Dennis N, Thanks for the reply, your query on clarifying what I mean by "boot record", got me thinking about just what did I mean by "boot record" MBR or PBR??? After reading OldFred's link on...
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Dennis N, Thanks for the reply, your query on clarifying what I mean by "boot record", got me thinking about just what did I mean by "boot record" MBR or PBR??? After reading OldFred's link on...
Does Xubuntu setup it's boot record with grub, or something else? I tried to get into the grub menu with sudo grub after booting the install disk, but that returned a command does not exit message,...
Well, the “Partition X does not start on physical sector boundary.” warning is gone on the test drive, and I hope deleting all partitions on the drive and manually recreating the partitions (both /...
QIII,
I used 500Gb drive I could kill the data, deleted all existing partitions, copied and pasted a 500Gb boot-able partition, then moved the partition by one block in hopes of finding the...
After a couple of days of reading about what this warning is, and experimenting on how to fix it, I'm stuck, I've experimented with Garted move and copy and paste, the Garted move and copy and paste...
Dennis N, thanks for your help.
I need to consolidate 6 pages of notes for the future on what I've been taught on all this, come up with a new labeling plan for all the hard drives, and start...
Dennis N,
Thanks for the reply, sorry I'm such a Nimrod, was the icon supposed to go away when someone changes the mount point from media to mnt, or did I goof something up?
My issue...
OldFred,
Still trying and making some progress (I think?).
# is comment, do not type
# to verify how the system named the drives
sudo parted -l
# create...
OldFred,
I read a post of yours last weekend, talking in detail about gpt partitioning with either UEFI or BIOS and decided that I would like them for the future compatibility, but until I...
OldFred,
Does this correct, or did I goof this up again?
Curbie
curbie@curbie-desktop:~$ sudo parted -l
[sudo] password for curbie:
Model: ATA ST500DM002-1BD14 (scsi)
OldFred,
That screw up I must have done three years ago when I did the transition from Win to Xubuntu, again just shows how robust Ubuntu is!
The next plan is is to get the DataCurbie...
OldFred,
I'm running Xubuntu, so I guess no Unity.
curbie@curbie-desktop:~$ sudo parted -l
[sudo] password for curbie:
Model: ATA ST500DM002-1BD14 (scsi)
OldFred,
“You normally have to click on a partition to mount it.”, click on the icon from the desktop to mount it, correct? I always had the partition hard-drive icons just show up on the...
So checking my drives:
blkid -c /dev/null -o list
device fs_type label mount point UUID
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
OldFred,
Thanks for the reply. I apologize for screwing things up so badly that it's fooling the master, which tells me that I first need to fix existing configuration issues as NOT to attempt...
After spending the day reading the posts and related linked posts, to try to get a handle the mount portion and overview of OldFred's procedure, I'm worried that I'm building that procedure on a...
Bucky Ball,
Clownzilla is what happens to goofy names that I've only spelled or thought about twice ever, but with two years in between. I'm lucky to remember my phone number because I don't...
OldFred,
Thanks for the reply.
“I think once you have mounted it, then it is not sda3 anymore, but your mount
dev/sda3 on /media/curbie/DataCurbie type ext4...
I'm trying to upgrade a 500Gb main drive to a brand new 1Tb drive, the 500 Gb drive is older, but still functions fine, I just like to maintain multiple backups (I have 3x500 Gb drives 1 with Xubuntu...
I'm trying to setup network intrusion detection alert on home desktop, after some research Firewall Configuration for ufw and snort seems the best option for me. I downloaded and installed both from...
The on-board network adapter of the motherboard did go bad, and disabling the network adapter in the BOIS and then installing the new PCI NIC solved the problem, simple hardware failure, and after...
chili555, the bad network adapter is part of an onboard chipset, I've ordered a PCI NIC that has an user review who states the NIC card I ordered worked seamlessly with his Ubuntu 12.04, and have now...
chili555, grep found no occurrence of the text "eth0" in dmesg, no logical name either.
chile555, I removed and reloaded the r8169 module:
sudo modprobe -r r8169
sudo modprobe r8169
dmesg | grep r8169
grep found no occurrence of the text "r8169" in dmesg again, and I tried the...
chile555, grep found no occurrence of the text "r8169" in dmesg.
modinfo r8169
filename: /lib/modules/3.2.0-70-generic/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.ko
firmware: ...