Ubuntu Installation :: Got Two Installations, Want To Remove First One?
Sep 24, 2010
I used to have 64 bit ubuntu, but wanted to try 32 bit to see if I can make a driver work. So, I installed it in a new partition. I'm now happy with my 32 bit installation and I want to remove the 64 bit partition to make room. My partitions atm are:
sda1 (ext4, 64 bit)
sda2
sda6 (ext4, 32 bit)
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Mar 1, 2011
i have multiple installations of ubuntu 10.10, and i have a windows 7 installation. i was wanting to know how to remove the other ubuntu installations that im not using?
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Mar 30, 2011
Is there anyway of removing files installed by running the command make
install?
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Apr 30, 2011
I've had enough of partitions. I have one for /home, 3 or 4 for various distros, and one for swap. It is rigid and difficult to adapt to varying disk usage. I'm currently finding it very difficult to upgrade all my machines to Natty. I want to avoid this problem in the future.This cleans up the root directory, and makes it easy to see what distros are installed.I want to be able to move existing installations into this system.
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Feb 28, 2011
I upgraded Ununtu from 10.04 to 10.10 Maverick and the Windows 7 partition disappeared from my grub menu. It used to work OK in Lucid.I have tried update-grub but it does not find the Windows install.
Code:
pete@pete-vaio:~$ sudo update-grub
Generating grub.cfg ...
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Jan 14, 2010
I have this weird problem. The other day I asked a question about restore the backup file after dual boot installation. I have done the dual boot ( XP installed first) then restored the backup file. Now the problem is that I forgot if I excluded system files from backup or not, so when I restored and rebooted, my installations got messed up, many programs do not find their path to run, etc. But the real problem is when I rebooted again, I got error 15: file not found tried to follow some other posts here to solve this and noticed that running fdisk -l gives me:
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Mar 2, 2011
I try to install to my desktop as Squeeze/ISPConfig3 server, but GRUB does not load after several re-installations.
I have
- 6 x 500GB HDs
- ASYS A8N-SLI Bios SLI-RAID active as only then RAIDSata1-RAIDSata4 can be seen 2 x RAID1 (has to have something) and all drives can be seen by Debian-installer as individuals Same has been working with LinuxMint (both LM10 and LM Debian Edition) (with and w/o fake-RAID)
1st test: Guided partitioning (LVM) for one disk (where /boot will be separated) => Installation OK and starting.
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Apr 18, 2011
I am looking to install a c++ compiler. I run 11.4, and was told to look in the Software Manager for easy installation. I have no repositories installed, as the repositories in the Application sticky only applied to Suse installations through 11.3. I found the package "gcc45-c++" (Version Number 4.5.1_20...208-9.8) when I searched the Software Manager. I proceeded to install it, and had no problems, but when I looked in "applications", the compiler was not there. I'm aware that I may be revealing some great ignorance here, so I'll ask, should gcc appear? If not, how do I execute the program?
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May 9, 2009
and instructs me to do a chkdsk /f /r on it and reboot TWICE!. So I did, multiple times and multiple reboots later, it still says the same. This is my first experience with fedora. I have tried to look through the forums and couldnt find any help. Can some one point me in the right direction?
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Jan 27, 2010
Is there a way to have grub2 managing two installations from ubuntu on the same pc ?I have two partitions, one with karmic, another with lucid. Grub is detecting automatically the two or more kernels, but assigning them to the same root partition.Is there a way to make update-grub, detecting lucid kernel, and assigning it automatically to lucid partition, and the same for karmic ?It seems, that os-prober, detects the lucid installation from karmic, and print the correct corresponding partition on the screen, but in the config file, the root partition is the wrong one, and os-prober doesn't detect karmic...
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Feb 1, 2010
Is there a way to pause installations/updates? If there is not, would it be possible to implement that?It seems these days that installations through synaptic seem to take ages to download files. While downloading the files, ubuntu will not let you run any other package manager. So if I am updating my system or installing several programs through synaptic, I am unable to install anything else. For example a deb file ive downloaded, or i would like to install a single program while all these other files download.
I can understand not being able to install multiple things at once, but why is it not possible to install things while it downloads the files? Sometimes it days several hours/days to download the files.
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Mar 10, 2010
I have Ubuntu 9.10 and Win7 both installed on my desktop. I use Windows for gaming (when I actually have the chance...) Anyway, for some reason update-grub is not detecting my Win7 installation, neither is os-prober. I attempted to add a custom Grub2 entry to point to Windows 7, however, when I select it from Grub, I simply get a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper-left, after waiting 20 minutes, Windows still hadn't loaded.
Here are hopefully all the relevant files:
sudo fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x059c059c .....
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Jun 9, 2010
I've been trying to install Ubuntu 64bit on Sony Vaio CW and the Screen is 14 inch when I boot from CD it seems to work normal but after i select "Try Ubuntu without installing" or "Install Ubuntu" then the screen goes black like nothing happening but the CD runs for while then stop. Again I reboot to try again this time I press F6 then select "nomodeset" and it boots fine I was happy though, after installation success when I boot again WTF it goes black again and then I reboot and press "E" during the options that showing to select OS then I remove "Quit Splash".
I guess then I add "nomodeset" and control+X to boot, it works fine. So when I log in and of course I activate the Nvidia Graphic Driver then I reboot and WTF again the screen was out sync or something like the the screen didn't show properly. The Application menu normally is on the upper left of the screen but this time it was on the center of screen and the Shut down button came to the left side and i have to move the mouse cursor to the right and then it would appear on the left just like the resolution is to big for the screen.
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Jul 20, 2010
even those "provided by Ubuntu." Instead, I receive an error window that says the source is untrusted. Details reveal only the name of the package I am trying to install. I am using Lucid Lynx on an IBM ThinkPad X41.
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Aug 21, 2010
I installed normally Ubuntu in my lenovo laptop, but GRUB shows two installations instead of one. Whatever happens to one of them, happens to the other, except some command-line work.
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Aug 24, 2010
I was installing a few programs when my computer froze, I rebooted, and the installations never finished. I didn't log in to ubuntu for several days, and forgot the exact programs that I was trying to install. Now when I try to open up Synaptic Package Manager, I get this error:E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. E: _cache->open() failed, please report.I can't install certain programs, etc.Something is screwed up. I think it has to do with the failed installations.
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Dec 20, 2010
Just installed Ubuntu on a Dell M1730 and working my way around the system. Biggest problem I'm struggling with is the folder structure and privileges. I've downloaded a few programs that don't come in DEB format. Consequently I'm not sure how they should be installed. As a windows user my assumption is that there would be a program files like folder but I'm not sure what the Ubuntu equivalent is. I've tried /opt/ but then I run into lots of privilege issues that can only be resolved by chmod. Can you advise which the location that programs should be installed in for manual installations and under which user (Standard or SU)?
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Oct 27, 2009
I installed linux from a live disk. Now I went through all the nonsense to install and it tells me my user name and password is wrong. This crap is worse than windows. What gives? Dont tell me about well maybe you used the wrong anything proper case etc. I did that all several times to NO avail! Why I cant log on to my own computer?
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May 12, 2010
sharing a wine installation across the system but I haven't managed to get them to work (you'd think that this is something that would have been implemented properly a LONG time ago. Crossover has a rubbish version of it but I wanted to get it to work in Wine).Here's what I did (it works insofar as office 2003 can be used but the menu entries don't (as of yet) appear in the different users' menus):
Regular install of wine, start wine on my profile and let it build all its stuff. DO NOT INSTALL ANY PROGRAMMES YET (I did the first time and it didn't work afterwards). Create user and group "wine" with disabled password/login and no home dir. Move system.reg and drive_c to /wine and chown wine:wine, chmod 0775 (both recursively, bien sur).
Add all users to the "wine" group. Make symlinks to drive_c and system.reg in my .wine directory. Copy ~/.wine to all the other users' home directories, delete user specific registration files user.reg and userdef.reg. Chown the .wine directory for each user.
Install Office 2003 (for me at least) or whatever programmes you want (I've only tried this is Office 2003).
chown wine:wine /wine -R because your installation will have messed things up a bit.
Now cd (in Terminal, obviously) to /wine/drive_c/users. If you ls you'll see a folder called Public and a folder with your user name (mine is "gideon"). cp your home directory (recursively again) for each of your other users who you want to be able to use wine. Chown their user folders to user_name:wine (recursively - I'm going to stop writing that, just assume it). su as each user, go into their user directory and you'll see something like this (ls -al):
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drwxr-xr-x 13 gideon wine 4096 2010-05-12 13:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 wine wine 4096 2010-05-12 13:31 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 gideon wine 4096 2010-05-12 13:10 Application Data
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Jul 29, 2010
I switched over to Ubuntu a while ago and kept my windows installation for games. I have noticed a slight drop in FPS on all of my games ever since, could this be because of installing Ubuntu?
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Oct 24, 2010
I wanna install both Ubuntu and Kubuntu with Wubi win installer. Is this possible and how to do it?
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Mar 13, 2011
My brother must have the oldest computer ever, its got no option to boot via usb, when you boot with cd it boots up like a livecd usually would (gets to the Ubuntu screen with "Try Ubuntu without installing" and then "Install Ubuntu" (or the equivalent for other livecd's)) and then just goes into a black screen (which flashes - a sort of brightness high and brightness low) and keeps flashing until I turn it off. It has Ubuntu on it, but it's too slow since he has like 126mb ram. It was installed using the actual Ubuntu CD from the Ubuntu Store. Usb booting isn't allowed by bios and the computer wont install things via dvds.
I have tried:
Lubi
LiveCD's
grub chainloading USB
Installing xubuntu-desktop and then removing all ubuntu's stuff
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Mar 31, 2011
Why when I want to install some thing on my ubuntu 10.10 from terminal or user any other commands I have this output:
Permission denied
This one I want to install make-3.82. I extract files and open install file (a text guide file)
in this guide I see this
HTML Code:
The simplest way to compile this package is:
1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
`./configure' to configure the package for your system. If you're using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type
`sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute
`configure' itself.
I do this I open my terminal cd to that location and type ./configure
And output is this:
bash: ./configure: Permission denied
When I want to make any softwares I have the same problem? I have to give terminal any permission or something? I want to do any action to don't see this .... message again.
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May 21, 2010
I want to install MySQL on my Fedora 12 box but I'm not really sure what the best method to use is. I have had problems in the past with using yum, mainly the installed package was behind and/or missing pieces that I needed and it was a real pain to find and install those pieces. My problem is that I'm not totally convinced I should do an install from source, or even an rpm, as that would mean losing the yum safety net. My intentions are to have a development account on my home machine to polish up my php and java skills so I'll be installing Apache, Php and Java on this machine as well.
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Apr 15, 2010
I need to add my windows installations to the grub menu.I have windows 7 and windows xp on hd0 and windows xp on hd1.Using 'sudo update-grub' doesn't seem to help.So how do i fix this?
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Feb 13, 2011
I'm going to be installing Vinux which is Linux for the Visually Impaired, based on Ubuntu, onto most any computers I can get my hands on to give to the VI community around my area. I'd like to know what would be a good method to stress test each computer to ensure that each one will operate at an adequate speed without freeze-ups. Sorry, I can't be specific about the computers. I'll be taking whatever gets donated from the public and from businesses, desktops and laptops, whatever comes my way. I don't want to send out any headaches to anyone by giving them a dog-tired slow or a freezing computer that won't even operate.
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Jun 22, 2011
I recently decided to wanted to switch from windows to ubuntu 11.04 since linux can do the same work as windows for me. While going with a fresh installation of linux by itself I noticed that instead of my original laptop hdd space of 350gb it said allocated 320gb. I went with the install and now that it is ready the disk manager says I have 280gb space what is this please? Should I reinstall ubuntu to get the missing hd space ?
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Jul 29, 2011
when i install centos 5.6 on dell optiplex 990 i got black screen when anaconda start
my graphics card is Intel HD Graphics and i7 Sandy Bridge
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Mar 5, 2011
Just to confirm - I have come to the conclusion that it is best to have separate Ubuntu installations if users of the same computer have different default firewall blocking needs. Me and my wife have totally different Internet surfing habits. I also tend to block most of the websites that she normally uses, some of which are dialed by default when opening Firefox.
We have used one desktop computer for a while now with two users in one Ubuntu installation. It is becoming too much of a hassle having to change the firewall settings each time it was changed by the other user with a previous log-on. We also have two other computers in the household for the children. I have created a Local Repository, and download updates only on my computer, saving on time and bandwidth (the only replication that takes place is downloading the index files from the update servers for each computer). Having another Ubuntu installation on the same computer will just add to the "auto update" list.
Another advantage is that my "more secure" Ubuntu partition (which may contain sensitive information from time to time) will not be mounted when my wife is on the Internet.
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Aug 26, 2011
I have 2 linux installations with the same username in each of them, which are on different disks.I would like to create another partiton to use it as home for both distros(the one to be at /home/debian/username and the other at /home/suse/username e.g)First, is this possible? If yes how can I do it, and how much space is enough for the other directories? More details: The first distro is on a 82GB partition, and the second on a 21GB partition on another disk. I'm planning to use all 82GB partition for the shared /home and move both distros to the other disk's partition(in fact the one, the other is already there).So, I'm thinking to resize the 82G partition, to make free space for the /home partition(which filesystem is better to use?). Then to move my user of both distros there in folders /home/debian/username - /home/suse/username. After to resize 21GB partition(how much space is enough for debian?), and on new free space to move the other distro. And finally to resize again the new /home partition to use all 82GB.
And last, this way will be easy if I want to install another distro later, to use the home partition with the same form(/home/other-distro/username? Can I define this at distro's installation procedure?
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