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For me, it won't run in Ubuntu 18.04, but it does in Mint - Mate (Sylvia).
I would like to try Cinnamon though.What is L4D2?
You mean the game?
You NEED to run in on Ubuntu 13.04 says somebody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pdEftFFG_I
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It's good to know.
But SINCE I already know that it is working for the second latest from Linux Mint, I would rather go with that INSTEAD of Ubuntu 13. But like I said, it's good to know.

Thanks Geek-9pm Get on the Ubuntu forum or char room.
There are lots of people there who can help you.
https://ubuntuforums.org/

So, this isn't my Windows XP laptop its the other one i have with a dead hdd. im usb BOOTING ubuntu and am trying to install it to the booting flash drive. but for some reason it tries to install to the dead hard drive. how do i get past this?The Ubuntu Live installer may not be able to install to the same physical disk it running on. It cannot overwrite the partition it's running on.

That said, it might be possible, if the USB flash drive was partitioned with enough unallocated space for an OS, that the Live installer would install to that unallocated space on the same physical drive. I haven't tried this but it's possible.

Regardless - you should check out Ubuntu Live with Persistent Storage:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent

This creates a Live ISO with a storage partition that persists across boots. You could use that partition for /USR, /bin, /home, /etc, etc. That might provide the functionality you need.


Oh, 64 Gb should be enough for an OS, i just MADE the mistake of putting the live installer on both flash drives i wanted it on. Oops. Well, time to format a 16 Gb and install it on the 32 and 64 GB that way.

Actually, i need in install, since im going to use it for Minecraft.

hello friends..

iam new to UNIX and am desperately in need of an answer to my question.
how do u make a SOFTWARE( InsightII) work, without never leaving the shell?
i mean how do u SEND commands to another software..like invoking it, sending inputs to it and GRABBING the output..?What do you mean with "making a software work"? Building it? Installing it?
In which form did you recieve the program? As a binary package (*.rpm, *.deb; by the way: which distribution do you use?) or as sources (usually *.tar.gz or *.tar.bz2).

"Without never leaving the shell"
If you want to learn about the shell, read this: Bash Prompt HOWTOhello there...

ok...here how it works..

first we enter Unix through Putty....then run insight II...now we are in Insight II domain..and we give commands to insight II...so it looks like this.

Unix>insightII> commands for insightII until we quit insight II.

what i need is...i dont want to enter insight II directly...i want to run it indirectly..like with a REDIRECTION THING...
it looks like this...
unix>some program which invokes and sends commands to insight II.

my ambiguity is due to my lack of knowledge..sorry...

thanks for the reply..Maybe you mean this:
$ prog1 | insightII
This starts prog1 as well as insightII. Then the stdout of prog1 is directed to stdin of insightII, which means, if prog1 writes "quit" or something else to stdout, insightII will see "quit" just as if you had written it.

What is this command sending program? Does it already exist? Or do you want to program one?

Hi ,
i have a SET of file with ZIP extention and i wanna to extract them all in ONE step, how can i do that ?

my o.s is opensuse 10.3


Thanks to U all !
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unzip filename.zip
Decompress a file (*.zip) zipped with a compression utility compatible with PKZIP for DOS.

hello,

I'm very new to use linux. I'm taking lessons. But now I have a problem, PROBABLY very EASY, that I can't find the answer on it.
My teacher ask me a command or commandline to DEFINE how many USERS can have acces to a system with linux on. Not to show how many users they already have been on my system ?
I hope SOMEONE can help me solve it.

Hello everyone
I am running Ubuntu 18.10 on my desktop as the default OS. But i have been trying to install a 'free' anti-virus but have FAILED EVERYTIME?
Could SOMEONE tell me how and why this is happening and point me to a 'free' and easy to install anti-virus please.Not enough information. What antivirus? How are you trying to install it? What are the error messages?
Quote from: amhar on November 16, 2018, 07:40:46 AM

Hello everyone
I am running Ubuntu 18.10 on my desktop as the default OS. But i have been trying to install a 'free' anti-virus but have failed everytime?
Could someone tell me how and why this is happening and point me to a 'free' and easy to install anti-virus please.

hello friends i am patching my kernel for support of mobile ipv6 and download the patch form
" http://www.mobile-ipv6.org/download/mipv6-1.0-v2.4.22.tar.gz"
and download new kernel from "ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.22.tar.bz2"
and following the guide to patch the kernel "http://www.tldp.org/howto/mobile-ipv6-howto/mipv6.html#patch"
and to compile the kernel "http://linuxguide.automatedshops.com/LinuxGuide/linux-kernel.html"
but problem comes when i reboot with the system with the new kernel .
from the MESSAGE it seems that the some default setting to run a normal kernel is not done.
i tried to load the old " .config " file into new kernel so that the default setting which were working in the
previous setup comes in the new kernel to .but on reboot message comes that "modules are compiled for the
previous kernel and cann't be USED for the the new patched kernel"
can any body tell me how to load the defalt setting for a kernel to work,so that i can add option which i required
(for mobile ipv6)if i seems to be less explitic i will be very thanlkful to you if you can contact me
at:
[emailprotected]
[emailprotected]

eagerly waiting for your help
Unfortunately your last two links do not POINT to the right locations, so I don't know what you know and what you exactly did.
Try to do a
$ make clean
or a
$ make mrproper
(NOTE: the last one will delete your .config).
Did you properly configure your kernel with
$ make menuconfig
or similiar?

Friend of mine asked me if there was a way in Linux to download apps and programs that are free through the software manager so that they can be stored to a THUMB drive and installed at a later POINT OFFLINE without an internet connection?

I dont know if such a ability EXISTS unless they track down the RPM etc and manually install the app or program.

Not sure if the repository could be downloaded for its entirety of games for example and then whenever you want to add a game while offline you could point the software manager to a thumb drive etc for it to fetch and install from that LOCAL resource of installation data or if it has to connect to a verified service etc.

Hi!

Please help me to install linux5 in windowXP WITHOUT removing the windowxp. If any one know pl. give me the steps or any type software
just TELL me. It's urgent as early as possible.ya sure.. you delete any one partition expect c drive. after ll you install linux..Quote from: senthilvalli on August 29, 2008, 04:46:31 AM

ya sure.. you delete any one partition expect c drive. after ll you install linux..

Hi this is yakub
i have a problem while logging as root
i typed "SU" in the terminal it asked me for a password i typed my password but it is giving as "Authentication Failed SORRY."
but the root password is correct only
why i am getting this problem how can i OVERCOME this problem? By default, Ubuntu disables the root account. If you really, really think you need to LOG in as root, you could probably use this command to enter a password for root:
sudo passwd root

But the theory that Ubuntu has embraced is that you never need to log in as root. Every administrative thing you need to do can be done with sudo. After using Ubuntu, I have found that I almost always use sudo instead of su on my Mandriva and PCLinuxOS systems now also.After looking at man usermod, I think you may need to also execute this command to enable the root account:

sudo usermod -U rootthanks EVERYONE..........
A good guide to sort the Ubuntu root pass issue

http://www.fixya.com/support/t879022-ubuntu_change_root_password

I'm quite new to ubuntu, and this was easy for me.
JB.$ sudo -H -s

HTH To the OP: It is much safer to use the built-in sudo command, rather than suing to the root account. sudo will give you near all the same powers as root, and will make it much safer and harder for an inexperienced user to ruin their system

Not so NEW to regular Linux Users. But if you, like me, have not been spending much time reading about Linux, you have missed out on GRUB2.
Last year a Supper version of GEUB2 was released.

Some this it can do for your are:
Super GRUB2 Disk is a live CD that helps you to boot into most any Operating System (OS) even if you cannot boot... Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s9 stable is here. Super GRUB2 Disk is a live CD that helps you to boot into most any Operating System (OS) even if you cannot boot into it by normal means.May 7, 2017
https://www.supergrubdisk.org/2017/05/07/super-grub2-disk-2-02s9-released/

And find more DETAILS here:
https://opensource.com/article/17/3/introduction-grub2-configuration-linux
GRUB supports MULTIPLE Linux kernels and allows the user to select between them at boot time using a menu. I have found this to be a very useful tool because there have been many instances that I have encountered problems with an application or system service that fails with a particular kernel version. Many times, booting to an older kernel can circumvent issues such as these. By default, three kernels are kept–the newest and two previous–when yum or dnf are used to perform upgrades. The number of kernels to be kept before the package manager erases them is configurable in the /etc/dnf/dnf.conf or /etc/yum.conf files. I usually change the installonly_limit value to 9 to retain a total of nine kernels. This has come in handy on a couple occasions when I had to revert to a kernel that was several versions down-level.

He goes on to find some things with GRUB2 that can be a bother. If you are into Linux, you want to learn more.

What is not mentioned in the above is how GBUB can also boot up other operating systems that are not related to Linux. It you are TRYING to boot Windows, Mac OS, Linux and maybe another system, GRUB2 might be what you need.

But in some cases you will have to have two hard drives to take care of all the problems you might get into.

Client Has UNIX box ( SCO UNIX ) I NEED the data transfered to DOS Hard DRIVE so I access to the EXACT directory structure along with the data files. Where do I start.Is the DOS PARTITIONED hard disk connected to the client's computer?

Hi!,
Any one know how to configure/ install internet in linux. PL. give the steps.
It's urgent.

I have Ubuntu 6.06 LTS as my OS. My camera STORES short videos USING file names such as MVI-2837.THM but I can't seem to open them after I transfer them to my computer. Is there some utility that I haven't loaded? Can anyone help???Hmmm - THM is an extension sometimes used for ''theme'' - I would be more expecting saves of actual vid as either .AVI or .MOV.

So - WONDER whether the camera ''wants'' to see the equivalent of a thumbnail type of PROGRAM to LET you explore further.

Do you upload from camera flash card? If so then inspect all folders because I'd certainly hope you'd have one of the two extensions I mentioned. Look at details too - an actual vid file should look large .. 100Mb, 200Mb or more but, what size does this .THM appear as? if it's large then not sure what vid format is involved!

Any ideas on why I can't get Ubunty 18.04 LTS to work on my Thinkpad hard drive, but is perfectly fine booting off a flash drive?

And why, PheonixOS, a Android type, still won't install either, just LEAVES a blank BLACK screen after it supposedly said it was done "installing and ready to reboot?" Which I can't even get that one to boot off a flash drive install either?During INSTALLATION, did you install GRUB to /dev/sda? Do you get to a GRUB prompt at all?

Are there any known compatibility issues with your laptop? Anything listed for it on LinLap?

You might want to check your partitioning with e.g. GParted Live. Take a look at your DISK partitions, make sure there's nothing unexpected listing there, like an old recovery partition you don't need anymore. I use GParted because the Ubuntu installer's built in partition editing is not the best.Would there be any compatibility issues with this hardware?

Thinkpad W500
Core 2 Duo T9400 2.53 GHz - 64 bit
512 MB ATI Mobility Radeon 3650 HD
160 GB 7200 RPM HDD
4 GB RAMCoco423,
Have you ever installed Linux another computers?
I think your hard drive is going bad.
Try to install it on another hard drive. Ubuntu will install to an external HDD, if you want. Look atthis:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/446682/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-portable-external-hard-drive
Does that help any?

is there a way to restrict some users to only be ABLE to send to other users in the same domain
i am new to LINUX and dont KNOW the version of send mail or version of linux or how to FIND them

hi everybody,
can u tell what is the use of the COMMAND "chomp" in UNIX?
and even can i know what is the use of @ inUNIX?
I believe chomp has something to do with REMOVING trailing spaces from a STRING.. er maybe I'm thinking of C programming.You are partially right.
It is used in perl programming as a way to remove a new line.
Heres toy code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

my $s = "Chomping..\n";
print $s; #print with new line
chomp ($s); #remoce the new line
print $s, "\n"; #see how i have to manually add "\n"

Hope that helps.
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hi everybody,
can i know what is the use of @ inUNIX?

Expands to the positional PARAMETERS, starting from one. When the expansion occurs within double quotes, each parameter expands to a separate word. That is, `"[emailprotected]"' is equivalent to `"$1" "$2" ...'.
When there are no positional parameters, `"[emailprotected]"' and `[emailprotected]' expand to nothing (i.e., they are removed).

Really?? They have it at school, but I have XP and it's so much BETTER and easier to use. So really-what GOOD is there in linux?1. Linux is free, Windows costs money.
2. Linux is open source, Windows is closed source.
3. Linux is more interesting than Windows.
4. Not everybody THINKS Windows XP is better.
And you can run (boot) it portably (off a CD or Flash Drive)ya i like linux there are also versions that will run on a pc with like 400mhz cpu and 64mb ram and personally linux in better then 98Wow, that could either be a troll question or a serious plea. Hard to tell.

My full answer is available at the link in my signature. But the short answer is that Linux is much less frustrating than Windows.

I just started a job where I have to use Windows. Everything else about the job is great, but I had kind of forgotten why I disliked working with Windows so much. Now I'm getting a refresher.

Here's another thing I'm going to add to my site: keyboard focus. With Linux, the keyboard focus is almost always where I expect it to be. But with Windows, when I start up Microsoft Outlook for example, it pops up the login dialog so it has the focus, but then shifts the focus away before I'm finished typing in my authentication info. And you can't bring it back with ALT-Tab; you MUST click on it with the hateful mouse. That kind of thing is not uncommon with Windows, but I never encounter it with Linux.Quote from: Mr. Google on August 01, 2008, 09:43:23 AM

I have XP and it's so much better and easier to use. So really-what good is there in linux?

Is there a command I can issue that will show all patches/updates that have been INSTALLED on the system? Something SIMILAR to showrev -p in a Solaris system?

if you have been USING YUM to automatically or MANUALLY update your system type:
su
password
less /var/log/yum.logTry
$ rpm -qa

and you will see all installed rpm-packages.

Hi!

I'm not sure where POST this topic 'cause it is about LINUX and OSX together.
What I did?
Installed OSX86 10.4 Tiger with partition table creation in model of 2 partitions: MacOS Extended Journaled and 2nd as free space.
Installation and reboot successful. OSX86 was working correctly.
Then I installed Linux Mint based Commodore OS Vision 1.3 x86 with partitioning using Ext4 FS and three partitions mounted as /, /home and swap.
Installation and reboot successful - even in boot menu is entry OSX.
After login into Linux I reboot and select OSX.
Problem - computer looks like booting system but after few seconds restarts.

How to enter OSX or how to change booting options or what to do now?

Thank you all for help and patience.
MiroMIRKOSOFT,
Did you already Google this topic?
You can find dozens, maybe hundreds of posts about how somebody somewhere dis something like that.
Here is a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzSgHas1dJ0
Me does Windows, Linux and Mac on a laptop.

But I have never tried it. I don't have a license to use an Apple OS on a x86 MACHINE. So I can not help yu myself. Sorry.

But you can also try the UBUNTU chat forum.
Look at this: https://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=434
That's the bast I can do. Is this running on an old apple computer, or a pc?

As as a sidenote the EULA for macOS Tiger did not include the "Other Use Restrictions" clause. https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macosx104.pdfI know Apple restriction that it can run only on Apple labeled computer.
Of course, but from mentioned EULA it is not totally clear.

So, I know that's not running on Apple computer, it's running on old laptop. PLEASE don't crucify me for that, I'm using it only for retrocomputing hobby.
Really I won't to make business - reason is that I want to learn coding on OSX still containing Universal Binary...

I have lent also Apple Macintosh SE with MC68000 and I'm working on it by assembly programming it.
If you see in post - also Commodore OS Vision is Linux distro selected for my hobby - Commodore 8/16-bit computers.
Even, I'm creating software for DOS and Windows 3.x.

In case modern computing is situation other, but it is out of topic.

But back to Q: What changed Linux in booting of OSX that if I select OSX in boot menu it only after few seconds reboots?
I know many tutorials - but I need to have all clear.
Problem is that OSX I'm using first time.

MiroCan you upload your /boot/grub/grub.cfg file?In attachment - added extension TXT.

MiroHelped that Grub config file?

MiroAs far as I can tell, there is nothing out of the ordinary in it.

Hey all,

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2500 server running Linux Fedora 6. The thing turns on every morning and I would LIKE to DISABLE that or change it to a later time. I downloaded the Dell DCCU but it is an exe and Linux won't run it. Can anyone tell me how to get to the SMBIOS so I may alter the POWER on setting?

Any and all help is appreciated!!

Thanks,
Newbee To LinuxI don't know specifics about this problem, but can't you get to BIOS by pressing DELETE when it boots?

Alternately, to run Dell's exe file, you could download a FreeDOS iso, burn it and boot it.

Hi!

I'm in Linux beginner.
I NEED to leave MBR as is and install Linux Mint with BOOTING from 1st sector of Linux partition. Linux partition will be 2nd on disk.
Really don't know how to install LOADER into 1st sector of 1st Linux partition.

I need also to CREATE install floppy.
In console I need to create start.lnx - console in Linux is for me new and I tried to use:
Code: [Select]if=/dev/hda2/ of=start.lnx bs512 count=1but it reports ERROR so I tried to fix it by
Code: [Select]if=/dev/hda2/ of=start.lnx bs=512 count=1but I don't know it is true correction.

Then I can add to NTLDR of Windows XP on 1st partition booting to Linux.

Can anybody help me?

Thank you very much.
Miro

In an attempt to configure OpenOffice 2.4 to read an .indd file, I think I inadvertently changed the OpenOffice defaults -> and now am unable to open .pdf files [think it might have been changes to the character set options that did it].

Does anyone know how to revert OpenOffice back to its default settings? I had no issues before - and now I can only open .pdf files with "Document Viewer".
Do I have to RESORT to uninstalling & reinstalling my OpenOffice to fix this? *shudder*

I am new to Linux [obviously] and am using Ubuntu 8.04

Any input would be appreciated.I don't know OFFICIALLY, but if you haven't made many customizations, you could just blow away the OpenOffice directory in your home directory. EXIT all OpenOffice applications and try this:
Code: [Select]cd
mv .ooo-2.0 old.ooo-2.0
Then startup OpenOffice and see if you like it. If not, exit and do the reverse to restore. But in the mean time, OpenOffice probably already created a new directory, so you need to delete that one before RESTORING the old one:
Code: [Select]rm -rf .ooo-2.0
mv old.ooo-2.0 .ooo-2.0
On the other hand, if you decide everything is fine, you can remove the old directory.

Alternately, instead of messing with the WHOLE (huge) directory, you could dive down in there and read configuration files and rename one file at a time.
thanks so much for you suggestion. Removing the old directory worked like a charm

ka.

I have heard of some versions of linux that can run on a thumb drive. So I'm wondering if there is one that will run on a shared hosting account similar to how Eye OS runs. My objective to this is just to LEARN the linux environment and commands more better while I'm at WORK during my downtime. I understand their will be some obvious limitations if such a thing does exists.

Thank you for any feedback!

Regards,
If there was, I should think it would be just like EyeOS, which is very much like a Linux live CD in feel. I have to say thanks for being the reason I found out about EyeOS. It's really cool.
[UPDATE]

Perhaps you will be interested in EyeNux?

Can be installed on USB flash drive

http://forums.eyeos.org/index.php?topic=2440.0

Quote

eyeNux is a new kind of Operating System which allows you to use your personal datas and APPLICATIONS from anywhere in the World, at any time.
It is based on the Linux Kernel, a very stable and fast Operating System, and uses the eyeOS Desktop, a totally Web Based Desktop Environment.
So, with eyeNux, you can simply connect to your online (or local, if you don't have an Internet connection) eyeOS Desktop, manipulate your files, play games,... without having to install anything.

[UPDATE]

Perhaps you will be interested in EyeNux?

Can be installed on USB flash drive

http://forums.eyeos.org/index.php?topic=2440.0

Quote

eyeNux is a new kind of Operating System which allows you to use your personal datas and applications from anywhere in the World, at any time.
It is based on the Linux Kernel, a very stable and fast Operating System, and uses the eyeOS Desktop, a totally Web Based Desktop Environment.
So, with eyeNux, you can simply connect to your online (or local, if you don't have an Internet connection) eyeOS Desktop, manipulate your files, play games,... without having to install anything.

Hello,

For the last couple of months, I have been sporadically attempting to install Ubuntu in a separate partition from Windows Vista Ultimate on my Gateway LAPTOP. My attempts have been THWARTED, however, by my inexperience with the gparted PARTITIONING tool. I have what I believe is the most recent version of it, but when SHRINKING the Windows partition it encounters an error and does not complete the Move/Resize operations that I would like it to (or any at all, for that matter). The error occurs when gparted is "growing" the partition.

The error message says that for help I should follow the directions on this site:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/tips/save_details.htm

Unfortunately, I have had no luck saving the details to USB stick.

So my problem, basically, is two problems: 1.) I can't get gparted to work for me, and 2.) I can't SAVE the details of gparted's attempt at partitioning the drive.

I apologize if there is already a topic similar to this; I searched, but did not find anything that could help me in the forum & faq's. If I left out anything important, don't hesitate to let me know.

Thank you for your help!

Running a CentOS 5 server. I know the 'up' and 'down' arrows toggle through the recent commands used on the server when I'm logged in as root. ANYONE know what file these 'recent commands' are stored in or the name of the LOG file?

Regards,
NM, found it. /root/.bash_historyActually, they're saved in ~/.bash_history, which is the file you found when you are logged in a root. But each user has his own history file.

You might also want to look at the INFORMATION that this command DISPLAYS:
HELP history

I installed Linux on my old COMPUTER the other day to see how it works, and i just cant figure it out. I think its a good THING but not for me. I want to delete and have been searching all over the web for info on how to do this and cant find anything that don't involve the floppy drive. My computer doesn't have a floppy it just has a CD ROM drive thats it. I have the Linux disk i installed which is the red hat version and i have a windows disk but don't know where to go from there what would be the EASIEST way to do this? Any help would be gratefully appreciated thanks.what os of windows??my os in xp.Just put the disk in an follow the on screen words. There easy solved. Windows hasnt used floppies for a long time.make shure to DELETE the partition here is a guide http://www.theeldergeek.com/clean_installation_of_windows_xp.htmThanks for all your help. It only took a little over an HOUR and my xp is back and running. Thats the TYPICAL time it takes. See, look mom no floppies.

I went to an auction from a college and bought some
computers for my children.
UNFORTUNATELY, I did not know that they had
wiped them clean.
I cannot afford to buy Windows for
all of the computers, so I loaded Ubuntu which is really
great except they want to play their educational software
games by Windows. None of the computers have Windows
installed. If someone could please help me by GIVING me
step by step instructions to install these games by
CD, I would truly appreciate all of your assistance (if this
can be done).
Thank you so much in advance.You can use wineIgnore the last comment made niraj.kumar.

Quote

If someone could please help me by giving me
step by step instructions to install these games by
CD, I would truly appreciate all of your assistance (if this
can be done).

OK, you can find WINE through Synaptics. Go to System >> Administration >> Synaptics Package Manager.

i have downloaded linux to my computer but have not installed it. i need to partition my c or d drive which? i went to computer management and then disk management. i can't find the allocation or partition WIZARD. a little push is all i need THANKS rubyYou dont need to partition the hard drive to install Linux.

You downloaded it as an ISO file, so you burn it to a DVD or CD.
When thats finished, leave the CD/DVD in the PC and restart your computer.
While the computer is loading, go to "advanced boot options" and select "boot from cd".

The OS should load as Linux.

(Install is italic because you dont actually install it)This is software that will burn an ISO image to a disk: http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

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While the computer is loading, go to "advanced boot options" and select "boot from cd".

i created a mess! before you got back with me (which was supppper fast) linux

hai,
i have my 1gb pen drive,

I have PIII 450MHz old pc.

I want to PRACTICE linux comm and all using pen drive,

is it POSSIBLE boot through pen drive & boot linux?

which OS (linux) available?So you're looking for Portable Linux?

Here is a SITE:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

I've used SLAX before:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2006/09/20/all-in-one-usb-slaxzip/

I had made many partitions before, but never thought about the partition table.
I am about to format a 2Tb HD that I'll use only for backing up media. It'll be used by Linux Mint 19, and Windows 10.
I am using Gparted in LM. So I see I can go ahead and create a new Partition. But I can also see in the Device menu that I can make a Partition Table too. Now I'm wondering: Should I make a PT, then do the partitions?
Or will a PT be made automatically when I make a partition?
Or a PT is not strictly needed but it's better to have?

Thank you guys!One can use a Hard Dorie WITHOUT a palpation table.
However, the OS you use does indeed read from table.
In simple terms, a table is a small data connection that points to where more data can be found.
To use a metaphor, Can you eat in a eatery without looking at the menu?

Hard drives without partition tables are used in some industrial applications. Off the top on my head I can not RECALL which industries do that.

The current standard is the GPT for hard drives. Before that, the MBR was used.
Here is an article of interest:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/change-an-mbr-disk-into-a-gpt-disk
Master Boot Record (MBR) disks use the standard BIOS partition table. GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). One advantage of GPT disks is that you can have more than four partitions on each disk. GPT is also required for disks larger than two terabytes (TB).
Does that help any?
"Create Partition Table" is either necessary before creating partitions or possibly is an operation that is performed automatically when you create partitions. It is the equivalent to Windows Disk Management's "Initialize Disk" command(s). It is a separate option because it may in some cases be desirable to create the partition table without ACTUALLY creating any partitions.

Hi every one

My name is Valton Puna

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Thanks for every one that build this big and helpfull site because I'm sure a lot of people have been learning GOOD and helpfull things here.

Thanks

Valton PunaJust one question....

I'm curious to know why you PICKED this board to post in?

OK... I'm trying to install Red Hat LINUX 9 on a PC currently running WinME. I've currently got 14 GB free on my HARDDISK, 128MbRAM. I have Red Hat on CD ready and willing to go, but I can't boot it directly from the cds, I've made a boot floppy for it, but that's not working either..
Seems like at boot-up the comp isn't recognising the fact there's any disk's in the machine at all-floppy or cd drive!
Once windows is loaded I can see all the info on the red hat disk and the boot floppy I've made.
I've also noticed that I don't have any info in my Config.sys file-I realise it's not necessary with WinME, but I'm well stuck..
Do I need to partition the hard disk first, or just amend my autoexec.bat file to look in to my cd rom/floppy drive before loading windows?
Any help greatly appreciated.. THanx!!!
Peasea1. Boot problem:
Enter your bios and look in the sub-menus for some entries called "1st Boot device", "Boot-up 1st device" or similiar (you'll recognize it when you see it). Make sure the system tries to boot from CD before trying to boot from a hard disk.

When Autoexec.bat is executed, it's too late: Windows has already been loaded (bootet) at that point.


2. Partitioning:
Are the 14 GB unpartitioned space or are they unused space on a partition?
In the first case, RH Linux will give you the possibility to partition it during setup.
In the second case, things get complicated and you will have to USE a partitioning tool.

Hello, I would like to begin with saying that I'm still somewhat new to Linux. I've discovered this issue about a year ago since then still haven't found a solution.
My Problem: Videos (be it local video, streaming on VLC or other apps or watching on any browsers) have a micro-shutter that happens randomly sometimes doesn't happen for 5 mins, sometimes happen 3 times in a minute or so. It affects both sound and video. Games also feel laggy. In windows 10 I don't have this issue even with 2015 drivers.
Distros and DEs I have tried so far: Linux MINT with Cinnamon and MATE, Ubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Lubuntu, ARCH with MATE, Manjoro with KDE and MATE, Debian both Strech and Buster.
Thing that I have tried so far:

• Forcing Chromium to use Hardware acceleration and using h264ify.
• Forcing Governer to use only performance mode.
• Creating Intel profile under x11 config.d
• Increasing minimum CPU frequency.
• Downloading all the codecs I can find.
• Changing VLC renderer and messing with options.
• Changing compositor settings.
• Trying to watch something while the computer under load.
• and some other things i don't remember.

Will ANYONE PLEASE let me KNOW how to play mp3's in Redhat Enterprise Edtion V3....SINCE RHEL does't provide any built in support to play mp3 format.

regards
razikhhttp://dag.wieers.com/packages/xmms-mp3/

I can't seem too find a linux distro that'd work with my specifications. Some of the last posts distro's where interesting, but not what I need. I need a solution SOON, I'm getting my cable connection in August.

It must run off of a floppy disk, hard drive is an option, and it must be built specifically for router/firewall use. I am no linux guru and would rather keep things simple. Also, it MUST support four mix-matched NIC's, plus a Aethero's based WIC. All the distro's I've seen only support one input, and one output card, or sometimes two output cards.
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System specs are a 333MHz PII, 128MB PC133, floppy or 2GB HDD, old slot 1 intel based abit motherboard, four NIC's, two of them are linksys, the other two are intel I think, a Aethero's based WIC, and an old 2MB or 4MB nVidia AGP GPU, since the board has no onboard video. It'll be powered by a lil 100W bestec MATX PSU, and crammed into an old 5CD changer too keep it LOW profile and generally easy too get out of the way. Don't know what you've been suggested so far but how about SmoothWall?SORRY for the delay, got a bit busy over the last couple days. Anyway, I dug up the old post and Smoothwall was recommended, so i'll use it or DSL, probably gonna use Smoothwall since I don't know jack about linux.

Greeting`s,
I would like to know if there is a WEB cam AVAILABLE for a computer running Linux-X86_64 Peppermint version, my computer is a HP compag(an oldie but a goodie) the reason Iam asking is that all the web cams that i see here ( Miramichi NB Canada) are for windows, so any help would be great.
Thank`s,
MiramichierThe Linux-UVC project maintains a list of compatible webcams:

http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/#devices

Linux-UVC is supported on Ubuntu (Peppermint is BASED on Lubuntu, so it should also support Linux-UVC). There is a Ubuntu WIKI about it here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam

hope this helps

my server died in NOVEMBER, just now replaced the MOBO, CPU and Memory. I have 4 drives in LUKS lvm. I get the UUID not found when i try to startup. When I startup in rescue mode it asks for my passphrase and i can log in just fine. I have looked over the crypttab and fstab and all seams to be consistant but i still get the error when i try regular login.

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sun Jan 28 16:01:35 2018
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are MAINTAINED under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(, mount( and/or blkid( for more info
#
/dev/mapper/luks-629475c3-6815-403b-af6a-2f40d8ded61c / ext4 defaults,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 1 1
UUID=a5707a15-bf94-4eb9-b6ee-a0ca6e2db2b9 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/luks-4cb5c396-d282-48c2-bfb0-e271475e5118 /home ext4 defaults,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 1 2
/dev/mapper/luks-460e73c9-8cd2-4c77-9ce5-09b8460dd7f0 /var ext4 defaults,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 1 2
/dev/mapper/luks-cf1a9462-2f25-43ff-93f1-14e76f842ad8 swap swap defaults,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 0 0


[[emailprotected] robert]# cat /etc/crypttab
luks-cf1a9462-2f25-43ff-93f1-14e76f842ad8 UUID=cf1a9462-2f25-43ff-93f1-14e76f842ad8 none
luks-460e73c9-8cd2-4c77-9ce5-09b8460dd7f0 UUID=460e73c9-8cd2-4c77-9ce5-09b8460dd7f0 none
luks-629475c3-6815-403b-af6a-2f40d8ded61c UUID=629475c3-6815-403b-af6a-2f40d8ded61c none
luks-4cb5c396-d282-48c2-bfb0-e271475e5118 UUID=4cb5c396-d282-48c2-bfb0-e271475e5118 none

what am i missing?
I LEFT the system running in rescue mode all week. there were updates available so i installed and re-booted and it booted in regular mode. so there you go!

My poweroff command is not FULLY working. My UNIX box does not REACHED the message it is now SAFE to turn power off, it just hangs up after a certain tome and I have to turn power off. What should I look for to fix this ISSUE?IF you are a root user and are using /sbin/poweroff then the COMPUTER is suppose to shutdown. The thing about "Your computer is safe to shut down now" is windoows system message and NOT Linux.
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I'm trying to help a friend with her homework, and she is desperate to know how to copy a file to the Floppy.

I looked through her text and wasn't sure at all. I'm not familiar with this system but was willing to help her (some experience with DOS .

If it's not too much, Q2: was to CAPTURE the SCREEN and (Print it or Save it).

What an adventure this is .You need to first mount your floppy. For this, go to the DIRECTORY /mnt. Here, look for the name of the directory reserved for your floppy drive. It'll be either 'floppy', or 'fd0', or something starting with f. Now change your directory to something other than /mnt, or its child. At the prompt (if you are using GUI, you'll have to open a terminal), type

mount /mnt/floppy

(Here, 'floppy' is the name reserved for your floppy directory)

Now move to the dirctory where the file you want to copy is stored and type

cp filename /mnt/floppy/filename

(here, 'filename' is the name of the file to be copied into the floppy)

Your file is copied. You can move to the directory /mnt/floppy and open your file to VIEW its contents. When you are over, move out of the /mnt directory and unmount your floppy by typing the following command at the prompt

umount /mnt/floppy

Now you can remove the floppy from its drive.

In case you are using a GUI, you can simply double click on the floppy icon on your desktop to open a window showing your floppy contents. You can copy your file from the source location, and PASTE it in this window. Close the window and thin right click on the floppy icon. A menu listing of commands will appear. Click on 'unmount' or 'eject' whichever is present in the menu.

I need some help with a Telnet / LINUX LAN project in the Little Rock, Arkansas or the Springfield, MO. area. Should be an hour or less for someone who's familiar with PuTTy, Linux and Unix commands. I'm trying to learn but don't want to turn my server device into a "brick". PuTTY seems to be the program recommended by others to connect my client laptop to the Unix device. Send an email if you're in the area and we can go from there. Thanks.
What does a spectrum analyzer picture have to do with your request for help?Quote from: TOWERSIGNALS on April 05, 2019, 09:44:58 AM

Should be an hour or less for someone who's familiar with PuTTy, Linux and Unix commands.

well, i am a newbie.......i wanted to install linux fedora in my computer...i was told to download an ISO... and to burn the DVD .....now i am not acquainted with linux and unix that much and am new to this forum.......i tried to install ubuntu but it had some errors after the showing the language selection option window.....am in dilemma plzz help me.....


and LASTLY thanx a lot to all of you if you at least got through my this post....

can i get some online links to download and install unix plzzz...help am not able to find it out in the web.....


Im not sure what actually is your question.

How did you try to install it?

And also can you please give us your computer make/model/OS etc.OK download the .iso
When you burn it - be sure you burn it as an image so it is BOOTABLE.
(search in GOOGLE: burning iso or something similiar or help in your CD burning program.)

Boot your computer from the CD or DVD

(If it doesn't boot from the CD then either you have to change your BIOS settings to let you boot from a CD before your harddrive (HDD) or you didnt burn the CD as an image.)

Then Linux will guide you through it. Be careful it doesnt WIPE out your hard drive unless you want it to.
Fedora looks for a partition formatted for Linux (ext2 or ext3) and then you canchose Fedora or other afterwards..
(I installed Fedora yesterday.)

Ubuntu (installed that on Fr) took the largest unused partion space and used that.Quote from: armageddon on June 22, 2008, 10:27:50 PM

...i tried to install ubuntu but it had some errors after the showing the language selection option window...

This is right PLACE for me... from the questions I have read. (sounds like no question is considered dum
This sort of a programming question, but developers would consider this question too basic.. so its here.

I downloaded gnu classpath 97.2
./configure
make
su make install

and I downloaded cacao 99.1
./configure
make
su make install

no errors
but when I enter

cacao

it says its not installed. (both ubuntu 8.04 (sudo=su and makeclean install = make install) and fedora)

I used the default prefix /usr/local
/usr/local/bin is in $PATH
cacao is in /usr/local/cacao/bin and classpath is in /usr/local/classpath

I think I have to do SOMETHING so the prefix path is picked up, but I dont know what.
Can someone HELP me tell linux how to see what I installed?
Thanks
To verify your suggestion, try this command--just type it:

PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/cacao/bin"

And then try to execute cacao again. If it works, you could put that in ~/.bashrc (or maybe ~/.bash_profile).

Alternately, if it's just that one EXECUTABLE, you could make symbolic LINKS like this:

cd /usr/local/bin
su ln -s ../cacao/bin/cacao

I'm having trouble getting the SAM accounts created. When I enter ./password -a steve I get two error messages :

Failed to initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user steve.
Failed to MODIFY password entry for user steve

Can anyone help me with this? I have been trying to find an answer for DAYS, even if I knew what files this command was trying to modify I might be able to edit it manually or even know whether or not the file is there.
Are you running that as root? I'm doubting you could make the changes yourself; it likely encrypts password somehow. I have some experience with Samba (just set up PDC), but never heard of SAM; please birefly explain or provide link. Good luck!I never heard of it either but I managed to get everything working. If you go to Mozilla and enter"http://localhost:10000" that will take you to where every service can be configured. This may only be a function of Mandrake as I can't do that in Red Hat. Quote

If you go to Mozilla and enter"http://localhost:10000" that will take you to where every service can be configured. This may only be a function of Mandrake as I can't do that in Red Hat.

What is the most popular Linux distro?
Hard to say. Some have yet to try Linux and might want to know what others like. So go ahead and plug the ones yu like. All it will mean is that some people here might have favorite. Limit yourself to 4 votes.
The list above not agree with this link:
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

You might like this ZDNet article:

How many Linux users are there anyway?

Quote

... Late last year, NetMarketShare admitted it had been overestimating the number of Linux desktops, but they've corrected their analysis.

and also Debian 9 Jessie on a laptop (general fooling around)

i have a job that runs a script to ftp a file an ascii file to another server as binary. the problemis this... i want to CONVERT that binary file to ascii without any modification from the script... is there a way i can do this? is there a similar command as dos2unix (which converts dos file to a UNIX file) the idea behind this is that i wont CREATE another script to convert back that binary file to an ascii FORM by just ADDING another job...

thanks for the help!

Hello,

I would like to try Sabayon Linux distribution, I have been very well SPOKEN of, I have experience with Red Hat, FEDORA and Centos, and now I would like to install on my PC and try Sabayon.
Has ANYONE tried it?
Can you PLEASE tell me what is the latest version of Sabayon?
I'm GOING to install it on an Intel Core 2 DUO 3.0 Ghz PC with 8 gigs of Ram so I do not think it has any problems.

Thank you

regards

ok, FIRST i MUST say im a newbie, i just BUILT a new system and want to get in to linux, i successfully did an ftp install of suse 9.1 (the 64bit version) i need help installing my SOUND card, the drivers i think. linux reconizes my "c-media electronics cmi8738/c3dx pci audio device". i have the drivers on a CD but dont know what to do from here. i already went through yast but when it tried to configure the sound card it came back with an error: the kernel module snd-cmipci for sound support could not be loaded. thanks for the help!
p.s. keep is simple pleeeze im a newie!