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There's some good instructions on Ubuntu Documentation on installing drivers from the install media by adding a CD as a repository.

Essentially in your software sources, CDROM appears as a choice....

I agree that buying a new machine isn't really a cost savings but could be a frustration saver.

If she's open to a new OS, then installing any Ubuntu flavor is a good choice. Safety/security are...

I never did get the thing to boot right.
I’m think that it is a hardware issue. Dell’s diagnostic CD found error 6600:0219 Which I googled and believe it has something to do with the webcam/usb. ...

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What caused my registry to get corrupt immediately on a brand new install and how do I prevent it?

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My Mom's computer wouldn't boot the other day so I'm drafted to help her...

dpkg -l will spit out a huge list of every package installed in the system, including all dependencies. The default ubuntu desktop has about 1300 so it's a long list. You might try one of the...

I'm not sure how to make this hidden when booting from the device. I can easially see the root and home partitions, but can't access the casper when booted. What's the trick here?


I think i...

The 3d partition is correctly labeled home-rw. Just a typo on the post.

The output of ls -R --size is attached.

It still looks like it shouldn't be full, but I guess it could be. It's causing...

My persistent USB install is reporting that there is no more space, even though it appears there is still quite a bit of space.

I installed Lucid on an 8Gb flash drive set up according to this...

That one reads the log file for a program called Blue Proximity. Blue Proximity locks and unlocks the screen based on the proximity of a paired bluetooth device like a phone. This conky just prints...

Here's my .conkyrc that I spent quite a while on. It uses several fonts that I found on dafont.com: Arkitech, Neogrey, and OpenLogos. I just stayed with the standard desktop image. I was never...

I'm getting Kernel Panic errors on a new install on a new machine. It works fine with the Live USB, but not from a regular install. I thought it may have been a hardware issue. From my limited...

Western Digital has a firmware update for this particular situation. After tremendous volume of complaints from consumers, they decided to allow the option to completely remove the second partition...

I switched from Firefox to Google Chromium. There's a feature that will sync your bookmarks across all instances of the browser across any machine. I've installed and re-installed both the OS and...

Don't worry, I don't know anything about it either and I'm only average at plagiarizing someone else's work.
Here's the line that works on my machine. I used _bar like this:


${color...

Remember how to do this, you'll likely have to do it more than once. When you change themes or other stuff it'll go back.

I have a similar issue, though with different hardware. It would be really cool if I could get the number to change color based on what it was, like conditional formatting.

Here's the output of...

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I did this just last week using a USB. Much easier than I'd expected.

Here's what I did that worked perfectly:
NOTE Erasing all my personal settings was exactly what I was after.
I didn't have a /etc/skel directory, but just leaving that command out of the thing it...

Just finished installing 10.04 RC on my laptop.

When I installed 9.10 6 months ago, I
set up an ext4 10gb partition for the root directory and a seperate ext3 120gb for /home.
When I...

Check this out:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090504#feature

I did it a while back and was happy with the performance on my old Pentium4.

Format your HDD into a seperate partition for /home and another for the actual OS. That way if you do a clean instal, all your files will still be there. Plus it totally saved me when my GRUB got...

I have GRUB2 which doesn't include the menu.lst file. Any ideas about how to try this solution on grub.cfg?

I've really done everything several times and have run out of things to try, this is a...

There's a program on the System menu called Menu Editor. Use that and you'll get a file browser tree type interface with all the menu categories on the left and the contents on the right. You can...

32 Years old. Likely one of the oldest people to have had a computer my whole life.

I have lots of computers, but they break down into two real categories of use.
1. At work- Windows Vista...

32 Years old. Likely one of the oldest people to have had a computer my whole life.

I have lots of computers, but they break down into two real categories of use.
1. At work- Windows Vista...