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Thank you aysiu! I have bookmarked your page. At a glance you seem to be covering many of the same principles, but with a more, um, "modern" language. ;)

I think there are several issues at work here.

Are knowledge and experience the same thing?
I don't think so, but they are definitely related. I have encountered more members who know their way...

Let me be more specific. The guideline you quote says a few things very clearly:

1.) What they should not do:
We discourage staff moderating their own threads.
This is obviously not a...

Please provide a couple of examples. It is not so obvious to me.


Your welcome. I can tell you appreciate it ;)

I suggest that any OP, that is also a staff member, should not be in-charge of the status of their own threads. The status of a thread should be based on what is in the best interests of the...

You didn't understand my suggestion. The output is not supposed to be readable. The point is to press buttons and see if anything shows up in the terminal. So you have to watch the terminal while...

Try this:

cat /dev/input/js0

Now, while that is running, press different buttons and watch the terminal. Which buttons cause something to happen and which do not?

What is the output of these:

ls -l /dev/input


ls -l /dev/input/by-id


ls -l /dev/input/by-path

Unplug the device, open a terminal, and type this:

tail -f /var/log/messages

Note the last line on the terminal and remember it. Now, plug the device in and watch for new lines on the...

That is an excellent idea! Why don't you put it in the Ubuntu wiki?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/

Probably the best approach now is to use a DOS boot floppy and uninstall WUBI by deleting these directories/files:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide

Specifically, this part:


After that you...

Let's try it with sudo and do it for all three partitions (hdc1, hdc2, hdc3)


sudo ls /mnt/hdc1

sudo ls /mnt/hdc2

sudo ls /mnt/hdc3

I'm sorry, I was tired. This is the command:

ls /mnt/hdc2

Strange. What do you get if you just try to list the contents of /mnt/hdc2


ls /dev/hdc2

Ok, I'm sorry, I didn't fully understand what WUBI is. I just thought it was a program to help you install ubuntu from within windows. Actually, WUBI installs ubuntu as a file within windows. So,...

Ok, what do you get when you type this:


ls /mnt/hdc3/boot

Edit: You don't have to give me everything. Do you see these sorts of files:

Ok, this looks like your hard drive right? So, we need to do the mount command again, and this time you need to give me a little more information.


mount |grep hdc*

Here is my output, we need...

It looks like your hard drive is at /dev/hdc Let's see the size of the /dev/hdc partitions just to make sure:


df -h /dev/hdc*

If using the * doesn't work, just do 3 seperate commands. You...

I was trying to save you some typing, but my command might give more output than we need. Use these instead:


ls -l /dev/hd*

ls -l /dev/sd*

It shouldn't be that much. I'm looking for all files in the /dev directory that begin with either hd or sd For example, here is the output for my system:

What do get from this command (the l in -l is a lowercase L):

ls -l /dev/ | egrep '[hs]d'

I'll try and help. The first thing you need to do is get to a terminal. I've never used slax, but I'm sure there is some sort of GUI where you can go to a menu and pick a terminal to run. Next,...

Incidentally, what happened when you tried the Ubuntu LiveCD? Did you make sure to go into your BIOS put CD first in the boot order?

Yes, you can use a different LiveCD, like Knoppix. You can download it and burn it to disk.

Other than that, the only other thing I could think of would be to put a working computer on a router...

If you can get a LiveCD, then you can access your system and we can help you edit your bootloader's files to get you up and running.