Ubuntu Installation :: Letting Vista Take Charge?
Apr 28, 2010
For a while now, I have multibooted my Vista installation with Ubuntu. However, up until now I have been happy with Ubuntu being in charge of my boot options. I am wanting to change my bootloader so that when my machine boots, and no choices are made at the boot menu, Vista automatically starts after a set amount of time instead of Ubuntu.
I know the boys over at APC have a guide on how to do this, but it involves copying information from the menu.lst file and using EasyBCD - I was wondering if these steps will still work now that I am running Karmic Koala, which I understand uses a different method of changing GRUB entries (manipulating the menu.lst file is no longer part of this process and is no longer recommended)
If someone could tell me how to put Vista in charge of my boot options so that it will boot automatically instead of Linux, that would be greatness.
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Oct 25, 2010
I have VirtualBox up and running, and the installation is working, but for some bizarre reason...the Virtual Drive isn't letting me type into to complete the Installation of Ubuntu 10.10. I am currently using Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
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Jan 21, 2010
dont get me wrong i am happy with my Ubuntu until i want to use the usb maker thing.. i got netbook remix and now i want to install it.. i use one of my usb drives.. BUT.. ubuntu usbmaker dont let me formate it.. i have used gparted, yes with ntfstools and tried formate it in every possible way with and without flags and **** and usbmaker dont seem to accept it however.. the usbmaker cant do ****.. it tells me it cant use the stick** and then gives me everything from 1 - 2 partitions.. i have backtracked this problem as far as i can it i dont get it..unetbootin makes it work great! but why shold i have to go so far as unetbootin to get things done? is usbmaker the most unuseless pice of software or what.. ?
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May 3, 2010
drive is as follows:
NTFS Partition (Storage)
NTFS Partition (Win7)
Ubuntu
I am trying to put GRUB2 on the Ubuntu partition, but it will only let me pick the first two. If I pick the Ubuntu partition in the last dialog bix, it is listed as /dev/sda-1 I also have no idea why is says "-1", because the first two are fine at 1 and 2 respectively.
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May 21, 2010
How can i install Ubuntu 10.04 over my older version of Xbuntu 9.10? I already have the 32 bit ISO downloaded. I am on step 5 of 8, Select Partition. But it aint letting me select the older ubuntu partition.
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Jun 23, 2010
I have a portable 320 GB USB HP SimpleSave external hard drive, and I want to install Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop to use on both of my computers when Windows is letting me down. The last time I tried to install 10.04 a week after it came out, I was presented with tons of errors, even though I did it the same exact way I did it with 9.10 that worked. I would like some help on the subject of installing them on usb hard drives. Most the time, it's GRUB being antsy about where it's installed. IF I don't change where to install GRUB, it won't let me boot on any other computer, or USB port.
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Sep 19, 2010
I'd been using 10.04 for a while and then one day the computer wouldn't boot. It just loaded up to a low res purple screen with the loading dots on it and froze. I managed to get all my files back and everything and re-install and it was working fine until I enabled the graphics card and then the same problem occurred. I've isolated the problem to the graphics card. It's never given me issues before and I've been running Ubuntu for about 2 1/2 years now so I was kind of surprised.
It's an NVIDEA card by the way. Any suggestions as to what I should do? I need hardware support for graphics because I do some work in 2D and 3D and as such need to be able to do that stuff on my PC. I don't want to have to keep reinstalling to check if the graphics card is working again yet but it's the only thing I can think of =(
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Mar 18, 2011
I have a single hard-drive on a spare computer and I decided to try out Ubuntu on recommendation from a friend. I really like it now but at first I just dual-booted it, and now I want Vista gone. I know it's unnecessary to have just one OS but my hard-drive isn't particularly big and I'd prefer to have Ubuntu by itself. Can anyone tell me how to eliminate vista and leave Ubuntu as my sole operating system (I've all my files from computer on another computer so I don't have to worry about losing anything).
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Apr 6, 2011
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my PC running Vista Home Basic. I installed to run as a dual boot but now I can only boot into Ubuntu. I have tried to run the recovery disk for Vista and it errors out also..
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Nov 18, 2009
i have recently started my masters degree program and i have to install fedora 11 for one of my courses. The problem is when i try to install fedora 11 on my laptop, it wipes out my windows vista installation. I want to keep vista. I have a sony vaio laptop model VGN-FW340D. 4GB RAM and 400 GB HD. i first shrink my hard drive to free up around 100 GB. Then i run fedora 11 DVD and let it make the partitions on my free space.. I have tried everything.. I chose use free space the first time, but i didnt work, it wiped out my vista, next time i chose custom layout and defined boot, root and swap partitions , but again it wiped out my vista.. I have read many guides to dual boot vista and fedora and have carried them out step by step, but nothing works.... Also i dont have vista installation DVD, i just have the recovery CDs, so everytime it wipes out my vista, i have to do system recovery, ive been trying for a week now, and its driving me crazy, i asked a friend of mine to help me out, he has dual boot system, and he tried it and it did the same thing, wiped out my vista... i just have one drive C: with two partitions, one small partitions which contains recovery files, and the rest of the partition has vista.......
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Apr 28, 2011
I juat got 11.04 and as usual the additions will not install on Ubuntu.Does anyone take charge of making sure that ubuntu will work in VBox?
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Feb 15, 2011
So i just installed 10.04 LTS on my ibook G4 late 2004 model and it works great i partioned my Hd and have osx on 1 and ubuntu on the other and updated it last night and installed to drivers for wireless etc... but i dont see a way to monitor my battery status on the upper bar? when i try to add to panel there is no battery charge applet or whatever? when i enter this into the terminal " sudo add-apt-repository ppa:iaz/battery-status && sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install battery-statusTerminal then asks for my password but it wont let me type any sort ofpassword? not even my login passwordo i do not know what passwordterminal wants when none of the keys work?
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Oct 15, 2010
on a Powerbook with 10.10 installed. The battery icon doesn't show up in the indicator area next to the sound volume when I'm unplugged unless I select to have the icon displayed even when my computer is plugged in. And even then, it doesn't show current battery charge.I have added pmu_battery to /etc/modules , and /proc/pmu/battery_0 has relevant information on battery charge, and emacs seems smart enough to know my battery level.I tried to install pmud, and but that conflicts with pbbuttonsd and removing that would remove ubuntu-desktop! :O (I would like to try pmud and pommed, as those seem to have a better feature set than pbbuttonsd.)
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Feb 24, 2011
How to set battery charge thresh ?I use thinkpad w500 with Debian 6 .
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Jan 20, 2010
I contacted the computer manufacturer, and I am under warranty, but it will take forever to get a new battery.
I tried recalibrating it, and updating the BIOS, and still NOTHING.
Why? It was working before...
Any ideas or solutions...
It stinks because I can only get like 1 hour battery on this thing now...
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Jun 24, 2011
I've been tooling around with Fedora with the Fluxbox environment on my old Dell 400SD4 laptop and it works fantastic. I'm still getting a feel for the environment, but one major concern that I had was a battery meter. Being a laptop, it's important to know when I'm almost out of juice. Does anyone have any suggestions for a battery meter for Fluxbox? Preferably one that can be installed through the yum repositories?
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Apr 29, 2011
I've just bought a Prestigio Libretto Per3362b Ebook Reader from Amazon. According to the instruction sent with it I am supposed to connect it to a computer via a usb port and to press the power button to turn on/off the device. It is supposed to take 12 hours for the first time. These instructions make no sense to me (do I turn it on or off and how do I know if it's on or off?) and pushing the button seems to have no visible effect on the reader (no lights go on, etc.). Charging the thing for 12 hours has no obvious effect. Can anyone walk me through the initial charging operation?
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Jul 22, 2011
Ubuntu 10.0.04.3 won't let me make partitions
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Jan 14, 2010
look at my text file cite will not let me put text here keeps saying it is a url. but it is not a url I have an old hp computer with 256mb memory. i updated to the linux image that has the number 17 in the generic. i can not hit esc in grub to enter an the old 14 generic. every thing come up ok with the xubuntu log in screen but when i log in the screen get swrily and set me back to the login screen. on the 14 generic i had to change the realotion to 800x600 becuse the corners were fuzzy on 1024x768. what about setting the rezaltion over a ssh. ssh -C -X parkview@xubuntu xfce4-terminal or is it something else? i did a clean install of xubuntu. i was told to do
reinitializing my XFCE configuration. Log in outside of X (press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get a console login prompt or login via ssh) and then run the following commands:
mv /home/parkview/.config /home/parkview/.config.bkup
mv /home/parkview/.cache /home/parkview/.cache.bkup
that works exectp when i change the screen resalotion to 800x600. my screen doesnot like 1024x768. after i change it I cant log in any more tell i do
rm -vrf /home/parkview/.config
rm -vrf /home/parkview/.cache
but my screen is back at a crapy 1024x768. i do rm becure i already have it back up the first time. cite would not let me post code kept saying it was a url but it is not
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Jun 8, 2010
Terminal won't let me chance directories
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Jul 6, 2011
I'm using Ubuntu x64 10.04 edition. How can I set only one particular directory (and it's contents) to be accessible to a user while make everything else inaccessible for him? I already added the user by using adduser command.
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Apr 24, 2010
I just did a fresh install of Lucid, activated medibutnu repositories, installed libdvdcss2,w64codecs and it won't let me rip my DVD's.
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Jun 3, 2011
I just did a new install of 11.04 because I got a new ssd and now when I try to host my site from /home/USER/www/ apache says "You don't have permission to access / on this server" 403 Forbidden. I had the same exact configuration files on my other install of 11.04 and everything worked fine. One thing I did notice is that when apache installed it did not create a www-data group. I also serve a folder for music on another port and I can get to that fine.
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Nov 10, 2010
In 10.10, after installing samba and nfs through shares-admin, when adding a shared folder, i only see share through NFS listed, not samba
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Aug 21, 2010
I HAD a fedora 11 server with md RAID 1 across two 1TB SATA drives. The md0 space was set up to be an LVM PV and the single LVM VG was carved up into 5 or 6 LVs. The MB on this system died and I wound up buying a new one.
Now I want to recover the data from the RAID1 setup on the new server. However, when I attach the two 1TB drives to a new fedora 13 setup, mdadm is only able to find one of the two drives. The partition on the second drive shows "busy" during an mdadm -A -s -v to scan for md volumes.
Well, one drive should be enough since this is RAID1, right? Well, when I do a pvscan -v, the other drive shows up as a "NEW" pv not allocated to a VG. In addition, vgscan does print "Invalid metadata header checksum" when it runs but it doesn't point at any particular PV. I'm afraid to go any further with LVM since I can't afford to lose the data on this system. It is backed up offsite, but the restore will take several days and I can't afford to be down that long.
Are there any tools or techniques where I can dig deeper into what each drive, in the RAID1 pair, has right and wrong with it and pick one that I can force into a usable VG so that I can recover the data?
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Jul 15, 2010
I had install ubuntu 10.04 last two days, and when the start up it shows this message. To open the laptop i also have to using battery only i cant charge while using the laptop and if not it will hang and the screen will freeze. I'm using aspire 2920 is this because of my laptop or something else. Can anybody tell me dude? D
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Jan 28, 2010
Whenever i restart postgres in my server, Selinux is not letting it log anything. In /var/log/messages, it says.
Quote: Jan 28 14:15:43 dataserver kernel: audit(1264709743.263:38): avc: denied { append } for pid=5986 comm="postmaster" name="pgsql.log" dev=sda8 ino=3932166 scontext=root:system_r: postgresql_t tcontext=root: object_r:var_log_t tclass=file
Jan 28 14:15:43 dataserver kernel: audit(1264709743.263:39): avc: denied { append } for pid=5986 comm="postmaster" name="pgsql.log" dev=sda8 ino=3932166 scontext=root:system_r: postgresql_t tcontext=root: object_r:var_log_t tclass=file
I cannot disable SeLinux in this server.
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Oct 4, 2010
I recently got an AE1000 USB Wireless adapter... In researching how to get it to work under Linux, I came across some helpful information on URL... that advised on how to download the ralink ra3572sta driver, which I did, and managed to successfully compile and install (for sake of reference, I'm using Slackware 13 with the 2.6.33-4 x86_64 kernel)
Suffice it to say I tried several other combinations of ra0 up and down, etc. My best luck came from editing the /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA/RT2870STA.dat file as suggested by the readme for the ralink driver, which lets me successfully "set" the essid for the adapter, but it doesn't associate the access point or receive any data, etc... Basically the only function that seems to be working is scanning for APs. Apparently this driver works under other distros like Fedora/Ubuntu that use NetworkManager, but I can't figure out why its not working for Slackware. The thought occurred to me to try the driver under 32bit distro and see if theres any difference, but wondered if anyone here had any experience with this adapter or could offer some advice to point me in the right direction on this one?
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Aug 23, 2011
I recently installed opensuse on my computer due to it contracting a virus and not letting me reistall the original operating system on it. but i know nothing about this program. i have almost everything up to date and working on it. one thing i find strange is when i try to update the flash or java on it that i have to do all this extra stuff to get it to run. i do not know what programs to pull up to type the stuff down thats given in the java installation instructions. the movement of the webpages when scrolling is running slow and videos on ..... do not have as good of quality to it as it did on windows. so im assuming something is out of date or there are settings i need to adjust.
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Feb 16, 2010
A few days ago I ditched the user friendly world of Ubuntu and installed Debian Squeeze amd64 (testing) over it. I did not install the suggested Gnome 'X desktop' in favour of booting to the terminal and starting X once logged in as a user.
Everything was fine except for the fact Xvesa was used instead of Xorg as the system did not have the required Fglrx driver. I'm using an Acer ASPIRE 5536 with an ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics stuffed in it, which certainly beats intel GMA.
Unfortunately the drivers for it are proprietary.
On Ubuntu this was automatically detected and I was asked if I wanted to sell my soul and enable the restricted drivers. On debian however I have to download a shell-script of the ATI website to install the fglrx module.
Following this guide I downloaded the correct file (Under motherboard/something) and ran it as root.
I couldn't run it with any --buildpky Debian/XXX option, they all failed.
Code:
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ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
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Generating package: Debian/testing
cp: cannot stat `/root/fglrx-install.tCX8nC/x710_64a/*': No such file or directory
Package build failed!
[Code].....
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