General Linux Chat and Small Questions v.2 - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Jookia;31715345]Don't forget that installing to a USB will probably wipe your main HDD's bootloader.[/QUOTE] no problem if you put the /boot partition on the main hdd

what epub reader would you guys recommend, i tried fbreader but it only found one of my ebooks.

[QUOTE=Jookia;31715345]Don't forget that installing to a USB will probably wipe your main HDD's bootloader.[/QUOTE] Unless you just pick another place to install the bootloader. It isn't that difficult, and for what I've seen, it seems to work fine.

IIRC, there should be an option to let you pick where GRUB goes.

When I start up the terminal, it decides to go to /media instead of ~/ When using cd, it will go back to ~/ so for some reason, it decided to switch the startup directory. How can I switch it back? I'm using zsh and urxvt. [editline]14th August 2011[/editline] Fixed it. I just logged out then back in. I'm pretty sure it was caused when I had to kill lxpanel, restart it and disown it (it started to hang for no real reason) and iirc I was in /media when I called the commands. It also fixed my problem with vapor returning an error for a sanity check after logging in.

Will the AMD drivers stop sucking in a foreseeable future?

[QUOTE=bathroomtowel;31750214]Will the AMD drivers stop sucking in a foreseeable future?[/QUOTE] Of course not don't be silly.

[QUOTE=BrainDeath;31750712]Of course not don't be silly.[/QUOTE] Oh, sorry. Please pardon me. It must have been a moment of mental weakness. Nvidia's drivers then?

[QUOTE=bathroomtowel;31750892]Oh, sorry. Please pardon me. It must have been a moment of mental weakness. Nvidia's drivers then?[/QUOTE] nVidia drivers aren't that bad, unless you're using a pre-built where the manufacturer changed the hardware ID of the card. That's when it all goes wrong.

Well, this is weird. I installed Debian to a partition on a drive that wasn't my C drive, installed GRUB to /dev/sda, set the partition as bootable.....and it just boots straight into windows? Oh well, I guess Fedora will be making me its bitch again. At least I know that will work. And Fedora won't boot either? Why do I just KNOW that this can be traced back to some colossal fuckup on my part?

My flash drive was broken. I needed to print something out on a windows computer and so when it gets put in, windows pops up saying that the drive is unrecognisable. I put it back in my comp and do a fsck and get this: [code] fsck from util-linux 2.19.1 fsck: fsck.vfat: not found fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.vfat for /dev/sdc [/code] So there was an error (although how I could read/write to it is beyond me). I pop open fdisk to repartition it and I see this garbage: [code] This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 ? 778135908 1919645538 570754815+ 72 Unknown /dev/sdc2 ? 168689522 2104717761 968014120 65 Novell Netware 386 /dev/sdc3 ? 1869881465 3805909656 968014096 79 Unknown /dev/sdc4 ? 2885681152 2885736650 27749+ d Unknown [/code] This explains why it was screwing up. So, I rewrote the partition table, did some mkfs magic and got it back to normal.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;31753387]Well, this is weird. I installed Debian to a partition on a drive that wasn't my C drive, installed GRUB to /dev/sda, set the partition as bootable.....and it just boots straight into windows? Oh well, I guess Fedora will be making me its bitch again. At least I know that will work. And Fedora won't boot either? Why do I just KNOW that this can be traced back to some colossal fuckup on my part?[/QUOTE] Are you using two hard drives or one? If two, make sure your BIOS is booting off the one with Grub on it.

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;31754171]Are you using two hard drives or one? If two, make sure your BIOS is booting off the one with Grub on it.[/QUOTE] I think what might be the problem is that I can't for the life of me tell which entry in my BIOS is supposed to be my SSD since the only named entry is a Samsung drive in my PC.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;31754294]I think what might be the problem is that I can't for the life of me tell which entry in my BIOS is supposed to be my SSD since the only named entry is a Samsung drive in my PC.[/QUOTE] What are the other entries called?

I'm going to be partitioning my hard drive so I can run Ubuntu and Windows 7. I have a few questions,lets start with: what boot software am I going to need?

Ubuntu comes with Grub, a boot manager, installed by default with every Ubuntu installation. You just have to make sure you install Ubuntu -after- Windows, and it will do all the work for you.

[QUOTE=cloudbuster;31755059]Ubuntu comes with Grub, a boot manager, installed by default with every Ubuntu installation. You just have to make sure you install Ubuntu -after- Windows, and it will do all the work for you.[/QUOTE] Thank you! I'm sure google can help me with the rest.

I want to use an application with a different GTK3 theme than the rest of the system uses. With GTK2 this was possible with "GTK2_RC_FILES=/path/to/gtkrc program", how to do it with GTK3?

I've burned Ubuntu 10.04 onto a disc, and I've partitioned my hard drive. When I boot I select my disc drive, but it just continues smoothly into my Windows 7 installation, as if there was no disc at all. I've tried booting with my Windows 7 installation disc, and it works fine. What am I doing wrong? The only thing on my Ubuntu disc is the .iso file, and I downloaded the 10.04 (latest version), not the one called LTS, could that be what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

[QUOTE=Fisker;31769233]I've burned Ubuntu 10.04 onto a disc, and I've partitioned my hard drive. When I boot I select my disc drive, but it just continues smoothly into my Windows 7 installation, as if there was no disc at all. I've tried booting with my Windows 7 installation disc, and it works fine. What am I doing wrong? The only thing on my Ubuntu disc is the .iso file, and I downloaded the 10.04 (latest version), not the one called LTS, could that be what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.[/QUOTE] Theres you're problem. You're burning the ISO file. Put in a Blank DVD, and right-click on the .iso and open it with Windows DVD Burner. You'll know if it's burned correctly as you'll have folders, including one called 'boot'.

Oh thanks, wont it work if I burn it onto a CD? Does it have to be DVD?

[QUOTE=Fisker;31769493]Oh thanks, wont it work if I burn it onto a CD? Does it have to be DVD?[/QUOTE] Ah, I misread your post, I thought you were installing 11.04, which its a few Megabytes too big for a CD. Yep a CD will work fine.

I am installing 11.04, sorry about the confusion. It tried putting it on a CD and it seems to work just fine. Thanks a lot :)

I've been messing with Ubuntu 10.04/11.04 for the past week but I'm on Fedora 15 now and I love it. Is there any way to make my account be considered root so I can yum update and yum install as I please without entering my password 45 times a day

[code] su - [/code] Should log you in as root. If that doesn't do the trick, you can run: [code] sudo su - [/code] You can then set your root password with [code]passwd[/code]

[QUOTE=Boris-B;31775972][code] su - [/code] Should log you in as root. If that doesn't do the trick, you can run: [code] sudo su - [/code] You can then set your root password with [code]passwd[/code][/QUOTE] That's what I'm doing now, but I mean a permanent solution so I don't have to log into su every time I open terminal. I did this in my really old Ubuntu 8.04 but I have absolutely no idea how I did it

You shouldn't be running as root normally.

Just leave your terminal open.

I've been using a VPS for a few days now and getting used to the linux terminal and such but I've run into a slight problem that I need some help with, being very new to this I'm completely clueless at this stage as to what to do. I've got something running that creates a directory and writes information to it, like a log, except it creates the directory without any write permissions. Is there a way to change that? It would be counter-productive for me to manually chmod each directory everytime it created one so that it can write to it.

What exactly are you running?