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arpanaut replied to a thread Grub Rescue Prompt After Install? in Installation & Upgrades

see this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Info Either while booted to the live cd install boot repair Or download the boot repair disk and...

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2 Days Ago

arpanaut replied to a thread Installed Ubuntu, now can't reinstall Windows 8 in Installation & Upgrades

To be able to remove the swap partition you will need to unmount the swap with gparted. right click the swap part. and select swapoff then you...

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2 Days Ago

arpanaut replied to a thread mount a second drive in Absolute Beginners Section

I'm no expert on this but it looks to me that you have a mirrored raid set up. that is ... sda and sdb are exact copies if each other and done for...

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arpanaut replied to a thread sysvutils not upgrading in Absolute Beginners Section

From where did you get the instructions for getting the android repos installed? They may have been for an older version of Ubuntu. What is trying...

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2 Days Ago

arpanaut replied to a thread sysvutils not upgrading in Absolute Beginners Section

The question is, what did you try to install and/or where did the references to hardy in your software sources. I think that if you edit out i.e....

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3 Days Ago

arpanaut replied to a thread sysvutils not upgrading in Absolute Beginners Section

I know nothing about sysvutils, but it looks like the .deb package from the hardy repositories is incompatible with raring. Why, may I ask, do you...

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3 Days Ago

arpanaut replied to a thread Where is GRUB configuration file? in Installation & Upgrades

You really shouldn't be changing permissions for system files. If you need to edit a file owned by root you should use gksudo gedit...

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3 Days Ago

arpanaut replied to a thread 13.04 Graphics, Speed, Heat and Other Issues on Hp Pavillion DV6000 in General Help

I have a Presario V6000 which I believe is very similar and from the same era and for me 13.04 runs cooler and uses less resources. I did have some...

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4 Days Ago

arpanaut replied to a thread Boot Issues with two versions of Ubuntu in Installation & Upgrades

Did you change the boot order to boot sdb first like the pastebin report suggested? With that set up you should be able to choose what you want to...

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5 Days Ago

arpanaut replied to a thread 2 problems in Absolute Beginners Section

This should help you out a bit with navigation etc. https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-help/index.html

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6 Days Ago

arpanaut replied to a thread Ubuntu 13.04 is utterly, utterly gorgeous. :) in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

+1 to the OP's sentiment! I just did a fresh install of 13.04 on my daily use laptop and am very pleased. Beautiful, snappy and very stable so far!...

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1 Week Ago

arpanaut replied to a thread Just Installed Ubuntu and Local disks are missing. Help in General Help

Yup, you overwrote the entire disk, you certainly succeeded in replacing windows. Windows is gone and with it all the partitions that were...

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arpanaut replied to a thread Just Installed Ubuntu and Local disks are missing. Help in General Help

Please explain more clearly how you went about installing. How many hard drives are in your computer? Windows refers to Drives when they are...

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arpanaut replied to a thread Windows vs Linux in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

It's really very simple, why stock a product that there is little demand for? Retailers are in business to make money, why tie up money stocking an...

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arpanaut replied to a thread E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct in Absolute Beginners Section

Shut down any package managers that you have open and open a terminal (ctrl+alt+t) and input the command sudo dpkg --configure -aenter your user...

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arpanaut replied to a thread Dual boot w/Vista(!) first, then Ubuntu 12.04: So where is my menu.lst now? in Absolute Beginners Section

Very good, now you should be able to boot windows by selecting the last item on the list at the boot screen (arrow down, hit enter) then when you...

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arpanaut replied to a thread Dual boot w/Vista(!) first, then Ubuntu 12.04: So where is my menu.lst now? in Absolute Beginners Section

If the tutorial you used was referring to menu.list then the tut. was out of date for 12.04 as in grub2 menu.list is not used, can you provide a...

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arpanaut replied to a thread Assignment in Absolute Beginners Section

This is not the place to get your homework assignments done for you. Hopefully your textbooks offer these answers.

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arpanaut replied to a thread 12.4 Can't move slider to allocate size of partition in Installation & Upgrades

@darkod... shouldn't that mount command be for sda6 rather than sda5 as that is a windows partition according to the pastbin output? not wanting to...

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arpanaut replied to a thread Dash Home Transparency in Absolute Beginners Section

I believe that on 12.04 you need to install through a PPA, Not sure though??? http://www.googlubuntu.com/ should help.

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1 Week Ago

arpanaut replied to a thread Compiz startup problem in General Help

You might try the commands found in this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2137975&p=12614224&viewfull=1#post12614224

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2 Weeks Ago

arpanaut replied to a thread Problem mounting GPT hard drive in Absolute Beginners Section

It could also be the hibernation feature in win8 and quick boot that is preventing Linux OS from mounting the file system as it sees it as "unclean"...

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2 Weeks Ago

arpanaut replied to a thread Nasty articles on Ubuntu. Is the privacy an issue with Ubuntu ? in Recurring Discussions

I think that something that is being missed here is that only the terms of ones search in the dash is being sent. Not the results of the search...

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2 Weeks Ago

arpanaut replied to a thread No password to use with sudo in Installation & Upgrades

not the way it is done with Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

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2 Weeks Ago

arpanaut replied to a thread Overwriting Win8 in Installation & Upgrades

Not necessarily MS fault, each hardware distributor has it's own implementation of uefi and may not have any concern about their hardware being able...

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