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I've had two different laptop hdd's fail on me last year within a few weeks of installing ubuntu. Two different machines and both were brand new. My wife forbids me from installing again and I'm...

As a workaround I've installed teamviewer on both host and guest and the file transfer feature works okay. What a PITA though

I have been working on this for more than 6 hours and just cannot share a folder between Ubuntu 10.10 running in a virtual box on a Windows 7 desktop.

I have installed DKMS and guest additions.
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I use Clonezilla as a live CD and I'm quite happy with it, but I'm not sure how I would use it on the server side to image a client HDD. Now that I think about it, I can't think of anyway to image a...

I'm trying to setup a server at home, it has some practical implications, but largely it is just to take a stab at it ;)

But I need the help of someone with more experience than I in defining...

That actually didn't work (No admin group!!??)

visudo, and adding myself to the bottom worked.

Thanks to everyone for responding so quickly.

Yep, that worked. I knew it was right there too.


I'm playing around with adding myself to the sudo group.

"useradd -G sudo tim" is not working. I'll keep looking for ways to do this. if...

I'm almost embarrassed to ask this because the answer has to be right in front of my face.

I just installed Gutsy server. It is the only disk i can get to boot on this old PC trying to salvage. ...

I don't know if this is the correct place for this, but...

Just purchased this laptop, installed Ubuntu 8.10. Everything works great out of the box. Wireless, Desktop effects. This is a great...

I've never encountered this before. I changed the Ubuntu (8.04) theme to a dark theme from gnome-look.org, but whenever I reboot or restart X, the panels revert back to default Ubuntu color. I was...