i am now downloading the ubuntu 6.10 iso file its gonna take a hour i would like to know how u install it i know how to use disk utiltity to burn the iso file i just need to know how to install it My mac is a emac - 1.42GHz - 512Mb ram - 3 partitions in hd - 80gb mac tiger - 60gb - mac leopard -20gb Ubuntu I just need to know how to install it
View 6 RepliesI've recently bought the "new" Macbook from Apple. It obviously came with OSX preinstalled. And I'm obviously not satisfied with the way it works, I also need a FAT32 partition so I can share my files between all three OS's. Tricky business. And I thought later on I might try and create me a nice LFS system to learn about Linux and show of to my mates. But doesn't a single hard drive only support up to 4 partitions? So off I went and got Ubuntu running besides Mac. It wasnt recognized by neither the default boot-loader nor rEFIt straight away. I had to hold alt to come up with the special BIOS or something every time I needed to use Ubuntu (always).
I got up to a point where I could run Ubuntu with wireless, sound and pretty much everything working. Until the kernel updates were installed. Somehow I (or maybe it) managed to screw up and booting had become impossible, for it would crash halfway through with kernel errors and other undefined weirdnesses. Meanwhile I had tried installing Windows 7 on a different partition. Which I found to be catastrophic also. I was forced to put up with OSX, which in my opinion is fine at what it does but it doesn't do very much for me. After a couple of tries I had to give up on fiddling with Ubuntu for I needed Windows 7 to run software for school. So my current partition layout looks like this......
I have installed reFIT-based triple boot. Here is the partition scheme:1. GPT Protective Partition (GPT and MFT). Mac OS X (GPT and MFT)3. Windows 7 64-bit C: (GPT and MFT)4. Windows 7 64-bit D: (GPT and MFT)5. Ubuntu 10.04 / (only GPT)6. Ubuntu 10.04 swap (only GPT)Windows only supports MFT and thus sees last two partitions (5 and 6) as unallocated space. Can I somehow make it see these partitions to be able to access files from Ubuntu?P.S. I know this is rather Windows problem, but I don't know any good forums where I can ask that, because mostly on these forums the answer is "Why would you need anything but Windows?".
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have vista and opensuse 11.2 on my computer, the problem is i can't open ext3 partitions from vista but i can the other way. I tried Ext2fsd but the linux partition is always in a read only mood even when i change this option. Also, all folders are empty I downloaded the program as admin and compatable with XP SP2.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI installed Ubuntu as shown in the wiki and when I went to restart it gave me a lovely blinking cursor and nothing else. So I held down option, loaded into osx, reinstalled rEFIt and got my menu on startup. Unfortunately, the partition sync tool doesn't seam to be working, it gives me an error: Status: MBR partition table is invalid, partitions overlap. Error: Not Found returned from gptsync.efi
View 9 Replies View RelatedToward the end of installing Ubuntu 10.10 32bit (Alt CD) on my iMac 11,1, the installer asked me to type in the location for installing the grub boot loader.
I told it to use /dev/sda3 and it immediately failed. I'm still in the installer. Can anyone suggest a solution?
Here are my partitions on sda:
...from the shell in the installer, there is no grub.cfg in /target/boot/grub.
When I run it live, I see KDE4. When I install it off the same disk, it installs Gnome. I can't figure out how to install KDE4. I had no luck with apt-get install kde4 (E: Couldn't find package kde4), no luck with aptitude, no luck with Synaptic (The following packages have unresolved dependencis kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4).
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've just installed 11.4 and then updated to gnome 3. I've noticed that Nautilus doesn't appear to mount my windows NTFS partition. I find this odd because both Ubuntu and Fedora detect and mount it just fine in Gnome 3 (I've been trying all 3 this week).
View 7 Replies View RelatedI used Ubuntu before, without problems but since the 10.04 version it won't recognize my partitions. I formated my laptop and partitioned it, installed Windows 7 64bit, which I need for my work, and wanted now to install Ubuntu 10.04/10. I then used GParted to check my Harddisk and it is having troubles to recognize my partitions, too while Windows finds them. GParted is giving me an error message saying my partitions are oversized. I am still in the beginning of my Linux experiences and so I don't know what to do. I have two 250GB harddisks (how Windows recognizes them),
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Xubuntu 9.04 installation CD not detecting any of the current partitions. This all started when I reinstalled windows XP a few days ago.After, the computer wouldn't boot into GRUB and would boot directly into windows.Other threads have dealt with a similar issue, that of overlapping partitions causing libparted/parted/gparted to detect the whole drive as unallocated space. The problem in these threads seemed to be a corrupted partition table, in which the partitions overlapped with each other. So of course I checked the output of fdisk -l for overlapping partitions, but I don't see any obvious overlapping partitions. I've noticed that the partition that used to be linux swap isn't showing up in the partition table at all. I might just be missing something simple here and would like another set of eyes to help me figure this one out. Does the problem have anything to do with the partition table being out of order (ie. not in order of what regions they cover on the drive)? From the liveCD I've run
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sudo fdisk -lu
sudo sfdisk -d
sudo parted /dev/sda print
and have received the following output:
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ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt$ sudo fdisk -lu
omitting empty partition (5)
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
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I am installing Ubuntu on the same hard drive as Windows 7. The partitions of Windows 7 have already occupied the left part of the hard drive. From left to right, the Windows partitions are one partition for Windows booting, one for Windows OS and software installation, and one for data which is planned to mount on Ubuntu. I was wondering how to arrange the order of partitions of root, home and swap, i.e. which is on the left just besides one Windows partition, which is in the middle and which is on the far right?
View 1 Replies View RelatedNeither Ubuntu's Unity or KDE respond to the function keys on a regular Apple USB keyboard. I can plug in a non-Apple keyboard and they work just fine. What needs to be changed or configure so that F1 and company on the Apple keyboard work as on other keyboards?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm running WIN 7 and trying to dual boot with 11.2--the install goes fine until I get to partitioning. Then I get this message: Del windows partition /dev/sda1 Resize impossible due to inconsistent FS try checking FS under windows.Del/dev/sda3 Del Windows /dev/sda5.Then it wants to install extended, swap and root. I tried to resize the partition prior to intalling SuSE with paragon partition manager which failed.Could someone tell me how I should be setting up the partitions on install please.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to migrate from Ubuntu but I'm stuck at partitioning part of the installation... The problem is that the partitions are not recognized (I have NTFS + EXT3). I see only /dev/sda and it says it's unpartitioned When installing Ubuntu I had similar problem and I was solving it by removing dmraid.
View 9 Replies View RelatedThis morning I bought an Apple wireless keyboard and I got it connected through Blueman. It works like a charm, but I have on problem;
When I log out I can log back in by typing in my password. However, when I restart the computer it seems that bluetooth is not loaded yet and I cannot enter my password. So I have to log in using my wired keyboard, and then disconnect & re-connect to my wireless keyboard using blueman before I am able to use the wireless keyboard.
Is there any way that I can already auto-load bluetooth and connect to my keyboard before I log in?
recently I to come the Ubuntu 9.10 disk install and desire to do a clean in my macbook air installation problem is that this computer does not have a reader cd or DVD....
I wonder if there is any way to do the installation through a usb or I have to get an external reader for this installation, or if it is more easy install again my mac os x to partition the disk and do a dual boot
These are my laptop specifications:
MacBook Air (Rev A), 80 gb hd, 2 gb ram, graphics intel, one usb, one firewire
Alright, so I've been reinstalling OSes quite a bit lately, mostly Linux distros. I decided I wanted to play a game that I had that only worked in XP, so I cleared a partition for it and installed it there. I figured I'd be able to reinstall GRUB2 later and get back into my Ubuntu install - and even if I couldn't, my home folder was stored in a separate partition so it wouldn't be lost...
...well whoops, that was a mistake. When I booted up the live CD, GParted showed that entire hard disk as unallocated space. Disk Utility's output shows everything but the Ext4 partitions (and displays some ridiculously large amount of unallocated space near the end). Fdisk gives me this: code...
From what I've read while searching about this, the Windows install screwed up my partition table... but I haven't yet figured out how to fix this. My two Ext4 partitions are missing (though my one Ext3 partition is still there)... does anyone have any advice?
I can still read my Ubuntu partition (/dev/sda5) in the terminal, but not through file managers, and the partition where my home folder was stored is just missing altogether - exactly the opposite of what I intended when I created it. =/
I want to install ubuntu 9.10 on my HP nx9420. I left 48GB of unallocated space in between of windows and hp recovery partition. I attached screenshot of GParted. I need to make /dev/sda7 the home partition.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 on my Desktop and I am unable to see any partitions when trying to install I also checked to see if the partition manager would be able to see them and no luck there either.I already have windows xp and OpenSuse installed on the hard drive.
View 8 Replies View Relatedhow to partition. I was getting sick of having to backup my data every time I had to reinstall Ubuntu, so someone recommend that I partition my hard drive so that I could store all my personal files ( documents, music, and vidoes ) onto the seperate partition. However I don't know how to do this. Furthermore when a new version of Ubuntu is release I always pick the install on the entire hard drive so the partition i installed would end up being deleted. How do you install Ubuntu by manually specifying the partitions.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am trying to duel boot win 7 and ubuntu 10.10. I have been dealing with this all day and cant figure out what's is going on. I create the partitions in windows and then reboot using a CD but when I go to select a oartition ubuntu do sent see any partitions its a totally blank drive. I have even wiped the drive totally and tried fresh install of windows and then creating partitions', even booted into the live CD area and it still dosent see any partitions just a blank drive. What am I doing wrong, or what is going wrong to cause this?
Running windows 7 x64 trying to install 10.10 x64
I'm trying to use an Apple wireless keyboard with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) but the fn key is not working at all. If I start up xev and hit the fn key it generates no event. What do I need to do for it to work. It seems as if it should work when viewing pages like
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I am trying to put ubuntu an old imac with osx that a former customer gave me. I am not extremely well versed in Apple products but have been doing research intoy current problem. I have tried just putting in the ubuntu shipit disc I have, along with downloading and burning 9.10 text based and have not been able to get it to install. I have tried holding 'c' when rebooting, holding 'option' while rebooting it only gives me the choice of booting from osx), and holding 'control, option, apple, delete' as well to no avail. I then tried downloading Virtualbox and mounting the dmg and found out that my imac is not letting me mount any dmg's at all. Any guidance? Can I take out the harddrive and hook it as a slave to my pc and somehow install ubuntu that way and put it back in the imac? All I want is for the imac to be useful again as I was trying to make it into a stand alone dvd player.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a very urgent problem, its so bad I dont know what to do...I tried to install a dual boot, (os x and ubuntu). I could always boot with the Ubuntu CD, but now I can try everything (format whole HD to *free space* ) press "C" at start up, press "alt" and choose "windows" (ubuntu cd) everything does not help even resettingPRAM with alt+P+Rwhat I get is a BLAC SCREEN with blinking underline (always)Does anyone know what I can do to make my mac again able to install a ubuntu, it seems I ahvessed up my irmware..?? I just dont know how? (I once overwrote my MBR according to a thread here... (but I reformated now the whole HD to freespace with GUID partition table.....but still blinking underline when I want to boot the ubuntu 9.1 cd.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have a ppc G4 with 10gb hdd and 512 ram and 350 processor. i have tried to install 6.10 alternate ubuntu package, that started to install but stalled at 6% installing software. i am now trying out 9.10 ppc alternate ubuntu package. it is going thro the install and so far so good, but again it stalls at adding software, it went to retrieve 858 files and stopped around 620.
ok so i re did the software install and it found all 858 files but then it reported it failed .... i carried on with the install but skipping the software install section, it has now completed whatever it was doing, rebooted and left me at a command prompt to login, which i can do ok.
I'm trying to install ubuntu on an old iBook G4. I have two cds (9.10 (not PPC specific) and 8.04.1 (the PPC specific version)) along with the G4 install cds. I've tried booting while holding down C, and I've tried to boot holding down option. When the boot menu comes up it does not recognize either one. I've also reset the PRAM.I've read a lot of guides, and look through this very thoroughly. I don't even want to dual boot, just Ubuntu.
View 7 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to install Ubuntu without uninstalling mac os X? Can I just shrink the OSX partition while I install Ubuntu? I don't have the OSX DVD, so I can't just reinstall OSX. I am running an iBook G4.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI run lucid lynx 10.04 beta (live) on an iMac G4 800MHz flat screen. How do I partionate an 80GB HDD?
In gparted I see 8 very smal partition exept the hfs+ partition. I have thrinked the hfs+ partition and made a 1GB swap, approx 50GB /home and 5GB /.
When I try to install Ubuntu say I need a new world partion for the boatloader. How fix it? first it say I need 8MB, then 1.8GB!
Is it 'newworld' or 'New world start partition' and what should bee the mount-point?
I have downloaded the Ubuntu 10.04 alternate PPC to install on my old emac.
It starts fine the installation process, and I want to have only Ubuntu on this machine so I erased all the mac partitions and create 3 new partitions
/ = root
swap
and /home
Everything goes well until I get the message that there is not a partition called Apple_bootstrap and I get stuck there.
so i finally found my disk of ubuntu 6.10 that i know works. if booted fine and after the disk got formatted it proceeded to install. but to only gets about 73% through the install and then promptly crashes and when I tried it again it does the same thing.
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