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That's what I wanted.

I am running Ubuntu 12.10 and was wondering if there is any way to add widgets something like is done with Mint??

Thanks
John

Update. Here is what I ended up doing.
Fist off before I could install Fedora on the partition that was set up as ext 2 I had to change it to an ext 4 which was no problem.
I installed Fedora and...

I meant to say Mint.
Now to try the screen shot

I just booted the system and Ubuntu ran and the two other partitions showed in the files.
Now to learn about that boot repair program.

John

I just got it working. I had to use a fail safe mode and the min of settings.
Now to test it.

john

OK here is what i did and what the results were.
First I burnt a copy of GParted and booted on it. It booted fine but when it came to run the GUI things didn't go so fine. I got a lot of very fast...

OK now I know what your talking about. My computer is defaulted to the cd rom and then the hard drive.
That's not hard to change.

Greenwood is about an 1 1/2 hours from here. Been there many...

Ok Here is what I am going try.
I have GParted on a CD Rom and I am going re-size the partition.
Probably divide it equally. Then install Fedora on that new partition. Then if it doesn't boot to...

Ok If I do this and install Fedora on the created partition will both OS's be set up on the MBR?

I don't want to install Windows, I was going to install another version of Linux. Maybe Wine or Fedora.
I have been playing around with this for a few day.

I bought the laptop just to run Linux...

I am running Ubuntu 12.10 Gnome on a IBM T60 laptop. It has a 60 GB hard drive.
I had to install it so that it took the whole HD as I had it so messed up that was the only way I could get it to...

Thanks. I did that and now things are much better but still not as good as they used to be.
But they will have to do.

John

I haven't run Linux for a couple of years but decided to try it again. The version I ran was Ubuntu 4.5. It had a bar which I could add anything to and at the far side was a button much like Windows...

I'm going out of town for a few days so things will have to wait until i return.
I'll let you all know what took place when I return.

John

cat /etc/apt/sources.list; cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
Gave me the following:

john@john-desktop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list; cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy...

I have 50+ updates waiting to be installed. I have tried several time but get the following error.

E: dash: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
It doesn't matter if I...

I think I found the problem. It had to do with the memory stick.
I coppied the files to my hard drive and then to the directories in involved.
The files that I was having problems with were html...

I have just installed Ubuntu and have a question of file
permission.
I work on web pages and have to over write files from a memory stick to Ubuntu.
These files could have originated on a Windows...

A few days back I ran the update manager and during the update my computer froze.
I had to reboot it.
No when I try to run the update manager it searches and finds the newest updates and shows them...

Can this file be burnt on a Windows computer?
The computer I am going to install it on and the one that I downloaded it on has Ubuntu 5.1 installed and nothing else.
The Windows computer is a...

I downloaded the file ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
Does this file extract it self while installing or do I have to extract it first?
This will be on a computer that has ubunto 5.1 installed.

John

Can anyone tell me when Firefox 2 will be on the repositiory and if it isn't can I install the version on the Firefor web site without messing everything up??
I'm running Ubuntu 6.06

John