Ubuntu :: Distros Would Run The Best On PC?
Feb 26, 2011Here are my system specs, which version of Ubuntu, or other Linux distros would run the best on my PC?
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Ubuntu :: Several 64 Bit Distros Refuse To Boot?
Jan 4, 2010I recently bought a new laptop (Clevo W760CU) and I've tried several times running 64 bits distros on it. Both Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12 live cd's simply won't boot into X. They both seem to freeze at the very ending of the loading process. 32-bit releases of both work fine. Using the alternate install CD I managed to install 9.10 but when I try to boot it freezes immediately after the cursor appears (which I assume is equivalent to where the live cd's freeze). If I try recovery mode I can see the following error:
[ time ] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#4 stuck for 61s! [some program]
Where and which program it is varies. I've managed to install Archlinux and Windows 7 fine, both 64-bits. I haven't been able to update Arch yet because it wont't find my network card, as with Fedora 11 and 9.04 both of which install perfectly fine). It seems the kernels released in October or later cause my problems How can I fix this? I really want to be running 9.10 64 bit because I have 4 GB of RAM.
Ubuntu :: Grub2 Won't Start Other Distros
Apr 10, 2010Difficult problem of booting due to the presence of 2SATA hdd (sda,sdb) and 2IDE hdd (sdc,sdd). At the moment I have kubuntu-karmic on sda booting itself and bothe win7 and xp on the same hd. I edited, the custom grub.d file to add Suse and Mandriva installed on sdc and generated a new grub.cfg. Neither the entries grub2 finds by itself nor the ones generated by my files start. No error of sort. I select the entry and nothing happens....it just hangs.I had hoped to have solved the problem of booting as grub legacy installed itself on the wrong disk/partition and never found its stage 2.
i copy here grub.cfg
Code:
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# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
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Ubuntu :: Put Multiple Live Distros On A USB?
Jul 1, 2010I'm in the process of trying several different distro's live before deciding which I want to run a new net book. So I make I live USB. But what happens if I put moe than one distro on the USB? Will I get a menu to chose? or will I have problems?
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Feb 5, 2011I can't stay without ubuntu a single day. That's it. I said it. But I definitely need windows 7 cause I'm a heavy gamer. But I also like to keep and use other distros like Fedora. I came to read that only ubuntu uses GRUB 2.0 and it automatically detects all the distros which should be listed by GRUB 1.0. My question is,
How Can i set up the Multiple OS machine Ubuntu + Fedora / BackTrack / Suse + Windows 7? Someone on IRC channel told me that I just install Ubuntu last and it will detect all operating systems automatically.. But I'm a quite reluctant to that kind of short answer. It's now your call experts.
Ubuntu :: Distros - Changing To Another Version
Mar 14, 2011I currently have UNR dual booted with Win7 on my Netbook. I'm thinking about changing to another version of Linux (maybe Cruncheee) by overwriting the UNR partition with a different distribution.
My concern is that doing so will screw up grub. So I just wanted to make sure that if I got rid of the Linux partition I have now, there will still be a boot-loader in place on the computer.
Ubuntu Installation :: Multiboot 2 Distros On 1 HDD?
Apr 13, 2011I want to multiboot several Distros for experimental purposes. My main distro is Ubuntu 10.04.Hard drive is partitioned like such: /dev/sda1, grup bios, size = 977 Kib/dev/sda2, file system ext4, size 1.8 Tib, this is mounted on / /dev/sda3 linux swap, 4.3Gib.My question is can I use Gparted to partition a second space out of sda2, and install another Distro? Do I mount it on / ? and will grub boot see both OS without destroying the kernel of my old distro? I am assuming to partition my hard drive I have to unmount it, but can I do this without using a live cd? So many questions and so little help, because apparently this is an easy thing to do.I am just worried just seems that what I just described is too easy and I will probably destroy everything and have to start over.
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Apr 24, 2010I dual boot multiple distros of Ubuntu and I'm trying to use my /home from 9.10 for 10.04 also.Is this possible? If not, does anyone know if I can copy sections of my 9.10 Crossover files to my 10.04 /home. Biggest thing is for WoW which takes forever to load each new distro I upgrade to.
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Jun 14, 2010I'm not sure if this is the proper section of the forum for this, but I haven't really seen anything about this particular topic. I've got Ubuntu 10.04 installed as my main OS. It's on a 25GB partition, and I have a 175GB partition that I use as my /home directory.
On the second hard disk I have a 15GB partition that I would like to install, and try out, Slackware 13.1.
Is it a bad idea to try to also use that 175GB /home partition for Slackware and Ubuntu at the same time? Can that cause incompatibility problems for me, with any shared software between the two distros, or is this something that should work ok?
Ubuntu :: Sharing A /home Partition Between 3 Distros?
Jun 18, 2010On my netbook I want to have three linux distros: full desktop ubuntu, a quick loading web oriented netbook OS (maybe UNR or a couple others), and backtrack 4.
To save HD space, I was thinking about having like a 10GB partition for each OS, a 2GB swap partition to be shared, and a /home partition taking up the rest of the drive to be shared between all the OSes. Are there any potential complications here? Should I use a separate user and home folder for each distro or would it be ok to share the same home folder between all of them?
Ubuntu :: Use Wubi To Install Multiple / Different Distros In One PC?
Jul 15, 2010How could i use Wubi to install multiple/different distros in one PC? After installing one distro and re-launching Wubi for install the 2nd one requires to uninstall the first one. Is it possible to stop the uninstall routine?
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Sep 15, 2010I'm interested in testing Maverick, (or the next release, or the one after that) but always run into a problem with testing that runs alone the lines of.I have my current install (10.04) I have two partitions, / and /home, it works well.As soon as I add a new version it seems to be recommended NOT to have them both point to the same /home partition, the problem is, if I don't do that I don't have all my files, and it's a pain in the rear to setup.So what I was thinking is to have three basic partitions,
/
/home (for config files, and true HOME files)
/data (for all my actual data)
Create links from say /home/james/documents to link to /data/documents that way I can get to my documents.This way if I add a new version I can setup either the same (two partitions, / and /home and point /home/xyz/documents to /data/documents) or keep it slightly simpler for testing, just have one partition and repoint /home/xyz/documents to /data/documents.The main one I can think of would be permissions for files/folders?
Ubuntu Installation :: 2 Distros But 1 Controlling Grub?
Dec 2, 2010I have 2 distros installed right now and generally keep the main one and install and look at other distros.My question is this; Can I install a second distro and not let it take over my frub/boot menu and NOT let it control the boot menu? If so how would I do it? I always get confused when I install the second distro when it asks what to do,use / or boot as the option etc...
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Feb 21, 2011I really do not know how to phrase this question properly. I am quite unaware of the PC jargon. But I have Ubuntu as the main OS and Mandriva is the second OS on the same hard disk. The boot loader is the Ubuntu. When I want to switch to Mandriva, on boot up I press Shift and then select the kernel.However, if I am on Ubuntu and want to run an application which resides on Mandriva, how do I do that? My fstab file does not even mention Mandriva. However, the file system does show up that file and I can open any files I need by clicking on GUI "Places". But when I try to run any of its applications by clicking the appropriate file on its /bin file nothing happens. A pop-up window briefly flashes and disappears. So my questions are:
1. First how can I change directory so that I am on Mandriva. Can' cd ...something' take me to that file because I see it in "Places" as a 36Gb file system?
2. How can I run an application which resides on that file system e.g., R or Octave which I do not have installed on Ubuntu, without rebooting into Mandriva.
3. Can I do this from command line.
4. And finally, can I do the same from Mandriva i.e., access Ubuntu from it.
I did read quite a bit about mounting files and fstab, but the fstab does not show the file system I am talking about. These are the outputs from Ubuntu os.
Ubuntu Installation :: Distro On 2 Computers 4 Different Distros Tried On One Of Them?
Mar 21, 2011I appologize if this has already been posted but there are 1001 pages here and I did do some searching - I'm just soooo tired by this point. This whole linux thing is starting to lose it's luster. I've never used linux before and wouldn't know how do deal wtih command line anything - whether its understanding what the system generates or entering it.
For the last 3 days I've tried to install, first - xubuntu, then openSuSe, then ubuntu desktop on my desktop unit then to run ubuntu netbook live on my laptop with the intent of doing a permanent install (if I could see I would be able to get everything working right by trying live first).
So I follow the instructons given on the ubuntu site, using the universal usb creator - it tells me that the operation was successful or something like that. So I proceed to 'attempt to' boot from usb but I find out my bios (on the laptop) does not support booting from usb (go figure!). So I go get this thing called PLoP, burn the .iso to a cd, put the cd in my drive and the usb inserted in the computer too and I reboot and enter my boot menu, select to boot from the optical device (my cd with PLoP on it) and use PLoP to select and boot from usb. Ubuntu runs for a bit I get past the logo with the status bar under it, then I get all this techo whatchamo spit out at me on the screen. Don't know what it means, just know it means I won't be enjoyin any Ubuntu tonight. Very sad.
I did manage to type in help and hit enter and in the list of commands given I noticed one that I though was interesting. "exit" So I put in exit and hit enter and it spit out a bunch more stuff at me. I only mention this because that is what is in the pictures I've attached. One pictures is before entering "exit" (on the laptop) and the othe after entering "exit" (on the laptop). There is also one that shows the screen from my desktop (after entering "exit"). I tried to run Ubuntu live one last time on it right after my last laptop fiasco; and, if you notice, some of the same information is given between the desktop and laptop. (matching infromation between the machines is after entering "exit" on both machines).
I attached the pictures and specs on my laptop hoping they may be useful. I've done all I know how and I'm just starting to get really tired here. If I wasn't so sick of Windows I'd have probably given up by now. I just can't bring myself to blame Ubuntu though. I am certain that Ubuntu is fine. Its either, first, user error, or somthing with my machine. Just that Ubuntu says the same thing about both machines. Hope someon can help. Sorry for the long post.
Ubuntu :: Booting Later Distros With GRUB Legacy?
May 17, 2011It's a little silly to ask this, as I am about to try it anyway, but is it theoretically possible to use a GRUB Legacy USB boot cd to boot a distro beyond 9.04? Or do I need to get to reading about GRUB 2?EDIT: As the USB Boot CD needs to be created from the GRUB files existing inside the Distro that it is intended to boot, this is impossible. Question answered.DIT EDIT: Unless I revert to GRUB legacy inside the Distro itself. Ok. Neat. I guess I just needed a place to write it down to figure it out
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May 28, 2011I've set up a dual boot between a few different distros that I use. One of them has a seperate home partition and I'd like to bind folders from that into the other distros' home directories, I would like to share music documents and ideally firefox bookmarks between them.
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Feb 19, 2010My hard disk is :
/dev/sda2 Primary Linux ext3
/dev/sda3 Primary Windows
/dev/sda5 Logical Linux ext3 /boot
/dev/sda6 Logical Swap
/dev/sda7 Logical Linux Ext3 /home
/dev/sda8 Logical Linux ext3 /
[Code]...
After this install I wished to try out Backtrack 4 which I installed on /dev/sda2. The version of GRUB which was installed with Ubuntu 9.10 got wiped out and the version of GRUB with backtrack was installed . However the menu did not consist of the Ubuntu 9.10 booting option . How should I edit menu.lst so that I can get all my Ubuntu 9.10 booting option along with my backtrack installation
Ubuntu :: Where To Find Official Default Wallpapers Of Various Distros
Jun 20, 2010I am sure there is some website/archive/repository of the official and default wallpapers of the common distros and all their past releases....especially Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora etc
Where can I find this all in one place?
Ubuntu Installation :: Have Multiple Distros On One Hard Disk
Sep 12, 2010I know it's possible to to have multiple distros on one hard disk, and set it up so you can just have one /home partition and use it for all of the distros on that system. My question is, how efficient is that? Does it bloat the /home out with a whole bunch of stuff that might slow a particular distro down because it's filled with stuff from another? (I.e configs). And let's say I have two distros that are of different bases, say ubuntu and arch, does this make a difference? I know obviously that my personal files will all be accessible and not matter which distro they are being read from, but I'm talking more about the hidden stuff.
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Sep 18, 2010install other distros using Startup Disk Creator? e.g Fedora, Suse, Gentoo
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Dec 15, 2010I dual booted Karmic on my old laptop. I just received my new machine, Envy 17 with a 160 GB SSD and a 640 GB hard drive with Windows 7 pre-installed. I want to multiboot Windows, Maverick and the CAElinux distro, on the SSD I am thinking. I am in the process of searching the forums in regards to partitioning strategies and hints to smooth the installs.
View 9 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Retrieve The Kernel Information From Other Distros Without Booting Into Them?
Mar 8, 2011I know that I can get information from my running kernel using the uname command.My question is, how can I retrieve the kernel information from the other distros without booting into them?For example, I have Debian installed on /dev/sdd1 with two kernels in /boot. How do I go about getting the information from these kernels similar to what uname gives?
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Jun 21, 2011I currently am in an adventurous phase and want to try other distros while still having a reliable, stable Ubuntu installation to fall back on. I'm currently in the process of partitioning my disks, and I realized that I might have trouble booting them, as the most recently installed would control GRUB and clobber any previous GRUB setup. So what I want to know is how to go about managing everything so that only one distro, preferably Ubuntu, has control of the GRUB menu at boot up, and will still recognize the other distros on other partitions.
I plan to have three 15GB root partitions, one swap, and one home partition for each distro.
Would I create a /boot for each distro? Or create one /boot with files from each distro copied there? Or should I do something else entirely?
I just don't want the distros to interfere with each other. Also, I don't want to use VMs for this, because I want to see what a real full-performance install is like for each distro.
Ubuntu :: Keyboard Failure On Multiple Distros When Installing
Aug 26, 2010I just recently purchased a Lenovo Netbook s10 3c which I planned to use for working and such. I have always been interested in the idea of using a Linux system, and so I downloaded the ISOs for Ubuntu Netbook 10.04 and also for Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 and 9.04 as well has Fedora 13. (I wanted to try some out.)
Unfortunately, for ALL of the distros, I run into a snag. When installing any of them, my keyboard will not respond to any keystrokes, even arrow keys, enter or caps lock. I have searched on google, linux forums, ubuntu forums and lenova's site, all to no avail. It seems that everyone who is having problems is having problems with some other sort of system which involves a virtual keyboard or USB keyboard (I do not want to have to use a USB keyboard - that would silly considering I bought the thing for easy portability).
Fedora :: Hd Not Seen By Live Cd Distros?
Nov 25, 2009I wonder why my hard disk (with Fedora 11 on) is not seen by live cd distros (I tried with Knoppix 6.2 and Vector Light). In the past (before f11) this never happened
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Jun 19, 2011when so many Linux distros are available for free..than why did u choose fedora only.? what features attracted u towards it and what makes it different from others Linux distributions.
View 14 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Share /var And /usr Among Different Distros?
Feb 9, 2010I currently have one very big partition in my laptop that runs Ubuntu. I have to install Fedora for work and I'd also like to try out OpenSUSE, so I'll have to repartition. Since I don't want to duplicate data, I will move /home to a different partition and mount it from all three. I'd like to know, can I also do this with /var and /usr? If so, would that mean that every program I install will be available from all three?
View 2 Replies View RelatedRed Hat / Fedora :: Multiple Distros On The SAME USB?
May 20, 2009I got Fedora LiveCD version on my USB....but I would like to test many other distros on the same USB. Is there a way to have all of the distros on my USB, and when I open the boot menu on startup, I can choose which distro to boot?
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Jun 15, 2009I tried posting the following over at the Sabayon forum but its pretty quiet over there and this quiestion could relate to any two other distros, question:-
I have dual booted an acer 5220 laptop with Sabayon 4 and Ubuntu - Ubuntu was first on there and 8.10 saw my wifi card straight away, (in fact 8.4 saw it but only after conecting via ethernet to do the first round of updates) but Sabayon 4 just will not connect via wifi - Is it possible to take the working wifi part of the ubuntu installation? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? I love the look of Sabayon.
