You might want to try installing to a different brand of usb flash drive, it's been my experience that some were much better than others for an Ubuntu installation(not a live usb).
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You might want to try installing to a different brand of usb flash drive, it's been my experience that some were much better than others for an Ubuntu installation(not a live usb).
You might want to check out this thread by Kansasnoob for classic gnome in Precise:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1966370
You can only upgrade 10.04, which is an LTS(long-term support) version, to the next LTS version, which is Ubuntu 12.04. You can change the settings in update-manager to reflect upgrading
to the...
See this link:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/127180/12-04-boots-to-blackscreen
I believe it's a problem with backlight on some Acer Aspires.
Good one. The protective film on devices serve a useful purpose, it just doesn't protect the user from themselves(as I well found out). Believe your customer's experience tops mine.
This has been about the best USB flash drive I've used:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220253
Not really worth buying USB 3.0, unless your pc
supports it.
I believe that I may have won the "Dummy Award" for this one. Last
night decided to replace the stock cpu cooler on my old Celeron D with an aftermarket heatsink. Installed the heatsink, booted...
What I did was open ufw log file viewer and saw that port 9100 tcp was being blocked whenever I tried to access my HP wireless printer.
Opened the port in ufw & all was well.
Thanks, I'll leave it enabled. I've read that dnsmasq is responsible for dd-wrt assigning random ip numbers, instead of sequentially as the linksys firmware does. I believe I can assign a static ip...
I was wondering about DNSMASQ being enabled by default with dd-wrt on my WRT310N v2 router. I mainly installed dd-wrt due to the WPS vulnerability of the linksys firmware, which the linksys site...
My /etc/ufw/before.rules shows the above icmp accepted by default, a google search mentioned to change the "ACCEPT" to "DROP" not to accept icmp requests. I'm only beginning to be aware of security...
A lot of this has already been discussed, you can get useful security links in this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1873643
The discussion in the above thread resulted in the...
Tried all of the suggestions in this thread & other sources to no avail. Here's what alsamixer shows:
Card: HDA ATI SB
Chip: VIA VT1705
I was able to get sound working by opening a terminal:...
Great, glad to have helped and that it actually worked. I've used
Plop bm before, but I've since sold the computer I needed to use it with...
it does have a nice boot menu interface.
Yes, you need to change the root entry:
sudo nano /boot/grub/grub.cfg
then change the root from (hd0,1) to (hd0,6):
menuentry "Plop Boot Manager" {
set root=(hd0,6)
linux16...
From a terminal or console:
mount
Check which partition is mounted as / (or do you have a separate /boot partition) , is it /dev/sda1?
Then see if the plpbt.bin is in your /boot folder:
cd...
Sorry I wasn't able to reply earlier, needed to spend time with the wife.
It's been some time since I've attempted to help on the forum, so if someone
else wants, feel free to chime in.
Am I...
wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/ubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso
This "should" enable you to download the iso image, then follow the 2nd link I gave you earlier to boot as a live image, then...
You might be able to use Plop boot manager to boot from usb:
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/plpbt.bin.html
If your current version uses grub2:...
Final release of 12.04 should fit on cd:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/
This might work:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1519432
You might want to check out remastersys:
http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/
You should be able to cd to the directory where the .run file is located. I have the 275 drive installed for a Fermi 450 GTS & would need to run:
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-275.09.07.run...
Have you tried installing proprietary drivers for your graphics card?:
System--->Administration--->Hardware Drivers
If you need to recover files(or possibly the linux partition), do as doas777 has suggested.
If you're unable to boot into Windows, you might try installing lilo to the mbr:...