Ubuntu :: Noob Uninstalling & Formating \ Want The Whole Pc Clean?
Mar 30, 2010
i have 2 hard drives with originally Win XP on one of them, and i thought it would be cool to have one with WinXP and the other one with Linux.so i choose Ubuntu. i just wished someone would have told me how Pro you really have to be for Linux.and that its totally not what i was looking for,...and apparently im a total Noob.so i Installed it, wasnt that hard, and first i thought what a cool OS ill keep it!than i tried Booting my Old OS *WinXP* from the other Harddisk (worked perfectly until than)/so Basically Ubuntu ****** up my WinXP because now i get the NTLDR Missing Error trying to start WinXP, that never happend before with that Pc.
i tought great now i have to reinstall Xp, but it came much worse,...i boot from the XP cd, and cant use the "normal" install funktion, because some errors say that i cant use the Partitions etc (no idea) up to cd reading errors,...so i wanted to try the Windows Repair console and easy Format C and D to get rid of Linux and reinstall a clean WinXP/
which OFC needs a stupid Admin Password, which i honestly NEVER have choosen.(i have no idea what the admin PW could be).than i made the big mistake of all, and tried to learn to Format anything with Linux,...20 stupid "tutorials" Later i still couldnt make it because im not that good with English and Linux,.
and all that programming speech, fdisk etc really is to complicated for me,...(i spent 1 hour finding where to enter the any command, because all tutorials ofc know that you ofc need the Terminal application,....half of the "how Tos: and Tutorials simply dont work because he doesnt know the Commands im entering probably Wrong, and and the other half is way to complicated for me to understand and requires knowledge i simply dont haveholy mother of god, i can tell you i never missed Windows so much,... right click, format done,... (again im not that good with Pcs)trying to get a windows admin pw is even more complicated than simply formating,... i guess.so now after aproxx 5 hours of trying to Format a hard drive under Linux i give up and came to you.
what i would need is simply a totally Idiotproove Manual to format Everything!
i have NO Idea how Linux works,.. so please if you could tell me step by step, just what to type or what buttons to press in this stupid Terminal,....i want the whole Pc clean again, so i never have to Suffer under Linux Pro"ness" again seriously its been a long time since i was so angry with my computer, and youre my last hopeand yes im very aware that im posting a kinda antiLinux thread in a Linux forum,
i have sd drive that does not want to format. I tried gparted with errors saying the same thing...i want use this drive as free so i can put pictures in it and stuff
Code: root@sal:~# sudo chown sal /media/fc30-3da9 chown: cannot access `/media/fc30-3da9': No such file or directory
I dont know what to do, since noone responded me, I think I need to do this. My problems are in my previous post, all I am asking for a little advice on how can I remove all that is in my PC throught the command line(I can't get further)
I have a ubuntu sever with a raid1 data drive formated in native linux ext3. I have searched for answers to my question but most likely I'm not asking it correctly. I want to use the data drive to store backups of files from various ubuntu and windows machines. Do I need to reformat the drive as ntfs to enable windows use or can it remain as ext3? For that matter can I reformat as ext4 as a soultion? Again, I wish to use the data drive as a backup storage.
I have problem with my printer HP Deskjet D1460. My printer is configured and works. When I send a file on the print, the printer clings a sheet of paper and starts to print, but a paper as was clean so clean and remains, after printing.
Is there any difference between apt-get clean and aptitude clean? Do they both remove the same caches? Should I know any other commands for cleaning up wasted space on my ubuntu laptop?
I have formatted a sd card ext3 for some test but I would like to to reformat to vfat. I have used linux to reformat using mkfs.vfat but still can't read it in windows. The next thing I was going to try was to dd from a good SD card but wanted to see
Could someone give me some direction on how to use the IRC channels. I want to register an account, and i found the procedure documented here: URL..I see the commands i have to type, but i'm a little unclear where it needs to be typed. Where is the "server tab"?I probably just over-complicating this. I need someone whose done this before to steer me right.Also what is the best IRC clients to use? I have Xchat and pidgin installed. Xchat keeps crashing on me every 5 minutes, not sure whats going on there.
I've been trying to get my GetNet 300 GN-621U USB wireless device working for a while now. When I first booted into my clean meerkat 64-bit install, both my wired and wireless were visible in network connections but neither could connect. I have since figured out what was wrong with the internal NIC and am happy to say i'm connected to the net, but need wireless to work. Having blacklisted the generic wireless driver, i see nothing anywhere that the device is on the system
My initial attempt led me down the route of installing ndisgtk for running the windows driver. I've since removed the driver/device from Windows Wireless Devices and have been trying to install the bona fide linux driver from getnet.
I have a Dell Mini Netbook, running Ubuntu 8.04 - "The Hardy Heron". Other than Skype and Chrome, I don't have any programs on my netbook that I didn't get from the "Add/Remove" program.For a long time now, I have been having an issue with my netbook where after being on for about 5 minutes, sometimes as long as 10 minutes, the system will star to freeze up, to the point where nothing works, not even the mouse. I know it's freezing and not locking because you can move the mouse a little bit, but it is too slow to be able to do anything, and normal processes that take seconds normally, will take upwards of 5 minutes. At least.
At one point I found and ran the Ubuntu-version of Task Manager, System Monitor. I sat and watched it for the 5 minutes it took for the freeze up started happening. RIGHT as the system froze up, both of the CPU's and the RAM maxed out at the same time.At this point, I would normally just go into Task Manager and see what shouldn't be running, and end whatever I see that I don't like, and then go delete the files for that program(s). Or at the very least, just system restore (because I ALWAYS have backups off the computer). But I don't know how to do any of that on Ubuntu.The netbook ran fine for almost 1 1/2years before this started happening, and at first it wasn't an issue that happened all the time. It happened every now and then, but restarting the netbook would fix it for a few days. And it slowly became an every week thing, then every day, and now every time the netbook turns on... which kinda sounds like a hardware issue, because software shouldn't change over time if there is no change put into it.
By the way, at the very least I'd like to know if there's a way to totally wipe and re-install my netbook from scratch. I don't need any of the files on it, so that's not an issue. Also I've heard that I might actually want to be using Xubuntu of I'm having a memory issue, so is there a way to replace Ubuntu altogether with this Xubuntu?
I am running a dual boot with Ubuntu 10.04 and vista. Anyway both systems are very healthy as far as I can see. I have a very fast internet connection at 50Mbs. Under vista I can pull around 4 - 5MBs where under Ubuntu I can only get about 350KBs. I have a single PC hard wired into a Netgear WNR3500 router/firewall. Anyway, I was wondering if there is anything I can do with my packet sizes or receive windows to help it along? I am only using a very small part of my available bandwidth obviously. Is there a kind soul here who could tell me how to optimize my internet connection in Lucid?
I had Ubuntu 10 installed for a long time, but rarely used it. Today, i decided to update from ubuntu 10 to 11.04 which took about 2 hours. After the update completed, my computer rebooted fine and i was enjoying ubuntu 11.04 without a problem. I decided that i should probably reset compiz to its default settings since there might be some sort of compatibility issues but once i did, all the task bars and icons glitched out and broke. i restarted again, and now i have no bars or anything. thanksfully i got a keyboard shortcut wallpaper and have been able to use the terminal to do things like open firefox and browse around although im not sure at all what could be wrong.
i used "compiz --replace" i think it was in the terminal, to no avail. aside from that, i have no idea what is even wrong so im having a hard time searching for solutions. im sure this issue is simple and im just retarded, so excuse my ignorance. thank you so much for any help, i've included a screenshot of what im seeing now incase i sound like a loony
I am using ubuntu 11.04 I believe and I am a noob to using ubuntu all together now I need to connect to the internet via my router wireless Is there a good tutorial I can be linked to or if someone could provide the steps that would be awesome I have a "broadcom 802.11n network adapter"
is it possible to recreate the whole wubi installation?Thats the situation: I only have 1 partition on my HD so i installed ubuntu via wubi and it worked perfectly fine. Recently though, i had to format my Windows but i backed up the whole installation folder of wubi/ubuntu.Now i want to get my wubi installation back. I know i can access the *.disk files with several tools, but im not opting for recovering some folders. I want the complete installation running again. So is there an easy way to recreate it?
Total Linux & Ubuntu noob here Have setup my Dell Dimension 9200 Tower (Pentium 4, 3.2Ghz, 3GB RAM, Nvidea GEForce 9600) with Lucid 32 bit. I'd like to be able to play my 1080p mkv (.264) video library on my Ubuntu system that I use as a media centre.
What is the easiest method to get GPU accelerated video playback for above please ? I have tried the built-in Movie Player, Boxee (which I use for other videos anyway) and VLC - all of which play but with a small amount of stutter - enough to be annoying. As far as I can tell these apps do not use NVidea GPU acceleration. In all cases I have used the defaults provided either by Ubuntu/Boxee/VLC.
Is MPlayer the answer ? BTW I'm a relatively "non-tech-enthusiast" coming from the Microsoft environment. I'm comfortable with DOS command line but have never used Linux command line,
How do I connect to the MySQL server using phpmyadmin?It's asking me for a username and password and I was not asked for a root password when I installed MySQL (unlike in Windows).I tried no password, I tried root as a password, I tried$ mysqladmin -u root -p blahEnter password: mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failederror: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)'Nothing I've tried is working obviously.Why does this have to be so stupid? Why couldn't MySQL ask me what password I want to use?
Sorry about this but I'm trying to find out why ubuntu wi-fi isn't working now on my laptop (it was last night). I am following a tutorial that says to start..Open a terminal window (such as gnome-terminal), and enter the following command:
nm-tool Umm..how do I open a teminal window? I know how to run a DOS prompt in Windows but no idea how to find "gnome-terminal" or run a command in ubuntu.
I was attempting to create an XKB layout that would allow me to type Polish characters and mathematical symbols, which I attempted to do by editing /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pl. When the computer tried to load it it said there was an error loading the XKB configuration. Here is the code:
I have a noob qn, if I installed a program with yum, will I be able to see the details of the installed program with rpm -qa? My linux has no internet access so I can't test it out.
i belive its an x server issues or x windows issues or gnome. whats happeing is when you logg into the window manager gnome it will some time's freeze and then restart the whole computer without warning. somtimes it loads but it will start up with a red screen instead of gray or black with a the x cursor. and a square flashy mouse cursor that dosnt look liek a mouse cursor at all and when you move to any of the control bars it flashes the whole screen turns back to red and when you move off it goes back to normal. on top of it movies that require flash will pause, stop, not load after commercials, or just simply not work. it is 100% slower loading anything. programs such as deluge will open but stay white.
finnaly i can run my ubuntu server 9.04 well, thnx to this great member of ubuntuforums.org now, i wanna i wannna install SNMP on my system, but after i do that, when i wanna connect with another client, it give me error like this :
Code: no response received SNMPv1_Session (remote host: "10.100.7.179" [10.100.7.179].161) community: "public" request ID: 862383236 PDU bufsize: 8000 bytes
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10.100.7.179 is my client, i allready install snmp agent on it. but why still eror then? plz give some help. thnx before
I just installed ubuntu in a dual boot with Windows 7, I have a new emachines pc compact with 3gb ram 2.8 amd processor, and nvidia 6150 integrated. I cannot see the boot menu, so now I cannot go back into windows anymore becaue I am receiving the message "monitor out of range change to 1600x900" so it just automatically boots into ubuntu. I have searched alot on this topic, and have tried giving terminal commands specified for thiis issue, but the termnal does not recognize the commands. I am logging in and am typing "sudo" before I go into configutration. I am BRAND NEW to linux and am really struggling with this.
my monitor is a 4 month old HP 2010 Display size 50.8 cm (20") Display type Wide Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display active matrix Aspect ratio
I'm trying to understand dns and I think the following commands should give me an "OK" or something... what am I missing?
Code: # dig @a.root-servers.net . ns >| db.root # named-checkzone . db.root zone ./IN: NS 'K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET' has no address records (A or AAAA) zone ./IN: NS 'L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET' has no address records (A or AAAA) zone ./IN: NS 'M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET' has no address records (A or AAAA) zone ./IN: has 0 SOA records
I'm clueless about this format I need to use for starting this threadI am trying to connect to the internet but have no network connections available and it says my wireless is disabled. (Ubuntu Studio 10.04)How do I turn it on?
1 ) Machine Brand and Model (PC/Laptop): Code: HP Pavilion, a6600f
I have been running happily on Knoppmyth R5F27 (on Debian GNU 4.0/Etch) for a good long time. Everything has been operating well. My kids get to record their Mythbusters. Life is good. Tonight, though, I tried to make things better. And that was the mistake.
I read that we could use our PS3 to watch videos on Hulu. But, I needed a kind of proxy server or something to mask that I was using the PS3 browser. So, I thought I would install squid on the myth box.
I first tried apt-get install squid But, that didn't quite work. So, at a friend's suggestion, I ran: apt-get update Which had problems, too. Still, being a noob, I reran the apt-get install squid and a bunch of stuff came down. It has problems, too.
So, I turned back to apt-get update and realized there was a problem in sources.list. I updated it to have a more current repository and received the update. Then I realized that the apt-get for squid was pulling down resources for lenny. I struggled trying to kill the install for Squid. Failed. And then rebooted just to see if I have problems.
And I do. Mythbackend won't start. The command to do so produces a segmentation fault. Ditto for mythfrontend and mythtv-setup. I don't know what to do. Can someone help me roll this back to a stable setup of Etch? If you want to see my (very messy) attempt to install squid and update the system you can look at[URL]..
I just installed Fedora 11 KDE. Everything went pretty good. But...my printer HP OfficeJet 5780 does not print. According to the applet says its stopped. After some tinkering it says something as: "Not having permission".
to be able to work on my novel on both my laptop and workstation. how i want it. if i'm at my workstation, i'll have my laptop. if i'm on laptop, i may be away from workstation. so it makes sense that perhaps i could have it so that i only really have a copy on my laptop, that can be accessed from my workstation too. alternatively, having a two way sync-up so whichever is newer updates versons on each, could be a more sensible aproach. having only a copy on my workstation, accessable from the laptop is less welcome, since sometimes i'll be in an area with my laptop without an internet connection, and still want to be working on that file.
setting up my machines so i have full access to each from each, would be extra ideal, and something i've wanted for a while, but never got around to. i've never set up file sharing before, and from my prior limited knowledge, and today's searches on the topic, i find there are many many options available to me. i am on a deadline ("nanomo") and can't really devote the time to do a more thorough investigation of the methods of how to set this up and how to specifically achieve it.
the workstation runs toorox (gentoo), and the laptop has a dual boot of arch and crunchbang (ubuntu).
as i say, i'm on limited time here, and am just looking more for the quick fix just now, rather than ultimate knowledge n power. i need it now, i dont need it perfect, so to speak. though i see no need to compromise security to achieve these ends, i'm not in that much frantic desperate urgency for it.
but I think I have a reasonable handle on the /etc/init.d, /sbin/service, chkconfig, and runlevels stuff under CentOS. However, when I install particular daemons (not part of CentOS distro), I get a weird issue. If I log in as root and do /sbin/service <daemon> status, it says "... is running...", however, if I log in as a non su, and do the same /sbin/service ... status, it says "xxx dead but subsys locked." Is the daemon running or not? I assume it's some kind of privilege issue with how the daemon is setup versus the non root login.I would like to have users be able to use service to query daemon status as works with the base daemons like sshd and httpd.
