[QUOTE=myalt22;28421889]Can I run Linux Mint from a Seagate 500gb portable hard drive?[/QUOTE]
I don't see why not. You might have to edit some GRUB lines to boot from it, but otherwise it should work fine. Alternatively, you could use the built-in USB installer to install it to, and it will even save your settings.
[editline]4th March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=nikomo;28417763]The Broadcom chipset in my laptop does have some issues, but I believe those are mostly driver issues.
Suddenly 50 bytes a second max, driver dies when laptop goes to sleep half the time and you have to reboot etc.[/QUOTE]
What Broadcom chip do you have, and which kernel are you running?
[QUOTE=myalt22;28421889]Can I run Linux Mint from a Seagate 500gb portable hard drive?[/QUOTE]
funniest thing, I tried to run Mint from a 320gb seagate external when I lost most of my flash drives, and it refused to boot no matter what I did to it. I managed to find a single extra CD and install Arch with it v:v:v
[QUOTE=Derpmeifter;28422612]funniest thing, I tried to run Mint from a 320gb seagate external when I lost most of my flash drives, and it refused to boot no matter what I did to it. I managed to find a single extra CD and install Arch with it v:v:v[/QUOTE]
Yeah I heard there was some issue with using seagate drives, but I think that's only the FreeAgent drives, not the Expansion ones.
I'm setting up a SAMBA server for my house and I have it all set up except for the the fact that I can't connect to it from Windows. I try putting in \\192.168.1.231\public but I get nothing. So I tried pinging 192.168.1.231 and I got a reply from 192.168.1.226: Destination host unreachable. Any idea? I am connected to 2 routers on the Windows computer, 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.1.1.
try \\<hostname>\folder ?
[QUOTE=Derpmeifter;28422612]funniest thing, I tried to run Mint from a 320gb seagate external when I lost most of my flash drives, and it refused to boot no matter what I did to it. I managed to find a single extra CD and install Arch with it v:v:v[/QUOTE]
It would depend on if the kernel is able to load the USB driver in order to mount the filesystem.
If the USB driver is a module which is sitting on the filesystem, it can't mount it so it can load the driver.
[QUOTE=Baldr;28423200]try \\<hostname>\folder ?[/QUOTE]
I don't even think it can reach the server for some reason.
Port forwarding?
Ok, I put Ubuntu on a usb stick, but I can't actually start it. My computer automatically goes onto Vista. how do I make it let me choose which OS to use?
[editline]4th March 2011[/editline]
Apparently I'm supposed to use this GRUB Bootloader thing, but I have no fucking idea how to install it.
[QUOTE=myalt22;28424574]Ok, I put Ubuntu on a usb stick, but I can't actually start it. My computer automatically goes onto Vista. how do I make it let me choose which OS to use?[/QUOTE]
In BIOS there should be an option to change you boot priorities. Change it so that CD drive is first, then USB(often shown as removable device), then the Hard Drive. If your mobo doesn't have the USB option, then download PLoP bootloader, it's a CD that will then give you the option to boot onto the USB stick.
[QUOTE=myalt22;28424574]Ok, I put Ubuntu on a usb stick, but I can't actually start it. My computer automatically goes onto Vista. how do I make it let me choose which OS to use?[/QUOTE]
-slowpunch-
I'm just going to stick with Vista, because apparently If I don't use this fucking bootloader thing, my pc can become unbootable.
I guess Linux isn't as user-friendly as I thought. Maybe If I had more knowledge...
[editline]4th March 2011[/editline]
I'm just going to stick with Vista, because apparently If I don't use this fucking bootloader thing, my pc can become unbootable.
I guess Linux isn't as user-friendly as I thought. Maybe If I had more knowledge...
[editline]4th March 2011[/editline]
what happened there?
Anyway, I will try your suggestion, this bootloader thing is dangerous.
[QUOTE=myalt22;28424732]I'm just going to stick with Vista, because apparently If I don't use this fucking bootloader thing, my pc can become unbootable.
I guess Linux isn't as user-friendly as I thought. Maybe If I had more knowledge...
[editline]4th March 2011[/editline]
I'm just going to stick with Vista, because apparently If I don't use this fucking bootloader thing, my pc can become unbootable.
I guess Linux isn't as user-friendly as I thought. Maybe If I had more knowledge...[/QUOTE]
Are you talking about GRUB? GRUB is just a little thing that will show up when you start your computer that will give you the option of starting Windows Vista and Ubuntu. It's perfectly fine.
[img]http://www.elfnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/GRUB.jpg[/img]
talking about this - [url]http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/[/url]
That picture you posted, that menu does not show up, it goes straight into vista.
I went into boot menu, ad had no idea what to pick without breaking anything.
[editline]4th March 2011[/editline]
I don't think there is a GRUB on my computer.
Can someone recommended me a Partition Editor? Don't say GParted because the only links I can find are Live CD's and don't make me compile from source (Ubuntu fails to detect the files).
[QUOTE=faillord adam;28425077]Can someone recommended me a Partition Editor? Don't say GParted because the only links I can find are Live CD's and don't make me compile from source (Ubuntu fails to detect the files).[/QUOTE]
GParted has .iso files that you just burn right to a CD, you don't have to compile anything.
What does this mean? I think it's the reason I can't get Samba to work as well as a cs 1.6 server.
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3824007/Other/desthostunreach.PNG[/img]
192.168.1.231 is the IP of the server but I can't ping it from any of my other computers...
[QUOTE=dArKnEsS_2;28425383]GParted has .iso files that you just burn right to a CD, you don't have to compile anything.
What does this mean? I think it's the reason I can't get Samba to work as well as a cs 1.6 server.
[img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3824007/Other/desthostunreach.PNG[/img_thumb]
192.168.1.231 is the IP of the server but I can't ping it from any of my other computers...[/QUOTE]
that's the internal IP
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;28426762]that's the internal IP[/QUOTE]
Look at the second one when I try pinging the server.
It sounds like a routing problem to me. I'm not experts at configuring 2 routers together. The problem isn't samba, it sounds to me like it's a problem with the subnet configuration.
[QUOTE=faillord adam;28425077]Can someone recommended me a Partition Editor? Don't say GParted because the only links I can find are Live CD's and don't make me compile from source (Ubuntu fails to detect the files).[/QUOTE]
Use the Unetbootin tool to install the Gparted ISO onto a USB stick, and boot from the USB stick into Gparted. No need to ever burn a Linux ISO to CD unless it's an ancient system, like pre-Pentium 4.
[QUOTE=faillord adam;28425077]Can someone recommended me a Partition Editor? Don't say GParted because the only links I can find are Live CD's and don't make me compile from source (Ubuntu fails to detect the files).[/QUOTE]
cfdisk
[QUOTE=Lego399_;28434407]cfdisk[/QUOTE]
Preferably one with a GUI.
[QUOTE=Lego399_;28434407]cfdisk[/QUOTE]
fdisk
cfdisk is too complicated for me.
I switched to Awesome on my CR48 now since the touchpad is horrid.
[img]http://johnbooth.dyndns-free.com/img/fp/Fedora.png[/img]
I am using a windows VB, and this has been frozen like this for about 25 mins.
Help?
Are there any Distros that don't come with any shitty software and are not Debian Based?
[QUOTE=faillord adam;28461646]Are there any Distros that don't come with any shitty software and are not Debian Based?[/QUOTE]
I'm going to say before anyone else: Arch.
"But its to hard."
[QUOTE=kukiric;28461730]I'm going to say before anyone else: Arch.[/QUOTE]
And then a Desktop Environment with no additional software.
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