Ubuntu Installation :: How To Install It On A Computer With Formatted Hdd
Jan 10, 2011
I recently deleted winxp from my com and and decided to do a clean install of ubuntu. so i set the boot sequence and hdd boot importance to my flash drive with the ubuntu setup and folders in the usb. there are the apps for mounting the files on the it also from when i used it before using the linux universal usb installer, which worked before on my current com. but cmos cant boot from the drive and says error. is the usb installer at fault? and if not how do i install ubuntu on the formatted com?
I was running OpenSuse and realized that I hated it. I backed up my bookmarks to a USB flash drive, formatted and installed Ubuntu 10.04.
On entering Ubuntu, I stuck the USB flash drive in and realized that the bookmarks never got copied. I've lost them. I have to have those bookmarks. What would be the best way to get them back?
I accidentally formatted my internal HDD and unmounted it and now my computer won't detect it as a bootable device. I have a system recovery disc but it doesn't seem to be making any difference. Also I do not have my windows 7 installation disc nor can I write discs. Is there a way I can fix this and keep all of my important files?
I have installed Suse on my Windows Vista 64bit machine a couple of times, but the last time I did it - after a disk change - presented some unanticipated problems. Prior to install, Windows Disk Management (whose output I was unable to paste into this question) showed that my disks were laid out as follows:
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Disk 0 is a Seagate ATA drive, while Disk 1 is a Western Digital Ext HDD Usb Device. Looking back, I think I should have carved out a partition after M before installing Suse, but I was uncertain whether to make it a logical one or a primary, and in the past the installation has taken the 25 or so gig it needed from the last defined partition on disk 0. This time, however, it went after disk 1, and reformatted the entire drive, deleting about 300 gig of user data, including my system backup. What really suprised me is that it took up the entire drive: 2 gig for the swapfile, then a 20 gig partition, and all the rest for the third partition.
This is not what I would have expected. I especially would not have expected the installation to re-format user data. In any case, I did not want Suse on disk 1, so I reformatted the drive and then used my Partition Manager to rebuild the boot Mbr. So now, I am able to boot into windows, do not have Suse on my machine, but have lost critical data. My disks are now back to the way they were when I started (see above), except that drive F is now all free space, except for my latest backup. My question is how do I ensure, when I reinstall Suse, that it will choose disk0 for the installation and will not overlay any of the data that I have on that drive.
Ive got a Sony GRt816S laptop which Im trying to install 10.10 on to a freshly formatted hard drive. I downloaded the file burnt it to disk and tried to run it. I get to the first screen where It asks me if i want to run for CD, install or do memory check. - memory checks works fine but the install and run from CD options just hang before I get anywhere near an actual install screen (or anything that remotely looks like one)
I just see a purple ubuntu screen with 4 dots which alternate between red and white ocassionally. I've left it running over night and nothing happens.I read on the forum that it might be the original file, so tested it on a different pc and it worked fine. I know what Im doing with PCs but am a total novice when it comes to Linux, ubuntu or anything thing non-windows related .
I was using windows 7 and I decided to install BackTrack 4 as an operation system so that I can have 2 operation system on my machine, during the installation, I accidentally formatted the windows 7 and right now, I am using only the BackTrack 4, now, I want to re-install back the windows 7 as an operation system but whenever I inserted my CD, it display this words under the Default: >/ubnkern initrd=/ubninit It needed a command from me in other to proceed but am new in Ubuntu and I dont know what I should type or the command I should used in other to finish installing the windows 7.
how to boot Ubuntu from USB flash drive that is formatted ext4?That is, making a portable ubuntu. But not merely a LiveUSB created using the 'Universal USB Installer' or 'UNetbootin' because the LiveUSBs created using these applications are formatted in FAT32 and uses a persistent partition just to save the changes and files.If I have your attention, what we want to achieve is a portable and bootable Ubuntu in a flash drive that is formatted in ext4.
I was installing 10.10 x64 today. I wanted to manually partition the disks, since I have a /home partition from a 9.10 installation which I want to keep.Unfortunately, I selected to convert the ext3 /home partition to ext4 and didn't realise it was formatting the partition until it had just begun. In desperation, I pulled the power plug, but now I can't access the partition (using the LiveCD) - comes with an input/output error.What are some strategies to recover the data on the partly formatted partition? I don't think much, if any, was actually formatted.
I just installed suse 11.3 on formatted partitions (5GB swap, 30GB / and 500GB /home). Just after the installation, My computer showed 25.2GB of /home to be used. When I do:
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That seem to be roughly correct because since yesterday I've been running a program that constantly writes logs and other data files and plots, which might have accumulated a few GB's. It is also collaborated by the output of
Code: dyn-0a2a1f40:/ # du -sk /home 10548452 /home
I'm not hard-up on space right now but storage has been dear until the recent past. Also out of curiosity, the size of the /home partition is shown as 493 instead of the 500GB allocated while the swap also lists only 4GB instead of 5GB. Below is the output for fdisk -l in case anyone needs it:
i installed arch-core-64bit or i thought i did and when i restarted it i got the error error: file not found grub rescue> i have gotten this error before and got around it buy just reinstalling the OS but now when i try to set the booting device to CD i get the same error and when i try to set it to usb i get a error saying disk error. could this be because my usb not formatted to arch's liking? well any way that's not my big problem my big problem is the fact that i do not know how to reinstall the OS i have searched for a couple days and still have no idea how to get this accomplished.
I installed 10.10 on my laptop with little problems. I abootm now trying to do the same on my desktop.First, my hard drive has Windows Vista installed, but it won't load the OS so I figured I could load ubuntu from the DVD and install that instead.When I first load, after my HP splash screen, I get a quick linux v. number and then load to a purple ubuntu splash screen. If I don't hit enter on this screen, it will go to a blinking cursor shortly after.
If I do hit enter, it asks my language and then gives me the options to try ubuntu, install ubuntu, check disk, check memory, boot from HD. and then the F key options at the bottom.I cannot load any of these options, it just moves to a blinking cursor. However, I was able to remove the quiet splash and get some code.It was much easier for me to take pictures of the code. So here it is. This is the code that scrolls down pretty fast after selecting install ubuntu.
I then tried the try ubuntu without installing option, and I recieved the same code.I tried the check CD utility, and it froze also. I took this picture of the last lines of code i could see.It's weird that this DVD worked to install on my laptop but not on the desktop.
I have been upgrading Ubuntu as its new distributions are released every six months regularly since quite some time now. Is there a way I can find out which was the original installation version that I first installed after I formatted my disk. I mean as far as I remember I have been using this state of my Ubuntu since 8.04 and have been upgrading since then, but I am not sure.
I'm trying to set up a simple computer that will be used to run an IRC bot only. All it needs is an active internet connection, some processing power and for Ubuntu 9.10 to install correctly.I've got all of those BUT the working install When I run the installer, I have to use Safe Graphics Mode to be able to get it through the setup screens (not much RAM). Everything is great, except for that when it starts up the partition manager during the install, it says it can't create a ext4 file system also, it says it has a problem with creating 2 other partitions and that Linux won't be able to detect changes until a restart.
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 last night by USB Drive, It worked for about 10 minutes, then shut down. After I rebooted, it stays on for somewhere near 3 minutes.
I have a toshiba portege m200 without a cd drive or usb boot ( its a pain ) and was wondering if its possible to use my desktop to install ubuntu ( i can connect the laptops hard drive via usb)
I've lost my admin password on my current Windows OS and would like to install Linux Ubuntu or a similar user-friendly distro of Linux alongside, see how that goes and possibly reformat my PC with Linux as I was told it would convert NTFS formatted drives to ext3, not delete them.
i am trying to triple boot xp, osx and Ubuntu. Here is my set up:
hd(0,0) windows xp hd(0,3) ubuntu hd(1,1) osx
I am trying this on a dell precision workstation 530. (yes i know that i can't install regular osx on a non-apple computer, but this is patched and works fine)
My problem: I am using grub to boot everything. I have added osx to the list by this: title mac osx tiger root hd(0,3) kernel boot/boot_v10 when i press this, i get: error 17 can't mount partition.
I've been using a wubi install of Ubuntu 10.10 for the past few months on my girlfriend's laptop, which has less hardware issues than my more recent laptop. Now that I'm a little more versed in Ubuntu, I'd like to transfer my Wubi install onto an actual partition on my laptop drive for a traditional dual boot.
Is this possible, and if anyone's done this before, would you be able to spare a few minutes and outline the process? I wouldn't know where to start and how to do things since I'm dealing more or less with a file system acting like a partition than an actual one.
I found the steps of migrating a Wubi install to partion via the Wubi Guide, but it seems those are steps for migrating a wubi install to a new partition on the same computer.
I have installed ubuntu desktop on my computer using wubi and its running great but I am about to get a new computer and I dont want to reinstall, reconfig and setup everything again.. the steps of moving my wubi install to the new computer
so here's my problem. I am trying to install windows xp on my computer in virtual machine so i can watch netflix on my computer. The disk will not start up, if I restart and try to boot from load i just sits there and says boot from cd. The disk drive plays music cd's fine, so i dont really know what the issue is.
I dont know that much aboutut ubuntu. a tech friend put it on hard drive he gave me after mine crashed. also i should ad that i took the disk to someone else's house that haswidnows installed and the disk worked just fine, so its not a disk problem
I want to install all the ubuntu distro packages on a computer without an internet connection. I read the website, but it didn't say if the DVD you buy has all the packages. Or are there ISO's of them?
I tried installing hardy heron on my hp pavilion entertainment laptop It starts booting when I get this message, "kernel panic--not syncing--attempted to kill init!" My computer freezes. I have to pull the pull the plug and drop out the battery.
I have and acer aspire 5251-1805 and I have a problem to install ubuntu. When I look at the Bios info there are 6 boot options including booting from CD. But then when I start the computer and press f12 there are only 3 options listed and there is no option to boot from the cd. What should I do?
I trying to re-install ubuntu on my computer. I'm currently on 10.10 (upgraded from 10.04) but live cd doesn't work with my hardware! I'm on asus G60Jx laptop with nvidia gts 360m. I'm not the only one to have this problem. It's my third message on this forum about this because no one answering me after 5 bump. I ask for help in ask ubuntu. I got "install ubuntu 10.04 and upgrade it, it don't take so much time" ok, I'll do that, but for 11.04, can I expect to be able to use the liveCD installation or I will install 10.04 to upgrade it after? I know that I can't change nothing for 10.10 but a bug is bug, and I wish that my computer will be more supported, thank to all. And this time, answering to me please and show me how can I report this. I know that I can use ubuntu-bug but I didn't found the fine section.
How is the best way to do this?I have a USB drive that I use to transfer regular data, but how do I download gparted to it, and install it on another computer
trying to install F14 on a computer that has Vista on it. I chose the option for it to shrink my existing partition since it takes up the whole hard drive. On the next screen I choose my install drive... then it asks me (dont remember verbatim) by how much do I want to shrink the current partition? I put 200 (I assume its GB... is it MB?) and then it said shrink failed and then takes me back. Is that question on how much I want to shrink have to do with how much space I'm putting on the new F14 partition or how much I'm leaving on the windows partition?
