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Post by **Devari** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:50 pm

You can repartion everything with the Ubuntu installer. I'd actually suggest using purely that method, as it is much faster than PartionMagic, and usually pretty safe. The Ubuntu partion tool (a generic linux one) can be a bit hard to use, but generally works well if you can figure it out.

Corban · Post by **Corban** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:58 pm

Ok, I'm going to try to give the Ubuntu installer a try... we'll see how it goes..

Corban · Post by **Corban** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:06 pm

Update on the current situation...

Argh (insert angry explicits here) !!!1!!!!!111~!

Ok, right now I am having a major problem resizing the my windows partition. All I want to do is to take 20 GB or so and use it for installing linux in. I tried using qtparted from http://www.sysresccd.org/ (inside the rescue cd) and it refused to recognize my ntfs windows partition. Also I would use partition magic but I really don't want to pay any money... (as of now I have none).

p.s. I am using a 400 GB hard drive so space is no problem whatsoever.

Post by **windhound** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:42 pm

I found this neat looking thing a little while back
it was a live disk with the sole purpose of rescuing data and resizing partitains..
lost it though..

but the easiest way would prob. be just go to:
http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en/ftp.php3
and download the (free) mkd mini installer
( http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/mand ... i.i586.iso is one mirror)
basically you just want its partitain tool, so after the harddrive is setup you can exit and not install mkd if you dont want it (and the mini is rather rough looking, its small on the hdd, only takes one cd, but oh is it ugly..

)

but anyways, it has a good partitian tool
just defrag and clean up your windows drive before you run it or you run the risk of breaking windows, most of the time it works fine though

after you partitian, plop in your ubuntu cd and install over the linux partitians you made with the mdk installer (and its usually better to put the bootloader on the mbr if you have the option)

Corban · Post by **Corban** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:48 pm

Thank you very much for the help. I'm in the process of downloading it right now.

Corban · Post by **Corban** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:47 pm

Thank you very much Windhound I finally got Ubuntu to work on my system. You've been a tremendous help and once again I thank you.

Floppy_Drive · Post by **Floppy_Drive** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:46 pm

Go Corban! Welcome to Linux!

Post by **windhound** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:25 pm

spiffy!

what think you of ubuntu?

Post by **Devari** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 10:46 pm

Good job, windy & corban. Mandriva has a fantastic installer - too bad the distro uses horribly dated software!

Corban, now that you've got a running system, send me a PM or post here if you need any information. I've used Ubuntu for quite a few months now, so I know pretty much all there is about setup and stuff.

Corban · Post by **Corban** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:44 am

Hey, thanks for all your comments. So far I'm enjoying linux very much. I don't think it will replace windows but I think I'll be switching back and forth for awhile. (never totally commiting but gaining experiance non the less). Ok, I'm also pm(ing) you this Devari. But I am wondering how to the order of OS booting. (Have windows boot before Linux)

Post by **Devari** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 5:37 am

Ok, open up the terminal and do the following:

Type "sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst" (minus the quotes)
Enter your password.
When the editor pops up, scroll down in the config file to an entry which looks like this:

title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root hd(0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

It might look a bit different, but it should be easy to identify.

Copy the block of text that loads Windows (the bit that looks like the example above.

Find in the file "## ## End Default Options ##"

Under it, paste the Windows loading code.

It should look something like this:

## ## End Default Options ##

title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10-5-686
root (hd0,9)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-686 root=/dev/hda10 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-5-686
savedefault
boot

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10-5-686 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,9)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-686 root=/dev/hda10 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-5-686
savedefault
boot

It will, quite likely, look different, but that should give you an idea. It's a bit late, so I might be unclear. Let me know if you have any trouble, and be very careful in there!

Corban · Post by **Corban** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:29 pm

Ok, I just tried to edit the file under my default user but it wouldn't let me. Also how does one install a program such as limewire? Right now I'm totally confused...

Post by **windhound** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:07 am

not sure about ubuntu, but I had to edit /etc/sudoers before I could use the 'sudo' command

you can also just type 'su'
then enter your root password

again, I'm not sure about ubuntu, but with fedora the file you wanted to edit was /boot/grub/grub.conf

Post by **The Beatles** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:51 am

For LimeWire, download: http://www.limewire.com/LimeWireSoftLinux
Then use alien to install it.
I don't run Debian, so Devari will have to supply you with the exact details...

Post by **Devari** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:48 am

Make sure you use the sudo command, or else you won't have sufficient permissions.

sudo password is the same as your user account.

If you'd rather not open up terminal, type gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst in Run Command.

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