[all variants] Minimal Installation in VM
I spent much of yesterday attempting to create a minimal installation of Ubuntu in a virtualbox VM, for some testing purposes. I didn't anticipate any problem, having installed a dozen or more VMs with...
View Article[ubuntu] mini iso install freeze, non-pae i486
Hi everyone! Yesterday I bought a nice little pc with AMD Geode processor, after a little trial and error I found out I had to use a non-PAE iso, so I downloaded the 12.04 mini ISO (both Ubuntu and...
View ArticleInstalling swap on seperate HDD
Hi, i'm about to install ubunutu on my PC but my boot drive is only small so would like to put the swap partition on a secondary drive. I also don't have the secondary HDD yet so won't be able to...
View Article[SOLVED] 13.10 Upgrade: Not Authorized to Update, Mount Drives, even Play DVD...
OK, this is has got to be one of the messiest upgrades I've encountered since I first started using Ubuntu in 2006. Besides everything else that has gone wrong, like not even being to shutdown without...
View Articlecant install ubuntu because my hard drive is completely full for some reason
So I have a windows 8 laptop which got infected by a virus and is completely uunable to be operated. I want to install ubuntu alongside windows 8, and then run an antivirus on the windows partition But...
View Article[ubuntu] installing ubuntu 10.04.4 server amd 64?
its been a while since i messed with ubuntu and forget what i learned..can someone help me make a bootable cd..i want to make sure ill be able to install the ubuntu os before i dump windows 8 from this...
View Article[ubuntu] Ubuntu install problem because hard disk is dynamic
Hi all, I tried to install ubuntu on my hardisk(windows 7) but the options are too confusing(new/sda1,2,3,4) so i skipped and tried to install it using wubi but after an hour of extraction and...
View ArticleCan't install Ubuntu or Lubuntu on any AMD/ATI computer
This one has me stumped. This problem is the same whether I'm using a laptop or a desktop and I have tried several Linux distros on several different machines with the same result. I simply cannot...
View ArticleMy foolish "apt-get dist-upgrade"
Instead of just installing security updates, I foolishly did a "dist-upgrade" on my HP Pavillion dv6000 with Kubuntu 12.04 ("lsb_release -a" currently shows "Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS") installed and running...
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[ubuntu] Help with Installation of Ubuntu 13.10 on HP Pavilion g6 notebook w/...
Hello, first post here. PC Stuff (don't know which are necessary to know for this problem, so I'm just dumping): OS: Windows 7 Ultimate SP 1 System Type: 64 bit Operating System Processor Type: AMD...
View Article[ubuntu] xpad issue
I am sort of a newbie at using ubuntu. I have ubuntu 12.10, and I am trying to install xpad but I have no clue what program to open it with. Does anyone have answers?
View Articlenew Ubuntu installation wouldn't boot, boot-repair couldn't fix it
Hi all, So I got a new Fujitsu Esprimo E710 computer that had Windows 7 on it, and I decided to erase Windows and put Ubuntu on instead. I hedged my bets first by booting a live CD and using partimage...
View Article[ubuntu] partial upgrade
i didn't log on the internet for about a week then when i got connected to the internet i tried to update the system _i'm running ubuntu 13.10_ it said it needs partial upgrade .when i click partial...
View Article[lubuntu] Install Ubuntu on SSD
I got a used computer and I installed ubuntu 13.10 on it. Afterwards I saw that there is a solid state drive of 120 GB on it. I installed ubuntu again but on the SSD without deleting the system on the...
View ArticleUpgrade Lubuntu 13.04 to 13.10 - Software Updater doesn't prompt for upgrade
Hello all, I have a PC running Lubuntu 13.04. Software Updater is configured to notify of version upgrades, but it's not doing it. I want to upgrade this box to 13.10 the easiest way possible. Is there...
View ArticleBooting anything from UEFI USB - packard Bell ENME69BMP InsydeH2O
Hi, I got a Packard Bell easy note ME69BMP (ENME69BMP). I am trying to get it to boot ***anything*** from USB at all. The goal would be to put some kind of Linux / Ubuntu on it but i got much less...
View Article[ubuntu] Installation Problems on Dell XPS 15
I just received a new laptop (a Dell XPS 15 L521X) as a holiday gift. It is currently running Windows 7. I want to get rid of Windows completely and put Ubuntu 10.10 on it. So I went ahead an made a...
View Article[ubuntu] Shutdown, Restart, Logout, all no longer working since upgrade to 13.10
After upgrading to 13.10, ... Shutdown, Restart, and Logout... items not working. Nothing happens at all.....No process starts. I'm referring to shutdown etc..from the "gear" menu dropdown. I can find...
View ArticleLost password
So my friend had an old computer running ubuntu that he hasn't looked at in a while. I found it, he said I could have it, but he forgot his password for admin. There's no password on login, but I can't...
View Article[ubuntu] Fresh install on SSD gone awry...
I have installed windows 7 on my new 128gb SSD...then I ran the ubuntu 12.04 LTS installer and altered the Windows partition to 85gb. Created a ext4 with mount as / of 35gb. a swap of 8gb, before...
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