[ubuntu] How to upgrade from ubuntu 12.04 to 13.10
has anyone found a way to do so? i have been using Ubuntu for around a year now, and i dont think i have found a way to skip releases
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[ubuntu] gparted recognizes partitions, but installation wizard doesn't --...
I'm running a Dell Optiplex 745 with a x64 processor. I have Windows 7 x64 installed. I have tried making the partitions with both windows tools and gparte and still the problem persists. I don't have...
View Article[xubuntu] grub-efi-amd64-signed failed to install
I can't seem to get grub to install. I've tried several times, even supplying a /boot partition by hand. Everything else appears to go well, installing from dvd, but then I get the dreaded message. The...
View ArticleInstalling Ubuntu USB Drive "Unable to find a medium containing a live file...
Well I've spent the past 5 hours or so trying to get past this issue - I feel like my eyes are going to fall out! The error is "Busybox v1.18.5.... (initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a life...
View Articlefail to install envfs
Hi I'm not sure what to do Quote: $ sudo apt-get install encfs Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may...
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distro upgrade probem 12.04lts to 12.10: glibc lockfile create free, and memory
I have been running 12.04lts on a compaq dc7600 for a couple of years. It seems over the past few months to have begun to hang. I'm using both Chrome and Firefox, and FF often just fades to a shadow,...
View Article[xubuntu] 12.04.3 Is there a non-interactive boot loader I can install by hand?
There seem to be significant problems with the installer, grub, or both. So far, the installer has failed to install grub, and crashed, both in 12.04.3 and 13.10. It's unpleasantly repeatable, and the...
View Article[lubuntu] Upgraded to saucy 13.10. Now freezes on boot when using kernel...
Hello everyone! I upgraded lubuntu 12.10 -> 13.10. After this I'm unable to boot with current kernel version. Computer freezes on "lubuntu"-screen with white/blue dots and I cannot switch TTYs using...
View ArticleHow to change from grub boot loader to windows boot loader
Hi, I had a dual boot system with windows 7 and ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Unfortunately ubuntu 12.04 had crashed but the grub boot loader remains. Ubuntu is not recoverable at present. Presently I am able to...
View Article[ubuntu] ubuntu 7.04 upgrade ?
my trusty old circa 2000 laptop with 256mb and dvd reader just lost it's hard disk. Luckily i had an old 20gb hard disk that i had installed 7.04 on and my lap works well. But i do not have an internet...
View Article[ubuntu] Erasing A Thumb Drive For Installing A Newer Version OS
I have a thumb drive with Ubuntu 13.04. I used that to install it on my current machine. It holds 4 GB of data. I want to put an updated version on it. When I go to use the Startup Disk Creator program...
View ArticleHow it easy will it be to install Ubuntu on a Presario SR1403WM PW532AA#ABA
i am considering installing ubuntu on a Presario SR1403WM PW532AA#ABA it has 192 megs of ram and a sempron processor the only concern is that the media center will not work and also i have done some...
View ArticleUbuntu PXE installation unable to fetch distro
I used this tutorial https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...sServerNetboot and, after fiddling with the paths, got my pc tablet to boot to the Ubuntu install. My problem is that I cannot connect to the...
View ArticleCannot install ubuntu 11.10 on Dell Optiplex 170L with Pentium 4 processor, 2...
I have been trying to install Ubuntu 11.10 on my older Dell Optiplex 170L with a pentium 4 processor, 2 gb ram and 500 gb hard drive. I had Ubuntu installed on this machine before but I don't remember...
View Article[ubuntu] Upgrade gphoto2 2.4.11 to 2.5.2
The latest release of gphoto2 through "apt" appears to be 2.4.11. I tried to install the latest version (2.5.2) and another (2.4.14) from source using the ./configure; make; make install; approach from...
View ArticleCannot boot after upgrade
I already posted questions to several forums including here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2192528 but the issue is still not resolved. Thanks to everyone who tried to help, but can you let...
View ArticleBroken Package Managers
I'm running 12.04 on a Dell Latitude D820. For several months the wireless card (a Dell branded broadcom device) has not worked. I spent a few hours working on it at the time, and never got back to it....
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X-org Crashes and automatically logout
Hi, I am new to ubutu. After installing ubuntu 12.04 my computer hangs up inbetween and log out authomatically. I am attaching the error output. Screenshot 1.jpgScreenshot 2.jpg. Kindly help me out...
View Article[ubuntu] 12.04 Live USB complains about lack of space on /
I've downloaded the 64bit 12.04 LTS ISO and made a bootable USB drive with it using usb-creator as instructed here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...n/FromUSBStick After booting it up, I started...
View Article[ubuntu] can i migrating ubuntu 13.10 from 30gb HDD to a new HDD?
i have installed ubuntu 13.10 into old harddisk drive 30GB. .now i want to migrating it into new harddisk drive 120GB. can i do that?? i dont want to fresh install it because of all update and package...
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