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From live CD, open terminal, and type in

sudo fsck /dev/ubuntu partition

Theres a list of some hps that are compatible here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsPrintersHp

testdisk / photorec work great for recovering data.

If the laptop is a few years old and heating up, best thing to do is try cleaning it first. A can of compressed air or air compressor. Turn off laptop and disconnect electric. Locate the heatsink...

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Thanks for the reply. I was trying to copy a music directory containing subfolders. There may be some other issues along with the permissions. the drive disappears sometimes in nautilus. Tried to cp...

Trying to copy files from mac drive. Can see folders but permissions errors when trying to copyfiles.
mount returns:/dev/sdc2 on /media/Macintosh HD type hfsplus (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks) ...

Thanks for the help, the files are copying over now.

The rename tool will rename existing files but will it also copy
the file to a separate directory ?

issue: I used photorec tool to recover files from a drive. It recovered everything to a bunch of different sub-folders, alot of files, (approx 250k) I want to search all of those subfolders at once...

This year I think I'll have either roast quail or make a wild game soup.

trying to check hardware status in 11.10.
booted from cd on a sony laptop.
specifically interested in checking to see if webcam will work.
webcam is ricoh 5u875.
Also interested in checking...

There are some 7.04 downloads here
http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/7.04/

Does the video card in your pc meet the game requirements?

You may want try using xandr to change the resolution. This explains it well-
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-change-display-resolution-settings-using-xrandr.html

Try booting to the cd to see how it runs before installing anything

The fan turns on whenthe cpu reaches a certain temp.
To ensure its turning on at the right time you may want to monitor the cpu temp. There are a variety of desktop cpu utils that you can also...

you could try filtering with extension such as foxfilter and see if that suffices. see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Parental_controls for more info

Lubuntu has low-resource system requirements
http://lubuntu.net/

If you enter these cmds in a terminal they will help keep the system clean.
Clean and autoclean will clear out the local repository of retrieved
package files. Autoremove removes packages that were...

In terminal typing

lspci | grep VGA

- this will give you the video card info

System>Administration>Hardware drivers will show you the driver version

This may have some useful info for you. Did you click install and then let it install? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#Cannot%20boot%20into%20Ubuntu

Go to the Adobe website and download the .deb of the latest Flash, then install, restart Firefox
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/instructions/...

Depends on what you want to do with it. Best first step is to just use it
as your primary operating system for your applications and get practice from setting it up.

Would have to know the specs. There are 3 commoon places to look for drivers. The oem website for the computer, the oem website for the individual card or chip and if its windows, then by running...