Posted
by anonymous
on Super User
See other posts from Super User
or by anonymous
Published on 2010-04-18T06:22:14Z
Indexed on
2010/04/18
6:23 UTC
Read the original article
Hit count: 263
I installed Ubuntu on my external hard drive but it won't boot on my laptop. It works fine on my desktop but not my laptop. It says it can't find root... what do i do?
© Super User or respective owner
as seen on Ask Ubuntu
- Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 from the iso 'ubuntu-11.10-desktop-amd64.iso'. I installed this in VMWare Fusion 4.1.1 running on OSX 10.7.3. When setting up the VM, I allowed easy install to take care of creating my user and installing VMWare tools. No problems during installation, everything…
>>> More
as seen on Ask Ubuntu
- Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
When I type in 'sudo apt-get update' I get this
mohd-arafat-hossain@TUD:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for mohd-arafat-hossain:
Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise InRelease
Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates InRelease
Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu…
>>> More
as seen on Ask Ubuntu
- Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
Whats common among Skype, Opera, OpenOffice in Ubuntu ? Whenever I open these applications I get logged off and shows back me the login screen. This started happening since the 10.10 upgrade.
Forgot to mention :
Yes, its x64.Each time I open these applications, the UI shows and then crashes.
I…
>>> More
as seen on Ask Ubuntu
- Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I have a warning triangle that my update information is outdated, the last update was 12 days ago. I use Ubuntu 11.10. A run of sudo apt-get update produces the following output:
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric InRelease
Ign http://de.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric InRelease …
>>> More
as seen on Server Fault
- Search for 'Server Fault'
Hi all,
I'm trying to run apt-get update on ubuntu 9.10
I've configured my proxy server and I can access the internet without any problem:
/etc/apt# wget "http://www.google.com"
Resolving (...)
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 292 [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html'
100%[=================================================================================================================================>]…
>>> More
as seen on Ask Ubuntu
- Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
What Filesystem should I use for an external USB harddrive (500GB), with possibility
to share with a Mac and Windows systems, for example at the office.
Now it is NTFS but back in the day the NTFS support was not stable under Linux and I think it is not supported on a Mac.
I would just use FAT32…
>>> More
as seen on Ask Ubuntu
- Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
So I dualboot 12.10 and Win7. Both OSs are on the primary SSD while all commonly used data (documents, movies, music, profiles etc) is on a secondary NTFS-formatted HDD.
Since I needed the NTFS drive to automatically mount in Ubuntu right at startup, I downloaded ntfs-config and set it to automount…
>>> More
as seen on Ask Ubuntu
- Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I would like to reformat my hard disk, and if possible recover the (somewhat unimportant) contents if possible.
I have a Western Digital 1TB hard drive which had a NTFS partition.
I unplugged the drive without safely removing it first.
At first a pop up was asking me to use a Windows OS to run the…
>>> More
as seen on Server Fault
- Search for 'Server Fault'
I have a server that is setup in raid. It is on the same network as my main computer. I would like to have some of the memory on my server to act as a network attached drive on my main computer. Basically, I want it to be a new data drive (similar two C:\, but 2nd drives are mostly E:). That way,…
>>> More
as seen on Super User
- Search for 'Super User'
I have a 1TB external that I've used to backup my Mac for the past year using Time Machine. Unfortunately, my hard drive is getting close to full, and I'd like to move some of the stuff off of my Mac onto the same external drive. The problem is that the external drive is already full with my Time…
>>> More
