I have made a startup USB from an Ubuntu LiveCD already, but I was wondering how I might take a high-capacity thumb drive and install a number of different boot disks on it, from an Ubuntu LiveCD to a bootable floppy, and choose one at startup of the disk, kind of like Grub?
View 2 RepliesMy computer will not boot up and I have no boot disc. I believe the hdd may have failed. I am able to connect to the internet using my Playstation 3 but it will only let me download files directly to a thumbdrive. Everything I've seen so far needs a computer to extract the files to the thumbdrive which I can't do. Is there any place that I can download a linux distro directly to my usb drive without any intermediate steps?
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen I plug in a usb thumbdrive, it doesn't show up under "Places" (FC#14). The thumbdrive has a light on it showing activity, it looks like it flashes when I plug it in as if it's being read, then a steady light as if it's ready to do whatever I want to with it. lsusb shoes it, it just
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Output of lsusb when the drive is plugged in :
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
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This ess creates a custom bootable thumbdrive with the latest available Fedora 14 software. In addition, the rpmfusion repositories are preconfigured, and the list of software packages on the currently running system is used as the basis for the thumbdrive image
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've tried to do the installs using Unetbootin, LiveUSBcreator, and Startup Disk creator and the Install program from within the distros themselves, regardless of installation method the same problem returns. So I do not think the problem is related to method of installation.
Maybe it's hardware? I've tried a total of four different motherboards, (an MSI, 2 Gigabyte and an Asus) all with updated BIOS, all 4 of which work perfectly fine with normal Linux installations to the HD. I have no troubles running any of the above distros when installed to a hard drive.
The problem comes when I install to a thumb drive. Which thumb drive? Take your pick. I've used Sony, SanDisk, Kingston and a handful of cheaper brands in sizes from 2G up to 16G. The problem always returns regardless of the hardware involved. Therefore I do not think the problem is related to hardware.
I want a fully functioning installation of Linux on a thumbdrive. (I do not simply want a Live CD copied to a thumbdrive.) This will allow me to make changes to the software/settings and have those changes remain after rebooting. I'm able to do this just fine, and everything works perfectly until the third, fourth, or fifth reboot. At this point I enter my password and my password is no longer accepted. Sometimes the screen flickers a little, sometimes it just reloads the prompt. But it doesn't let me in. At this point it's Game Over. All the hard work installing and tailoring the install is down the drain. Yes, I've searched and found threads of this similar problem. Many of them go back to 2005 or 2006. The vast majority of them are people begging for help, receiving a few suggestions, finding no resolution and then the thread just dies. Honestly I've spent many, many hours following outdated advice that has, on occasion, worked, but only temporarily. The problem always returns. Something is seriously screwed up and I can't be alone.
So here I sit with a brand new 4Gb Sandisk that up until last night had a beautifully running Ubuntu 10.10 installation. And yet, voila, my password is now no longer good enough. It simply will not let me log on. I enter it, hit enter, and the log-in screen simply reloads itself.
The thumbdrive is disk /dev/sdc. Why am I seeing disk /dev/sdc1 with partitions like /dev/sdc1p1?
Code:
===> fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdc: 15.4 GB, 15402532352 bytes
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I just upgraded to the 10.04 and everything works just fine as before (except for skype but that really doesn't matters as it has already been 3 years I'm using ubuntu and I managed to get it to work only once, for miracle I believe ^^). The only real issue I have is this: when I start up my laptop, after the log-in, no sound will be heared as the "speaker" volume level in alsamixer is set to 0; if I raise it from the terminal running alsamixer (as I don't know any other alternative) everything plays just fine, but the next time I boot I do have to do it all over again... So, how can I change the default startup level of the "speaker" in alsamixer?
PS: by the way I do have the very same issue with the screen luminosity but the other way round as is always starts at maximum brightness and I can't manage to get it to start at the minimum, as it did before. At least reducing the backlight if far more quick but a couple of times I forget it and the battery lasted something like half an hour
i let the update manager do it's thing and update to 10.10.. well. it asked to restart.. and i let it. Now ubuntu will NOT boot up, it shows the purple ubuntu screen with the dots and then a black screen flashes:
Ubuntu 10.10 cody-A0751h ttyl
cody-A0751h login:
3 times then it stays steady. and i log in and it takes me to a command prompt.I try the Ctrl+Alt+F7.. it shows where it TRIED to start up.. but its just stopped. and i tried startx into the command prompt.. and it errors out..
I am using Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 on an acer aspire one. have an old CRT external monitorI cant get dualscreen to work on startup [the way I want it to]No matter what I do, dualscreen starts with the laptop monitor positioned to the right of the external and compiz is turned off. What I want is the external above the laptop monitor and compiz on. I created /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45custom_xrandr-settings as suggested here:http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_R...te_it_on_loginand put the following in it:
Code:
xrandr --newmode 1440x900_59.90 106.29 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync +Vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA1 1440x900_59.90
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I'm using KeePass with mono under Ubuntu 9.10 and it work fine.
But now I want that it run automatically, so I wrote the script below and inserted it on /etc/init.d and gives it root permission. But when I do login, nothings happen.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# make KeePass run at startup
mono /home/kelvin/Keepass/KeePass.exe
When I turn on the computer, the Grub2 shows up and asks me to choose what OS to start. And from today on, whatever I choose, I end up with nothing. When Linux (Ubuntu) is chosen, then the blinking logo is shown (depicting it's loading) and after some time I can only see a black screen. In case when Windows is chosen, the black screen appears immediately. Kive cd works fine but don't know what I could do with it. A week ago I changed a booting order in my BIOS, so that GRUB2 is loading very fast now. Then I also chose: sudo dkpg-reconfigure grub-pc and selected the disk that had my boot partition. For a week or so it worked fine.
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It starts in 20 seconde on the old PC and around 1 minute on my laptop, honestly it bugs me, any ideas why it is so slow on my laptop? I do have a 2 seconds for grubs, but still...
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sudo find /var/log -type f -mtime -5 -exec grep -i -e 'mpd' '{}' +
and nothing significant was found, e.g. an error message indicating that the mpd startup command was removed.
Is it possible to have htop run automatically after I login? If it's too much to ask, it would be great if that specific htop window is locked on the upper right corner of my screen and is a bit transparent (more opacity).
I'm looking for something similar to this one: [URL]
I'm currently using Ubuntu 9.04 as operating system. I would like to know how to add a program to startup using the command line?
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It takes at least 2-3 mins to first show a blinking cursor when booting from USB HDD to start ubuntu. After that it starts up within a minute or two?
what can be done to speed up to boot to Ubuntu from USB HDD?
I can't seem to be able to run Emerald at startup. I tried to use "emerald --replace" (without quotations) on Startup Applications and when I logged off then back on, it won't work. It only works when I press Alt+F2 then type emerald --replace. I
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I tried editing the GRUB commands with "nomodeset", "i915.modeset=0" and "i915.modeset=1" with no luck. I also tried removing "quiet" and "splash" from the boot and it freezes at random parts of the boot. Sometimes with an error loading a device with IRQ 21 and sometimes on a memory address. I am running XP on the same computer, so I thought I would try to boot into that, even THAT freezes!I have even tried running my LiveCD and it tells me there is an error reading the boot CD...the same CD I installed with 3 weeks ago without any problem! As I type this, the computer is booting, sort of, to a black screen with a ridiculously large "X" cursor and a small white dot in the upper left.System Specs:Athlon 32004gb RAMGeForce 7200generic DVDgeneric sound
I'm running a Ubuntu 10.04 server in a secured zone on my network that has no access to the outside world. In that same zone, there is an NTP server which I setup my Ubuntu server to access in order to sync its time on a daily basis. Everytime I reboot my Ubuntu server, the clock goes back 4 hours, I guess since it cannot access the default Ubuntu NTP server. Is there a way to disable this from the startup and if so where do I do it, or can I set it to sync on startup with my NTP server?
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In my file is this:
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinW=5
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinZ=48
It's for 2 finger scrolling
How do I go about adding Konsole (or any other terminal) to startup? I do not have the Startup Applications in a menu list - as I am only using a distro <i>based</i> on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.
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Today my daughter visited and used my computer. She always boots into Ubuntu rather than Windows, and today I suspect that she may have turned off my computer before Ubuntu had completed shutting down.
After my daughter left for the day, I started up my computer, selected Ubuntu from my Grub2 menu, and got dumped to a command-line interface with the following lines at the end:
mount: mounting /dev on root/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on root/proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg
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When i use two finger tap touchap knows like it is middle click. How to get this code permanetly used when i boot in linux or after suspend/hibernate?Code:xinput set-prop "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" "Synaptics Tap Action" 2, 3, 0, 0, 1, 2, 3
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