General Linux Chat and Small Questions - Hardware & Software

Small question: I am in the process of setting up a win 7/ubuntu 10.10 dualboot, following [url=http://m.lifehacker.com/5403100/dual+boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu-in-perfect-harmony]this guide[/url]. My plan is to have one partition for ubuntu, one for win 7, one swap and one for data. Thing is, there are two partitions already, one main and one for restoring windows. I don't think it's a good idea to touch the restore, so that means that I will need 5 partitions, and if I'm not mistaken the max is 4. Wat do?

iirc the limit applies to primary partitions, create a logical one for swap [editline]6th May 2011[/editline] wait for confirmation though I'm not 100% sure

You have a max of 4 primary partitions and a number of logical partitions. The primary and logical can add up more than 4. The logical partitions are inside an extended partition which is a primary partition. (You don't have to worry about this, the installer will hande creating the partition. It sums up to 3 primary and a good number or logical. Here's what you'll need to do. Go in windows and try to resize your C: partition. The problem with the windows partitioner is that it doens't always allow you to resize enough. If it doesn't let you get enough space you can try defraging. I think that gparted also allow you to resize ntfs partitions. Once the windows partition is resized. You can boot the ubuntu CD and do the partition manually. You'll be able to create your partitions. As for primary and logical partitions here's what you can do. First create your data partition and make it primary, then make every other partition logical.

[QUOTE=Boris-B;29651756]You have a max of 4 primary partitions and a number of logical partitions. The primary and logical can add up more than 4. The logical partitions are inside an extended partition which is a primary partition. (You don't have to worry about this, the installer will hande creating the partition. It sums up to 3 primary and a good number or logical. Here's what you'll need to do. Go in windows and try to resize your C: partition. The problem with the windows partitioner is that it doens't always allow you to resize enough. If it doesn't let you get enough space you can try defraging. I think that gparted also allow you to resize ntfs partitions. Once the windows partition is resized. You can boot the ubuntu CD and do the partition manually. You'll be able to create your partitions. As for primary and logical partitions here's what you can do. First create your data partition and make it primary, then make every other partition logical.[/QUOTE] Thx. I'm defragging right now.

[QUOTE=Goz3rr;29639730]No idea what +w is. Anyway, i edit the /etc/crontab file instead of crontab -e and now it runs fine.[/QUOTE] Then you probably don't - +w means write access. cron (OS X cron, at least) runs jobs in the global crontab as root.

Uh oh... The installer is stuck. I was at the keyboard layout selection menu, double-clicked the one i want, the forward and back button went gray and nothing is happening. After a while the text at the bottom changed to ready when you are. [editline]6th May 2011[/editline] Safe to power down and try again? It doesn't sound like it's doing anything atm.

Should be safe

Seemed to be. Some googleing revealed that it's a known bug. Solved by navigating to the language by mouse only. Did a soft restart and tried again. Everything seems to be progressing as planned. [editline]6th May 2011[/editline] Install finished as planned, now it's updating to 11.04. I hope that I didn't nuke win7 somehow, but I don't think so. Will check on it when the update is done. Taken mah first step into the world of linux :buddy:

Err, do any of you guys even remember when you've first used Linux? I just tried to remember, I think the first time I tried it was.. I think it OpenSUSE running some 2.4 kernel. They had a book on OpenSUSE at the library and it had a bunch of installation CD's on the back, so I installed it with those. I was young as shit, didn't understand it at all and didn't go back for a long time. Then the DS came out. I tried out DSLinux. Didn't really care, couldn't do anything cool with it. Then I got one of those Acer netbooks with some shitty distro pre-installed. I think that was like in 7th grade. Or 8th. Since then my mind's just been getting filled with Linux.

long time ago, debian on kernel 2.2

Ubuntu 6.06. Golden age of Gnome.

SuSe 10. Hasn't this question been posed before?

Ubuntu 6.06, it was awesome.

My first experience with Linux was watching my dad use Red Hat in the 90's. I asked him what it was then and he never gave me a clear answer. Fast forward to two years ago, and he had Ubuntu 9.10 on his work computer. I got interested, and then I installed it, too. Here I am today having used Ubuntu, Arch, and Fedora. By the way, I just found disks for MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista (all with several valid keys) looking through my dad's old software for his old Red Hat CDs. It gives me some stupid ideas, especially MS-DOS.

I think my first experience with it was with something that had a command line installer. :v: That's all I remember, really. My first REAL experience was with Ubuntu 7.10 I believe..

Fedora Core (0.98?) "Severn". Good times - came with a For Dummies book by (wait for it) Jon Hall. OpenOffice was Sun StarOffice, the book recommended Mozilla, GNOME was like Cheerios back then, and KDE looked as gaudy as fuck, complete with Windows Classic lookalike theme.

[QUOTE=nikomo;29657788]Err, do any of you guys even remember when you've first used Linux? I just tried to remember, I think the first time I tried it was.. I think it OpenSUSE running some 2.4 kernel. They had a book on OpenSUSE at the library and it had a bunch of installation CD's on the back, so I installed it with those. I was young as shit, didn't understand it at all and didn't go back for a long time. Then the DS came out. I tried out DSLinux. Didn't really care, couldn't do anything cool with it. Then I got one of those Acer netbooks with some shitty distro pre-installed. I think that was like in 7th grade. Or 8th. Since then my mind's just been getting filled with Linux.[/QUOTE] January this year, when i decided that Windows Server 2003 didn't cut it for my minecraft servers, and i just smacked Debian on without any knowledge about it.

[QUOTE=Biotic;29616313]I tried all this just now, didn't work.[/QUOTE] Anybody? :frown:

My first linux distro was slackware 10.

[QUOTE=Biotic;29660514]Anybody? :frown:[/QUOTE] Did you installed the broadcom-wl package from AUR? Also, did you blacklist b43 and b43-legacy and made wl autoload? Could you also post the results from lsmod?

[QUOTE=Boris-B;29663940]Did you installed the broadcom-wl package from AUR? Also, did you blacklist b43 and b43-legacy and made wl autoload? Could you also post the results from lsmod?[/QUOTE] I did all that. I can't post the results from lsmod because installing the broadcom-wl driver messed up the ethernet and windows wont read my only Flash Drive so I can give you the results. :sigh:

My rc.conf is gone. Missing, no where. I'm running arch linux on a server, and I can't do anything. What do? I can't connect to the internet, should I just find the default for it and type it all in manually?

[QUOTE=Johnbooth;29664532]My rc.conf is gone. Missing, no where. I'm running arch linux on a server, and I can't do anything. What do? I can't connect to the internet, should I just find the default for it and type it all in manually?[/QUOTE] You configured it; you're the best person to make that distinction. I don't think you have another choice, though.

[QUOTE=nikomo;29657788]Err, do any of you guys even remember when you've first used Linux? I just tried to remember, I think the first time I tried it was.. I think it OpenSUSE running some 2.4 kernel. They had a book on OpenSUSE at the library and it had a bunch of installation CD's on the back, so I installed it with those. I was young as shit, didn't understand it at all and didn't go back for a long time. Then the DS came out. I tried out DSLinux. Didn't really care, couldn't do anything cool with it. Then I got one of those Acer netbooks with some shitty distro pre-installed. I think that was like in 7th grade. Or 8th. Since then my mind's just been getting filled with Linux.[/QUOTE] I think I was hearing all kind of shit about Linux, and gave Ubuntu (7.04) a try in livecd environment. Worked smooth and totally awesome. I had done my research though, so I knew it wouldn't run Windows shit. I'm now STILL running Ubuntu, the 11.04 version, but on my desktop computer and dual-booting with Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit (stupid old 32bit only drivers for network USB) In between those two I've tried running Arch, Gentoo, OpenSUSE and a LOT of other distro's. I didn't really like OpenSUSE, but Arch and Gentoo were awesome (didn't work with my network USB for some reason, but they worked on Ubuntu so meh)

I couldn't help but chuckle at your not very linuxey username heh.

[QUOTE=Biotic;29664302]I did all that. I can't post the results from lsmod because installing the broadcom-wl driver messed up the ethernet and windows wont read my only Flash Drive so I can give you the results. :sigh:[/QUOTE] Can you describe exactly what happened and what you did during the install? This kind of failure shouldn't happen. Also, you should be able to run lsmod without a working ethernet connection.

[QUOTE=Boris-B;29673351]Can you describe exactly what happened and what you did during the install? This kind of failure shouldn't happen. Also, you should be able to run lsmod without a working ethernet connection.[/QUOTE] I installed the wireless_tools package, downloaded the broadcom-wl driver from the AUR, unzipped it, ran makepkg, then installed it and ran rmmod b43 and rmmod ssb, modprobe wl, then in the modules part of my rc.conf added wl !b43 !ssb, then restarted. (The broadcom-wl driver autoloaded lib80211_crypt_tkip so adding it wasn't necessary.) It's not about running it, but I have no way of giving you the information.

What do you mean by the Ethernet stopped working. Is it plugged in but it doesn't want to connect or is it just not plugged in for some reason. Also, what do you use to connect to wifi?

[QUOTE=Boris-B;29674374]What do you mean by the Ethernet stopped working. Is it plugged in but it doesn't want to connect or is it just not plugged in for some reason.[/QUOTE] It's plugged in and doesn't want to connect, it only started after I installed the broadcom-wl driver. [QUOTE=Boris-B]Also, what do you use to connect to wifi?[/QUOTE] What?

Well, when you installed broadcom-wl you must have tried to connect to a wifi network right. How did you try to connect? As for your ethernet problem, I found something in the troubleshooting section of the arch wiki for the driver. It seems like sometimes the driver (udev actually) switches the interfaces. For some odd reason the ethernet connection which used to be matted to eth0 is now mapped to eth1 and the wifi card is mapped to eth0. If you have the default configuration in rc.conf your ethernet wouldn't work because on boot it tried to run dhcpcd on eth0 which is now your wifi card. There's a solution on the wiki. You might want to make sure it's actually the problem. Here's what you have to do. First run these two commands: [code] ifconfig -a iwconfig [/code] ifconfig will list all your interfaces and iwconfig will tell you which ones are wifi enabled. You are looking for the one that isn't wifi enabled (excluding lo). That interface should be your ethernet. Once you know which one it is you can try to run dhcpcd on it. [code] ifconfig InterfaceGoesHere up dhcpcd InterfaceGoesHere [/code] Once that is done you can try to ping google or something you know you should have access to and see if you have a response. If the interface for your ethernet isn't eth0 then we found your problem. You can follow this guide ([url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless#Interfaces_swapped_.28broadcom-wl.29[/url]) to fix it. If the interface is for the ethernet is eth0 and you're able to connect manually then it's a problem with your configuration.