So what is the easiest way to install Ubuntu with win7 also on the computer?I'm asking because last time I ran Ubuntu it was Wubi'd into XP and then it broke, breaking XP's bootkernel and then keeping me from booting into anything...
View 5 RepliesHaving read several threads and received excellent previous advice there are just a couple of points I want to check please before proceeding on laptop. I want to upgrade to 11.4 from 11.2. My disk setup is as follows:-
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15505 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x462d462c
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If I select existing /home root and swap partitions, format root but prevent formatting of /home and use a different user ID I believe that will leave my existing data intact and will allow me to trial new os. Is this correct approach? If all goes well and when I have new system working correctly, what is best way make old user id date accessible. Can I simply create my old id on new system and will that allow me to access data when I log on with that id?
Second question; at present I have the ability to boot to openSUSE, OS/2 and windoze. (It used to be done entirely by Boot Manager but during my last Linux installation I messed this up a bit so now machine boots to grub and this offers all three operating systems but chain loads Boot Manager if I select OS/2)
When I do the new installation what should I select to retain this setup so that I still have access to windoze and OS/2 but when selecting linux have new 11.4 system run.
I am planning to install 10.4 when it arrives. And am not going to upgrade because i upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 so now i need to refresh the system.But I have all my partitions except root using lvm2 logical volumes. My question is : What is the safest procedure to install 10.4 on an existing lvm2 without losing my files/partitions
View 2 Replies View RelatedI need to install ubuntu 10.10 into 30 computers (using windows XP). I don't want to take each computer, format it and install the new operation system.(That's going to take too much time). Some documentations about the way that I can accelerate this process.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs this the best & easiest way to create a bootable usb drive?Live USB stick - openSUSE.I should follow the Linux instructions and then a create a partition with remaining space on the usb drive.I'm looking to do this when 11.3 comes out. My main focus is to create bootable usb drives to stop wasting cd/dvd's that lay around and pile up; right now we have no recycling center for old cd/dvds without shipping them out by the cost of the consumer. Learning to create a bootable usb opensuse will reduce my waste of old distributions. I ran the Ubuntu usb installer, which graphically does the work for you, so the opensuse looks a little more like work, but manageable for the simple user?
View 1 Replies View RelatedUI figured this would be the place to ask this question. I would like to download all the repositories to my PC for those crazy times when I don't have internet and need to install a program. I guess I would be making my PC a LAN Repository. What is the easiest/fastest way to get all the packages?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a desktop with a 640gb HD and a 2TB HD. I have windows 7 installed and a couple of other partitions. My 2nd HD, the 2TB drive is my F: drive. I want to create a 100GB partition for SuSE 11.4 abnd install it. however, during the install SuSE wants to shrink the volume and I don't want to use but 100GBH. What is the easiest way to properly install the OS? I am not real familiar with resizing and creating the root / , and swap etc.
View 2 Replies View Relatedwhat is the best/easiest way to install a all-in-one device from Hewlett Packard (hp)?Is there a way/makes it sence to set it up via Yast? I do not know why this wiki.How to set-up a HP printer - openSUSE.shout be "obsolete" (at least not for all-in-one printers).And for "only" printers: Is there an other way including bidirectional communication (ink etc.?).
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy most recent F11 -> F12 was a near-fiasco, because I had the bad luck of foolishly having two distinct physical drives in the same system, where the /(root) partition on each drive had exact same UUID (result of partition cloning and neglect to change the UUID on the copy)
BUT! the UUID redundancy was not the initial trigger of my problems (its near-disastrousness played itself out only while I was REMEDYING the initial problem). The initial trigger: insufficient space on my /boot partition. "preupgrade" neglected to properly assess the space and/or warn me about it before proceeding.
In addition, the automatic cycling out of grub kernel entries came to bite me (part of many factors of the near-fiasco) because after the unfinished upgrade i had only one working kernel left to boot into, until I messed up that remaining one (too long a story), and then grub-install messed up my booting because of duplicate UUID. At any rate, at the end of what looked like a good preupgrade-reboot-upgrade-package-install process the post-install phase lingered a looong time, then I found myself booted into the old Fedora 11 kernel with absolutely NO modules (corresponding /lib/modules had been erased by the upgrade!) Somehow the system ran, but no USB, no wifi, no ethernet, no way to easily place the right kernel rpm onto the hard drive (had to unscrew the drive,etc., to copy over the correct kernel rpm). (Plus, file /boot/preupgrade/vmlinuz, left over from the arrested upgrade, was NOT the right target upgrade kernel version (2.6.32.9-70.fc12), so it didn't help either because it didn't have its modules either. The target /lib/modules (version 2.6.32.9-70.fc12) WERE there, but the kernel itself was NOT, due to upgrade running out of space on the /boot partition).
(Oh, and the preupgrade/upgrade had deleted my /var/cache/yum/preupgrade/ packages; hence my inability to quickly (re)install the 2.6.32.9-70.fc12 kernel rpm -- why!? it hadn't successfully finished the process!)
(Also, FWIW, i ended up rescuing the system through "rpm -i --force <kernel>", many an F12 rescue boot, chrooting, /boot/grub/grub.conf & fstab edits, tune2fs/uuidgen, running grub on command-line ("setup (hd0)"), etc., etc.)
So, any tips out there on phasing out the old-school /boot partition scheme, the safest and easiest way (without destroying a working system, of course)?
I need to run fsck on a large partition on my server on a periodic basis. In many cases, however, files are left open on the partition, e.g. XMing sessions are often left open for weeks at a time because connection is hit-or-miss, or jobs are left running.
My first thoughts are to shut down the daemons I know are using the partition, then traverse lsof for processes that have files open on the partition and do a SIGHUP, SIGTERM, SIGKILL sequence on them. One problem I see with this is that in some cases a script might be running a loop that performs a process on the partition. For example, suppose loop.sh is running from ~ and it loops process.sh over the files in /data (i.e. the partition in question.) The first signal would end process.sh, but loop.sh wouldn't be touched, which would allow it to proceed to the next iteration, etc. until the final instance of process.sh would get the SIGKILL and yet another iteration would start. Killing process groups might help here, however.
Ideally I would just go to init 1, check the filesytem (maybe run a backup,) then go back to init 4 (running Kubuntu, so no init 3.) I'm not exactly sure how to pull that off without the filesystem check happening every time the server goes to init 1, however.
I'm running MySQL 5.0 on a production server and I require to upgrade mysql to version 5.5 to get a new collation support. What is the best procedure to follow? I cannot find MySQL 5.5 on the standard repositories. A yum install would be the safest, correct?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI would like to change my username (or login name) and am wondering what the safest route to do so is. The install is on a headless server, which I just use ssh.There's a) using usermod -l newname oldname. The line in the usermod man that says that changing the login name doesn't change anything else, which makes me think that something else is bound to break. I've also considered b) creating a new user, moving the contents of my home directory to the new user, and deleting the old user. This is kind of cumbersome, but would this be the recommended way to ensure everything goes well (considering I still have to redo some config files).
View 5 Replies View RelatedThe latest kernel(2.6.32.9-67) is causing problems for my laptop.What are the best practices for safely removing a kernel?( Yum wants to remove gcc and friends also...)How can one prevent Software Update from relisting the bad boy?
View 6 Replies View RelatedWant to know if using a live CD, say Knoppix, gives a good level of protection when moving money about? I am very unsophisticated on the subject of security.This question has been addressed before on this site Code:if you have enough RAM you can ignore your local disks all together, and avoid the security risk of a swap file
How you do that then?Perhaps it would be better to use an operating system inside the software computer, virtual box, that only ever gets used for this b*nking purpose?
I have a script which when invoked will generally su into being a number of different users (for those that have read other threads from me, you will know.I am building my own user based package management system).Whilst 75 - 80% of the time there will be no need to be anyone other than the original user, there are times when the root password is required. Currently this is presented to the administrator at exactly the point in the script that it is required.At times this may be more than once and it may also happen for multiple users in a row.
What would be the best / safest method (in your opinion) of capturing the password at the start of the script and then delivering it when required?I have looked at expect ( I am not at all familiar ), but on the examples dealing with passwords, that I could find, they all seem to store the password in a simple bash like variable (which does not excite me at all from a security point).I can also potentially go down the sudo road, but the issue here is that I would either have to find a list of commands that an entire group can have access to without passwords (doesn't sound safe) or I am back to square one of then requiring a password for each individual user to be entered, which if at the start would still need to be captured and saved until necessary.So as I have said, I am open to any and all (constructive) advice
When connecting to a database in a php script, where would be the safest place to store the connect.php file. I am thinking it should not be in public_html, but is it safe in sub folders or is there a method people generally use to keep such files secure and inaccessible.
The file I mean is one including the database name, user and password etc.
I would like to attempt creating a cron job to backup my root (/dev/sda1) & home (/dev/sda3) partitions to an external USB drive.I have been using Clonezilla to make image backups but, I have to physically do it, when I remember or have the time. I have never created a cron job, and worse, I have never created a .sh file which, I think, is what I need to do.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI have no idea how to do that >_> I have ubuntu (and Windows 7) dual booting from a partition.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI finally have a properly workng Vista Karmic dual boot. I don't remember how I setup the Ubuntu partition(did it in the advanced option), but my Vista file system is not listed in Places. I can mount the Vista partition through terminal, which tells me the two are still communicating. I would like to be able to view the file system from a window for future use with WINE.I am also looking for a file search engine for jdownloader similar to xdccreport.com for irc.What is the easiest to use most integrated derivative of Ubuntu?(From the standing point of a life long windows user?)
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhich version is easiest to get VMware going? Lucid, Karmic, or something else?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI simply cannot get filezilla to work.It wont even pass its own test, yet on a friends mac, 'fetch' works fine.I need an FTP program for my Linux machine (OpenSuse KDE).Could someone please recommend one that I can get with YAST ?I just need to access a remote host to upload some files for a site.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm on netbook remix and I want to wipe the entire thing clean. What is the easiest way to do this?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to convert my GF's brother to Linux, but he requires IE for a school website to work.
I've tried ies4linux, which doesn't work because it is abandonware as I later learned.
I found this and ran code...
I'm in the middle of moving my lab to a new server in the middle of the school year.. and need to copy all the user accounts to the new box, hopefully with all the student's passwords and contents of their folders intact.And since we are using the system daily, I need to do it all in an hour or 2.I'm thinking I can just
1. diff /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow from the old the new
2. copy all the student folders to new /home
3. write a script to set the permissions on all the new /home folders to match the user names.
It seems easy and safe so long as I back up the 2 existing files..Any reason not to try? Or is there an easier way?
I currently have my home folder encrypted with 128 bit encfs but i have the back up of that 'in the clear' on my back up hard drive. I am not that great with complicated instructions and especially the terminal so what if any is the easiest program to encrypt with?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWith Windows XP, I just right clicked a folder/directory and pressed FIND then I could search for whatever file/folder name i wanted to. I could even do custom searches based on the size, modification date etc.How do you do this on Ubuntu? There doesnt seem to be a way to easily do it like this. So far i found PLACES -> SEARCH FOR FILES but that means I have to go into the directory i want. Where as I would much rather be browsing through directories and THEN want to quickly search in a particular folder. The SEARCH FOR FILES method in PLACES just wastes more time.
View 3 Replies View RelatedFor example, how to do this:
$ job1 &
$ p1=$LASTPID
$ job2 &
$ p2=$LASTPID
$ wait $p1 $p2
i was just wondering what linux distro (in your opiniion) is the easiest to use for a new user like myself. I currently use Zenwalk, which isn't bad but i hope there is something easier to use out there
View 14 Replies View RelatedI now have 3 desktop computers hard wired into my wireless router and another desktop plus 2 laptops connecting wireless. All are running Ubuntu 10.4 or 10.10. I have not had the chance to get them all upgraded yet. What is the easiest way to get these computers connected so that they can share files? Do I have to set up a server or is there a simpler way? I just want to be able to copy a file from one computer to another.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have 2 gateways on our network. What is the easiest way to be able to switch between using one or the other gateway? I am using Fedora 12 32 bit.
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