Mandriva One 2010.0 (including Moblin UI)
Blog Comment Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, and add a boot command for Ubuntu (or Mint) title Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) root (hd0,1) chainloader +1 @ator - That sounds very much like the kind of "agressive GRUB2" behavior I have seen (and mentioned) before with...
[November 17, 2009, 13:47]
i its me again
Talkback well me old roo its lezlow here although 9.10 is officialy released now i.ve had it for 10 months at least and it wouldn,t upgrade on my 9.04 , my 9.04 has just asked me to upgrade and i,ve refused ,WHY and those of you who don,t know i,m running...
[October 30, 2009, 20:36]
Asus EEE can run translucent 3D compiz desktop and full Ubuntu
Talkback So the above command would have been done as follows in Ubuntu.sudo -s cat mbr.bin > /dev/sdc In ubuntu, the root directory of /dev/sdc1 will not be writeable unless you are in super user mode. Ubuntu
[September 21, 2009, 10:08]
Hosted virtualisation suites: a group test review
Reviews Parallels' traditional strength has been on the OS X operating system, and one would truly hope so after the drama needed to get Parallels working properly on Ubuntu. The bundle is an easier alternative to converting the rpm file for non-rpm-based...
[June 22, 2009, 16:40]
Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" - It Just Keeps Getting Better
Blog Ubuntu doesn't like for you to simply "su" to be root, they want you to use "sudo" for each individual root command. As I mentioned in my previous post, this Mint release is based on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope).
[May 28, 2009, 8:19]
HP Pavillion dv2-1010ez Entertainment Notebook
Blog A bit of searching on the net, and in the Ubuntu Wiki, showed me that it needs Linux kernel 2.6.29 or later, but I could add that to Jaunty with this command: sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty
[September 20, 2009, 9:12]
Good Things on the Horizon - But Use Caution!
Blog Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Alpha 3: This is probably the one that you have to be the most careful with, because they are changing the default bootloader from legacy GRUB to GRUB 2 (aka grub-pc), and that is a big, big change.
[August 4, 2009, 16:05]
Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope' Release Candidate
Blog Comment What I would remind people is, that if you are installing using the new Ext4 file system on a computer that already has Grub installed, you must do the 'grub-install' command after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 in order to reinstall your boot loader...
[April 20, 2009, 8:32]
Ubuntu Netbook Remix woes
Blog If you choose to upgrade your / or /boot filesystem in place from ext2 or ext3 to ext4 (as documented on the ext4 wiki), then you must also use the grub-install command after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 to reinstall your boot loader.
[April 17, 2009, 17:08]
New Ubuntu 9.04 installed - not many dead
Blog Stay in and upgrade his Ubuntu, of course. Jaunty Jackalope - Ubuntu 9.04 - welcome to my life. So far, that seems to be used by email and IM clients - but not Tweetdeck (I presume because Air doesn't know about it), which throws its own black...
[April 20, 2009, 11:36]
Ubuntu details plans for 'Jaunty Jackalope'
News For the first time, any developer will be able to branch any Ubuntu package with a single bzr command, publish their changes, and perhaps even publish builds of that package in their own package archive," wrote Shuttleworth.
[September 9, 2008, 9:21]
Ubuntu 9.04 Snaps Desktop Visaster
Blog Comment Turns out that when the system is booted up in Visaster and you use Disk Manager it reports that there are 6 primary partitions, 3 for Visaster (hidden FAT, C drive and D drive both NTFS) and 3 for Ubuntu (/root, swap and /home).
[July 21, 2009, 15:01]
Ten reasons Ubuntu 9.10 will be an enterprise hit
Comment The arrival of the latest release of the Ubuntu operating system is going to make a big impression on businesses, says Jack Wallen. With the release of Ubuntu Karmic Koala on 29 October, it is clear that Canonical has aimed its flagship operating...
[November 13, 2009, 11:12]
Shutdown/Reboot Ubuntu 9.10
Blog Sometime during the Ubuntu 9.04 release, Canonical added a 60-second delay when Reboot or Shutdown was selected. If this is the way that Ubuntu administration is going to be moving in the future, we are headed right back to the days where people...
[November 16, 2009, 7:52]
Clonezilla, here to stay, not fade away!*
Blog Debbietoo served as the server/target of the Clonezilla distro (http://www.clonezilla.org/) booted up on both paqman (old P3 Compaq Enpro with Ubuntu 9.04) and the Windows XP Pro box (P4) and got viable clones out of both of them.
[June 16, 2009, 10:03]
Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" - It Just Keeps Getting Better
Blog Comment @paradox - I don't notice any significant difference in speed between Mint 7 and Ubuntu 9.04, on any of my systems. As I have mentioned before, I still use Ubuntu more often than Mint for my everyday use, but my decision is based on the fact that...
[May 29, 2009, 8:15]
super ubuntu 9.04
Talkback dear jack i,ve finally found my near dream system above however i,ve hit a snag i can,t update,i can,t load anything or delete anything i am familiar with ubuntu,s type of command/dos but nothing works i,ve found about 2/300 peoples who have this...
[October 12, 2009, 12:26]
