Is it sensible to install a netbook edition on an ordinary machine? Like if i want to quickly browse the web and answer emails with fast boot time and without having a full-blown desktop?
View 3 RepliesI am having trouble installing Ubuntu 10.10 netbook remix edition onto a Acer Aspire one netbook. I am attempting to install the OS from a 16GB PNY usb drive w/ the usb-universal installer and ubuntu 10.10 netbook remix .ISO
The reoccurring problem that I am encountering is that when I boot from the USB-drive and begin to install everything seems to be working, and then it is stuck at the menu where it asks who are you?; and of course i have filled in everything asked and at the bottom where you can look at what its doing in the terminal/detail section all it says is ready when you are, and the forward tap is unselectable.
I have several (say, 50) machines running ubuntu.I want them to be centrally controlled.That is, each machine should get permit from central machine before installing any software etc.I googled quite a lot but could not find the solution...
View 1 Replies View RelatedI installed UNR on an old laptop that'll be used around the living room by both me and the kids, so I set up multiple accounts and made myself and Admin. In Users and Groups, my account IS set to require password to login, and kids' account isn't. However, the machine is not going to the login window on boot -- it just goes straight to my account. Is there a way to fix this or will UNR always boot to the account created upon installation (mine) without a login prompt?
2nd issue: I installed Google Chrome from the .deb on my account and it showed up right away in the Internet tab of the home screen, but it doesn't show up on the home screen when I switch it over to the kids' account. Do I need to reinstall from each account or is there a simple way to make it available to them?
I'm trying to upgrade my netbook (sylvania meso g) from ubuntu 8.04 to ubuntu 9.10 i downloaded the ISO downloaded the usb creator so that i could put it on my thumb drive, create the ISO and reboot with my freshely made ISO thumbdrive. When i reboot i get to the install screen select install and my netbook reboots and starts the process all over again without 9.10 ever being installed. When i select help i get the install screen but if at the very tipy top of my screen you see a 1/2in section that i cant read because it so small for help screen.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI downloaded the iso from the site and followed the instructions making the usb bootable with the universal usb installer and it simply will not boot. (and yes I did change my boot priority to usb in bios) when I restart the computer it just says "SYSLINUX 4.02 2010-07-21 EDD Copyright (c) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al" I aslo tried making the boot usb with lily and the same thing. is the iso from the site bad? has anyone else encountered this?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI tried for at least 4 hours last night and I could not get Ubuntu to install on my Acer Netbook. I used a 4GB Sandisk pendrive and changed the BIOS so the netbook booted from the pendrive, but all it did then was go to a black screen with white letters across the top saying Syslinx and a bunch of info kinda like copyright info.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi was in the process of trying to put the latest version of netbook remix on a flash drive (2gb Kingston), but failed mid-process. I had forgotten to format to FAT32, and thus ran into problems in the middle. I'm now left with a flash drive that is partially written to, and completely write-protected. And I can't get rid of anything on the flash drive. Nothing I've tried (Killdisk, re-formatting, MS-DOS) has helped me erase the flash drive permanently (every time I try Windows returns the message that the device is write-protected). Neither can I re-run the USB installer, which I downloaded from the pendrivelinux folk.
Either in erasing my flash drive completely, and starting again -- or in re-doing the making of this flashdrive into a boot disk for the netbook remix version of ubuntu.
I used unetbootin to make a bootable usb with PeppermintOs and then reset the BIOS to boot from 'removable'.
It would not boot - went straight to the (grub?) menu offering mint, and mint safe recovery which is from the hard drive.
First USB did not work, so bought a new one (4gb) and that did not work so borrowed a 1GB from a colleague. This did not work either.
I have tried two different ISOs (having done the MD5sum on them as directed).
I have tried fat 32 and ext formats (using gparted to format it as I don't know any other way) and from there I can see that it says boot, lda).
When I disabled HDD from BIOS, the USB was read but then the message was that no boot device found, replace with proper boot device.
I also tried using the start-up disc creator.
Each time I have tried it on my desktop PC too, having set up the BIOS and I haven't been able to boot with them there either. I know that the netbook will boot from USB as that is how Mint 9 got installed on it.
In desperation I even tried creating the USB from windows. Even that didn't work.
Whilst I have a working copy of MInt 9 on the netbook, this is not vital, but I so want to try peppermintOS on it.
how to set up a virtual machine which runs Ubuntu Netbook Edition?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedIf I had an unformatted Acer Aspire One netbook, could I install Linux linux from a flash drive or along those lines? Keep in mind, I don't actually have the computer yet, so I haven't tried. I also do not have that much experience with Linux, or unformatted computers..
View 3 Replies View RelatedI bought a MENQ easy PC e790 with 2GB flsdh memory and 128 M RAM but no hard drive. It comes with Windows CE 5.0 The specs are as follows:
CPU: Samsung 400MHz/533MHz processor
RAM: 128MB
ROM: 2GB
OS: Microsoft Windows CE 5.0
Pixel resolution: 800 x 480 pixels
code....
How can linux be installed in CEs place and what distro would be best?
after messing with fstab + mtab, my aspire one netbook completely failed , so i rebooted using a live USB. My desktop and default settings were restored. When i tried to install firefox 3 (default browser is firefox 2 ), yum hangs and refuses to do anything. I tried deleting and reinstalling yum, and it was mostly successful until i tried the "make" command which according to bash does not exist. how to install make without using yum?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have some compressed (tar.gz) files that i need to get users to install on their servers but it becomes a pain some times to explain the command and where to uncompress it to.Is there a way to create an rpm of the files inside the tar.gz so that by just running rpm -ivh "file.rpm" it extracts them to the correct target destination.For example: rpm -ivh "www.rpm" will exact files inside rpm into /var/www
View 8 Replies View RelatedI am posting the o/p of /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab...Currently i am the only user but if i add one more , how can i give that user the right to mount any partition
View 7 Replies View Relatedi've added a user using
useradd turf passwd turf and so on.. after loggin, i can't startx..
I am trying to install several of the packages listed in the repositories for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS from the Ubuntu SoftwarecCenter. I get the error message: "The action would require the installation of packages from not authenticated sources."
How can this be...they are in the repository. Doesn't that mean they are authenticated?
By the way, under sources, I selected "Server for the United States".
What can I do to fix this?
I have an Acer laptop, on which a I have Ubuntu installed with no disk partitioning. I may need to install Windows 7 on this machine but have no desire to stop using Ubuntu for normal use. Is it possible to create a partition to install Windows on, without changing my Ubuntu set up? Also, whilst I'm at it, I'd like to create a third partition for general data storage.
View 9 Replies View RelatedHave got slow bumpy - slow to load -slow to refresh graphics. Also noticed that when inittab 3 and doing a non graphical login for user startx wont work. Something about fbdev not loading.
logining in via kdm works for user. have tried placing an xorg.conf into /etc/X11 with what used to be ok for user to have dri.am using an radeon hd 2400 pcie graphic card. Also placed a file into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/100-dri.conf again with what used to work to get dri working. Is it me or is slackware graphics gone down hill since 13.0?
Is there a way to allow ordinary users to mount / unmount an ntfs partition?I don't want it to be mounted automatically - I can do that. I want it to be mount / unmountable by ordinary users (possibly in a particular group).
View 1 Replies View RelatedI had a good copy of ubuntu on a disk but i lost it in the move, lately i decided that i wanted 2 OS's on 1 machine windows vista/Ubuntu x32. I've already got VMware workstation 7, now the great feat i'm trying to accomplish is getting this .iso of Ubuntu into my VM machine, I've got Daemon tools lite and magic-iso and magic disk. But i'm not too sure which 1 to use.
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy program attributes (it uses semanage to change range): I'd like to ordinary user (bartek) can execute my program. I executed as root:
chmod u+s se_chmod4
so now my user can change his range in permissive mode by my program. My politic: In enforcing mode i can see attributes but when i want to excute i get:
How should look like my TE file that user (bartek) could execute my program (forget at moment about "semanage")?
Virtual Box doesn't work under ordinary user, though this user is in vboxusers group. Under SU it work normally. This happied after upgrage to 4.0.10-8.1 version from obs://build.opensuse.org/Virtualization community repository. In Oss repository there is 4.0.4 version.
Here the massage, that appears after start of Virtual Box under ordinary user: "Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object.
The application will now terminate.
Ditails:
Callee RC:
NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED (0x80040154)
Is there a difference between raid1 and ordinary hard disk?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI'm using ubuntu,i have a bin file under my /usr/bin, if i run the command under root user i'm getting no problem an it works fine,if i try it in with differnent user im getting
Code:
semctl:premission denied
so how can i edit my bin file and change it to right permission
If you select "support virtualization" during install, you get the xen kernel installed.
Some things do not work with this kernel (e.g. nVidia drivers). So my question is whether it is possible to install both kernels (xen and ordinary) and select between them with grub at boot time?
I did try this a while ago, by first installing with xen and then manualy adding the ordinary kernel, but the ordinary kernel failed to boot (for reasons I don't now recall - sorry). Clearly, there must be differences in the "virtualization" build other than the kernel.
The alternative, if I want to play with virtualization, would be to have two entirely separate installations, but this seems like a waste of space when surely almost everything must be identical?
I can't find anything in the Centos Xen documentation about this.
Before I try again I would just like to check if anyone actually knows if this is possible, or if not why not?
Or can it be done with KVM?
my lappy is 64bit...But I dont remember, So far I am using 32bit ubuntu. So How can I know if my computer is 64bit machine? if it is, Installing ubuntu 9.10 64bit will give any performance fetch??I guess 64bit ubuntu and 32bit are same interms of functionality and look Right? may be performance difference? give me some info...
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