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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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.
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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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.
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.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI 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.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'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 =(
Ubuntu 10.0.04.3 won't let me make partitions
View 9 Replies View Relatedlook 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
Terminal won't let me chance directories
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'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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View 9 Replies View RelatedI 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.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIn 10.10, after installing samba and nfs through shares-admin, when adding a shared folder, i only see share through NFS listed, not samba
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn my system around 73gb(pc-desktop) i have,1 primary partition(windows)-25gb, 1-extended partition(remaining gb) 3 logical partitions were there in (under) extended partition in one of the logical partition is d:drive. in my hard disk d: drive is -/dev/sda5
previosly i was fat -file system , (d:drive-/dev/sda5), i remember i changed the d: drive(d:drive-/dev/sda5) file system to ext4file system ,with following command using terminal
After doing(changing the file system)this one ,i couldnt see the d:drive data
By doing that
1q) Did i reformatted the partition? i think the new filesystem(ext4) has no knowledge of the data that was on it when it had a FAT filesystem.
2q) How to do undo operation,i tried to change the filesystem type to fat/ntfs in terminal using command --sudo mkfs -t FAT /dev/sda5.
Result:its showing text message-'mkfs.FAT: No such file or directory'(not in single quote)
I had very imp data in d:drive
I just loaded octave. I ran through a few examples of how to implement a script file. Everything works until I get to "plot". When I run the "plot" command I get the following.
octave:2> test1.m
error: can't perform indexing operations for <unknown type> type
sh: gnuplot: not found
Just to double check my work, I ran the following code:
y=[1 2 3];
plot(y);
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?
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.
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?
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.
View 9 Replies View RelatedA 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!
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I am copying the file form one directory to another directory using shellscript.
Here i want to get the Mimetype/Content-type of the file.
How to i can get the MimeType.
I have a server hacked when i try to log in i type root but won't let me type a passwdthere are no services up, can't see page mail nothing
View 11 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to compile a program and it gives me the following:
I checked cmath-util.h:46 and cmath-util.h:48:
I'm not a C person, and the author is unavailable so far.
My application needs system's default fonts to be set to 'Helvetica'. Fedora 10 does not have this font. How to install this font?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI currently have Windows 7/Ubuntu 11.04 dual boot, and have decided to get rid of Windows. So I booted up the Ubuntu installation CD which gives the following options on install:So my question is: will my personal files (which I have on partition 'D:', separate from the Windows installation partition) be erased with this option?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm installing Sun Virtualbox and get the following error message. The install does not stop or crash, but just don't know what to do about this message:
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An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for frontend. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.
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my error when trying to run a VB (Virtualbox). Error as copied from error box. install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel and execute 'modprobe vboxdrv' as root. VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).
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I get this when trying to launch a VB after making one with wizzard.
Running VirtualBox 3.2.6 under some host OS (should be irrelevant which one, right?), I created a machine, intending to install Fedora 13 on it. Got the Fedora 13 Live CD iso image, and an 8.6 GB virtual hard drive, completely blank. I set the machine to boot off the Live CD image. The Live CD boots nicely and I get to its desktop. I open "Install to Hard Drive"...and nothing happens. No error message, zip, nada. Inspection of the system shows a series of odd file systems, but I have no clue what they are for and whether they're usable or not.
The sticky [URL] mentions that the blank virtual hard disk should be partitioned and formatted beforehand...So I did, using the Live CD's Disk Utility (Applications: System Tools: Disk Utility). Although the sticky states the small /boot partition should be ext2 or ext3, the Live CD installer proposes to reformat it as ext4. Shouldn't we have formatted it as ext4 right away, then? Also, the installer set the /boot partition's size to 524 MB, not 200 MB as recommended by the sticky.
OBSERVATION: This was not easy because VirtualBox sets the display to 800x600 at most, and the Disk Utility spills beyond those confines WITHOUT PROVIDING SLIDERS. It was sheer luck that the required buttons (create partition, format partition) were barely reachable (at the bottom edge of the screen). This is a serious problem, because increasing the VirtualBox display size can only be done *after* installation (see for instance[URL] - since this guest addition requires rebooting the guest OS, it probably won't stick to the Live CD).
Once those two partitions are prepared and the virtual machine rebooted, "Install to Hard Drive" works as expected.
OBSERVATION: It is absolutely inexcusable that the Live CD installer (Anaconda?) does not propose to do this partitioning and formatting for the user. It is even more inexcusable that it should fail without giving any feedback whatsoever to the user.
Aside: VirtualBox's guest additions does not work correctly (for 3.2.6 anyway). The Devices: Install Guest Additions menu merely mounts a CD image VBOXADDITIONS_3.2.6_63112) without any feedback (expected feedback because the menu ends with an ellipsis). The CD, once opened, has an Open Autorun Prompt button...which fails to do anything. Manually running autorun.sh also fails. I had to manually invoke VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run from a terminal to get anywhere. Even then I was unable to go higher than 1024x768.
I cannot for the life of me get my HD working again. I tried following all the various remedies I could find but to no avail.
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sda1
e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda1
Could this be a zero-length partition?
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dumpe2fs -f /dev/sda1 | grep -i superblock
dumpe2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
dumpe2fs: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda1
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
It goes on and one like this. I'm stuck using the LiveCD for now (Jaunty) so I have some limitations.
