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I did finally succeed. I would write-up a howto, but I think that my case is probably pretty unique: dual G5 with a bad DVD drive.

I eventually installed my second hard-drive.
I formatted it...

If I run the installer, and let the cd rom fail, I can get into a comand shell.
I can see my install disk is mounted at /cdrom. (?!?!?) The CD ROM is fine and I can see and read all the files.
...

Okay, here's where it gets deep:

I got the full DVI cable, and connected it to my OTHER Rage128 card. (apparently, they're different rev cards). The OTHER card turns out to be what OF considers...

I have reviewed the PowerPC faq (and related documentation).

I am posting to ask if anybody has SPECIFIC experience in successfully installing onto a 2001-era Dual G5 PowerMac (2 Ghz).

This...

I think I solved this myself, after reading THIS thread: (http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=143848)

I used dd if=imagefile.iso of=/dev/sdd <-sdd being my USB stick.

Using an...

(No Windows Involved. I am not Dual-booting. Laptop originally shipped with Windows 7 installed in MBR mode).
I can successfully install 12.10 on MBR.

Hardware is a Dell Inspiron 7520, with...

I do not know if I get to mark this as "solved":


1. I was able to add that ppa, I don't know what the problem was before - it might have been that I set Software Sources to point at a bad...

Y/W. . .

Somehow, I ended up borking my repositories, and couldn't download cdbs (*OR* even run Software Sources) , , , no actionable error messages, Synaptic couldn't even find anything to fix.
...

(. . . . I don't think I need to be changing the owner of ~/.config/ibus/bus to root. That just sounds silly)

when I run;
sudo software-properties-gtk, this is the set of errors I get;


(software-properties-gtk:4675): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/username/.config/ibus/bus is not root!
gpg:...

Thank you for the response.
(my system is mostly operational, for now, but it is kind of worrisome that I am potentially not able to install software now).

I can't get into software sources?!
...

This is my /etc/apt/sources.list:



# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.04 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20120425)]/ dists/precise/main/binary-i386/

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.04 LTS _Precise...

I noticed this problem when I was trying to install the updated AMD Catalyst 13.1 driver.

(running 64-bit 12.10 on a Dell Inspiron laptop)

The installation prerequisite says I need to install...

Since I updated my 12.04 (x64) Ubuntu to 12.10, I ran into the problem where the Catalyst driver doesn't work.
(my ATI card is a Radeon 7700 HD).

The way I got it back and running after my 12.10...

Instrumentation and logging can often be a big help.

If you're a conky user, you can set it up to monitor cpu and temperature, and things like that. but then you would need to keep your desktop...

maybe you mean something like this?
http://www.wondcam.com/spy-keyboard-01.html

It doesn't have to be part of the BIOS.

And yes, government agencies (particularly those who deal with sensitive...

Flash/AIR have had some issues with garbage-collection within their runtime. Supposedly these were fixed in 3.x (AIR), but the new API required an SDK update (paid), so some developers could not take...

I am having this problem:
Firefox 14, on Precise - 64-bit.

It initially works, and often, will work for an extended period - even several hours. Then, on a given refresh, it will be "connecting"...

I pretty much work like vexorian. I get involved in several tasks/projects over periods of time, so I like to isolate them by putting the related apps/screens on a given workspace for each task. ...

Intel® Core™ i7-3612QM CPU @ 2.10GHz × 8 . . .

I have lm-sensors installed, dell-devices, 12.04 64-bit.

I went through many conniptions trying to get cpu temperature, throttling, ati driver,...

Long story short: turned out that the problem was my DSL profile with my ISP. Not a "precise" bug.
It seemed like it was my ubuntu system only, because it was intermittent; but the problem was that...

This was one of the highly touted "great" features of ieee 1394 (aka "firewire" or Sony's "i-link"). You could put a host into "target disk mode", and treat it like a mass sotrage device.

Like...

. . . using imagemagick to dynamically alter a "changes throughout the day" background image would be cheating. . .

Dell Inspiron 15R SE 7520

Ubuntu 12.04 (precise).

Where do I begin?
Device is a 15 inch display with 1080 lines.
8 GB RAM
Intel® Core™ i7-3612QM CPU @ 2.10GHz × 8
AMD Radeon HD 7700M...