I've got a problem with my Live USB.
First I had trouble finding the original contents of the USB stick when Mint was fully booted from it. I now figured out it's in /cdrom. But /cdrom is a read only file system. How do I write files and shit on it from the live USB? Can I only write things on it when not running the live distro on it? That would be weird.
SOLUTION: :buddy:
sudo mount -orw,remount /cdrom
Now the problem is how to give the live user write access to /cdrom.
[code]sudo chmod 777 /cdrom[/code]
Didn't work.
Maybe chown?
[code]sudo chown mint /cdrom[/code]
chown: changing ownership of '/cdrom': Operation not permitted
I used sudo...
I'm on ubuntu 10.10, how can I edit grub to make it so that when I boot it doesn't autoboot to ubuntu10.10 but instead does the count down on windows 7
[editline]4th November 2010[/editline]
ive been away from linux for so long i missed ubuntu
[QUOTE=Takkun10;25856404]I'm on ubuntu 10.10, how can I edit grub to make it so that when I boot it doesn't autoboot to ubuntu10.10 but instead does the count down on windows 7
[editline]4th November 2010[/editline]
ive been away from linux for so long i missed ubuntu[/QUOTE]
Open the grub.cfg file and move windows to the top, maybe?
i looked deeper into it, i did open up the grub.cfg but i had to change a value which was basically just where windows was on the list. All good now.
Is there a way that I can dual-boot between Win7 and Ubuntu if I have Ubuntu installed an an external HDD?
I want to get a dual-boot up and running but I barely have any room left on my C drive, and I don't want to mess with the partitions in there because I'd just end up breaking something.
Yeah, I had a fedora + xp dual boot on two seperate hard drives once. I just installed it the normal way you would, but on a different hard drive. Grub picked up both windows and fedora no problem
I just set up my old desktop with Arch for a minecraft server, along with several other things.
It's seems really nice coming from Ubuntu, everything's so much cleaner and I actually like how a lot of things don't come standard with arch. I'm planning on keeping this box running 24/7, so I'm trying to keep it as power efficient as I can....
and I've installed X11 and OpenBox but OpenBox won't start properly, it can't initialize X, and when I run startx and type in openbox-session in one of the terminal windows, it says there's already a window manager running (which makes sense, since I am typing it into a window)... it seems like a catch-22 here, what am I doing wrong?
But whatever, I actually like CLI better, I really just want OpenBox so I can have a GUI if I need it for some reason.
[QUOTE=robmaister12;25864162]I just set up my old desktop with Arch for a minecraft server, along with several other things.
It's seems really nice coming from Ubuntu, everything's so much cleaner and I actually like how a lot of things don't come standard with arch. I'm planning on keeping this box running 24/7, so I'm trying to keep it as power efficient as I can....
and I've installed X11 and OpenBox but OpenBox won't start properly, it can't initialize X, and when I run startx and type in openbox-session in one of the terminal windows, it says there's already a window manager running (which makes sense, since I am typing it into a window)... it seems like a catch-22 here, what am I doing wrong?
But whatever, I actually like CLI better, I really just want OpenBox so I can have a GUI if I need it for some reason.[/QUOTE]
Make a file called .xinitrc in your home directory, then add this to it :
exec openbox-session
Hmm, when I set up Arch, I set up the mount points using dev. Now sometimes when I start up arch, it makes my second hard drive /sda1 and then Arch will fail to boot. Is there any way to fix this without a reinstall?
Not to start a flame war, but I've noticed that lots of people get rated dumbs for liking Ubuntu. Why is that?
Is it because Ubuntu is bloated, or too focused on being user-friendly?
[QUOTE=Larikang;25875303]Not to start a flame war, but I've noticed that lots of people get rated dumbs for liking Ubuntu. Why is that?
Is it because Ubuntu is bloated, or too focused on being user-friendly?[/QUOTE]
Bloatedness and the inability of most Ubuntu users to figure out their small problems.
I don't like ubuntu because it holds your hand through everything
I like Ubuntu because it offers an easier choice for those not so tech-literate people to get started in Linux.
It was my first Linux OS, and I'm pretty sure it was a lot of people's here. There's no reason to hate on it for being too easy. If you want a more advanced OS then switch distros.
mandrake was my first distro, that was a really bad idea
[QUOTE=Larikang;25875303]Not to start a flame war, but I've noticed that lots of people get rated dumbs for liking Ubuntu. Why is that?
Is it because Ubuntu is bloated, or too focused on being user-friendly?[/QUOTE]
I've used Arch. I've used Ubuntu. For personal preference, I've fallen to Ubuntu as my distro of choice. Theres just something about how they've unified gnome compared to the gnome upstream, using all the applets and what not.
Trying to connect to my VPS with TightVNC and get a GUI (example, I upload a a file to the server with SCP and then upload that file to file sharing sites with Firefox running in a virtual X session I've connected to with TightVNC).
Using Ubuntu Server 10.04, anyone got any tips?
I can't login with TightVNC, only way I was able to connect was with Xming, X-11 forwarding and vncviewer. Even then, it just gave me a console interface, and I had to login through the console interface so it's obviously not starting even XDM.
Anyone who's got an xvnc setup working mind sharing some light on this/linking to the guide they've used?
What magic sauce does Linux use for networking? I get 800 kilobytes a second usually on Windows when downloading.
Watching a 720p video on Youtube on my Windows computer while downloading stuff at 2000 kilobytes a second on my Ubuntu Server 10.04.1
Still having problems with Xorg. I installed drivers and everything, but when I run startx, I get a black screen with strange glitched colours over it. I can't even use Alt+F2. What do I do now?
[QUOTE=leontodd;25916969]Still having problems with Xorg. I installed drivers and everything, but when I run startx, I get a black screen with strange glitched colours over it. I can't even use Alt+F2. What do I do now?[/QUOTE]
Start hal and dbus in your rc.conf
[code]DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal dbus whateverelseyouhave)[/code]
or use modprobe if you don't want to reboot.
I am going to kill the person who fucking invented email.
I've tried manually configuring postfix, sendmail etc. Couldn't get it to work.
Trying iRedMail now. Uses so much RAM I had to dig out my old server with 3GB of RAM because my VPS just died. And I can only login as www, not postmaster, not root, not even nikomo.
I'm going to install iRedAdmin now, if I get the damn thing to work it's probably going to tell me I only have the www user on the server.
[QUOTE=nos217;25807450]My disk just got checked as part of a schedule on startup and said that me ext4 partition is 48% non-contiguous :S. I don't see why this has happened. How do I change this?[/QUOTE]
Anyone?
[QUOTE=rieda1589;25919479]Start hal and dbus in your rc.conf
[code]DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal dbus whateverelseyouhave)[/code]
or use modprobe if you don't want to reboot.[/QUOTE]
Thanks, I'll try this.
Fuck LDAP in the ass, I give up.
I might aswell make a thread for my Xorg problems since I don't want to spam the thread with my shit.
Hi trying to find a small linux distro so that i can run it at my college on my usb
Need it to be about 100mb, with netbeans and openGL support.
Apart from that i dont really need anything else.
Though of DSL-N but it looks like it hasn't really been updated in a wile, so any suggestions?
[QUOTE=Richy19;25939361]Hi trying to find a small linux distro so that i can run it at my college on my usb
Need it to be about 100mb, with netbeans and openGL support.
Apart from that i dont really need anything else.
Though of DSL-N but it looks like it hasn't really been updated in a wile, so any suggestions?[/QUOTE]
Netbeans by itself would need roughly 100mb.
[QUOTE=Richy19;25939361]Hi trying to find a small linux distro so that i can run it at my college on my usb
Need it to be about 100mb, with netbeans and openGL support.
Apart from that i dont really need anything else.
Though of DSL-N but it looks like it hasn't really been updated in a wile, so any suggestions?[/QUOTE]
How about something like Code::Blocks instead of netbeans?
I've got a horrible problem on my laptop (arch linux). It suddenly popped up.
It takes ages to find servers, when I open google chrome and go to Google.com, it takes about half a minute to a full minute until Google starts showing.
When I ping google I get these statistics:
[code]6 packets transmitted, 5 received, 16% packet loss, time 5006ms, .....[/code]
Five seconds. What the shit is this. Also I might have lost one package because I pressed Ctrl+C.
Also, when I open facepunch for the first time it takes ages to load, but when I browse through facepunch after loading it for the first time it works normally. I've tried it on chromium and firefox browser. Happens to both browsers.
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