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Thanks, it worked!

I have linux mint with the mate desktop (looks like the ubuntu-10.04 desktop).
When I run
sudo apt-get install [something I allready have] it says this:


Reading package lists... Done...

I have linux mint 10 64-bit and once I rebooted and the wifi did not work, so I checked in additional drivers and the broadcon STA wireless driver was not activated so I activated but then it gave me...

Maby nano isn't installed:


sudo apt-get install nano

How do I make a VIRTUAL floppy or any other VIRTUAL device and install grub on it and mount it and copy some files so I can boot up my test os I am making. And how do I make a file that grub will...

I started with java and then went to to assembly. Assembly is the core of all programming but is not good for some things like porting code. I recommend to learn assembly fist (when I learnt assembly...

Type in

sudo apt-get update
and try again.

Thanks!!!
Hey, this is the Virtualisation part of ubuntuforums, isn't it?

or you can try:


sudo apt-get install unity

try this:


sudo startx

Is there a way to include a file as intel syntax type?

I need someway to install grub on a virtual floppy and then to mount it and copy some other stuff (I am making an os). Then I need to know how to make the startup file for grub to load to.

Here is my problem:

file1.c:


main ()
{
asm (
".intel_syntax\n"
"%include "file2.asm"\n"

I found that in your link ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86#x86_registers) under 32-bit at line 9 it said:
"With the 80486 a floating-point processing unit (FPU) was added, with eight 80-bit wide...

While I was doing some intel assembly code on kate text editor I by mistake wrote "st" and I saw that st was blue (I had set kate to blue for a register), this means st is a register. What is st used...

Linus Torvalds said: "C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++#Criticism

How do I know which is which in r1 r2 r3 ... ?
I am making both c and assembly files in my project and I need to know if r1 is asm("ah"); and r2 is asm("al"); or something else.
And do I need to...

By the way, these messages are written to /var/log/boot.log.

Have you ever wanted to make your own programming language?
First you need to decide which programming language to build your programming language with. I will show how to do it in shell script....

That is shell script, I meant assembly. I need to load and execute .bin files in assembly like an os loads them.

Hi all.
I need to make a system call in assembly that will execute a .bin file(an assembly file which is assembled). I have checked all over the internet but I have not found a single page that...

I am making an operative system with a bootloader, kernel and programs. I need to make a bootable floppy and mount it on a directory for copying the bootloader, kernel and programs to and then...

Tried all of that, same error.

I am making an os in assembly and have made the basic parts of the bootloader and the kernel. I have made a floppy with:


mkdosfs -C /path/to/my/floppy.flp 1440

and then copyed the bootloader:...

If he wants to make an os he will have to do 3 things:
1. Check out mikeos at http://mikeos.berlios.de.
2. Learn assembly.
3. Make his first bootloader in assembly.
Anybody who wants to be a...