I think I'll just make a LiveUSB, and use Linux from it.
You can install software on a LiveUSB, don't you?
[editline]18th August 2011[/editline]
What is better LiLi, or Universal USB installer?
[QUOTE=Fisker;31794490]As far as I can tell it is possible to get Office installed onto Ubuntu using Wine.[/QUOTE]
Do you specifically need MS office? There's alternatives, such as Open Office/Libre Office, that have linux versions
[QUOTE=superstepa;31795052]I think I'll just make a LiveUSB, and use Linux from it.
You can install software on a LiveUSB, don't you?
[editline]18th August 2011[/editline]
What is better LiLi, or Universal USB installer?[/QUOTE]
unetbootin or universal usb thingy
[editline]17th August 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Pridit;31788804]Thanks for your suggestion but sadly that wouldn't work at all, it's not that straight forward.
[b]Isn't there a way in the terminal where I can set it so it has full permission to write to whatever it creates?[/b][/QUOTE]
this isn't an answer to your question but i had a small aneurysm at the thought of some game server having full read/write control on all of my system
[QUOTE=ButtsexV17;31788784]MINIX has the coolest mascot ever[/QUOTE]
No, [url=http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9/glenda.html]Plan 9 does[/url].
[QUOTE=Derpmeifter;31797095]unetbootin or universal usb thingy
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Lili allows you to do stuff, like allocating place for persistence data, tho
If you're worried about livebooting and doing something wrong when installing or you don't have a cd you can use VMware player, its free and you can install the linux of your choice with it.
[QUOTE=Wyzard;31797815]No, [url=http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9/glenda.html]Plan 9 does[/url].[/QUOTE]glenda is cool and all but raccoons beat rabbits any day
I'll now try to install Arch on a laptop. With no access to a web browser or ethernet connection during install and probably no WLAN drivers when I'm done. Wish me luck :v:
I put this into the terminal, but it just tells me that there is no such directory?
./winetricks gdiplus riched20 riched30 msxml3 msxml4 msxml6 corefonts tahoma vb6run vcrun6 msi2
Any reason why you have ./ at the front ./ Means look for that file in the current directory.
probably because winetricks is a script that is usually downloaded to the home directory
[QUOTE=Richy19;31794770]Ypu can get it free on dreamspark[/QUOTE]
Since when was Microsoft Office versions available at Dreamspark?
I just checked to make sure, at it isn't there. Either way, I still wouldn't be able to use anything from Dreamspark.
[QUOTE=Pridit;31787166]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.[/QUOTE]
Still need help with this.
[QUOTE=WeltEnSTurm;31799576]I'll now try to install Arch on a laptop. With no access to a web browser or ethernet connection during install and probably no WLAN drivers when I'm done. Wish me luck :v:[/QUOTE]
I gave up. Grub was looking for vmlinuz26 and kernel26.img in my boot folder, but they weren't there. Still not after twenty times of reinstalling with different settings.
Right now i'm installing arch linux! After i killed windows 7 because the system grew up to 24,5 gb and it's partition was 25 gb, but it was stable and fast.
[QUOTE=WeltEnSTurm;31803190]I gave up. Grub was looking for vmlinuz26 and kernel26.img in my boot folder, but they weren't there. Still not after twenty times of reinstalling with different settings.[/QUOTE]
They are vmlinuz-linux and initramfs-linux.img now
[editline]18th August 2011[/editline]
Ie. the default grub settings are broken. You have to use those values, then you can just login as root and permanently set them in /boot/grub/menu.lst (or whatever it was)
I tried that, but then I was stuck in the ramfs error shell. Meh, another time maybe.
Did you both enter vmlinuz-linux as kernel and initramfs-linux.img as the initramfs?
-Solved-
forgot to add eth0 to the interface in rc.conf
[QUOTE=ichiman94;31804707]How can I fix pacman?[/QUOTE]
What is broken?
[QUOTE=esalaka;31804101]Did you both enter vmlinuz-linux as kernel and initramfs-linux.img as the initramfs?[/QUOTE]
If I wouldn't have entered vmlinuz-linux, I'd have got a file not found error.
If I wouldn't have entered initramfs-linux.img, I wouldn't have gotten into the ramfs error console.
Posting from my new Suse partition; I love the little comics thing you can put in on your desktop, got Garfield and Dilbert so far :3:
And now Garfield Minus Garfield, happy happy days!
[QUOTE=WeltEnSTurm;31807353]If I wouldn't have entered vmlinuz-linux, I'd have got a file not found error.
If I wouldn't have entered initramfs-linux.img, I wouldn't have gotten into the ramfs error console.[/QUOTE]
'Kay.
Maybe the latest Arch images just are borked. Someone should contact the devs and tell them to make new ones ASAP
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;31794911]Just select your USB drive as the hard drive to install to. Make sure your bootloader is on the flash drive. After that, just stick it in to a computer and select the flash drive in BIOS when you boot.[/QUOTE]
If the BIOS is incapable of booting from USB, would GRUB (installed to a hard drive) be able to detect and boot from the flash drive?
[QUOTE=_Twitch_;31810303]If the BIOS is incapable of booting from USB, would GRUB (installed to a hard drive) be able to detect and boot from the flash drive?[/QUOTE]
Yes, you would just make an entry that directs to the flash drive.
[QUOTE=Sartek;31800755]Any reason why you have ./ at the front ./ Means look for that file in the current directory.[/QUOTE]
What would I write instead? And how will I know what directory Winetricks is placed in?
[QUOTE=Fisker;31794490]As far as I can tell it is possible to get Office installed onto Ubuntu using Wine.[/QUOTE]
My father's been really good about putting up with an Ubuntu/Windows dual boot on the family computer, and he's not uncomfortable with using Ubuntu. However, being a Ph.D math professor, he regularly uses MS Office, especially Excel, and so he always does that from Windows. He uses lots of macros and specific advanced stuff, Excel programming, etcetera and I won't force him to completely learn a new program.
I once tried installing Office with Wine on Ubuntu but it didn't work perfectly (Macros, specifically, are what he asked if he could do, and that crashed the program 100% of the time). So he still boots into Windows.
Compatibility with Windows stuff is what annoys me - it wasn't made for Linux, but I want to use Linux. I'll probably also need Word (OpenOffice works fine, right?), but if I could just get Garry's Mod to run I would full switch =(
Shit I just don't play video games any more, and don't have any desire to go back.
I wish I had a bigger hard drive so I can run comfortably with two operating systems
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