Finally switched to linux... what now?

[alexander]

like true islam, people come to use linux, because they realize that nothing else makes sense to them... and this really has nothing to do with religion, or my views and beliefs as opposed to yours. there's no need to "degrade" windows, it has it's place in the society, and people who use it, or don't understand the difference, and are not ready to pass over to something better, though it's better from my perspective and for what i tend to do more, we dont force people to change over, people come to change....

[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

sanctus, i have Dfnitlyditrubd on linux,

Hey!!! I resemble that!!!

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cept when I'm talkin to Alex cuz he deserves to be asked many many stupid questions with much repitition

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Ubu. ain't so tricky....unfriggin what you do to your computer in Ubu. /root/ is tricky

[alexander]

wow, mr d figured out how to use advanced smileys... tell me, mr d, was it easier or harder to learn how to use this forum then learning how to use linux?

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Fart knocker!!

And that be a trick question.

Ubu. in most respects is no different to use than Windoze with the exception of being much faster on my machine for some reason or another (P4).

Big balls with hardware issues (some still not resolved).

Command line very reminisent of the good ol days of dos

BTW Apple hates open source....so newer Ipod only kinda sorta work with Ubu. (deliberate on their part)

Wifey still like windoze betta for imaging so maintaining dualboot a must....but does provide insight into how much better and more secure Ubu. is vs windoze.

besides text comands free up the right hand for more important things

[alexander]

hehe, got ya going, Mr D, didn't i? :P

apple does not hate open-source, they just dont cater to it, nor release any info... for what its worth, zune does not work on linux either, and at all... to my knowledge...

[freeztar]

I've still been unable to get linux working good here.

I have Kubuntu 7.04 installed, but it doesn't recognize my wlan card so I'm unable to get online with it. So, of course, I can't automatically update it to 7.10.

I downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu and ran that via LiveCD. It worked and it recognized my wireless, but it was soooo slow that I decided to install it instead. But, since Kubuntu is currently managing my triple boot (XP,Vista,nix), I'm hesitant to overwrite that partition. Plus it was asking me to create a share partition without giving me the option to create one. (I later found out that grub can do this, but I still feel sketchy about losing my boot options once Ubu is installed over Kubu)

So, I installed Ubuntu under windows using the nifty new installer that places Ubuntu inside windows (selectable in the windows bootloader). Unfortunately, I get past the login screen and it just hangs.

I've been unable to figure out how to non-destructively make everything work. I would just start experimenting, but I don't have the means to back everything up right now. If anyone knows how to get it set up properly, let me know!

BTW, I've been seeking help on the ubuntuforums but I've only had one person helping me so far and they don't have any good answers.

[alexander]

dont be, because it's actually not related to the OS. The boot loader Ubuntu uses is called GRUB, it's been around for ages and loads just about every OS known to man kind. Point being that since the first half of grub resides in the MBR, it's not the part that loads your OSes. Ubuntu runs a script that detects Windows OSes and creates entries in the config file to load them. You can always back up your current grub.conf (located in /boot/grub/grub.conf). Just make sure that after the 8.10 install you take the windows parts out of the old config file and don't change the kernel load for the 8.10 kernel.

your windows parts should look like this:

(this is assuming that windows XP and Windows Vista are installed on hardrive 1 partition 1 and 2 respectively, the hd(x,y) part changes)

title Windows XP
rootnoverify hd(0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot

title Windows Vista
rootnoverify hd(0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot

but this actually invokes the windows boot loader on that specific partition so you can overwrite without worrying about the boot loader, in reality you could force ubuntu to not touch the boot loader, but its too much worry for your situation, as far as i can see, well, read

[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

Add another HD....I use two separate drives for Ubu. and windoze....I like to keep them separate....among the many benefits are no overwiriting issues between the two....I've read that sometimes windoze oversteps it's bounds and writes in your Ubu. partition....Besides HDs are fairly cheap and it will give you more room to grow.