I recently thought it would be a good idea to install ubuntu on my home computer thats running XP home edition. Initially When running the live CD it asked me what partition I wanted it to go on. So I chose to share the one with windows on it assuming it would create a dual boot automatically. After Install of Ubuntu I restarted and It booted straight into ubuntu without the option of XP. After looking around on Ubuntu for some signs of Windows files I panicked and decided to put the XP disc in to see if I could fix the boot for windows. Big mistake! After some research on some forums to appeared to suggest running fixboot and fixmbr so I did with no joy.
After this nothing worked and when I put the live CD in again It just went into the virtual environment. So then I was left with no OS at all it seems. Panicking even more I tried to repair the original XP install but windows couldn't see the partition which seemed strange since the repair console finds the windows install.The windows install is on the C drive which is a partition on a single no raid SATA drive. (Hope that makes sense).After scratching my head and googling like crazy I found a few tutorials on Grub that suggested that you could insert the root of the XP install and it would boot fine. As I am not familiar with Ubuntu this went a bit over my head. At this point I thought I didn't have much to lose and Installed Ubuntu again on a new partition on another drive to have a go but I couldn't find where to find the root and even if I could I would know where to put it.When I went into disc into disk utility it didn't even show the SATA volume anyway. It shows the adapter but no volume Im so confused and I feel like Im fumbling in the dark hoping to bump into the answer.
I wan trying to install Debain on a 4GB USB drive while running the setting something happened with my pc and i had to restart it.I try to boot from the USB drive it worked but was giving a empty cursor. the installation did not continue.i open the USB drive in my pc now but it shows just 300 MB space and lost the 3.7 GB space.I think space of USB drive with that partition, can i recover my USB drive lost partition space ?
So I had Windows Vista installed on my laptop(two 250gb HD). After trying to install fedora 10 with the Live CD, with some errors about root and boot, I ( don't really know why) tried the resize option and changed the second HD to 2 partitions. Put boot on the first. The installation was sucessful, i rebooted, but nothing happened. No windows vista, no fedora. So I tried to change by custom installing(installed fedora on first HD) and I guess I messed up a little. I want to boot again into Vista, but even editing grub menus failed. Any ideas on how to solve this?
fdisk -l Code: Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x4118425c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux /dev/sda2 26 30401 243995220 8e Linux LVM [Code].....
i installed win XP month ago, after that i have installed ubuntu 8.04. i didn't choose manual configuration while selecting partitions. NOW all the data LOST!!
and after typing sudo fdisk -lu
the result is as following
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
I have a harddisk which is partiotioned in C & D. I've installed WIN XP on C and WIN 7 on D. Then I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on D beside WIN 7. Now I can't access to WIN 7 and also to drive D in XIN XP and in Ubuntu. What can I do to get back WIN 7 and drive D ?
I wanted to try to install one of those public VPN services in order to try a software program. I setup a VPN for a service that is located in the UK. I successfully installed the VPN that just required me to use their gateway address and they also supplied the username/password. All I did was edit the connections from the Ubuntu Network Manager to add the VPN. After rebooting I no longer have my wired "eth0" connection listed and the Network Manager shows a red X.
I use a DSL service and my computer is directly connected to the router. I am using Ubuntu Natty 11.04. I read where you may have to edit the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules because it may cause an entry of eth1 instead of eth0. My file still shows eth0. I have also deleted the contents of that file and rebooted, as suggested in other posts, and eth0 is in the file, but still does not show in my Network Manager.
If I type in terminal: sudo ifconfig | grep eth, I get an output of: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr [my mac address] Going to Whois shows my IP address as that from my local ISP. Clicking on Network Manager > Connection Information, I receive a window that states : "No valid active connections found". Obviously, I am connected to the Internet. Is there a way to restore my eth0 connection?
under gnome (OS: ubuntu lucid 10.04) i installed KGet and it was working fine with no problems or ( extra PKGs installation ) ... then i wanted to try KDE desktop so i installed kubuntu-desktop , after that gnome windows and message alerts have been transformed to KDE form even if i was logged with gnome ...
I uninstalled kubuntu-desktop using instructions provided here : [url] but then i lost kget .... now when i try to install it again , synaptic iforms me that i have to install a lot of extra packages as well .. what is the shortest way to install and run KDE program on my gnome desktop properly .. ?
I had some problems installing 10.04, which I'm not going into here unless I have to, but it appears to be up and running now except my PC can't access the network, even though it's wired. This is the first time I've tried putting on a new build by myself as my son always used to do it (my PC used to belong to him many years ago, and is old, like me.)
I have installed SUSE 11.3 and I am using KDE4. I also installed the font "misc-console".
After installing the NVIDIA driver 256.53 the font misc-console becomes useless because it is displayed so much slanted that it is imposible to read. However, if I disable the NVIDIA driver (by replacing "nvidia" with "nv" in xorg.conf), then it works fine. It also works fine in KDE3 and the NVIDIA driver. So, it seems to be a combination between NVIDIA and KDE4. A lot other fonts are also overly slanted and unreadable (like "Sony fixed", "misc fixed", etc.).
If I launch konsole from a terminal, I receive the following warning:
konsole(6928) Konsole::TerminalDisplay::setVTFont: Using an unsupported variable-width font in the terminal. This may produce display errors.
Is there a way that I can use "misc-console" without having to uninstall the NVIDIA driver? I'm just used to this font for my terminal.
The same happens whether I install the driver manually or through YAST, 32 or 64 bit. The video card is NVIDIA 8400GS, the system Athlon 64 4400+
I recently installed KDE (I was using GNOME). After that, I found for gnome applications, KDE font settings is applied even when I log in using GNOME. Whatever I do in appearance-fonts, all gnome applications follow the settings from KDE Personal Settings. (Application Appearance -> Fonts)
I lost all the subpixel hinting, and I finally just found out that if I set it in KDE Personal Settings it actually affects gnome applications. (I'm in GNOME now)
I lost grub on installing window7 , used caf,s way Re-Install Grub Quickly with Parted Magic - openSUSE Forums to install but on typing find /boot/grub/menu.lst it does on find menu.lst however i could see the file by mounting the right drive. I dont want to fresh install suse to get grub
On one of my F10 boxes yesterday, I installed several NM packages with yum update after being advised of their availability. Today, (the first reboot since installation) I no longer have network access on that box.
I thought to uninstall Gnome Network manager since it was always asking for to connect with wireless internet but it was working fine with wired internet.I uninstalled it and installed wicd. and then for some unknown reasons the internet disappeared.Kindly let me know How can i get back network manager without having internet and make internet work on my computer.I did searched a lot on Ubuntu forums using somone's else computer but no success.So if you let me know how to approach the problem in right manner it shal be great .
This is my first time with openSuse as I have heard that openSuse is better forlaptops then ubuntu is. On this laptop, I had already installed ubuntu but decided I no longer liked ubuntu very much, but for no real reason. I encountered almost the exact same problem using both ubuntu and kubuntu, but I had more problems on top of the graphical problem - so I decided to give openSuse a try. I love it so far!Anyway, to the point - I have an Nvidia GeForce GT330M. I have tried installing the drivers the "easy way" and the "hard way" and I have even used the script lnvhw, all to no avail.
What seems to happen is that, after I install the drivers (from runlevel 3, of course), as soon as I restart my computer it initially loads just fine. However, after the loading bar shows up, I get dropped into a console login (tty1), and tty7 & 8 show absolutely nothing, except a blinking cursor.I have two graphic cards in my computer -- an Intel HD card. This is loaded normally and, from "My Computer" it is the graphics card in use, as far as I can tell. The other, as I said, is the nVidia GeForce GT 330M. I'm not much of a "power" user, so I'm not really sure where to start with finding the issue
I have a dell mp1210 xps laptop. I just recently installed installed Ubuntu 9.10 and am very green. With difficulty I managed to install the drivers for the wireless card and now have wireless on the laptop. In order to get the wireless working I had to restart my computer, and once it booted up again the wireless works, but there is no trace of eth0-my wired network device (Broadcom BCM4401-B0) which was working fine before I got the wireless adapter working. Lspci still shows the device as it did when it was functioning, but ifconfig only shows my local loopback and wlan0 (my wireless device). I am not sure how eth0 got deleted, I am wondering if maybe I have to set up some sort of switching between the wired and wireless adapters so they are not both active at the same time. Any suggestions would be really nice, I have been digging through the forums, but I am unsure of what went wrong or what to do about it.
I recently bougt an Asus N61DA with Windows 7. I decided to install Ubuntu alongside Windows, so I made the Ubuntu CD, just like it said. Then I inserted the CD and restarted the computer. I started the installer (ubuntu 10.10 64-bit) and chose the option where it says "install ubuntu alongside other operating systems", or something like that. So, the installation started, but then I lost the internet connection, and the installation stopped.I re-connected the computer, but the installation still wouldn't continue. I restarted the computer and then nothing happened. I've restarted it several times, but still nothing happens. I've inserted the Windows recovery CD, but it doesn't work
Right now I'm running ubuntu with three partitions. /, /home and a swap partition. If I did a clean re-installation what exactly would be lost afterwards? /home obviously not but what about all the system settings, visual individualization or downloaded software from the ubuntu software center for example. Furthermore, I'd like to know why a clean re-installation is regarded better than an upgrade.
I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 and everything went smoothly EXCEPT that g++-4.1 and all its dependencies were uninstalled, and now it's nowhere to be found in Synaptic Package Manager. How can I get g++-4.1 back??
ps. I know that I can download source and build it manually, but there has to be a more "Ubuntu-ish" way of doing it.
Recently I updated my Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.10, by performing a clean install and not-formatting my home partition (set it as home mount point for the 8.10).At first I didn't realize any changes in the desktop environment, my compiz setting still doing fine (except for the background set for each desktop). And then I wanted to set the image, but to found out that there is no more shortcut to my compiz setting (through the System > Preferences menu).I checked the Appearance menu, and since I clicked on one of the options available, my compiz feature is no more to be available. The desktop is set to default 8.10 feature.I checked my other pre-installed application; such as Amarok, Thunderbird, etc. They all are gone.My question is, how can I get them back?This question is important, because from now on I'm going to perform the sequential upgrade (8.10 > 9.04 > 9.10), if I'm going to loose those application on every upgrade phase, then I'd just upgrade first before solving my problem.
I am happy with ubuntu it's cool, but I want to go back to windows. I lost my windows cd. So I made a blank disc with an iso file. But the problem is. When I try to keep it inside my computer and restart it won't load. I think grub has something to do with this.
New and ignorant here. I got a new System 76 netbook, love it, went to upgrade Ubuntu and since, have not been able to get wireless to work. Wireless light is off, no switches work to activate. Unit has no CD drive, can't get on internet without connection. Not sure this is the correct forum.
I recently upgraded to koala, but gimp no longer functioned after upgrade; i.e. open file popup dialogue freezes, crop tool is non-functional, preferences dialogue was absolutely a blank box. Tried un-install/re-install thru both the new software center and synaptic. Same broken result every time. Tried a direct download from gimp.org but ran into a lot of dependency stuff I know nothing about; I'm an end user, not a coder. So, how do I get a functioning install of gimp?
I have logged on as chris; sudo su to get root access. I have done:
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
my previous versions of ubuntu have been removed from the grub menu.I can not now log on as chris and sudo su to root from ssh. It says I am missing from sudoers file.Is there an easy way to fix as I can not access the master screen and will have to talk my wife through the changes required.
