yes, this
indicates that you somehow changed the write permission on that file.
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yes, this
indicates that you somehow changed the write permission on that file.
Yes, the current password would be needed for that. I assume that would need to be run with sudo, and you need your password for that.
Yes, maintain backups. And yes, a separate partition for your /home directory will achieve what you want. I set up my installs that way, and it has helped me immensely.
What a separate /home...
In short:
The computer has some memory that tells it that it is a computer. That is generally the BIOS, or EFI. What is in there tells it where to look for the first intructions. These are...
Yes. Windows will not be able to read a drive that has a linux file system on it.
Going back to booting from a CD: you have gone into the BIOS and set the CD drive as first in the boot order,...
Yes, you need to "mess with" fstab.
From the article that mastablasta linked to, this is the pertinent section
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With the Ubuntu CD, you have to have the CD in the drive when you power up the computer, and as far as I know, the windows cd is the same. Is this how you are trying the windows cd, or are you...
I cannot understand that at all!
Because I want to know what you did, and in case anyone else does, here is what I think you meant...
I assume the thread title is the error you are seeing. As far as I know, this generally means that the grub boot loader cannont find the drive it is looking for to boot from.
The first thing I...
you need to download an .iso.
Then have a look at this
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
to get it on the USB stick.
You may find that it tells you that it wont fit...
OK. I've not noticed that, but I'll take your word for it.
That may not be there. On this 10.10 install hardinfo is not installed by default. It is apparently available through the software centre.
I always use lshw myself. You can start that with sudo,...
Further to that, if you find yourself in the situation that you have multiple instances of gedit open and want to have it all in one instance on tabs, you can click and drag the tabs in to the one...
Possibly you could, but I don't know how. Sorry.
I will assume you know what I mean when I say /home/user. That is your personal directory, and it is in /home. To install a programme that way you are going about it, I would create a directory in...
This is actually good practice even if you aren't getting any funny noises. One should always switch the speakers (amps) off first and on last in any audio system.
As far as Ubuntu goes, I noticed...
You need to look at man sudo.
12.04.02
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2121034&p=12535644&viewfull=1#post12535644
You do know, don't you, that you don't see what you are typing when you enter your password at the password request in the command line environment?
You just type in your password and hit enter.
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I'm inclined to think this is likely. chown is so fundamental, it must be there... :-k
No, I can't think of anything where that works. You always have to specifically invoke sudo (or gksudo for graphical applications) for anything at all where you need root priviliges. At least you do...
Are you sure the USB installer is good? Can you boot from it on another machine?
It has bee a few months since I ran an install, but, if I remember correctly, what should happen at that screen is...
Everything in /etc belongs to root, so you will need an instance of gedit with root priviliges. Do the command with gksudo before it.
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Are you using...
There is free accounting software. One program is GnuCash, which I believe is available throught the software centre.
What exactly is "peactree"? I don't know that word.
Did you notice this?
I'm afraid I don't quite see exactly what your problem is. Is it that you cannot get to a graphical user interfacr, a desktop? That all you can get is a command line...