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[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;35249623]I wouldn't go with Ubuntu as the beginner distro anymore, especially not with the dumb 'HUD' feature coming up in 12.04.[/QUOTE] The HUD is optional, the regular menu is still there.
[QUOTE=Chezhead;35241856]Question for you guys: What's your favorite interface? I'm personally fond of openbox because of its simplistic, straight-edged design, and hate KDE and its silly bubbly interfaces. I see a lot of love for some of the tiling interfaces, but I could never really get into those when I could operate openbox much faster than dwm or awesome. Besides, I never really understood how to navigate them.[/QUOTE] As I've said many times in this thread and a few others, I've always found myself coming back to E17 after trying other DEs/WMs. It just works so nicely for me. The only issue I have is that the composite module does not work nicely on my laptop with the xf86 drivers so I have to use xcompmgr (and then I lose the ability to use some other modules that make use of comp, but oh well)
[QUOTE=Boris-B;35249504]There is a very common problem people run into when installing ubuntu on an external hard drive. I don't know how familiar you are with the boot process, so I'll make this simple. When you install any os. It needs to put some code on the MBR which is the first thing read and run from the hard drive at boot time. Ubuntu uses GRUB. What happens when you install ubuntu is that it will put it's own bootloader (GRUB) on the MBR. This means that it will overwrite whatever was on there previously. This is fine for an external HDD because their MBRs are often empty because they're not being booted. It becomes a bit of a larger issue if you put the MBR on your main disk (where you have windows installed). GRUB, in that case would overwrite the windows bootloader. Windows should be able to boot because GRUB is able to make windows boot. The problem with installing on an external HDD is that ubuntu has a tendency to want to put GRUB on the MBR of the first disk. (Your main HDD, most probably) Like I said above windows should still be able to boot because GRUB knows how to make it boot. The problem arises when you remove the external hard drive. GRUB keeps a bunch of files that it needs to operate in the /boot/grub directory. When you remove the external hard drive GRUB will not be able to do anything because it is lacking those files. This can be prevented. Ubuntu, like all other distros will allow you to choose where you want to put GRUB. In your case you're going to want to make sure that you put it on the MBR of the external hard drive. You should be given the option before the installation when the installer asks you a bunch of questions. Make sure you don't miss it and make sure that GRUB will be installed on your external hdd before you proceed with the installation.[/QUOTE] Very good to know. Appreciate you letting a linux nooby know before I proceed!! [editline]23rd March 2012[/editline] Do I need the pendrive program if I am putting linux on my external drive? I feel silly, since it is a usb connection, but then again there is no mention of external hard drive use on the install page.
[QUOTE=Psyke89;35250146]The HUD is optional, the regular menu is still there.[/QUOTE] Really? I didn't know that! I had installed the beta, and insta-puked all over my keyboard when I saw that it wasn't a joke, and that they've really made the menu worse that it was. I'm not sure why they're ditching the entirety of function from their design, because it's much slower to get something done with the HUD. But if you can disable it, at least that's a step in the right direction. [editline]23rd March 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Relaxation;35256731]Very good to know. Appreciate you letting a linux nooby know before I proceed!! [editline]23rd March 2012[/editline] Do I need the pendrive program if I am putting linux on my external drive? I feel silly, since it is a usb connection, but then again there is no mention of external hard drive use on the install page.[/QUOTE] You don't have to do anything but make sure that grub is installed on your external drives MBR (which is typically NOT /dev/sda), and that, of course, the rest of the system goes there too! When you're done, just make sure to change the boot order in your BIOS, so that USB / External harddrives are checked first.
I'm on it now. I didn't change the boot order for this run, just booted from. Can I download google chrome on here? Also major question: On my external hardrive, can I move everything it made into one folder? I want to do this so my files are organized. [editline]23rd March 2012[/editline] Oh and the pen drive program put grub on the external hard drive.
[QUOTE=Relaxation;35257161]I'm on it now. I didn't change the boot order for this run, just booted from. Can I download google chrome on here? Also major question: On my external hardrive, can I move everything it made into one folder? I want to do this so my files are organized. [editline]23rd March 2012[/editline] Oh and the pen drive program put grub on the external hard drive.[/QUOTE] Yes, you can install Chromium on all Linux distributions (or at least, most of them), and Google Chrome is available for Ubuntu and Fedora, and other *.deb or *.rpm supporting systems. Linux uses another filesystem, that Windows will not detect. You can't have the entire system in one 'folder' as such, but you can have the entire system on one partition. Your files in your Ubuntu system should be well organized, and you shouldn't move any system files around. I may have misunderstood something?
When I click on my external hard drive, there are multiple linux related files. I want to put them into one folder, so that when I click on my external hard drive it won't look like a cluster fuck. If I moved all the files into one folder that I were to create on the external hard drive, then I could clearly decipher between homework folders, pictures, downloads, etc.. and the linux files.
[QUOTE=Relaxation;35257315]When I click on my external hard drive, there are multiple linux related files. I want to put them into one folder, so that when I click on my external hard drive it won't look like a cluster fuck. If I moved all the files into one folder that I were to create on the external hard drive, then I could clearly decipher between homework folders, pictures, downloads, etc.. and the linux files.[/QUOTE] I think you're doing something wrong here.
Should I screenie? [editline]23rd March 2012[/editline] [IMG]http://i44.tinypic.com/34evtx0.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Relaxation;35257373]Should I screenie? [editline]23rd March 2012[/editline] [IMG]http://i44.tinypic.com/34evtx0.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] That right there is the LiveCD, not the operating system itself. You restart, and start up from that system, and then select 'Install'. You should not install Ubuntu using Wubi, as it will be installed alongside windows, inside Windows, and not as a seperate system. This can, and does, cause errors and problems.
Ok I deleted it, doing it the right way.. Hit a snag though, my second display is no longer being detected. UGH
You need the CCC or Nvidia X Server settings to enable a second display (I think)
So i'm looking for settings in the ccc called "x server?"
"Display Manager" I believe.
There is no display manager in ccc. I think I have a super new version since I reinstalled.
Anyways whenever I boot the live cd from the externalhd it doesnt give the option to install the hard copy there...
Nevermind I figured everything out. I put ubuntu on my external hard drive (500gb) and allocated it 100gb to use, then at the end I did a ntsf partition. I have ~368GB left. Pretty cool stuff, I'm going to work on making the desktop aesthetically pleasing before I begin jumping into the thick of it. Oh and the only problem I see myself encountering is I downloaded the 64bit verson, and my laptop is 32bit. Another thing is since it's 64 bit it may not only cause a problem with my laptop, but other pcomputers I wish to use it with as well, such as the ones in my CS classes. Not even sure if I can change boot order on those though.
[QUOTE=Relaxation;35271065]Nevermind I figured everything out. I put ubuntu on my external hard drive (500gb) and allocated it 100gb to use, then at the end I did a ntsf partition. I have ~368GB left. Pretty cool stuff, I'm going to work on making the desktop aesthetically pleasing before I begin jumping into the thick of it. Oh and the only problem I see myself encountering is I downloaded the 64bit verson, and my laptop is 32bit. Another thing is since it's 64 bit it may not only cause a problem with my laptop, but other pcomputers I wish to use it with as well, such as the ones in my CS classes. Not even sure if I can change boot order on those though.[/QUOTE] If your computer is 32bit, you couldn't run 64bit on it at all. It wouldn't even boot.
Anyone know how to use VirtualBox on Linux Mint? I need a way to get back to windows and after I installed Linux Mint it won't let me change my OS to anything, even another Linux distribution. I downloaded the .iso file for Windows 8 consumer preview and tried to boot it through Unetbootin and it just gives me a default option and no more, every fucking time I do this shit. I fucked up really bad and I just need to get back to windows and I was hoping VirtualBox would help but I can't seem to get it started. It went to the installer and installed everything it needed and it's not showing up like I see in videos. Help!
[QUOTE=Al Bundy;35276627]Anyone know how to use VirtualBox on Linux Mint? I need a way to get back to windows and after I installed Linux Mint it won't let me change my OS to anything, even another Linux distribution. I downloaded the .iso file for Windows 8 consumer preview and tried to boot it through Unetbootin and it just gives me a default option and no more, every fucking time I do this shit. I fucked up really bad and I just need to get back to windows and I was hoping VirtualBox would help but I can't seem to get it started. It went to the installer and installed everything it needed and it's not showing up like I see in videos. Help![/QUOTE] did you remember to change the boot order in the bios, so it can actually boot from a CD/USB device? also, windows8 + unetbootin never worked for me. try to execute virtualbox trough the console (type in "virtualbox" without "")
Thanks man. I can get to the boot with a separate key and choose from a list though.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;35272256]If your computer is 32bit, you couldn't run 64bit on it at all. It wouldn't even boot.[/QUOTE] Yes but I'm using it on my desktop ATM. (forgot to mention that)
Ok, I'm trying to install Ubuntu, but on the disk I have and my usb drive it gets stuck at [6.09815] SD 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI remveable disk And refuses to go past their. Ideas?
Use a dvd or cd or a different usb stick, obvi.
[QUOTE=q0q;35283870]Use a dvd or cd or a different usb stick, obvi.[/QUOTE] I use three disks and one usb stick, same result, all three work on a Virtual Machine.
Am I any safer streaming stuff on a college connection using ubuntu vs. windows?
[QUOTE=Relaxation;35300105]Am I any safer streaming stuff on a college connection using ubuntu vs. windows?[/QUOTE] What do you mean by safer?
[QUOTE=Relaxation;35300105]Am I any safer streaming stuff on a college connection using ubuntu vs. windows?[/QUOTE] Technically no, because the IT departement have most likely set up a network sniffer(if they didn't, they are fucking stupid), so they can see the whole network traffic of yours. It wouldn't matter if you used linux, OSX or windows, the traffic would be the same.
How can you get ibus to work with irssi or any terminal application that takes text? ctrl + space doesn't seem to switch the keyboard type.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;35303521]Technically no, because the IT departement have most likely set up a network sniffer(if they didn't, they are fucking stupid), so they can see the whole network traffic of yours. It wouldn't matter if you used linux, OSX or windows, the traffic would be the same.[/QUOTE] I wonder if theres ways around it. Also ima remove ubuntu from my external drive and run it side by side.
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