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i thought that resizing partitions only shrank the free space. it seemed to work on mine but i could have gotten lucky.


sorry floattube, hope everything still works. my bad.

just got done with this exact thing.

the top one (/dev/sata1) is for the company (dell) software.
the second one appears to be a system recovery partition. could be wrong on that one tho.
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decided to install windows 7 instead. if i get my hands on a copy of xp, might use virtualbox if i NEED xp.

thanks for all the help!!!

ok, between you guys and my bro, its installed!!!!

everything's working and as it should be.


thanks to all here, you all rock!!!

you rock!!!

is conkyforcast a separate file that i would add to the conky folder in "home"?
or is it something i would add to the ".conkyrc" file?

"slow down" lol!

there's a location a few miles up the road from me so that's not an issue.


also, just for the sake of showing off, here's a screenshot of conky. lol!...

will this work with "Conky-Lua"? here.


also, how do i add the code to conky?

i'm looking for a script that will work in place of the weather script for "conky". the database it uses fro the weather doesn't contain a NOAA station anywhere near me and , as such, i don't have...

so, i just bought a rca to usb adapter in order to use my camera as a webcam (i'm cheep, i know) as well as for use with some other systems that i want to record. the only problem is that it doesn't...

that seems like over complicating simple stuff in my opinion.



so, this basically says what kind of partitioning i should do for the windows drive?



so without doing the above mentioned...

why do i have to do the code/what does it do?

i'm going to be using a separate, clean harddrive to install windows 7 onto.

will i be needing to make all of the above mentioned partitions when using a separate harddrive?
of not than what...

oops

i'm about to dual bot my computer with windows 7. i have a couple questions as i have never done this and don't wish to foul it up.

1) will i need any software other than whats on the OS disk to...

thanks for all the help guys!!!

after weighing my options and trying a few of the suggestions, i have decided to try to track down a windows XP disk use that instead.

XP was OEM on the laptop...

no, i meant actual space. i only have about 300 gig (about half of max) left.

i'll try to get on this whole project today as soon as possible.

now that looks like it could work.
do you know if i can select which parts of the hard-drive to create an "image" of?
i don't think i gave enough space for the entirety of another computer's files...

still worth a try even if its just to get the proverbial gears turning.

might end up trying it tomorrow. i'll be back with results as soon as i can.

hopefully i have the right place for the thread this time lol.

my goal is to transfer the XP operating system from a Sony VAIO laptop on to either my desktop computer or (preferably)onto...

wouldn't it be possible to just wipe the Zune, than load the various software and firmware from Ubuntu on phones to the Zune?

i like where your going with that.


i hereby challenge anyone to get their hands on the "Ubuntu on Phones" OS (either before or after the release) to go forth and put that OS on any handheld you...

so, I've got steam working under PlayOnLinux and i have borderlands installed through steam. the only problem is that it wont load the game...

I've seen on places like youtube where people have gotten Linux to run on android and apple products (everything from handheld to computers). i just got curious if it could or has been done.

tried to find the most appropriate area to put this in so sorry of its in the wrong place.

i'm going to replace my MP3 player pretty soon and was wondering if i could install Linux on it for S&Gs...