Shrinking the partition shouldn't effect grub but as you will be shrinking the beginning of the partition and moving data on the drive, back up as if expecting to lose all the data.
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Shrinking the partition shouldn't effect grub but as you will be shrinking the beginning of the partition and moving data on the drive, back up as if expecting to lose all the data.
user direcotories and their data such as Documents, Pictures and some application settings are stored in the /home directory (partition if separate).
For example, for a user jimmy and jenny:...
Since you're not running an LTS version now I'd go for 12.10 and have the latest. But it depends on your system. If you have the bandwidth you may want to try 12.10 first and if you have problems...
For the benefit of others could you say how you solved this?
I've always used
sudo chown -R group:user /path/to/directory
Always seems to work for me.
No, not your only choice. Another would be to use nautilus with root permissions and go through every...
Sometimes, before a distro can be seen (for me it's always Fedora) the partition has to be mounted (from which ever distro is running grub mbr) before updating grub. It might be worth a try with...
Sorry for delay... Dinner beckoned.
You can't have more than four primary partitions.
Your choices are:
1. Up to four primary
2. Up to three primary + an Extended.
Within an extended...
Swap doesn't have to be a primary. I have a system where swap is logical (within an Extended) partition and seems to work fine.
I can't answer you much more since you, for what ever reason, have...
Personally I would have installed Ubuntu last but that's because my main distro is Ubuntu.
Have I done this before? One laptop currently has (on a single hard drive):
Ubuntu 64 bit
Ubuntu 32 bit...
Yeah?
Good to know it can be fixed so easily. Will help make dual desktops a little easier / less messy.
If you don't want anything KDE then delete it. A quick search will provide dozens of posts on how to do this, normally all pointing to one site. Hint: Psychocats.
A quick copy and paste into...
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Ubuntu hasn't killed your Windows drive. Please amend the thread title.
You installed Ubuntu on an external drive. It installed Grub menu. You removed the drive. Grub can't find the information it...
+1 for thinking you're mistaking the Gnome Keyring password manager.
Unless someone corrects me, I believe that Windows, whilst you can install it after, has to be on partitions that are at the start of the hard drive. This means you will have to shirink the Linux...
Sorry, can you explain a couple of things:
You say
But that is what you have:
You then say:
You installed the Lubuntu desktop and it changed things to show the Lubuntu desktop. How is...
Hi,
I've included a thumbnail of gparted screenshot to help visualise the following (taken from a LiveUSB of Parted Magic):
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255...
Whilst not impossible to avoid, assume you're going to be reinstalling the apps. The settings for the apps are safe (they're stored in /home/yourUserName folder (often referred to simply as home).
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Ok, that makes things clearer, thank you.
BTW: Are you ok to reinstall Lubuntu? If not, let me know and I'll modify the following but it does get trickier.
Wait, something looks odd. You have...
I've just edited my post to give better explinations...
A drive (most) can only have a maximum of 4 partitions which are either 4 primary (default) or three default followed by an extended. An...
I've just done some rejigging of a drive so I'll chip in here with how I did this without another drive to back up to (actually, I was too lazy as it's a network drive and would have taken too long)....
Yes, I'm well aware of that. I meant that they are the only 'common' items I could think of were a linux driver can be sourced from a manufacturer.
I'll edit my previous post to make this clearer.
Most hardware drivers are supplied with Ubuntu, it's rare you'd need to download any.
Only ones I can think of (that it is sometimes necessary to obtain directly from manufacturer) are Nvidia,...
Where from? From Canonical it's ~763MB.
What server?
If you're comparing the iso from the upgrade option then it could just be that the upgrade version doesn't require every file again.
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