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I've tried the ubuntu forums, ad infinitum. It does not give me permission to change the resolution. The mouse and keyboard I can change. The monitor is "permission denied". Or whatever buntu speak equivalent is.
Joined: Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:37 am Posts: 3610 Location: London, UK Gender: Female
been trying to put Ubuntu on my 1yo laptop, either as a dual boot or the Wubi try.. nothing can do..afaik I can't even put it instead of Vista! I put the disk in, select install...and it crashes. (well hang). .. Wubi I try install, asks me to reboot then absolutely nothing has changed. not even going to try on my desktop (which is much older and hold a lot more info)
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Pegasus wrote:
been trying to put Ubuntu on my 1yo laptop, either as a dual boot or the Wubi try.. nothing can do..afaik I can't even put it instead of Vista! I put the disk in, select install...and it crashes. (well hang). .. Wubi I try install, asks me to reboot then absolutely nothing has changed. not even going to try on my desktop (which is much older and hold a lot more info)
I've had similar problems with Ubuntu, although I've only tried it on virtual machines.
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Joined: Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:37 am Posts: 3610 Location: London, UK Gender: Female
allforcarrie wrote:
If you are concerned about old hardware you should check out Puppy or DSL. DSL will run on a 496 ROFL.
my laptop is not old.
and Mandriva does it easily install a dual boot with Vista though?
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is this the thread where I can talk about how much I love vi?
:wq!
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yes, vi is great to tweak some files (xorg.conf for example). It's clearly a good way to show off, way better than using gedit or kwrite as root. The terminal makes you look so geeky !
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Walter Sobchak wrote:
yes, vi is great to tweak some files (xorg.conf for example). It's clearly a good way to show off, way better than using gedit or kwrite as root. The terminal makes you look so geeky !
When I use vi I try to practice moving the cursor with the jkl; keys instead of the arrows.
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I have a question. It's about Linux Mint, close to Ubuntu lol.
I am trying to mount a share from my windows computer to Linux mint. I need a mount so I can feed it into Music Player Daemon (MPD) as a place to look for my music. MY TB harddrive is on the windows machine. I've read about Samba, NFS, etc. I can browse the files in the gui and copy them but it's sort of slow.
Any pros here? lol.
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EastHastings wrote:
I have a question. It's about Linux Mint, close to Ubuntu lol.
I am trying to mount a share from my windows computer to Linux mint. I need a mount so I can feed it into Music Player Daemon (MPD) as a place to look for my music. MY TB harddrive is on the windows machine. I've read about Samba, NFS, etc. I can browse the files in the gui and copy them but it's sort of slow.
Any pros here? lol.
I used Samba when I did that, but it's definitely a pain to get it to work. Didn't have any problems with it being slow, though.
That was about three years ago, so I'm not sure I could give you any specifics on how to do it.
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