[QUOTE=IpHa;31921034][code]#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]; do
sleep 10
if ! ping -qc 1 google.com > /dev/null; then
echo "Problem detected, restoring backup"
#Shut down interface
cp config.bak config
#Start interface
fi
done[/code]
[editline]24th August 2011[/editline]
[code]su -c <command> <user>[/code][/QUOTE]
I'll be saving that for later, i got it working though.
But i can't manage to get the network to pass through openvpn, every page just times out.
[QUOTE=leach139;31890885]Recently got my Arch laptop up and using KDE, but there's one nagging flaw: I stream all my movies over SAMBA from my NAS, and nothing seems to want to stream over SAMBA. VLC segfaults / throws Generic Mc. Error, Dragon does nothing, and MPlayer plays it with no video. Ideas (short of manually mounting it with fstab, which I don't want to do because I'm constantly in-and-out of my home network)?[/QUOTE]
If you're willing to fiddle around with your NAS, try using NFS instead of Samba - it offers a huge performance boost (unless your data partition is using NTFS, then it's capped at ~20mbps because ntfs-3g's FUSE backed is slow, but even that's enough for 1080p movie streaming). And it might actually fix your problem. :v:
[QUOTE=nos217;31888287]I'm trying to run UNetBootin from Fedora 15, but I get the following error: [code]g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.[/code]
This also happens when I try to run Firefox as root (I only did this to see if it would cause the same thing.[/QUOTE]
Sorry to be a pain but can anyone help with this? I can't seem to find a fix. It runs if I am not root, but obviously I need to run UNetBootin as root.
[QUOTE=nos217;31932849]Sorry to be a pain but can anyone help with this? I can't seem to find a fix. It runs if I am not root, but obviously I need to run UNetBootin as root.[/QUOTE]
Obviously you need to run UNetBootin as root? I've never once in my life ran it as root, not on Windows nor on Linux. Just mount the USB partition as a user (which should work fine in Fedora 15) and run unetbootin as a standard user. Works for me :)
Yes, obviously:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/chB18.png[/img]
Seems obvious enough to me.
That wasn't meant to sound angry if it did, sorry.
Which distro do you think will work best on an External HDD?
[QUOTE=nos217;31934256]Yes, obviously:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/chB18.png[/img]
Seems obvious enough to me.
That wasn't meant to sound angry if it did, sorry.[/QUOTE]
Hm, strange, it works fine here.
But the error seems to indicate (I might be terribly wrong) that something is wrong with the device you're writing TO and not with unetbootin.
It's just a guess, I'm not actually sure what could cause this problem. Does it work fine when extracting files from an iso and writing those to the USB?
[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;31935966]Which distro do you think will work best on an External HDD?[/QUOTE]
Pretty much any distro will work fine on an external HDD. Any specific needs?
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;31937564]
Pretty much any distro will work fine on an external HDD. Any specific needs?[/QUOTE]
Just some diagnostics tools. Not really fussy after that.
[QUOTE=q3k;31925491]If you're willing to fiddle around with your NAS, try using NFS instead of Samba - it offers a huge performance boost (unless your data partition is using NTFS, then it's capped at ~20mbps because ntfs-3g's FUSE backed is slow, but even that's enough for 1080p movie streaming). And it might actually fix your problem. :v:[/QUOTE]
NFS has no kind of user authentication, and sadly that's something I need (and I really, really don't want to be dicking around with NIS)
I'm off to download Ubuntu again but before I go take this.
[IMG_THUMB]http://i.imgur.com/YKc2R.jpg[/IMG_THUMB]
Posting from Fedora 14 running on a live cd. The first meeting for my college linux class is tonight, and I read that we will be using Fedora 12.
Oh hey, a package of mine on AUR is broken.
What joy.
Is there anyway to check drivers in Fedora 15?
And is there any way to force driver updates?
[QUOTE=Richy19;31941113]Is there anyway to check drivers in Fedora 15?
And is there any way to force driver updates?[/QUOTE]
If you're using the packages for the drivers that a built in to the system, and you didn't manually install them, they'll be updated automatically. Worked for me with the Catalyst drivers and RPM-Fusion, and it works guaranteed with the open source drivers.
[QUOTE=esalaka;31941094]Oh hey, a package of mine on AUR is broken.
What joy.[/QUOTE]
Hey, [url=https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51034]my only AUR package[/url] broke recently, too!
Buddies!
I'm currently only managing gyazo-git (The devs finally fixed the problem with the latest version of ruby, causing my patch to break the package :v:) but I used to have some lib32 SDL package I got from an inactive guy for a week until someone decided to up it into community.
I have practically no experience with Linux. Just thought I'd put that out there first.
I just installed Ubuntu along side my windows 7 installation with Wubi, installed it on my d drive. When I boot into Linux i can access all the partitions on both my drives, except for the partition I installed it on. Is it possible for me to mount that drive?
Okay, guys. This is more of a big question than a small question, but I'll put it here because I know this thread is read quite a bit and is full of helpful people.
So, my objective is to learn a bit more about linux, and I will do that by installing gentoo. I was previously told the installation would help me in my quest for learning more about internal computer workings and such, but I have a problem.
Currently, I have two drives on my computer. C and F.
C is my default windows drive that has the Windows OS, most of my steam games, and most of my personal documents except for music. I need to keep this drive intact, so taking windows off it is not an option
F is my 1.5 TB external hard drive which has all of my downloaded games, music library, and I'm trying to bring anything valuable onto it.
The problem is, I partitioned that F drive to have half of it be Ubuntu, and half of it be a standard drive which I could access my files I put on it.
The question is, how would I go about
1: Uninstalling or removing Ubuntu (I don't have important files on it, so that partition could be relocated) while keeping the hard drive intact.
2: Installing Gentoo on the F drive while still keeping the files on the other partition (my music, games, etc.) intact
There's not much space on the C drive (32.2 GB out of 226, could probably free up more), but if an option would somehow split the C drive and allow Gentoo to run on that would be a nice option.
[QUOTE=Chezhead;31954870]Okay, guys. This is more of a big question than a small question, but I'll put it here because I know this thread is read quite a bit and is full of helpful people.
So, my objective is to learn a bit more about linux, and I will do that by installing gentoo. I was previously told the installation would help me in my quest for learning more about internal computer workings and such, but I have a problem.
Currently, I have two drives on my computer. C and F.
C is my default windows drive that has the Windows OS, most of my steam games, and most of my personal documents except for music. I need to keep this drive intact, so taking windows off it is not an option
F is my 1.5 TB external hard drive which has all of my downloaded games, music library, and I'm trying to bring anything valuable onto it.
The problem is, I partitioned that F drive to have half of it be Ubuntu, and half of it be a standard drive which I could access my files I put on it.
The question is, how would I go about
1: Uninstalling or removing Ubuntu (I don't have important files on it, so that partition could be relocated) while keeping the hard drive intact.
2: Installing Gentoo on the F drive while still keeping the files on the other partition (my music, games, etc.) intact[/quote]
Repartition the drive (you can leave the half with all your valuable files alone), and install Gentoo where Ubuntu was.
[quote]There's not much space on the C drive (32.2 GB out of 226, could probably free up more), but if an option would somehow split the C drive and allow Gentoo to run on that would be a nice option.[/QUOTE]
Resize your windows partition (gparted can do this) and install Gentoo to the newly allocated space.
[QUOTE=_Twitch_;31955035]Repartition the drive (you can leave the half with all your valuable files alone), and install Gentoo where Ubuntu was.
Resize your windows partition (gparted can do this) and install Gentoo to the newly allocated space.[/QUOTE]
Ooh, thanks! Just curious, how much space would Gentoo take up?
[QUOTE=Chezhead;31955112]Ooh, thanks! Just curious, how much space would Gentoo take up?[/QUOTE]
I've never used Gentoo, so I can't say for sure, but I'd expect a fresh install to take less than 5GB.
Looking at the tutorial for installing Gentoo, I think I'll be installing Arch first.
[QUOTE=_Twitch_;31955035]Resize your windows partition (gparted can do this)[/QUOTE]
So can Windows - and potentially more securely
[QUOTE=esalaka;31956037]So can Windows - and potentially more securely[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure either way is equally as secure, as long as you remember to defragment your drive first.
windows doesn't let you resize your primary partition though
Ahhh, all these tutorials are really confusing me. I just want to install Arch Linux on one half of my F drive, and I just can't figure out how to do this.
The funny part about this is that the only reason I want to do this is so I can have an [URL="http://dwm.suckless.org/"]extremely cool looking desktop[/URL], as well as learning how to actually do installations of this sort of stuff.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV17;31956580]windows doesn't let you resize your primary partition though[/QUOTE]
That's weird, I'm certain Windows 7 was able to do that because I had a nice small Windows partition and lots of free space when I started installing Arch.
maybe 7 lets you do that now, I haven't tried since XP
Okay, I've settled with installing Arch in virtualbox. I can't destroy my computer if something goes wrong when it's quarantined to a nifty little window, right?
...right?
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