I've just installed Ubuntu here in my pc, so I'm getting used to it; and, I'm planning on making it my primary OS. Aside from Ubuntu, I've got Windows 7 installed, I didn't like it, it was kinda buggy, so, I'd like to uninstall it. But I don't know how to uninstall windows 7 without reformatting, because I don't want to lose Ubuntu.I was actually going to format, and just install Ubuntu by booting, but there's something wrong with my pc because every time I burn the *.iso image file of Ubuntu that I downloaded on the site, it says that it can't read the data on the CD, I've tried it like, five times, using different CD's and burning programs but, no luck. An error message will also appear about 'not being able to read the cd' when I double click it. I even read the page here about burning Ubuntu *.iso into a cd, I did everything step by step but, still no luck.
i have installed 11.04 first and 10.04 after 11.04 . is it possible to make the grub of 11.04 as primary . i mean in booting i wanna move with grub.cfg of 11.04 .
I installed openSUSE 11.3 on my Dell studio laptop with Mobility Radeon HD 4500 graphics card and everything worked straight out of the box.
Now.. I am connecting my tv through HDMI cable as second monitor. Basically I just want to play movies on my tv while still having the laptop screen free to work. This also works, I just plugged it in and I had two screens.
My problem is that my tv is the primary monitor so basically my laptop background (and all the buttons that go with it) moves to the tv and my laptop background is just a background. See attached image at the bottom of this post(Laptop on the left and tv on the right).
This is exactly what I want but the other way around. I can't seem to change this in System Settings/Display. Is there a file somewhere I can change this?
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creating a new partition when i have only primary partition on my 40gb harddisk.
what i did while installation was selected use entire partition and now i want a additional partition other than primary ?
I want to assign 10GB for Primary one and wanna create Two 14GB partitions , I Also dont know what Swap partition Is.
Since i am a month old ( January 2011 ! ) UBUNTU user who hates MS Windows now, if i gets this problem solved , i can convince more people to replace their OS to Ubuntu .
I've set up DRBD on 2 machines, 1 of them is the master, another is the slave.
After each bootup, I need to run the following on the master machine:
Code: drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary all
Do we need to specify which machine should be the primary node every time? Is there any method to make the machine "know" it's itself the primary node?
I have Windows on my primary hard disk and I've just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my secondary hard disk. When I boot my PC Windows just loads. I want to have a menu so I can select either Windows or Ubuntu.
I am having a 250 GB hard disk in my Acer Laptop. C: - a 65 Gb partition with Win7. D: - a 150 GB partition with general data. and 2 partitions by default - a 13 GB and a 3.5 GB one( I guess backup and recovery by Acer or sumthn) I shrank the D: partition to 135 GB and had made the 15 GB unallocated space to install Ubuntu. Everytime I checked I got the free space shows as 'unusable' in the Ubuntu partitioner. I tried shrinking again with EPM, Win Disk Management and also Ubuntu partitioner. Each time the free space which showed up said Unusable. A friend of mine advised me to defragment and use 'GParted' through the live cd. I did so and when click on the unallocated space to format it said "IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO CREATE MORE THAN 4 PRIMARY PARTITIONS. If you want more partitions you should first create an extended partition. Such a partition can contain other partitions. Because an extended partition is also a primary partition it might be necessary to remove a primary partition first."
I didnt know all of my partitions were primary! And I dont even want D: to be primary. It just is there to hold some data.
i have 2 partitions. one with vista and the other with ubuntu. i would like to make another primary partition from the free space in my ubuntu partition. anyway to do this?
i'm using a monitor and a lcd tv. how can i set my monitor as my primary screen? for example if i open a videos video in fullscreen mode it always plays on my monitor, but i want it to play it on the lcd tv.
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I just got an Hp Pavillion laptop, and I'm trying to install Ubuntu. I resized the Windows 7 partition, and tried to install, but was unable because you can have no more than 4 primary partitions. Is there any way around this?
The current partitions are: Windows 7 ntfs file system BOOT RECOVERY HP_TOOLS
I somehow messed up my filesystem. I installed Ubuntu directly with LVM. This created an extended partition including a logical one. When I run out of space, I just increased my space (through VMware) and then added a new PRIMARY partition.
Then I added this one to the volumegroup and increased the logical volume. After I did this a few times, there were no longer any primary partitions allowed (only 4). Then I resized the FS, resized the logical volume, resized the volume group, and removed the physical volume. Now I'm no longer able to create an extended volume (only one) but it's not at the end (there are other primary partitions behind this one at the disk), so I'm not able to create some logical volumes.
What is the best possibility to add some space to the LVM and being able to do this a few times in the future again?
further info:
pvscan:
fdisk -l for sda:
There was a /dev/sda3 at the end of the disk. I already deleted this partition.
So the order on the disk is: sda1 | sda2 (extended) | sda5 (logical referred in sda2) | sda4 | free space
Does it matter that there is type "Linux" for sda4 or can I without damaging the lvm just change it (with cfdisk) to "Linux LVM"?
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...
I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro L500 laptop on which I installed the beta of Ubuntu 11.04. Things seems to work smoothly at the moment, but with one niggle. I have an external monitor connected to my laptop, and can manage to have a dual-screen configuration, and I am able to move the mouse from one screen to another correctly; however, the menus, status bars and window icons remain stubbornly only on the laptop screen. This is happening with Unity as well as Gnome.
If I disable the laptop screen with grandr (the Gnome GUI for xrandr) they do migrate on the external screen, but they swoosh back to the laptop if I reactivate it. Trying to alter the layout with grandr or using xrandr with the --right-of option from the command line do not change anything good. I randomly get the laptop screen to become half black.Incidentally, something like it used to happen with Fedora 12 (I think) some months ago.
Currently 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?
This is my partition table....(in the image) Now I would like to install windows in the unpartitioned space after a long time..... I tried but could not do that. I understood that Windows needs only primary partitions!
So I tried to convert this logical one into primary, but of no use... Is it possible to convert that unpartitioned space which is under logical drive to a primary one!
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7. The problem is I share computer with my brother and sometimes with my girlfriend (but computer is still mine basically).
Now I'd like to set Windows 7 as primary OS, since they don't have much knowledge about computers. When I had Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04 that wasn't a problem but now I don't know how to do it with GRUB2.
So what I want is s simple explanation how to change GRUB2.
I am using ubuntu server 9.04 version and trying to configure a primary master DNS on my server as followed the ubuntu official documentation [URL]. The files named.conf.local, db.example.com & db.192 are almost same as the documentation. And I can restart DNS. But when I followed the troublshooting page to ping example.com
thomas@UServer:~$ ping -c 4 example.com PING example.com (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.047 ms 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.067 ms 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.058 ms 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.061 ms
I have two monitors, the internal LCD of the laptop, and an external 23". It is working well, but sometimes dialog boxes pop up on the laptop screen inconveniently. The Gnome panel is on the big screen. For example, Firefox is running on the "main" external big screen, I select Edit|Preferences and the dialog box comes up on the laptop screen. 9.04 didn't do this. Is there a primary monitor setting or something to fix this?
I want to install Ubuntu 10.04 on a second HDD than my windows xp installation. The second drive is on the same ide ribbon as the primary HDD (xp) and is set to slave. When i installed ubuntu on the second HDD it corrupted my primary drives MBR. It was an easy fix but every attempt i make ends in the same result. I also have another HDD that is sata and the sata controller is a via pci expansion card. Installation of ubuntu to this drive as well also corrupts my primary HDD MBR. But when I install to the same HDD the dual boot works fine.
I was thinking of unplugging the power cable from the primary HDD, then installing ubuntu to one of the separate HDDs. Would i still be able to dual boot. And which drive would be optimal for a dual boot installation in this configuration.
I have a 64-bit four monitors linux machine. I was wondering if there's a way to log into it using a Windows machine and be able to see all four monitors instead of just the primary?
right now I've been playing around with Ubuntu using Wubi and I would like to actually install Ubuntu onto its own partition. But I dont want to lose my Windows OS either (I need it for applications like MATLAB and LabVIEW).
My issue is, my laptop currently already has three primary partitions. One for windows, one for recovery and one "SYSTEM_DRV" (used to hold OEM windows license info apparently). I dont want to mess with any of those partitions. my question is, can I still install Ubuntu when I only have one primary partition?
I read about extended and logical partitions in the guide, but the wording was pretty confusing. All it said was Ubuntu needs two partitions, it didnt say if the partitions could be any type.
Recently I connected second monitor to my laptop. Everything seems ok. I got what i wanted: extended working space, panel on second monitor with windows list that are present on corresponding screen. One thing that is annoying me is GDM. It displays login dialog on my second LCD not laptop. Is there a way to make GDM to display login dialog window on my laptop or how to designate laptop LCD as primary screen or something?
I've been having an issue with switching two of my monitors' status. I've got a 19' Sceptre monitor, and a 24' Samsung SyncMaster P2450.I'm using an ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card. I'm using 2 DVI ports to connect the monitors.Currently, all of the icons and menu bars are appearing on the Sceptre monitor. The Sceptre monitor is also to the left of the Samsung monitor. I've looked all through the Catalyst Control Center preferences and can not find anything useful.
I'm trying to install Crunchbang on a partition I made. I managed to resize my Ubuntu for space to install Crunchbang (which essentially is another Linux OS).I currently have Ubuntu 10.10 and Win7 currently installed. The error I get in GParted is the one above in the title. I know there is a way to install a third OS but this problem is killing me. I need some to help my step-by-step. I'm not that bright when comes to technical terms and writing stuff in the terminal. My current filing system:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
