Fresh install of 14.10 on dual boot with win xp on an old net book. I managed to set up Grub to boot option into Win XP listed first. I pushed my luck attempting to "decorate" and installed Burg (which I learned since hasn't been supported since 2010). Now I'm left with a bunch of text and a Grub prompt "grub >" prompt after reboot. I'm a total noob with Linux and would appreciate any help in recovering from this hell I found myself in- a least painful method would be awesome.
Showing posts with label installing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label installing. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 February 2015
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Help Needed - Installing on HP Stream 7 topic
Hello All,
I have been working on installing Ubuntu on the hp stream 7 on and off since about Xmas. (Windoze and associated partitions are long gone and the UEFI firmware seems to work just fine, in that it boots my preferences).
I have been able to successfully boot a number of different distributions(all ubuntu flavored; Mate, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu, UbuntuGNOME, ...), using a combination of methods listed above, and elsewhere (though I can't find it now), via bootableUSB. (Please note, for nothing discussed below was there an SD card in the tablet)
Before I had a chance to sit down and take the project back up, (and notice this awesome post!), I had followed a guide that only required moving bootia32.efi to an /EFI/BOOT folder with the native grub.cfg file and making the modification in 4.
Current Method:
0) Get USB install disk.
1) Copy fedlet /EFI to install disk's /.
2) Delete /EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg, move/boot/grub/loopback.cfg to its place.
3) append *efi to linux initrd as described above
4) Replace instances of
with
in grub boot options.
If it doesn't work or display, I just reboot and delete the video and reboot settings from (4) before booting.
Problem:
On every ubuntu distibution I tried, the installation process takes inordinately long. By installation process, I mean ubiquity getting ready to install, not the actual install and by long I mean like, battery-life long.
I think I have some indication that it may have to do with the constant error message I see during boot and operation about a blk partition and rw status (including
). I will get an exact log when I reboot it.
Some History :
I have managed to have it actually install twice (with no particular pattern). Each time after telling grub where to look, booting, and updating / grub-updating, the tablet wouldn't boot. So I was back to the USBdisk.
When I am running ubiquity, I can't see any indication in top, nor info in dmesg that would give me any impression that the install is getting set-up. I have tried with and without thrid-party pkgs and updates (via an ethernet thether that is recognized), as I noticed a bug relating to this and 14.x variants.
This was going nowhere very slowly, and like many a foolish delatante linuxer, i tried to dd an image to mmcblk0 from the install USB. I know that was stupid - It was even studpider was when I tried it again, a couple attempts later. Granted I had rebooted and formatted the partition, but this didn't get me anywhere.
Now:
Now, I can still boot everything, from a USB. There is a 30 gig main device listed at /dev/mmcblk0 and two /mmcblk0boot[x] partitions, in addition to a few mmcblk0zrams, which I can only assume to be old swap spaces? There is also the mmcblk0prmb which seems to be causing issues.
I know for a fact I haven't done near enough to fry the flash memory from writes. That said, I completely grant I may have fried the SD card from dd or otherwise. Hopefully not.
If your impression is that I did not, do you have any recommendations on how to clean upthe internalSD for install? Once installed, it seems to just be a matter of updating the grub and its paths, though if there is something that needs to be done to a new install (like the install-flash-disk (see above)) I would greatly appreciate suggestions.
If you think I did fry the SD, would anyone know if it is possible to boot regularly from an externalSD? I figure there is still 30 gigs of just fine space in there one way or another, and a large SDs are easy to come by. I apologize for asking something I can probably check in the UEFI settings, the tablet is just quite out of juice after my last 24hr attack.
Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I am obtaining a copy of windoze now, to see if daddy Gates can help. Barring that working, I am going to try and go down the externalSD route, time for homework kept in mind :P .
Many thanks
[Please Note: I have exerience and no formal training with ubuntu/gnu-linux. I also don't post a lot, so please forgive any over obvious points or things I missed.]
I have been working on installing Ubuntu on the hp stream 7 on and off since about Xmas. (Windoze and associated partitions are long gone and the UEFI firmware seems to work just fine, in that it boots my preferences).
I have been able to successfully boot a number of different distributions(all ubuntu flavored; Mate, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu, UbuntuGNOME, ...), using a combination of methods listed above, and elsewhere (though I can't find it now), via bootableUSB. (Please note, for nothing discussed below was there an SD card in the tablet)
Before I had a chance to sit down and take the project back up, (and notice this awesome post!), I had followed a guide that only required moving bootia32.efi to an /EFI/BOOT folder with the native grub.cfg file and making the modification in 4.
Current Method:
0) Get USB install disk.
1) Copy fedlet /EFI to install disk's /.
2) Delete /EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg, move/boot/grub/loopback.cfg to its place.
3) append *efi to linux initrd as described above
4) Replace instances of
Code:
quiet splashCode:
video=VGA-1:800x1280e reboot=pci,forceIf it doesn't work or display, I just reboot and delete the video and reboot settings from (4) before booting.
Problem:
On every ubuntu distibution I tried, the installation process takes inordinately long. By installation process, I mean ubiquity getting ready to install, not the actual install and by long I mean like, battery-life long.
I think I have some indication that it may have to do with the constant error message I see during boot and operation about a blk partition and rw status (including
Code:
mmcblk0rpmb: timed out sending r/w cmd commandSome History :
I have managed to have it actually install twice (with no particular pattern). Each time after telling grub where to look, booting, and updating / grub-updating, the tablet wouldn't boot. So I was back to the USBdisk.
When I am running ubiquity, I can't see any indication in top, nor info in dmesg that would give me any impression that the install is getting set-up. I have tried with and without thrid-party pkgs and updates (via an ethernet thether that is recognized), as I noticed a bug relating to this and 14.x variants.
This was going nowhere very slowly, and like many a foolish delatante linuxer, i tried to dd an image to mmcblk0 from the install USB. I know that was stupid - It was even studpider was when I tried it again, a couple attempts later. Granted I had rebooted and formatted the partition, but this didn't get me anywhere.
Now:
Now, I can still boot everything, from a USB. There is a 30 gig main device listed at /dev/mmcblk0 and two /mmcblk0boot[x] partitions, in addition to a few mmcblk0zrams, which I can only assume to be old swap spaces? There is also the mmcblk0prmb which seems to be causing issues.
I know for a fact I haven't done near enough to fry the flash memory from writes. That said, I completely grant I may have fried the SD card from dd or otherwise. Hopefully not.
If your impression is that I did not, do you have any recommendations on how to clean upthe internalSD for install? Once installed, it seems to just be a matter of updating the grub and its paths, though if there is something that needs to be done to a new install (like the install-flash-disk (see above)) I would greatly appreciate suggestions.
If you think I did fry the SD, would anyone know if it is possible to boot regularly from an externalSD? I figure there is still 30 gigs of just fine space in there one way or another, and a large SDs are easy to come by. I apologize for asking something I can probably check in the UEFI settings, the tablet is just quite out of juice after my last 24hr attack.
Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I am obtaining a copy of windoze now, to see if daddy Gates can help. Barring that working, I am going to try and go down the externalSD route, time for homework kept in mind :P .
Many thanks
[Please Note: I have exerience and no formal training with ubuntu/gnu-linux. I also don't post a lot, so please forgive any over obvious points or things I missed.]
Monday, 9 February 2015
installing adobe reader 11.0.10 topic
I am trying to install the latest adobe reader through wine. I picked windows 7 version but I seem to install it and then at the end I get an error every time, see screenshot
Screenshot - 02092015 - 05:08:17 PM.png
this is for a library and people can't finish documents without the latest adobe version. Any suggestions? I hate it when I have to tell the librarian linux can't do something. I have xubuntu14.04 64 bit on all the machines.
Screenshot - 02092015 - 05:08:17 PM.png
this is for a library and people can't finish documents without the latest adobe version. Any suggestions? I hate it when I have to tell the librarian linux can't do something. I have xubuntu14.04 64 bit on all the machines.
[ubuntu_studio] Problems with wireless internet and installing new driver Realtek RTL r8168 topic
Hi, I have a Lenovo z40 laptop and the wireless doesn't work at all with Ubuntu Studio 14.10. In reading mulitple forums, it seems that I need to download the driver for Realtek RTL r8168 and blacklist r8169. I have downloaded r8168 but run into error messages after trying to build the kernel:
So I consulted that file and this is what it told me:
So I get stuck when trying to rebuild the kernel. I've been consulting the following threads:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2238805
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2261277
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2238805
Any ideas as to where i can go from here?
Code:
haven@haven-Lenovo-Z40-70:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
[sudo] password for haven:
(Reading database ... 283768 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack dkms_2.2.0.3-1.1ubuntu5_all.deb ...
Unpacking dkms (2.2.0.3-1.1ubuntu5) over (2.2.0.3-1.1ubuntu5) ...
Setting up dkms (2.2.0.3-1.1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-2) ...
haven@haven-Lenovo-Z40-70:~/Downloads$ sudo tar xvf 3005217-r8168-dkms-8.038.00.tar.gz -C /usr/src
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/src/Makefile
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/src/Makefile_linux24x
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/src/r8168.h
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/src/r8168_asf.c
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/src/r8168_asf.h
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/src/r8168_dash.h
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/src/r8168_n.c
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/src/rtltool.c
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/src/rtltool.h
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/src/rtl_eeprom.c
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/src/rtl_eeprom.h
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/dkms.conf
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/autorun.sh
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/Makefile
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/README
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/src/
r8168-dkms-8.038.00/
haven@haven-Lenovo-Z40-70:~/Downloads$ sudo dkms add -m r8168-dkms -v 8.038.00
Error! DKMS tree already contains: r8168-dkms-8.038.00
You cannot add the same module/version combo more than once.
haven@haven-Lenovo-Z40-70:~/Downloads$ sudo dkms build -m r8168-dkms -v 8.038.00
Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...
Building module:
cleaning build area....
'make' -C src/ all............(bad exit status: 2)
ERROR (dkms apport): binary package for r8168-dkms: 8.038.00 not found
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.16.0-30-lowlatency (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/r8168-dkms/8.038.00/build/make.log for more information.Code:
Mon Feb 9 12:38:05 CST 2015
make: Entering directory '/var/lib/dkms/r8168-dkms/8.038.00/build/src'
make -C /lib/modules/3.16.0-30-lowlatency/build SUBDIRS=/var/lib/dkms/r8168-dkms/8.038.00/build/src clean
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.16.0-30-lowlatency'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.16.0-30-lowlatency'
make -C /lib/modules/3.16.0-30-lowlatency/build SUBDIRS=/var/lib/dkms/r8168-dkms/8.038.00/build/src modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.16.0-30-lowlatency'
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/r8168-dkms/8.038.00/build/src/r8168_n.o
/var/lib/dkms/r8168-dkms/8.038.00/build/src/r8168_n.c: In function ‘rtl8168_init_one’:
/var/lib/dkms/r8168-dkms/8.038.00/build/src/r8168_n.c:17545:5: error: implicit declaration of function ‘SET_ETHTOOL_OPS’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
SET_ETHTOOL_OPS(dev, &rtl8168_ethtool_ops);
^
/var/lib/dkms/r8168-dkms/8.038.00/build/src/r8168_n.c: In function ‘rtl8168_schedule_work’:
/var/lib/dkms/r8168-dkms/8.038.00/build/src/r8168_n.c:19122:5: error: implicit declaration of function ‘PREPARE_DELAYED_WORK’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
PREPARE_DELAYED_WORK(&tp->task, task);
^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
scripts/Makefile.build:257: recipe for target '/var/lib/dkms/r8168-dkms/8.038.00/build/src/r8168_n.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/r8168-dkms/8.038.00/build/src/r8168_n.o] Error 1
Makefile:1345: recipe for target '_module_/var/lib/dkms/r8168-dkms/8.038.00/build/src' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/r8168-dkms/8.038.00/build/src] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.16.0-30-lowlatency'
Makefile:70: recipe for target 'modules' failed
make: *** [modules] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/var/lib/dkms/r8168-dkms/8.038.00/build/src'http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2238805
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2261277
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2238805
Any ideas as to where i can go from here?
[ubuntu] Cannot remove OpenJDK, without installing other packages topic
Greetings,
I am running Ubuntu 14.04.1 64-bit and I would like to remove the packages openjdk-7-* since I already have Oracle Java installed. But when I try to remove them via the command line I get the following weird response which suggests to install the earlier releases of the very packages I would like to purge. How can I remedy this situation and remove OpenJDK for good? Any help and/or suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
Furthermore, what does the first part of the output mean?
I am running Ubuntu 14.04.1 64-bit and I would like to remove the packages openjdk-7-* since I already have Oracle Java installed. But when I try to remove them via the command line I get the following weird response which suggests to install the earlier releases of the very packages I would like to purge. How can I remedy this situation and remove OpenJDK for good? Any help and/or suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
Code:
$ sudo apt-get purge openjdk-7-*Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'openjdk-7' for regex 'openjdk-7-*'
Note, selecting 'openjdk-7-jre-zero' for regex 'openjdk-7-*'
Note, selecting 'openjdk-7-jdk' for regex 'openjdk-7-*'
Note, selecting 'openjdk-7-jre-headless' for regex 'openjdk-7-*'
Note, selecting 'openjdk-7-dbg' for regex 'openjdk-7-*'
Note, selecting 'openjdk-7-jre-lib' for regex 'openjdk-7-*'
Note, selecting 'uwsgi-plugin-jvm-openjdk-7' for regex 'openjdk-7-*'
Note, selecting 'openjdk-7-jre' for regex 'openjdk-7-*'
Note, selecting 'openjdk-7-source' for regex 'openjdk-7-*'
Note, selecting 'openjdk-7-demo' for regex 'openjdk-7-*'
Note, selecting 'openjdk-7-doc' for regex 'openjdk-7-*'
Note, selecting 'uwsgi-plugin-jwsgi-openjdk-7' for regex 'openjdk-7-*'
Package 'openjdk-7' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'uwsgi-plugin-jvm-openjdk-7' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'uwsgi-plugin-jwsgi-openjdk-7' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'openjdk-7-dbg' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'openjdk-7-demo' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'openjdk-7-doc' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'openjdk-7-jdk' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'openjdk-7-source' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'openjdk-7-jre-lib' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'openjdk-7-jre-zero' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
launchpad-getkeys linux-image-3.13.0-43-generic
linux-image-extra-3.13.0-43-generic python-keyring python-launchpadlib
python-lazr.restfulclient python-lazr.uri python-oauth python-secretstorage
python-wadllib xclip yad
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm icedtea-netx openjdk-6-jre
openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib ttf-dejavu-extra
Suggested packages:
icedtea-plugin sun-java6-fonts fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-ipafont-mincho
ttf-telugu-fonts ttf-oriya-fonts ttf-kannada-fonts ttf-bengali-fonts
The following packages will be REMOVED:
default-jre* default-jre-headless* octave* openjdk-7-jre*
openjdk-7-jre-headless*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm icedtea-netx openjdk-6-jre
openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib ttf-dejavu-extra
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 5 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 37.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 3,014 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n][ubuntu] Ubuntu Desktop messed up after installing ubuntu-gnome-desktop topic
Hi,
I've got an Ubuntu 14.10 installation and I wanted to be able to choose between the standard ubuntu desktop and gnome on login.
I did:
Gnome seems to work fine, but when I log into Ubuntu Desktop, it's messed up, because it seems to be half Unity, half Gnome.
I get the Unity panel, but the top bar is Gnome - and terminal is messed up because it's using the system theme.
Is there a way I can have both, independent desktops on the same install?
Thanks,
Ian
I've got an Ubuntu 14.10 installation and I wanted to be able to choose between the standard ubuntu desktop and gnome on login.
I did:
Code:
apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktopI get the Unity panel, but the top bar is Gnome - and terminal is messed up because it's using the system theme.
Is there a way I can have both, independent desktops on the same install?
Thanks,
Ian
Sunday, 8 February 2015
Installing Liberte Linux from Ubuntu topic
I am trying to install Liberte onto a USB stick (I have formatted this as FAT32).
I copied the Liberte zip file and extracted its contents to the USB drive.
I logged in my root account and typed this is the terminal:
/media/q-unit/664B-056B/liberte-2012.3/liberte/setup.sh
the terminal returns bash: /media/q-unit/664B-056B/liberte-2012.3/liberte/setup.sh: Permission denied
Does anybody know what I am doing wrong?
I copied the Liberte zip file and extracted its contents to the USB drive.
I logged in my root account and typed this is the terminal:
/media/q-unit/664B-056B/liberte-2012.3/liberte/setup.sh
the terminal returns bash: /media/q-unit/664B-056B/liberte-2012.3/liberte/setup.sh: Permission denied
Does anybody know what I am doing wrong?
Installing over a existing ubuntu install alongside windows topic
I have windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04 Lts. If I want to overwrite the ext.4 partition using "something else " in the installer do I do the following this from this forum -
Please note I was considering installing over Ubuntu with Zorin. However how would I adapt the above for adding a 3rd operating system ( a 2nd distro).
I am a novice. Step by step like the above is clear enough for me (assuming its right). A break down of the steps used is even better again if possible.
Hope that is not asking to much and many thanks. :)
Firstly, make sure you know what partition your 11.10 installation is on. MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP ALL YOUR FILES before you do anything in Windows and Ubuntu!
After booting from Ubuntu live cd, wait for it to load and click 'install Ubuntu'. Follow the onscreen instructions. Soon it will ask you where to install your new system. You need to use the installation option'something else' from the installation menu that comes up on the screen. The next menu that appears will show your partitions, one for Windows and one for Ubuntu. You can identify fairly easily the one with Ubuntu on it as Windows partitions will be marked as 'NTFS' file system. Ubuntu is Ext4 files sytem. Now, I'm going from memory here but I believe Windows has to be the primary partition and Ubuntu will be in an extended partition with it's own swap file at the end somewhere. You don't need to do anything will the swap file, it sorts itself out. But you need to highlight the main Ubuntu extended partition and click 'change'. Select the file system you wish to use from the drop down menu, this is normally 'ext4 journaling. To overwrite it without removing your files and programs do NOT click format the partition. However, I believe to get the best results it's best to do a clean install by formatting this partition. If you wish to do this just tick the 'format' box. This is easy if you have backed up your files, but the choice is yours. Just remember it overwrites all files which will be lost if you haven't backed them up.
At this point you need to mark this partition as '/'(root) from the menu options by selecting it from the drop down menu. Don't do anything to the swap file partition. That will sort itself out. Now just click 'forward'. Ubuntu will now install over your old version and install the bootloader Grub so you have a dual boot system.
After booting from Ubuntu live cd, wait for it to load and click 'install Ubuntu'. Follow the onscreen instructions. Soon it will ask you where to install your new system. You need to use the installation option'something else' from the installation menu that comes up on the screen. The next menu that appears will show your partitions, one for Windows and one for Ubuntu. You can identify fairly easily the one with Ubuntu on it as Windows partitions will be marked as 'NTFS' file system. Ubuntu is Ext4 files sytem. Now, I'm going from memory here but I believe Windows has to be the primary partition and Ubuntu will be in an extended partition with it's own swap file at the end somewhere. You don't need to do anything will the swap file, it sorts itself out. But you need to highlight the main Ubuntu extended partition and click 'change'. Select the file system you wish to use from the drop down menu, this is normally 'ext4 journaling. To overwrite it without removing your files and programs do NOT click format the partition. However, I believe to get the best results it's best to do a clean install by formatting this partition. If you wish to do this just tick the 'format' box. This is easy if you have backed up your files, but the choice is yours. Just remember it overwrites all files which will be lost if you haven't backed them up.
At this point you need to mark this partition as '/'(root) from the menu options by selecting it from the drop down menu. Don't do anything to the swap file partition. That will sort itself out. Now just click 'forward'. Ubuntu will now install over your old version and install the bootloader Grub so you have a dual boot system.
Please note I was considering installing over Ubuntu with Zorin. However how would I adapt the above for adding a 3rd operating system ( a 2nd distro).
I am a novice. Step by step like the above is clear enough for me (assuming its right). A break down of the steps used is even better again if possible.
Hope that is not asking to much and many thanks. :)
Saturday, 7 February 2015
[ubuntu] Ethernet Internet Works in Try Ubuntu 14.04.1 but not after Installing topic
I am no using the Ubuntu 14.04.1 "Try Ubuntu", the Ethernet connection to go on the internet works great, as you can see. However, when I boot up the installed version, no Ethernet, no Wireless. Is there a way to get the information the correct info over to the installed version so it works?
[ubuntu] Installing 2 new HDDs topic
I need some help in installing 2 HDDs to a working system as I am getting errors partitioning and formatting the second drive.
I had two spare 1TB disks left over from my SAN when I upgraded it. Wanted to add these to an existing Ubuntu 14.10 machine which has 1 SSD already installed. So I added the 2 SATA disks there was already the CDRom and SSD attached so I used the next two SATA ports on the Motherboard, the system rebooted OK
gave me
*_disk:0
logical disk /dev/sdb
PATRIOT 128GB SSD
*_disk:1
logical disk /dev/sdc
WDC 1TB Hard Disk
*_disk:
logical disk /dev/sda
WDC 1TB Hard Disk
so I proceeded with gparted, as the disks had previously been used in the SAN they were already partitioned (EXT3), I deleted all the existing partitions and created 1 primary partition on each which I formatted as EXT4. When trying to logout of gparted I got Error fsyncing/closing/dev/sdb:Input/Output error this wouldn't go with retry and the original screen still showed it was scanning. when I tried to ignore I got similar errors on sdc1 and scd.
I couldn't get back into gparted or use the onscreen shutdown, did
and got the following sudo errors
sudo:unable to open /var/lib/sudo/jim/1
sudo:unable to execute /sbin/shutdown: Input/Output error
did an "engineer's reset" and it rebooted just fine, I checked the BIOS and it recognised the 3 hard disk drives
1st [SATA: SM-PATRIOT PS]
2nd [SATA: PS-WDC WD1001]
3rd [SATA: SS-WDC WD1001]
Only one of the ITB disks was recognised by the filemanager so I ran lshw again and gparted to re partition and format the second disk again. same results. Both disks were working OK when I took them out of the SAN so I don't know what to do next.
When I get the second disk recognised by the system, the aim is to set them up as a RAID combo as I have tons of space on the SAN and only wanted to add some space to the PC as the SSD takes too much looking after, moving stuff to the SAN to prevent it filling up, so I'll keep the SSD for system tasks and a few other performance things I want but move all the /home/ directories to the HDD/RAID
I had two spare 1TB disks left over from my SAN when I upgraded it. Wanted to add these to an existing Ubuntu 14.10 machine which has 1 SSD already installed. So I added the 2 SATA disks there was already the CDRom and SSD attached so I used the next two SATA ports on the Motherboard, the system rebooted OK
Code:
sudo lshw -C disk*_disk:0
logical disk /dev/sdb
PATRIOT 128GB SSD
*_disk:1
logical disk /dev/sdc
WDC 1TB Hard Disk
*_disk:
logical disk /dev/sda
WDC 1TB Hard Disk
so I proceeded with gparted, as the disks had previously been used in the SAN they were already partitioned (EXT3), I deleted all the existing partitions and created 1 primary partition on each which I formatted as EXT4. When trying to logout of gparted I got Error fsyncing/closing/dev/sdb:Input/Output error this wouldn't go with retry and the original screen still showed it was scanning. when I tried to ignore I got similar errors on sdc1 and scd.
I couldn't get back into gparted or use the onscreen shutdown, did
Code:
sudo shutdown nowsudo:unable to open /var/lib/sudo/jim/1
sudo:unable to execute /sbin/shutdown: Input/Output error
did an "engineer's reset" and it rebooted just fine, I checked the BIOS and it recognised the 3 hard disk drives
1st [SATA: SM-PATRIOT PS]
2nd [SATA: PS-WDC WD1001]
3rd [SATA: SS-WDC WD1001]
Only one of the ITB disks was recognised by the filemanager so I ran lshw again and gparted to re partition and format the second disk again. same results. Both disks were working OK when I took them out of the SAN so I don't know what to do next.
When I get the second disk recognised by the system, the aim is to set them up as a RAID combo as I have tons of space on the SAN and only wanted to add some space to the PC as the SSD takes too much looking after, moving stuff to the SAN to prevent it filling up, so I'll keep the SSD for system tasks and a few other performance things I want but move all the /home/ directories to the HDD/RAID
Friday, 6 February 2015
[Kali] Kali Linux Installing wireless USB A6100 topic
Hello everyone I am having problems installing my new wireless USB A6100 mini Adapter AC600 Dual band
ID 0846:9052 Netgear, Inc.
I have downloaded the driver for this device from the Netgear website. I am not sure if this will work.
I am running a live Kali linux CD and have also tried this with a VM. So far no luck :(
I have also read other threads on this forum that related to installing this device but still having no luck. :(
Any help is appreciated.
ID 0846:9052 Netgear, Inc.
I have downloaded the driver for this device from the Netgear website. I am not sure if this will work.
I am running a live Kali linux CD and have also tried this with a VM. So far no luck :(
I have also read other threads on this forum that related to installing this device but still having no luck. :(
Any help is appreciated.
Ubuntu 14.04 Server -- installing a Smartlink modem tutorial topic
Does anyone have a link to a tutorial on how to install a Smartlink modem on Ubuntu 14.04 Server?
Basically I tossed out my fax machine because it is 2015 and 99% of my faxes were spam but apparently some businesses don't understand the concept of scan and e-mail so I need to have fax capability. Rather than buy a new fax machine I figured install HylaFax and use that. I'm stuck on getting the modem to work.
I got as far as getting ModemData.txt from ModemScan which is how I found out I need Smartlink drivers. The modem itself had NetoDragon on it.
After than I've searched the internet for two days and keep finding instructions but none of them work. So going to restore Ubuntu to the stage before I started trying to install modem drivers and was hoping that someone would have a link to instructions that would get this done.
Basically I tossed out my fax machine because it is 2015 and 99% of my faxes were spam but apparently some businesses don't understand the concept of scan and e-mail so I need to have fax capability. Rather than buy a new fax machine I figured install HylaFax and use that. I'm stuck on getting the modem to work.
I got as far as getting ModemData.txt from ModemScan which is how I found out I need Smartlink drivers. The modem itself had NetoDragon on it.
After than I've searched the internet for two days and keep finding instructions but none of them work. So going to restore Ubuntu to the stage before I started trying to install modem drivers and was hoping that someone would have a link to instructions that would get this done.
Thursday, 5 February 2015
[SOLVED] Just installed windows, now installing Ubuntu 14.10, am i doing this right? (w/ pics) topic
Hi guys! Okay so I just did a fresh install of Windows 10 and got rid of my old windows 7. I only plan on using windows to play League and maybe do some programming in visual studio. Anyways, I used to have an existing Ubuntu install before i installed windows 10 (its a long story i ****ed up plenty and managed to get windows back on my system). I just loaded from usb with Ubuntu, and wanted to start the Ubuntu install for a dual boot system but the installer says "no other operating system detected" and gives me an option to erase everything and install ubuntu or"other."
So i went with other, and i attached pics of what I see. I notice a 367 mb partition for windows recovery, then another 200gb ntfs partition which is where my windows OS is installed, so its definitely there. Then I see another partition that says "unknown" which is the one that I previously had Ubuntu installed. Finally i have the swap partition of my previous install (idk why i made it 17 gb, i have 8gb ram and i read somewhere to make it 2x your ram, so w.e, sorry guys im noob).
What do I do now? I don't want to delete my windows again because i went through a mission and a half to put windows back, but i definitely want to use ubuntu as my main system (i tried it and now i'm definitely not going back to windows but league is ****** in linux). First picture is what I see, second picture shows what I assume is the next thing i should do: double click "free space" and select use as ext4 and mount point / . And the 3rd picture shows what i see after doing that and clicking swap and selecting to use as swap. "free space" becomes sda6 with / .
Is this okay? Or is there an issue because Ubuntu didnt recognize my windows system?? Will I be able to boot both through grub if i go through with this? Any would be much appreciated!! And sorry for the noobiness, gotta start somewhere though.
So i went with other, and i attached pics of what I see. I notice a 367 mb partition for windows recovery, then another 200gb ntfs partition which is where my windows OS is installed, so its definitely there. Then I see another partition that says "unknown" which is the one that I previously had Ubuntu installed. Finally i have the swap partition of my previous install (idk why i made it 17 gb, i have 8gb ram and i read somewhere to make it 2x your ram, so w.e, sorry guys im noob).
What do I do now? I don't want to delete my windows again because i went through a mission and a half to put windows back, but i definitely want to use ubuntu as my main system (i tried it and now i'm definitely not going back to windows but league is ****** in linux). First picture is what I see, second picture shows what I assume is the next thing i should do: double click "free space" and select use as ext4 and mount point / . And the 3rd picture shows what i see after doing that and clicking swap and selecting to use as swap. "free space" becomes sda6 with / .
Is this okay? Or is there an issue because Ubuntu didnt recognize my windows system?? Will I be able to boot both through grub if i go through with this? Any would be much appreciated!! And sorry for the noobiness, gotta start somewhere though.
Permission denied error when installing MATLAB topic
Hi
I am trying to install a student version of MATLAB and Simulink on xubuntu from a CD-ROM.
I don't have a CD drive in my computer, so I've copied the files across to my desktop.
I am getting the following error when trying to run the install script:
john@ASUS-red:~/Desktop/MATLAB$ ls
autorun.inf InstallForMacOSX.app install_unix.sh setup.exe unix win32
john@ASUS-red:~/Desktop/MATLAB$ sudo ./install_unix.sh
[sudo] password for john:
./install_unix.sh: 4: exec: ./unix/install: Permission denied
I have ticked 'Allow this file to run as a program' in the Permissions properties tab.
Here's what's in the install_unix.sh file:
#! /bin/sh
dirs=`dirname `
args=$@
exec $dirs/unix/install -nocp $args
I am trying to install a student version of MATLAB and Simulink on xubuntu from a CD-ROM.
I don't have a CD drive in my computer, so I've copied the files across to my desktop.
I am getting the following error when trying to run the install script:
john@ASUS-red:~/Desktop/MATLAB$ ls
autorun.inf InstallForMacOSX.app install_unix.sh setup.exe unix win32
john@ASUS-red:~/Desktop/MATLAB$ sudo ./install_unix.sh
[sudo] password for john:
./install_unix.sh: 4: exec: ./unix/install: Permission denied
I have ticked 'Allow this file to run as a program' in the Permissions properties tab.
Here's what's in the install_unix.sh file:
#! /bin/sh
dirs=`dirname `
args=$@
exec $dirs/unix/install -nocp $args
[ubuntu] planning on installing 14.04.1, but a few questions first! topic
I downloaded the Ubuntu 14.04.1 ISO and am planning on installing it on an 8 core AMD FX8150 with 16GB RAM and a 2TB SATAIII hard drive. I hear there is this thing called "Play on Linux" which apparently allows me to play Windows games on Linux. Does this count for Steam? (most of my games are on there) And what about World of Warcraft? If I can get WoW and my Steam games working without huge amounts of technical BS, I'd never use Windows again.
Please help! Thanks! :)
Please help! Thanks! :)
Installing Ubuntu Imac G5 PowerPC ARGh topic
Here's what I've done so far:
Made sure firmware isn't locked
Reset Nvram
Wiped HDD
Installed Ubuntu Onto a disc and alternatively a USB
Tried booting holding "C" (no boot mediums appear)
Tried installing using Open Firmware (getting messages like"partition is not a number"... sooo.. don't know if I'm doing syntaxes wrong)
Sources I've used :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2149682
http://askubuntu.com/questions/96928...-open-firmware
http://www.debian.org/releases/stabl...h05s01.html.en
I've spent about 5 hours trying to get this thing to work.
Maybe I'm not doing or typing something correctly. Please let me know. Sigh.
-Michael
Made sure firmware isn't locked
Reset Nvram
Wiped HDD
Installed Ubuntu Onto a disc and alternatively a USB
Tried booting holding "C" (no boot mediums appear)
Tried installing using Open Firmware (getting messages like"partition is not a number"... sooo.. don't know if I'm doing syntaxes wrong)
Sources I've used :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2149682
http://askubuntu.com/questions/96928...-open-firmware
http://www.debian.org/releases/stabl...h05s01.html.en
I've spent about 5 hours trying to get this thing to work.
Maybe I'm not doing or typing something correctly. Please let me know. Sigh.
-Michael
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
[edubuntu] Epson L555 Printer- installing drivers topic
I have been trying to install the drivers for the Epson printer/ scanner L555. the laptop finds it ok, but when the T & C for the drivers comes up, I can't reach the Accept button and further the installation. The box itself won't move or scroll and I can't shrink it. Is there any way to load it using the terminal and text instructions?
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