I've a dual boot PC having Windows XP alongwith Ubuntu 8.10 on a single HDD.Now I've got CD/DVD of both Ubuntu 10.04 & WIndows 7,So I wan't to install both OSes and remove the last one that I had i.e XP & 8.10.Both are installed in different partitions,I have impt data on my PC of which I can't take risk.Im dying to use both OSes,But simultaneously this shdnt become a costly affair.
View 3 RepliesI installed ubuntu 11.04 to my Compaq Presario CQ61-402SA (Dual boot with windows 7 Home premium 64-bit, Via a partition) And now I can't get back to my W7! Disk Utility says that it is "unallocated"! It had lot's of important info on it! Sorry for urgency, but it's important I get this OS and files back, intact.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm using gnome in a dual-head setup with individual desktops. Is there any way to "jump" to another monitor using the keyboard only? Now the only method I know is to move the mouse pointer to the another screen and click on something there. Can I do something like that without using the mouse?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI cant play mp4 files with dual audio and dual subtitles. I am using a laptop with intel graphics. I've already tried mplayer, vlc, and smplayer. But still the files wont play properly. I been jumping all over the forums reading and trying anything i come up to. What do I need to do? oh btw I am using Ubuntu 10.04.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI would like to use the VGA-Port for Beamer in "Mirror" Mode how to modify the xorg.conf? I am not familiar with linux configuration.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have XP on my IDE hard drive and Ubuntu on my USB hard drive (which is really an IDE drive with a USB adapter and external power souce). We've used Windows once in the past month, so we decided to jettison it. Two questions: 1. Can we simply delete all partiitions on the IDE hard drive and reformat or will this cause problems? 2 Is the write-speed gain worth switching the drives out, putting the Ubuntu drive in my IDE slot and my freshly wiped drive on the USB adapter?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am quite experienced user of Ubuntu desktop / server distributions. Recently my desktop 9.10 disk failed and I decided to reinstall using 10.04. My configuration is a dual disk dual bot system. I have XP Pro SP3 on one disk and Ubuntu 10.04 on second. XP has own, untached MBR ubuntu got Grub 2 installed on the same disk as Ubuntu. Ubuntu disk is booting first in BIOS. Grub 2 detected both system, however I can boot only to Ubuntu. When I am trying to boot XP I got black screen only. Looks like booting is stack in BIOS stage, because crt+alt+del reset system.
I read Ubuntu forum, search Google and did not come with any solutions. My XP MBR is OK. I can boot directly, choosing XP HDD in BIOS as a starting disk. All entries in grub.cfg looks fine to me. I made 3 different clear installations of Ubuntu. Each with the same result. I reinstaled Grub2 with no effect. I wonder if this may be a hardware/Grub 2 compatibility issue. I am using quite old components.My motherboard is Assus P4C800 Delux. I have 5 HDDs 2 CD. Exactly the same configuration was OK with 9.10/XP dual disk dual boot using Grub legacy.
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I currently have a dual boot on my 160gb hdd, but even that feels cramped. i was wondering...I have a spare 40gb harddrive compatible with my laptop. could I just install the windows 7 installation there?
assumably i'd swap in the appropriate windows 7 hdd whenever i'd want to load windows 7 at Grub.
what do you guys think?
I want to be able to login on different users on my two screens. Is that possible? It would be nice if I could have the left screen and my gf could have the right. I'm using ubuntu 10.04 with gnome, and I have a Nvidia graphics card.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to use dual monitors in Fedora 14 using an AMD ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series graphics card (not that I think that has anything to do with anything, but who knows), and want it to where my second monitor is its own virtual workspace so that I can switch between my other workspaces on my original monitor without switching the workspace on the second monitor. This way, I can watch movies or what-not on my TV (2nd monitor) while working on my original monitor.The only thing I found that was even close was setting the 2nd monitor up on it's on x server, which I don't want to do. Also, as it is now, I have my panel on my original monitor, but the windows do not see it when I have it aligned on the right (the windows don't adjust their size to account for the fact that it is there). I know a way I can do a work-around for this, but I would like to know if there is a "correct" way to do this. I know I can tell the movie player to show on all workspaces and have it on the 2nd monitor.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a mouse that have left and right move clicks on its scroll so I want to set these two to switch the desktop to left of right one accordingly. Thus, do you know any way to do that. I guess, need shell command to do that and then I need to bind these commands with the button but how?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a (slightly complicated) dual/multi boot system.
I keep getting boot errors (when choosing ubuntu from the grub2 menu)
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Serious errors were found while checking the disk drive for /boot
If I switch off and restart, ubuntu will then start without issue.
My setup is like this ....3 disks, one with 10.10 clean install - so Grub2, separate partitions for /, /boot and /home, one with windows 7, one with windows XP and 10.04 wubi (this is my old disk which I will trash once I'm happy with my upgrade to 10.10 & 7 on separate disks.
I installed 7 and 10.10 with ONLY their disks installed. After both were working, I added all disks and rejigged the grub2 menu (using update-grub and StartUp-Manager).
This problem only seems to occur if my previous boot was not 10.10 ( I will investigate this further). It's as if something (grub2 ?, the bios ?) is remembering part of the previous boot and not using the grub2 menu completely.
Ive been using windows for way too long now and im willing to get used to using ubuntu, but i don't want to use it as my only OS. therefore, ive been trying to get both OS's to work as a dual boot on my laptop. however, since im limited to only one hdd, i have to rely on GRUB to run correctly in order to get everything to run smoothly. to keep a long story short, i have had the worst luck with using GRUB to dual boot between the two, and im looking into do it differently. does anyone have any suggestions? ive been told that i can always virtualize ubuntu or do a wubi install. are there any advantages from one to the other?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a dual-core computer that I just upgraded to lucid lynx. when looking at the system monitor, one of the cpu's is always running at 100% and its not always the same one. Is this normal or do I have an issue? I would really like some info.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a Dell inspiron 1525 laptop with a 1280x800 display and an external 1280x1024 monitor. I'm using 9.04 with openbox. I've done a loooot of online reading about how to get a dual monitor setup using xrandr, and I really don't know what I'm missing here. So here's the deal: I want to have my external monitor on the left of the laptop's display, and of course I want each of them to display different parts of the desktop.
First I set up the right resolution to each one of them (I do it using lxrandr). Typing xrandr -q in a terminal, I get the following:
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i am running ubuntu atm. went into GParted and allocated space that i want to give to xp. I have the install disk for xp, im just wondering where to go next, so that a have the dual option in my grub menu. can anybody point me in the right direction for a guide?
View 3 Replies View RelatedOne of my employees has got a new laptop with Windows 7 on it. She has asked me to "set it up." What's the best way to dual boot so that her Windows "Documents and Settings" and Linux /home are on the same partition? Is that possible? Can I just point her Documents to sda6her_name (or whatever it is)? Will that work for other Windows users so long as they have the identical name in Windows and Linux?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have convinced some of my friends to use Ubuntu as a dual boot with XP , they agreed but I am never able to do that . When I try to do that error occurs ...
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I have checked md5sum before burning the disk .
Burnt at 8X .
same error with Linux mint and Xubuntu
can I install within windows using Usb flash drive install.?
how to make Usb flash drive install .
I have 2gb usb flash drive
I currently have a dual boot system with XP and Ubuntu 10.04 32bit.I need to do a complete reinstall of the XP and am thinking that this would be a good time to transfer Ubuntu to a bigger drive and maybe install the 64bit version. My computer is a few years old but the Core Duo should be able to handle 64bit.
I am wondering though that since I have an old printer, scanner, web cam, etc. whether I would have problems with my system running 64bit. I am also concerned as to whether the software in the library would work properly (if they are not 64bit).There is no pressing reason for me to run 64bit except curiosity so if it will cause problems I can wait.
Recently (yesterday) my computer's OS failed and I had to do a fresh install and lost all my data. I may have been able to prevent this if I was able to go on the internet during the time when my OS was not working. If I use the wubi-installer.org link and install Ubuntu does it need Windows to function and if Windows xp malfunctions in the future will i still be able to use Ubuntu?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have an asus p5kpl-cm MB. I plugged in a radeon 9200 pci card. In the bios, I can set up:
pci/igd
igd/pci
igd
etc.
This determines which of the 2 displays (pci card or internal graphics on the MB) is the boot display. That determines which comes up with the bios screen and then once booted into ubuntu (10.04), this is the only adapter/monitor seen. The button detect monitors doesn't do anything.
lspci sees both my internal and pci card graphics. So, I can get either to work just fine (auto detected etc.) just not both at the same time.
I've tried all of the 3 above settings, and even when I set it to just igd, lspci still sees both my adapters. It identifies them correctly, and it works perfectly, detecting the monitor and knows the resolutions for each - just not both at the same time.
Does ubuntu know how to automatically configure more than one display w/o doing something else, or must I do something else to get both going together?
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$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 10)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 10)
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I have a Win XP machine, with two HDDs. First HDD is partitioned into 4 drives, C: contains Win XP. Second HDD is partitioned into 3 drives, no OS. All partitions are NTFS. I installed the Linux Mint 7 Gloria RC1 on the first partition of the second HDD. While doing it, I split the partition into two, the first part containing the root filesystem and the second part being the swap area.
Set up my user account and proceeded with the installation. After the installation completed successfully, removed the CD and pressed Enter. The system restarted and the GRUB 1.5 boot menu appeared. The first four choices refer to Mint 7 Gloria, and the last option, under Other Operating Systems, is Win XP. My problem is I am unable to change the options. The default option is the Mint 7 Gloria (option 0), and I can't seem to be able to change it in any way. By using cursor keys or mouse, the selection never moves. As a result, after 10 seconds, the PC boots into Mint 7 Gloria.
Now, after spending some time I assigned a password to the root account, logged as root and then edited the menu.lst file (filename may be incorrect here), to change the time interval before booting to 30 seconds. Rebooted and verified the change had the desired effect. Again logged in as root, opened the same file and changed the default value to 4 (which is Win XP). Restarted the machine. This time the GRUB bootloader correctly boots into Win XP.
I am unable to change the default selection in the GRUB bootloader screen. If it's any help, I am using a wireless keyboard/mouse combo, which connect to the PC through a USB dongle. However, I am able to edit the BIOS settings comfortably using the keyboard, (and also the keyboard/mouse work perfectly once Mint 7 Gloria is booted), so I am thinking it may not be the problem.
I bought a new computer recently (Acer), and it came with Windows 7 (Home Premium, 64bit) pre-installed. I'd been using Ubuntu for a year or so, and I liked that and wanted to keep using it, but since I paid for the Windows it seemed stupid to just get rid of it altogether, so I decided to dual boot. So I installed Karmic Koala next to Windows and everything went fine.
Now, a couple of months later, I realised I had been using Windows almost exclusively after all (sorry, free software! I love you but I couldn't stay faithful), and I decided to stop dual booting. After all, I could use the extra drive space and it would be nice to skip the GRUB screen when booting the computer. I did some googling and found out it should be a pretty straightforward process, with the installation disk. No problem, I thought, since I made the recovery disks on the blank dvd-rs that came with the computer straight after I got it.
So I deleted the ubuntu partition, and went for a clean new install with the recovery disks. The disks turned out to be some Acer-made variety of a windows installation disk, but I (foolishly) thought that shouldn't make much difference, and clicked "repair system". It went fine, until the installation was complete and windows said the computer had to be restarted to finish. Ever since then, nothing has gone right.
The computer just won't boot. I get "grub rescue" prompts. I can boot from the ubuntu cd or the windows recovery disk, and I've re-installed both OS-es a few times, but the problems remain. I can get into ubuntu fine, but when I try to re-install windows, the problems start again: either the aforementioned "grub rescue" prompt, or it just keeps re-starting and re-starting, claiming there is "no medium".
I don't want to dual as I don't want to screw up my computer. I have a PowerPc mac.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently installed XP Pro and 9.10 on my hard drive, and I'm experiencing a very long wait time my computer to start up. It takes about a minute or two to get to a screen where it says 'GRUB Loading', and another minute to get to the selection screen. When I select Ubuntu it also takes about two minutes to boot, when I select XP it takes the same time as if I just started the computer. Is there a way to make this faster?
View 1 Replies View Relatedhow to set up a dual boot. I know that I have to partition the drive but at the moment Ubuntu is taking up the whole drive, so would i still be able to partition without loosing anything?
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhenever I reboot my computer, my second monitor isn't activated and I have to manually set it up again.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have installed Windows XP on computer and then Ubuntu 9.10. This two OSes are in dual boot and grub2 is boot manager.
Because I have problems with Ubuntu accessing network I would just like to remove Ubuntu from this PC and then assign disk space to Windows.
Is it save to only delete Ubuntu partitions, ext4 partition and swap partition, from disk using Gparted tool? I am afraid that Grub will also be deleted and so I would be unable to boot into Windows XP.
I have a 20gb partition for xp and 140gb for ubuntu, i dont want the xp partition anymore as i found out about virtual box and i rather use it that way when i need to use photoshop which is the only thing that keeps me from deleting xp. I already have my ubuntu configured the way i want it and i dont want to reinstall everything again, i just want to delete the xp partition and give that space to the ubuntu partition and then use xp with virtual box whenever i need to use photoshop.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have made myself a Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala (32-bit) CD, which I want to dual-boot with my current XP Pro 32-bit on my HP laptop. But for some reason HP made two additional partitions on my hard drive (one labeled "HP Tools" and listed as a System partition in the Disk Management, even though it doesn't have anything on it). I can't see anything (even with "show hidden items" enabled) on either of these extra partitions, at least not that I know about; so I'm wondering if they're system folders that I need to keep, or can I safely delete them?
Another question was, I have read here that you need to make a "Swap Partition" when installing Ubuntu, but I've also read (can't remember for sure, think it was here) that you only need to make the Swap Partition if you're going to be making the machine Hibernate. Can somebody set me straight here?
My last question was, when I actually install Ubuntu, how do I go about getting some of the drivers for my hardware, so I can actually enable my wireless on Ubuntu to get the updates and software and all that?