kinds of fun distros out. Right now I have 11.04, 11.10 daily, Jolicloud, Chromium OS, and MeeGo. Meego uses it's own weirdass boot loader, which sets things up a certain way. My computer has a touchscreen, and I had to modify some things to get it all working properly. Anyway, I reinstalled grub on my main partition (11.04), but now the command I need doesn't go through to meego.
The command is "usbhid.quirks=0x0eef:0x725e:0x40" For my other systems, I have it in /etc/default/grub in the "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=" line.
Obviously there is nothing like this in Meego, and a thread on their forum said I would have to configure it in whichever bootloader I'm using.
I have recently added a second screen and uses separate X screens as my x screen settings. No xinerama. After adding the display Vino refuses to start. IIRC using dual X screens with xinerama works as expected.
Starting it manually results in code...
Is it even possible to use vino with two server-side x screens? I would be perfectly happy with only one X screen exposed via VNC if it is impossible in the VNC client to choose which X screen to connect to.
I have a Fedora 7 PC acting as the NFS server. I have two users as follows on other Ubuntu (various flavors) based client PCs:
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id ks
uid=1000(ks) gid=1000(ks)
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I have a dual monitor setup with the primary on the left and the secondary on the right. When the login screen comes up after a reboot for instance, the login options such as user selection are on the secondary (right) monitor. How can I change this?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am running Ubuntu Server and I recently added a new hard drive to the mix. Not replacing the old one, but adding a second one.What I want to know is how to I access that hard drive? I know in the desktop version it auto adds it, but not in the server version I checked my media folder.I installed it to be my new Samba share hard drive. So how to I get at it to use it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm using rsync and crontab to do automatic backups from my /home partition on /dev/sda to my backup drive /dev/sdb3. The backup partition is ext4.
But the backup partition (sdb3) is obviously on a secondary drive, and I want to automount it when I log in. I read that you have to edit /etc/fstab to do this, but I'm not familiar with the process and can't find clear enough instructions, so I was wondering if someone could give me the command I need and maybe explain how it works?
I'm running lucid.
I want to unmount the current /home from sda7 and mount it to sdb1
I had a look at system -> drives management but just was able to mount the secondary drive sdb1 as "DataDrive"
I had a look at /etc/fstab. This doesn't show the recently mounted sda7 "DataDrive"
So now I'm somewhat lost on how to achieve the goal
>> What ist the correct way to do it?
Scenario 1. Copy all contents of /home to the new drive and then switch the /home mount point
Scenario 2. Switch the mount point of /home from sda7 to sdb1 and cp the contents afterwards
>> How do I unmount /home from sda7 and mount it back to the sdb1 (ext3) when lucid doesn't use fstab (does it?) and I don't know where the drives manager stores it's information.
(Just had the idea that I need to use a live cd for not to lock the system drives (sdaN) )
For sure there is a man page or a how to somewhere i didn't just find >> A link to such information might be sufficient
Every time I open an app or window in Kubuntu 10.10, they open up on the secondary monitor. I would like them to open up on the main screen because I don't always want to use my second screen. Is there a setting I'm missing?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have recently added a second screen and uses separate X screens as my x screen settings. No xinerama. After adding the display Vino refuses to start. IIRC using dual X screens with xinerama works as expected.Starting it manually results in code...
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy friend has a server with 2 ips, 1 primary and 1 secondary/failover. He has given me a shell account and I want to use ssh to route my home http traffic through it like a socks proxy. I connect to his server using the secondary ip like this:
ssh me@secondary_ip -p port -D forwarding_port
It builds a proxy, however it uses the primary ip of the server, not the secondary ip that I logged in with. When using irssi I've bound it to the secondary ip with no problem. If I try to use the -b flag I get the error: cannot bind: Cannot assign requested address.
how I can bind the ssh tunnel to the secondary ip?
I'm trying to add my xp drive to the boot menu but I'm having some trouble with it. I've been going over dozens of topics on many forums and I still can't get it to work (I'm new to linux/ubuntu btw).
Ok, so, I have Ubuntu 10.04 on the main drive (primary master) and xp on a second drive (secondary slave) and from what I've read sec. slave is hd3. I added the lines I found in another thread (here I think) but when I tried to boot xp it said the drive didn't exist.
Here's my menu.lst file code...
I have an EeePC 901, with a 4gb SSD and a 16gb SSD installed. Trying to get Natty installed and hit a few problems not least of which, that it won't fit on the 4gb drive! However in my BIOS setup under HDD config it says:
Secondary Master=4gb
Secondary Slave=16gb
I have no other devices attached. Why aren't they Primary? And I can't seem to switch them round.
linux newbie and i made a mistake while installing windows and linuxI made 4 primary partitions for my HD as i didnt know that only maximum 4 primary partitions are allowed.Now 25 GB of my HD is wasted. It is shown as unusable.CAN ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME IF I CAN CONVERT MY WASTED 25GB INTO SECONDARY AND USE IT WITHOUT FORMATTING AND RE PARTITIONING MY ENTIRE HD ???
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