Try and change the Drive Type to On. If it has no On, try Auto. After doing either of those, save BIOS settings and exit, then restart and try and boot into Ubuntu.
I'm off to bed for now - I'll be on ~5:30 AM Eastern to check back.
If you boot into Ubuntu, congrats. Yeah I know the default looks suck ultimately, but I can help you tweak that **** out into some really happening stuffs.
Double click on one of them. GDebi should start up. Enter your user password at the prompt (in case you don't understand why it's your password and not some special root password, the easiest way to explain sudo is that it requires you to enter your password to modify any files outside your home directory. It is a wonderful security feature.).
Then choose to Install the package. Once it's done installing, close GDebi.
Now double click on the other file, and rinse and repeat (note: it probably won't ask you for your password the second time because sudo has a check built into it to see if you entered your password in the last 15 minutes or so).
This will install the Flash 9 beta Stand-alone player and the Firefox Plugin.
Go to start->run and type in msconfig. Then go to the tab on the very right (i forgot what its labeled), and uncheck any programs you don't want running on start up, and click apply. Remember, only uncheck programs if you know exactly what they are, and what they do.
When I buy a laptop sometime in the near future, I'm thinking of dual booting Windows and Linux. What I need to know is how much space will it take to dual boot? Will it slow the computer down majorly? And any other problems there may be dual booting. The laptop I'm planning on getting has a 120GB hard drive, in case you need to know.
"Hello! I've come to serenade you. I can't play guitar. I can't play this accordion either, but I thought it'd be less obvious."
Dylan Moran, Black Books
What I need to know is how much space will it take to dual boot?
That depends.
Will it slow the computer down majorly?
Computers "slowing down" over time is a Windows issue kiddo - not a Linux or hardware issue (unless your PC is ancient, but let's just say I've got a Pentium 2 with 98 MB of RAM running Linux swell).
Anyways, the trick to setting up dual boot is how you plan on using Windows and Linux.
If you plan to be using both about the same amount and actively doing work and such in both environments, then that'll affect the partitioning scheme.
This guide shows a rather strong sampling of good partitioning schemes.
Given you have a 120 GB hard drive, here's my recommended scheme:
(~25 GB) Windows NTFS || (~75 GB) Shared Data FAT32 || (~18 GB) Ubuntu Ext3 / || (~2 GB) Linux SWAP
Alright, now I'm going to break this down.
Windows NTFS = Default Windows setup. We're allowing ~25 GB
Shared Data = A partition of the FAT32 Filesystem that is natively r/w by both Windows and Linux (Linux cannot by default write NTFS and Windows cannot r/w EXT3)
Ubuntu / = All your specifically Linux stuff
Linux SWAP = SWAP is your best friend. It is usually 1.5-2 times the amount of RAM you have. What it does, is acts as "extra" (but slightly slower) RAM should you be using all of your actual RAM.
Note: The underlined portion is one Extended Partition (most hard drives only allow for a max of three regular partitions).
The above setup will make your install process a little longer (by default, you could simply choose an option that'd resize your Windows to X and install Ubuntu on the rest), however, it will create a more productive dual-boot environment. Not to mention, it only slightly complicates the install process if the Desktop CD is used (You'd choose the third option at partitioning to manually edit the partitioning scheme. At the gParted window, you'd just resize the END of your Windows partition so it only takes up the proper size, and then you'd create the new partitions in the rest. Finally, after you click next, you'd just choose your mount points for Ubuntu based on drop down menus like so. At that point, you'd set swap to mount at swap, Ubuntu Ext3 / to mount at / [aka /root], and you'd set Shared Filesystem to mount at /documents.).
Eds, as a deal-sweetener, if it's got a Nvidia, ATI, or recent Intel graphics card, you're looking at the ability to have a desktop that looks/acts like so.
"Hello! I've come to serenade you. I can't play guitar. I can't play this accordion either, but I thought it'd be less obvious."
Dylan Moran, Black Books
Using FireFox 2.0: All day whenever I press the down directional key it takes me to the top of the page I am viewing. It does not scroll normally, meaning that I have to use my mouse holding on to the scroll bar. How does this happen and how can I change it back?
Using FireFox 2.0: All day whenever I press the down directional key it takes me to the top of the page I am viewing. It does not scroll normally, meaning that I have to use my mouse holding on to the scroll bar. How does this happen and how can I change it back?
Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Always Use the cursor keys...
Using Windows XP, how do I find out what my WEP key is?
Most modern routers and other wireless Internet devices have a configurator accessible by locating your favorite web browser to you router's IP. What that will be, I do not know. However, once you've located your browser to your router and possibly logged in (if you've set port forwarding on your router before you should be on the right track), then there will be an area for WEP somewhere abouts in there.
Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Always Use the cursor keys...
Uncheck that.
Most modern routers and other wireless Internet devices have a configurator accessible by locating your favorite web browser to you router's IP. What that will be, I do not know. However, once you've located your browser to your router and possibly logged in (if you've set port forwarding on your router before you should be on the right track), then there will be an area for WEP somewhere abouts in there.
If you've just done a standard instilation of your router right form the box, its IP should still be 192.168.1.1
I'm off to bed for now - I'll be on ~5:30 AM Eastern to check back.
If you boot into Ubuntu, congrats. Yeah I know the default looks suck ultimately, but I can help you tweak that **** out into some really happening stuffs.
[KalmWave] [Last.FM]
Ubuntu Linux
Firefox's randomly closed on me a few times, but otherwise seems good. Thanks a lot for all the help!
EDIT: Hrm, Firefox probably crashed because I haven't installed Flash yet.
Save these two links to your home folder or the desktop:
http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/pool/dapper/3v1n0/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.21.55-3v1ubuntu0_i386.deb
http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/pool/dapper/3v1n0/flashplayer-nonfree_9.0.21.55-3v1ubuntu0_i386.deb
Double click on one of them. GDebi should start up. Enter your user password at the prompt (in case you don't understand why it's your password and not some special root password, the easiest way to explain sudo is that it requires you to enter your password to modify any files outside your home directory. It is a wonderful security feature.).
Then choose to Install the package. Once it's done installing, close GDebi.
Now double click on the other file, and rinse and repeat (note: it probably won't ask you for your password the second time because sudo has a check built into it to see if you entered your password in the last 15 minutes or so).
This will install the Flash 9 beta Stand-alone player and the Firefox Plugin.
[KalmWave] [Last.FM]
Ubuntu Linux
I can't figure out how to change which programs I want to load on start-up. I could do it on WinMe but can't on XP Pro.
So how would I go about doing that?
I'm sure the answer is so simple, I'll be embarressed when I read it.
How you should approach every game of Magic.
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"Hello! I've come to serenade you. I can't play guitar. I can't play this accordion either, but I thought it'd be less obvious."
Dylan Moran, Black Books
That depends.
Computers "slowing down" over time is a Windows issue kiddo - not a Linux or hardware issue (unless your PC is ancient, but let's just say I've got a Pentium 2 with 98 MB of RAM running Linux swell).
Anyways, the trick to setting up dual boot is how you plan on using Windows and Linux.
If you plan to be using both about the same amount and actively doing work and such in both environments, then that'll affect the partitioning scheme.
This guide shows a rather strong sampling of good partitioning schemes.
Given you have a 120 GB hard drive, here's my recommended scheme:
(~25 GB) Windows NTFS || (~75 GB) Shared Data FAT32 || (~18 GB) Ubuntu Ext3 / || (~2 GB) Linux SWAP
Alright, now I'm going to break this down.
Windows NTFS = Default Windows setup. We're allowing ~25 GB
Shared Data = A partition of the FAT32 Filesystem that is natively r/w by both Windows and Linux (Linux cannot by default write NTFS and Windows cannot r/w EXT3)
Ubuntu / = All your specifically Linux stuff
Linux SWAP = SWAP is your best friend. It is usually 1.5-2 times the amount of RAM you have. What it does, is acts as "extra" (but slightly slower) RAM should you be using all of your actual RAM.
Note: The underlined portion is one Extended Partition (most hard drives only allow for a max of three regular partitions).
The above setup will make your install process a little longer (by default, you could simply choose an option that'd resize your Windows to X and install Ubuntu on the rest), however, it will create a more productive dual-boot environment. Not to mention, it only slightly complicates the install process if the Desktop CD is used (You'd choose the third option at partitioning to manually edit the partitioning scheme. At the gParted window, you'd just resize the END of your Windows partition so it only takes up the proper size, and then you'd create the new partitions in the rest. Finally, after you click next, you'd just choose your mount points for Ubuntu based on drop down menus like so. At that point, you'd set swap to mount at swap, Ubuntu Ext3 / to mount at / [aka /root], and you'd set Shared Filesystem to mount at /documents.).
Eds, as a deal-sweetener, if it's got a Nvidia, ATI, or recent Intel graphics card, you're looking at the ability to have a desktop that looks/acts like so.
[KalmWave] [Last.FM]
Ubuntu Linux
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"Hello! I've come to serenade you. I can't play guitar. I can't play this accordion either, but I thought it'd be less obvious."
Dylan Moran, Black Books
not necessarily, it can also come from a highly fragmented hard drive, in which cause you'd need to get a defragmenter program and defragment.
Which'd be a Windows issue as all of the Windows filesystems suffer from fragmentation whereas Ext3, ReiserFS, et al, do not.
[KalmWave] [Last.FM]
Ubuntu Linux
O, I wasn't aware that was a problem from NTFS file system, I thought it was just a general problem that occured in hard drives over time.
NTFS and the FAT family suffer from fragmentation and other such things.
However the journaling in Ext3, ReiserFS, JFS, etc... prevents such fragmentation.
[KalmWave] [Last.FM]
Ubuntu Linux
Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Always Use the cursor keys...
Uncheck that.
Most modern routers and other wireless Internet devices have a configurator accessible by locating your favorite web browser to you router's IP. What that will be, I do not know. However, once you've located your browser to your router and possibly logged in (if you've set port forwarding on your router before you should be on the right track), then there will be an area for WEP somewhere abouts in there.
[KalmWave] [Last.FM]
Ubuntu Linux
If you've just done a standard instilation of your router right form the box, its IP should still be 192.168.1.1
I actually ended up finding it last night but it is Tools > Options > Advanced for me. *shrug*
Firefox 2 moved Options to Edit > Preferences.
[KalmWave] [Last.FM]
Ubuntu Linux
That's in Linux, in Windows it's still Tools > Options
Is this where I cheer for the wonders of the GNOME HIG?
[KalmWave] [Last.FM]
Ubuntu Linux
Open the file in MSPaint (Start > All Programs > Accessories > Paint).
File>Save As..
There'll be two dropdown menus. One controls the name of the file. The other controls the image format.
In the one that controls the image format, select GIF. Then save it.
[KalmWave] [Last.FM]
Ubuntu Linux
[KalmWave] [Last.FM]
Ubuntu Linux