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Best method upgrading hardware

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I plan to swap out my mother board only for a better model that is more capable .

I currently have a dual boot setup . Ubuntu on one ssd, windows 10 on a second ssd. Then a 1t hdd I have split partion for files etc .

Would the best way to just transfer any thing I want to the hdd and just start from scratch on the two ssd's I use for booting ?

[ubuntu] Ubuntu installation freezes at the start itself [16.04.1]

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So, I recently tried to install the Ubuntu's version 16.04.1 amd-64 on my Asus ROG GL552VW notebook computer i7-6700HQ 2.59Ghz Win10...The installation froze for the first time and after doing some research on the internet I changed my bios settings and disabled fast boot, secured boot and made all the adjustments but still the installation froze at the first step itself and I'm unable to figure out what is causing it. I tried to look at the activity when the installation started but couldn't make out much so I'm attaching the screenshot and if someone could help it would be a great deal of help :)

Xubuntu core 14.04.2 installer

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Where i can find an installer for Xubuntu core v14.04.2 x64 and x86?

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Can I run any iteration of ubuntu on...

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I recently purchased an HP stream 360 laptop. It has windows 8 on it which I really hate. Want to put ubuntu on it and wonder
1. Can I and 2, will the cool touch screen feature still work. Thanks in advance.

Dual boot problems with Windows 10

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Ignore this, I did figure it out. - Sorry.

A couple days ago I installed Ubuntu Desktop on a Toshiba laptop. It worked ok except for the trackpad. I was trying to fix that and my computer became unbootable. No big deal, I will just reinstall Ubuntu. Nothing lost, I was just testing.

I did the reinstall OK, rebooted and it went straight to windows, did not get the boot menu. Went into windows, deleted the Ubuntu partition, did another new install, same thing.

Is there a way t boot off disk and write the pre-boot menu or force it to write? Ubuntu is there, I just can't get to it.

Thanks for any help.

Black Screen After Grub on Startup

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Last night, I installed a lot of packages and dependencies for a printer that I was having problems getting recognized.and got the printer to work. In hind-sight, I don't think I needed to install as much as I did, but will test that another time. Here is my dilemma - I turned on the computer and can't login. I am not hugely surprised as I figured I would probably muck something up with all of that package installation. When I go to Recovery in Grub, I chose DPKG to check broken dependencies and found that it wants to remove multiarch-support:i386 and install multiarch-support. When I approve for it to go ahead, it says "Could not download the upgrades. The upgrade has aborted." Then it talks about checking the internet connection (which was fine last night) or installation media. "Failed to fetch http'://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/ main/g/glibc/multiarch-support_2.23-0ubuntu3.amd64.deb. Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'. I tried to ping 8.8.8.8 and got connect:Network is unreachable.

I would be grateful for any suggestions as I am hoping not to have to do a reinstall after all of those package installations.

[ubuntu] Ubuntu Installation Freezes Early On

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I'm trying to install 16.10 via a thumb drive I configured using Rufus. I'm using the following hardware:

Asus X99-A USB 3.1 motherboard
Intel i7 6850K cpu
Asus Geforce GTX 1080 Strix video card
64 GB Kingston HyperX RAM
1 1 TB Samsung SSD
1 500 GB Samsung SSD
1 4 TB WD HDD

One of two things happens. One: The system boots to the GRUB screen and I select "Install". I get a graphical screen with "Ubuntu" displayed in the middle and animated dots indicating there's activity. Then, the animated dots stop and the install goes no further. I see the thumb drive light flash a few times beyond that but nothing happens after.

Two: The system boots to the GRUB screen and I select "Install". The screen flickers a few times and I get lines of text in the upper, left-hand corner of the screen. Several lines appear and then installation stops, just like it does when I get the graphical screen. I see the thumb drive flash a few times but it stops and nothing happens after that.

Also, if I "try" Ubuntu before installing, I get a very bad display and no ability to use the mouse. The desktop is duplicated side-by-side on a single screen (squished together and kind of garbled looking) and I appear to be able to tab through icons but hitting the "enter" key does nothing.

Select package version with apt get installation

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Hi!
As in the title I'll need to download and install a package via "apt-get install" command but need to specify the version, here's the question:
I need to install the Nvidia cuda toolkit package.
If I issue "apt-get install Nvidia toolkit" it install the last version of this package(version 8)....I need the 6.5... There's a way to specify the version I want when performing apt-get command ?..... I've tried "apt-get install Nvidia toolkit-6.5" but nothing .....Any suggestions about it?
P.s. I'm a newbie so be patience
Thanks!

Missing link after latest update ( 16.04 LTS)

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Executing desktop link - Unity gives an error and suggests to ditch the now nonexistent link to trash.

Dupe

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I need CUDA toolkit 6.5 because my GPU's driver ( gtx 330m) only supports that version

Easy q- software raid install on Ubuntu desktop?

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How do I handle this? The GUI installer isn't as robust as the server one for this kind of thing. The goal is a RAID 1. This is a build for a family member and I kinda want some redundancy because this will be on the cheap (not so much for saving data so much as saving time in case one dies.)

Can I use mdadm via the live disc before installing somehow? I tried in a VM and set up a mirror but am not sure how the GUI is gonna handle this, etc. and how I would save the config in /etc afterwards.

[xubuntu] Xubuntu doesn't boot after new installation

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So first off I just want to say hey! This is my first time on the Ubuntu forums so I'm doing my best to follow the rules and guidelines, but if I mess something up please let me know so I can make appropriate changes! So lets get into it shall we?

The Backstory:
I recently acquired an old Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 from ebay. It has a 1.66ghz Intel Atom with 2gigs of ram. I also switched out the 160gb HDD with windows 7 for a 250gb HDD that is presumed to be empty (well now it has Xubuntu on it). The machine works fine on windows. I first installed Kali Linux as I was hoping to have a small netbook to do some pen-testing on. The install went fine and overall I had no issues, except that it was slower than I would have preferred. I also realized that a more basic/general OS such as ubuntu would work better in the long run because it would lighter and more useable for day to day tasks. So I tried Ubuntu, only to find the same performance issue as with Kali. Xubuntu was the next choice and the one I would prefer to go with. I installed it that seemed to run smoothly. I installed some basic things such as wireshark and aircrack as well as ran some basic system updates (just apt to upgrade, update, and dist-upgrade). I also made sure that the intel video driver was installed and updated as I read that that can cause issues. So this is where things went south.

The Issue:
I restarted the laptop only to get a terminal style message that read:
Code:

/dev/sda1: recovering journal
/dev/sda1: clean, ######/##### files, #######/###### blocks

(I replaced the numbers with # just to save time and because they don't seem important.)
So what happened next? Well I waited for 20 minutes only to see no change. I don't really know whats wrong but I would like to find a useable fix for this. I've done some research but it's been unclear how to solve this and the tips scattered around the internet don't seem to really help. I don't really know how to use GRUB recovery mode but I can follow instructions if they're given.

I really hope that someone here can help find a fix to this and explain whats going on! Thanks a bunch,

~ Gupperino

Could NOT find Qt4 (missing: QT_QTOPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR QT_QTOPENGL_LIBRARY)

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Dear all, I am using ubuntu 16.04. I encountered a strange problem when installing viva. I can install viva successfully via sudo apt-get install viva, but by git clone I get the following error message. It says Could NOT find Qt4 (missing: QT_QTOPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR QT_QTOPENGL_LIBRARY) but I am sure I have installed libqt4-dev and libqt4-opengl. Any help is appreciated! output:
Code:

git clone https://github.com/schnorr/viva.git (no error) cd viva && mkdir -p build_graph && cd build_graph && cmake ../ -DTUPI_LIBRARY=ON -DVIVA=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME  CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.5/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:148 (message):  Could NOT find Qt4 (missing: QT_QTOPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR QT_QTOPENGL_LIBRARY)  (found version "4.8.7") Call Stack (most recent call first):  /usr/share/cmake-3.5/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:388 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)  /usr/share/cmake-3.5/Modules/FindQt4.cmake:1333 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)  CMakeLists.txt:91 (FIND_PACKAGE)  -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! See also "/home/smallcat/viva/build_graph/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log". See also "/home/smallcat/viva/build_graph/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".

[ubuntu] Windows inaccessible after 16.10 install

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I installed Ubuntu 16.10 alongside Windows 10 on a new partition on my second hard drive. During installation I got an error saying grub would have to be installed manually afterwards. After installation I could not boot to any OS nor access bios options (see https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/s...ot-loop.48820/ . I managed to reset the bios, boot to the ubuntu live usb and install grub with boot-repair. I can still not access windows though. Using boot-repair from the 16.10 install now returns an error asking me to disable secure boot, but I can find no secure boot setting in my bios options. I am unable to boot from any external media except the ubuntu live usb previously created on windows (I have tried a boot-repair live usb and a windows 10 installation iso burned to cd and usb).

After having no luck with the boot-repair live usb or the windows disk I just don't know what to try and would appreciate some help regaining access to windows.

I'm really not sure what's going on with my partitions (I have had other OS's installed and cloned the drive before) so I might as well post screenshots - it doesn't look that good to me to be honest. If there's any other information you need from me that could help, please ask.

Thanks


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The warning on sda1 is "failed to translate partition name".
I have no idea what partition sda2 is for. The warning is "Unable to detect file system! Possible reasons are:
- The file system is damaged
- The file system is unknown to GParted
- There is no file system available (unformatted)
- The device entry /dev/sda2 is missing"
Sda3 is my C:\ and sda4 is apparently a recovery drive.
The second drive seems pretty self explanatory.

[ubuntu] hard drive boot selection

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Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my 2nd hdd hard drive, while having win8 on my main ssd drive, I turned ssd drive off at bios for installation time and I get desirable effect of computer asking me each time during startup which system I want to choose, Ubuntu or win8, with hdd drive chosen as first boot. Today I wiped everything, formatted my hdd drive and installed new Ubuntu 16.04, but this time after installation question about which system I want to choose during startup went to ssd drive, even though it was off at bios, and I'm 100% sure hard drive chosen during installation was hdd. Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong this time and why its not working like yesterday? Thanks

14.04 or 16.04 on Lenovo x260

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Hi,

I got a Lenovo X260 from work and I need a stable native linux environment. It appears X260 is in the ubuntu 14.04 compatible list, but not yet in the 16.04.

I installed 16.04.1 yesterday and I get occasional errors - app store is running impossibly slow, cpu usage tends to rise for a single core while others are practically idle, when I first run chrome it gave me some errors, etc. In general, though I mostly work with the terminal, it's not a very "smooth" user experience.

Our IT team won't help and I need an advice:
Should I reinstall the system with 14.04?
Would you perhaps change to diffenent linux distribution? Or plainly keep 16.04 and work around the errors?

Thanks!

[ubuntu] Attempted to downgrade 16.10 to 16.10-server using tasksel, and now I cannot boot

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Ok I messed up. I should've started with "Server" but i didn't.

I setup a Plex Media Server. I have 2, 6TB drives. One contains the OS, my transfer of my plex media server database and files from a Windows box, about 1TB of music and 500GB of pictures. The 2nd drive is movies and whatnot.

I created /boot and / and swap upon install. I allowed Ubuntu to partition it for me. I did not do any manual partitioning.

I ran into problems on this install, in getting it to boot. They were solved in this thread

To save a click

Quote:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
cd /mnt/EFI

mkdir -p Microsoft/Boot

cp /mnt/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /mnt/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmfgw.efi

sudo efibootmgr -c -L "Windows Boot Manager" -l " \EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi"

sudo efibootmgr -c -L "Windows Boot Manager" -l " \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmfgw.efi "


and this fixed and I could boot.

Since then, I started ripping out lightdm, NetworkManager, and a number of services I just didn't need. Then i remembered "tasksel". And this is where I got in trouble.

I installed tasksel... I unselected the Ubuntu Desktop, selected the SSH Server and Samba Server (as i already had them installed)... and tasksel just went off uninstalling damned near everything. It removed my ntfs drivers, it removed vim, I saw "grub" packages being removed. I'm not really sure what's gone and what stayed.

But when I rebooted it obviously doesn't come up.

I get an error that states

vmlinux-4.8.0-32-generic.efi.signed not found


I'm comfortable booting off USB, mountaing and chrooting. What do I need to do to get this backup and running?

I'd really prefer not to reinstall b/c i have a TON of infromation that lives outside of my home directory that I would have to backup (again..just ot make sure) and then restore. And I'm really hoping to avoid that.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Won't boot 32 bit installation from Hard Drive

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I am reasonably green on the issue of Linux. However we have a 32 bit driver for some custom hardware we developed (PCI express) so we need to run a 32 bit version of Ubuntu/Linux.

We had no problems when we used the Intel DN2800MT or Mitac PD11TI Mini ITX boards. However we have problems with the Mitac PD10BI Mini ITX board.

The BIOS on the DN2800MT is
MDCDT10N.86A.0152.2012.0220.1510
UEFI fast boot disabled (legacy) with fast boot disabled.

PB10BI BIOS is
American Megatrends D7360A08
Legacy boot is chosen with fast boot chosen.

PD11TI BIOS is
MTCDT10N.85T.0201.2014.1209.1030
There is no option to select UEFI from BIOS menu.

First of all, the boards boot the 32 bit Ubuntu installer in legacy mode and the installer runs. This works on all three boards.

However after installation the PB10BI will not boot to Linux. After BIOS messages the processor seems active (Num Lock and ctrl-alt-del work on keypad), however the screen stays black.

If I swap a HDD flash drive from a board that boots to Ubuntu to the PB10BI it still hangs.

If I swap the HDD flash drive from the PB10TI after running the installer to one of the other two boards then Linux boots.

The main difference between the systems I see is the BIOS and the PB10TI has a faster Intel Celeron CPU as opposed to and Intel Atom on the other boards.


Any suggestions as to why the PB10TI board does not boot 32 bit Ubuntu in legacy mode?

Installation works in UEFI mode with 64 bit Ubuntu.

[lubuntu] Booting from USB Flash after lubuntu

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Hi,

Once installed lubuntu in a Netbook, I would like to boot from a USB Pendrive to install Windows XP again.
From the BIOS Boot Menu I select the PenDrive but it is going to GRUB menu instead of booting from USB.

How can I force to boot from USB?

Thanks..........

FJ

Yet Another Blank Screen During Installation

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Hi - I'm attempting to install Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS with no luck.

When I select Try Ubuntu without installing, the splash screen loads, the dots animate, the USB lights up; but after a few seconds, the dots stop animating and the USB goes dark. From there, the only thing I can do is CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart.

I've searched for possible causes but haven't found anything that works:

- Adding nomodeset shows me a blank screen instead of the splash screen.
- Adding grub_gfxmode has no effect. I've tried grub_gfxmode=1920x1080x32, grub_gfxmode=800x600x32 and every resolution in between.
- Turning Hibernate off via powercfg.exe /hibernate off as an admin has no effect.
- There doesn't appear to be a Fast Startup option on this notebook.
- Removing silent and/or splash has no effect.
- Adding acpi=off has no effect
- Adding nolapic loads the splash screen which does eventually change...to a blank screen.
- Verifying the ISO/USB image.
- Verified that Secure Boot is disabled.

Is there something else I should try? I'm a long-term Ubuntu Server user and want to switch from OS X to Ubuntu Desktop.

I've installed Ubuntu several times in a VM (including on this notebook) with no problem; I'm guessing it has something to do with the video card, but I don't have any external monitors to use for debugging.

Here are my notebook specs:

Sager NP8174
- 7th Gen Intel Core i7-7700HQ Processor
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5
- 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory
- 256GB OCZ RD400 NVMe M.2 SSD
- Intel Wireless-AC 8265 + Bluetooth
- Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit Edition

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much!
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