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Hi Dave_L,

To transfer my old home folder, all I did was copy and paste individual folders from my old home folder into my new one. For .gnupg I believe I had to use gksudo nautilus and then move...

Hi thanks for replying. Actually no, the original install didn't have home directory encryption. The encrypted files were just a few files I had saved on another drive...

Hi everybody... I'm having a bit of an issue here. Over the past year or so, my installation had become kind of messed up with all the desktop environments and other "flavours" I had installed. It...

I just thought of something... Is this question posted in the correct forum? Should I have posted it in "Desktop Environments" instead?

In any case, I'm still curious about a possible solution......

Here's a strange little problem that's cropped up for me since I installed the XFCE desktop environment (I am running standard Ubuntu 12.04 but used the repositories to get XFCE)

As is the...

I used DOS/Windows until switching to Mac OS in 1999 (yes, I had the original iMac). I pretty much exclusively used the various iterations of Mac OS until this year, where I was using the last...

Ok thanks guys I think I'm starting to understand now... Looks like I'll be good for the time being, although I really need to read more about mount points and how to set them properly.

Once...

hey oldfred... now that I had a look at my MB, I realized what I had done... my boot drive was on port 1, my old HDD was port 6, and my new HDD was port 4. It makes sense now why the kernel would...

A few weeks ago, I installed a new SATA hard drive, which Ubuntu recognized right away and let me format (in ext4, of course). It was easy and straightforward except for one thing: My new drive...

Well I'll be damned! It worked! I owe you a beer :D

This whole experience made me appreciate how easy and straightforward installing Ubuntu was...

I tried using fixparts and it confirmed that the MBR on this old HDD (sdc) was ok, and here's the output:

Loading MBR data from /dev/sdc

MBR command (? for help): p

** NOTE: Partition...

Ok what I did was take my smallest physical drive (80gb) and reformat it as MBR with one NTFS primary partition.

I ran Windows XP setup and it DID recognize the drive (as drive C) and would have...

My NTFS partition is not the primary-- it's on sdb2. Also, how would I go about putting a boot flag on this partition?

here's the output from fdisk....

Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes...

Hey everyone,

I've been using Ubuntu 11.10 for several months now and I'm loving it, but unfortunately there are a few games I want to play that seem to insist on running on windows. I've tried...

Ok well I kind of solved this little problem...

I had to uninstall then install VirtualBox from the .deb package, which gave me USB support. I then started windows in a box, and used the windows...

Hey everybody, I have kind of an odd problem with my old iPod Nano...

I'm a relatively recent convert to linux (yes I've seen the light :p) from Mac OS X which I used for years. Anyway, I have a...

I installed Ubuntu 11.10 then later Lubuntu on an old laptop, and the speed difference was noticeable. This machine had 256MB memory, a 20Gb HDD, and an Intel celeron processor. Lubuntu ran and did...

I'd try checking with Sony to see if you're missing some setting here or there. I use Olympus cameras, and on those ones you usually have to turn the camera on, then select "PC" from the menu that...

In the BIOS settings menu, go to advanced BIOS features, then where it says hard disk boot priority, go into that, and with the Live Install USB inserted, it might recognize it as a bootable volume,...

to answer your original question, I've had good luck with my ASUS M5A97.... The UEFI BIOS it comes with is really easy to set up and use. I mean, ridiculously easy. It's all graphical with mouse...

Glad to be of (some) service! :cool:

If I may add something, I discovered another nice GUI Grub2 tool called "GRUB Customizer"

The nice thing is that it's still continually updated and currently up-to-date with Ubuntu 11.10 (and...

As far as I know, this is exclusively a Windows system file, normally hidden. If you're browsing the file system using Ubuntu, it might not be hidden anymore. All it is is the folder used by Windows...

Making it into a little beer fridge would be VERY cool!

I'm going to look into that...

Hey everybody,
I'm really enjoying the new system I just built, which I loaded with Ubuntu, of course. I love almost everything about using a linux based system, but one little issue has come to...