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    [all variants] Re: Where is firefox installed?

    That's a really useful and cool command thanks, but it's installed fairly complex it appears, rather than a single folder.
    I've just download Firefox "Aurora" from Mozilla's website, it and it's all...
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    [all variants] Where is firefox installed?

    In which directory is firefox installed? I tried /usr/bin but I cannot find the firefox.. I tried looking inside the /home/.mozilla folder but that's just got user profiles, surely it must be...
  3. Re: How do I mount an entire hard drive image?

    My laptop has no boot capability, the dvd drive is shot, the USB doesn't support booting, the hard drive contains Windows but I'd like to switch it over to Linux, so I used a hex editor HXD to copy...
  4. How do I mount an entire hard drive image?

    I have a drive image that I need to mount, boot sector and all.
    The common method of mount -o loop, -t ntfs offset=number image.img /mnt/drive doesn't apply to me,
    I need to do what it tells me...
  5. [ubuntu] Possible to clone hard drives of different size?

    I have a 1Tb hard drive with Ubuntu installed, and a 250Gig drive which I would like to use to clone the 1Tb

    the 1Tb is not exceeding 250Gb in used space. I understand I could simply copy the...
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    Re: unable to edit grub menu entries

    thanks for the help. I did it a bit differently and did
    set prefix=(hd0,msdos)/boot/grub
    set root=(hd0,msdos5)/
    insmod (hd0,msdos5)/boot/grub/normal.mod

    apparently the next...
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    Re: unable to edit grub menu entries

    i booted into Windows and diskinternals linux reader can still read the linux partition and files. in computer management I have Disk 0 (windows)
    Disk 1 | old windows partition |* Swap | Linux |...
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    Re: unable to edit grub menu entries

    hmm, i'd like to try this but when I boot up now it says error: no such partition
    grub rescue >

    i tried grub-update here but it did nothing. how do i boot?
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    unable to edit grub menu entries

    with Grub 2 I went into /boot/grub/grub.cfg then edit the line where it says windows 7 loader is /dev/sda1 and changed that to /dev/sdb1 which is now the current correct location for this OS. This...
  10. [other] Re: Mint-Maya: Hardware Present: Yes (Still not working)

    Thanks for the reply, and new command to try to add to my memory.

    [ 10.356413] ndiswrapper version 1.57 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
    [ 10.503678] ndiswrapper: driver mrv8335x64...
  11. [other] Mint-Maya: Hardware Present: Yes (Still not working)

    This is for Linux Mint Maya x64 running cinnamon

    http://www.mediafire.com/conv/0107c36ba4ac4e9ca2dde935b89b5509e470b42032be7c4b9f05e6e1d77cb9fd6g.jpg

    I'm not really sure what's going on, this...
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    [kubuntu] Re: Issues with Kubuntu 11.10

    On another machine, I had Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot installed and installed the Kubuntu Desktop from Synaptic. That installation had no problems, it's just the one from the ISO that has issues it would...
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    [ubuntu] no sound over ssh

    I am using ssh to connect from Windows (Putty/Xming) to Ubuntu and I can launch apps but the sound is played at the server, not the client. How do I send audio over SSH?

    I ran paprefs
    enable...
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    [SOLVED] Re: trying to copy damaged data from DVD

    thanks! I ended up using dd which did a pretty good job but I will try handbreak too.
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    [SOLVED] Re: How do I edit the grub boot menu?

    Thanks that worked great! :)
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    [SOLVED] ssh to x from windows?

    I read you must use xming to ssh to X from windows, so I download xming from sourceforge but it's just a task icon. there is no way to ssh. :confused: how do I get this working?
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    [SOLVED] Re: trying to copy damaged data from DVD

    thanks I tried to find it, apt-get install handbrake said couldn't find package handbrake, so I ran synaptic, still couldn't find it.

    Trying to use dd but it's taking an awfully long time because...
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    [SOLVED] trying to copy damaged data from DVD

    I have an old family DVD that has damaged video files. I would like to copy the files to the hard drive, ignoring the errors yet continuing to copy the file (retaining the bad data in the new file) ...
  19. [ubuntu] Wi-Fi has gone insane, any way to fix it?

    my Wi-Fi is at it again, it is connecting, then disconnecting on it's own repeatedly within a minute or two interval. At times it pops up the WPA key request and has it already inserted, so I press...
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    [SOLVED] How do I edit the grub boot menu?

    I would like to edit the default OS selected to boot.
  21. [ubuntu] need to automate disconnect/reconnect wi-fi

    How do I automate disconnect/reconnect to wi-fi?
    my wi-fi is very unstable on ubuntu, it will often lose ability to browse the internet and network even though it says it is still connected,...
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    [SOLVED] SSH to KDE?

    I'm new to Kubuntu and am wondering what I am doing wrong here

    ssh -C -c blowfish david@192.168.1.127 -X "kicker"
    returns: Kicker: Command not found

    but when I look up what the panel for KDE...
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    [kubuntu] Issues with Kubuntu 11.10

    I installed Kubuntu 11.10
    just after, I launched Muon Software Center. It opens a window up, and then closes with a segmentation fault.
    Application: Muon Software Center (muon-installer), signal:...
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    [ubuntu] Re: 11.10, hard freeze, looping audio

    Does it have this problem when booted into a liveCD? It could be hardware related, then again it could be software related, like your video card drivers.

    I'm still learning linux myself, so I...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Help creating batch file type thing

    4am is too early for me. :P
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