I am giving my lucid netbook to my dad. How does one reset 10.04 to factory settings, clear user account, etc? I wanna give him virtually a new machine. no disks is best because i don't have an optical drive.
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I am on 10.4 with a Dell Notebook (E6400). I use it mostly with a USB mouse. Everything worked fine for about 2 months. Then I shutdown, unplugged the mouse, restarted without the mouse, and my trackpad is broken. It works a little, but text fields and some apps capture the mouse events and won't let go. For instance, the cursor gets stuck in a text field and there is no way (keyboard or mouse) to get out.
I've tried several times to fix this and I cannot. If I boot from a LiveCD then everything works fine. My theory is that the mouse configuration files somehow got corrupted in my plugging/unplugging of the external mouse. How can I reset the mouse to factory defaults? Are there a set of files I can copy over from the live CD?I tried to delete and recreate my xorg.conf file and this did not work either.
I have installed UNR 9.10 Karmic on new Asus EEE pc 1008HA to dual boot with XP. Like many new pc's it has a hidden partition to recover the factory hard disk settings and Microsoft Windows XP. Unfortunately, GRUB2 has picked this up and is showing the recovery system in the boot menu. Clearly this is dangerous because the user could reset the pc. How do I remove or hide this boot start up option? Other thoughts: I do not believe Easybcd works with xp/linux. is there another easy bootloader?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have/had a PC with several hard drives, and a mix of ubuntu and windows on multi boot.The old boot drive died screaming, and I need to start again. (But my data is safe! yay!)
Is there anything special about which drive can be the main drive to start booting from? Or to put it another way, can I install to any of the other 3 and expect it to work, or do I need to switch them around so a different drive is on the connections for the recently dead one?
I'm unable to reset using either the reset option in gnome shell or the command using a terminal. When I select it the shell exits and displays the graphic "exploding" and then it just sits there. Shutdown works fine; just no reset. Any ideas? I've installed from the DVD. I booted the live CD and it resets just fine so I know it's no my hardware
View 1 Replies View RelatedA friend gave me his netbook because he left for the military and it has Ubuntu on it. I know nothing about it and really need it to have the 7 home that came with it. I have searched forums and tried to figure this out on my own but I keep getting nowhere.
There is no CD drive on the netbook so I have been trying to install 7 with a flash drive. The netbook did not have a disk but I did get a serial number for 7 and I have an ISO of 7. I put it on my flash drive and tried to boot it, but when I click on unetboot menu "default" it just starts the 10 second timer over and doesnt load.
I used a live usb of ubuntu to go to gparted to delete the partitions so I could load up the usb with 7 on it, but again it does not work. It gives me a grub error if I try to boot up. I know there I deleted the partitions, but maybe something is still there?
In short: I need ubuntu off and windows 7 back on using only a flash drive, a serial for 7 and an ISO image.
I dont know if this matters but its a Toshiba Satellite T-115D.
I have servers which contain SATA disks and SAS disks. I was testing the speed of writing on these servers and I recognized that SAS 10.000 disks much more slowly than the SATA 7200. What do you think about this slowness? What are the reasons of this slowness?
I am giving the below rates (values) which I took from my test (from my comparisons between SAS 10.000 and SATA 7200);
dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile.txt bs=1024 count=1000000 when this comment was run in SAS disk server, I took this output(10.000 rpm)
(a new server,2 CPU 8 core and 8 gb ram)
1000000+0 records in
1000000+0 records out
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 12.9662 s, 79.0 MB/s (I have not used this server yet) (hw raid1)
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Well, my desktop's win7 installation stopped working over a year ago...so it just sat there gathering dust until the other night, when I was trying out ubuntu on it from a disk. So, well, the factory settings was vista, so i was wondering if there was something i could put into Terminal to restore it?
View 3 Replies View RelatedThere are two sets of repos for 4. One is stable and the other is Factory. On the repos page it says this about kde 4.4 Factory: "These repositories feature the KDE packages under development for the upcoming openSUSE release and includes openSUSE specific patches". For reasons that are somewhat involved and that I won't go into right here I am stuck in openSUSE 11.0 and can't upgrade until I get a new machine which will be some time. Is Factory unfinished and will Kde 4.4 Factory work well in 11.0?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI just received this Acer Aspire One Aoa110 from my sister.
Originally Windows Xp, my cousin changed it to Linux.
Right now I am so frustrated with this, as I have no knowledge of Linux whatsoever.
I tried looking for the Acer recovery program, but I can't find it.
I do have to say that Linux is really fast, but I like personalizing my walllpaper where I can do it with Windows Xp..
So my question is, how can I restore this computer to how it was before my cousin tweaked it?
Here is what the desktop looks like right now:
http://i51.tinypic.com/s0vmhk.png
what is mime source factory?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI installed Ubuntu to dual boot with Vista that came with my Dell Inspiron 1420. Dell had a partition where the Vista install could be restored to factory state when the laptop was purchased.
After installing Ubuntu, I see:
I think the /dev/sda5 partition was the one that contains the Vista system restore information. And according to Dell documentation, I need to the F8 key at BIOS load time to make the laptop boot the restore partition.
However after the Ubuntu install, I cannot get the Factory Restore to start by pressing the F8. It worked before the Ubuntu install.
How to get to my state before I installed Vista. I want to be able to restore the laptop to the state before I installed Ubuntu.
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 (also Classic, don't really care.) I'm trying to install [Greeting Card Factory DELUXE V7] Can anyone help me or does anyone have any clue whatsoever if this can be achieved?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhat is the factory default SCSI target for /dev/sd0?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have now a Nvidia card but how to make 3d work in Factory. Now I wonder if the Intel or Ati cards can do a better job and are easily to configure.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI bought a used Acer Aspire one with Linux on it and it works great. I want to restore it to factory settings but I do not have a restore disk. (not to mention that the unit doesn't have a CD drive anyways.)
I have read on other sites that Alt-F10 works but I think that is only for WIN because I can not get that to work. Is there an equivalent function with Linux.
I've just gotten a gateway netbook I'd love to throw a copy of ubuntu on. However, before I install I'd like to create a backup factory install disc. The problem is I don't have a DVD drive in my netbook.Is there a DVD writer program for Windows or something similar that would simulate the presence of a DVD drive and allow a backup DVD to be written to it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedWill KDE4.4 eventually move into the 11.2 updates or do I have to add the KDE Factory repo to get this update?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIf I install the factory release now, can I easily convert my system to a normal 11.3 point release later, after 11.3 is out? If so, how would I do it? (11.2 has an issue that affects me. It's fixed in 11.3 already, so I have to use 11.3 if I'm going to use openSUSE.)
View 4 Replies View Relatedi just install lubuntu and everything is work but it can`t` see my usb flash disks , usb ports is working because when i plug there my mouse it begin to work
is any solution?
Anyone know how to reset a Ubuntu password? I've pulled up the "recovery mode", but when it gets to "Starting Ent Vol Mgmt Sys" the open fails, and then I get a series of timeout-resettings. I really just need to get into the recovery menu, but I can't get past this.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo I've made a bit of a mess of things. I installed Tilda and had it working like a charm.I bound it to the tilde key (shares a key with ~, maybe it's called grave?) and it was great.I also have a Logitech MX Revolution mouse and decided to use xbindkeys to fix the thumb wheel which is the only set of actions that doesn't work out of the box. I decided to set the wheel press action to the tilde key, hoping to have a button on my mouse to open Tilda.
After fumbling around trying to figure out how to identify the tilde key I somehow managed to bind it to xterm. This wouldn't do. So in an effort to clear the binding to default I bound it to "". Well now the key does nothing unless I use it in conjunction with the shift key, in which case it produces the normal ~.So here's my question: how do I restore that key to it's default function? I should point out that I just started using Ubuntu 10.04 exclusively a day ago and have had limited experience on Linux before this.
The default ubuntu plymouth theme looked like it was realy small and stretched and made it look weird. anyway i tried to fix that problem by installing another theme This theme now when i reboot my computer it is still small and stretched and the colours are not correct. How can i reset plymouth to how it was by default.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to "reset" ubuntu to when you installed it? My Ubuntu won't let me install packages. I get an error that says it cannot find the selected packages and then I click okay and it says "installed" but obviously, it wasn't.
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu 9.10 server 64bit
without X
On running
$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade Code: Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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log in ubuntu (i use Ubuntu v9.04) , and i go to Places->Computer, but i can't access to my local disks?A notice of error is:Code:Could not display "computer":Nautilus cannot handle "computer" locationsWhat's this error? How to fix it or only reinstall Ubuntu?And i have another question: How to install GTK+ , i want to find GTK+ deb file, but i can't. I install GTK+ by compile source code, but when i compile, in my ubuntu don't find package ATK,cairo.... But i don't know exact what's ATK, cairo. I can't find it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm browsing on my phone which is not letting me scroll to the end of this text box so I will say thank you in advance for any replies now.After my computer was switched off abruptly after a power outage I have many errors upon booting. My hard drive setup consists of a RAID0 array of two 500GB sata disks. The partition table (from my head!) goes like this:50GB NTFS Windows XP /c/50GB ext4 Ubuntu 9.10 /4GB swapThe rest is a large NTFS partition all the way up to the end of the array at 987GB. Mounted at /media/share/I am thinking I will have to start again (I won't lose much, I have recent backups), but what is the best way of restoring the system as much as I can? Currently my computer has been booted into Ubuntu for over an hour, and after pressing ctrl+alt+shift+F2 I can see that it is finding errors still, now at sector 6008. Should I let this run its course or REISUB it and boot onto a live CD. I think the main problem is with an NTFS partition
View 1 Replies View RelatedEver since my upgrade from 9.10 to 10.4, every time I reboot the system it does a full disk check. /var/log/boot.log tells me that fsck thinks that the file systems contain errors or that it wasn't cleanly unmounted. And yet, it doesn't seem to actually find errors, and a clean reboot starts another check (again with it thinking something is dirty). I dual-boot with Windows, and reboot from there with the same problem.Again, all of this is new with 10.4 and was not happening with 9.10.Is there a way to find out when/how/why the disks are not being unmounted cleanly?
View 4 Replies View RelatedOn my desktop, I try to instantly put some disks into sleep using hdparm, for some tests. Though the disks are unmounted, they wake back up in seconds. How can it be? How can I track which process wakes a disk up with what operation? I think unmount disks should default to standby during system load.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just bought a 3TB drive to use for backups and I'm getting a strange message when I run fdisk to get a listing of the drives.Here's what fdisk says about the 3TB drive:
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Disk /dev/sde: 3000.6 GB, 3000592977920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 45600 cylinders
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