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@osi
Like Lynx has said, you don't have to remove your windows 7 to use ubuntu, no one is asking you to do that
in fact you can install it from inside windows and try it out

wow i've started to look at some of the features of grub2 and i think i like them; now  to look for some lightweight linux diistro that comes with it
i got some info from this link: http://www.workswithu.com/2009/07/29/ubuntu-910-preview-grub-2/
however for those of not in the mood to check external links i will try to highlight some of the extra features:
scripting including support for variables, conditional statements and functions, Rescue mode, graphical boot and my favorite ability to boot from isos

well i'll still wait till version 10, by then gnome will be more stable; i didn't like kde 4.x either at first
but i don't seem to have a choice anymore either; will look up on grub2 and see the benefits

grub2? dis ubuntu pple get too much wahala o; are they customizin Xorg drivers on their own?
so 4llerbe i guess that means u plan 2 wait a bit right? and i thought u wld try it out and give us a walkthru

well remember 8.04 is actually LTS (long term support) that means that 8.04 might still have support by the time they
are telling you to upgrade 9.10. At least i happen to know that 8.04's support extends beyond 9.04's but i think u're
right; i had already pasted the link before i started lookin at peoples' comments (which is why i made the next)
but for me sha, on version is enough for a year; i never even use 9.04 finish; i still get 8.04 for my pc sef so i'm
waiting for 10.x (which they will hopefully mail to me, i like getting the original cd)

i see no reason why it shouldn't work on any pc unless the pc has some strange hardware specs - usually very old hardware and very new hardware

ok ignore what i posted before, get Koala run and debug so that when we try it and get problems we can run to you

bros small advice, make small time pass b4 u disturb urself with koala; i hear say even pros get enuff yawa with koala, say de tin dey give problems for some people; check dis link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/karmic_koala_frustration
or dis: http://www.tgdaily.com/software-features/44512-karmic-koala-displays-bad-karma

i'll make this quick, there' s a point where you see defaults for some lines and no auto for others;
default means that it would be automatically mounted, no auto means that it won't.
why would u want to put a line in /etc/fstab and not automatically mount you may ask
well for one thing if you've tried to mount a partifion from command line say you try
"sudo mount /dev/sda3" you'll get an error message that "/dev/sda3 is not in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab"
to mount you'd have to use "sudo mount /dev/sda3 /media/sda3" basically when u want to mount any partition
without specifying where to mount it linux checks the /etc/fstab file
that lik

i haven't finished my revious comments but let me divert 4 a while
complete idiot for a guru like u? HA!
anyway this is how i install my oses: most people just follow the installer guide when installing but when i want to install i always make sure i have already prepared my partitions beforehand; i susally use gparted which i can use to resize/move my partitions. ok 4llerbe it's a bit difficult to explain since each distro has its own way of installing but just know that when u're installing linux (unless u're using slackware - based or other less user-friendly distros ) there's a place where you have to choose your partition - if you don't use the default option - the one which does everything for you (which i never use, what with all the distros i have on my pc) and if you have 2 free partitions you specify your main one as / and the other as /home which is where the home will be mounted . Now if you have already installed linux and want to transfer your home to another partition it won't be easy but it can be done; however you will either need to be able to login as root or login from another linux distro. In ubuntu 9.04 to be ab;e to login as root go to system -> administratin -> login window; in the windo that comes up select the security tab and make sure that the "allow the system administrator login" checkbox is checked; now you probably don't have a password for root. tocreate one in the terminal type "sudo passwd root" (without the quotes) it will prompt you for a root password which you can give
now logout and login as root (the username is root). Now the thing about root is that while other users have their home folders in the /home folder, root's home folder is the root folder. Anyway i'm sure by now you already have the partition that you want to make your home partition. suppose you have 3 partitions sda1 for windows, sda2 for ubuntu and sda3 is the partition that you want to use as your home folder; first of all create a folder in /media if you don't already have one say /media/sda3. i'm also assuming you have already formatted the /dev/sda3 partition to the filesystem you want to use (ext2 - redundant, ext3, ext4 or reiserfs) i've never used ext4 or reiserfs but the command to make an ext3 filesystem is mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda3 ext4 would probably be mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3 (warning the mkfs is like formatting, using against the wrong partition will wipe everything out). ok u've created ur partition; the next thing now is to mount the partition: "mount /dev/sda3 /media/sda3" (without quotes) which will mount the partition in the /media/sda3 folder. now copy the contents of the /home folder to /media/sda3: "cp -a --preserve /home/* /media/sda3" . make sure you use the --preserve option so that the file permissions remain as is. next you have to edit a particular file; type gedit /etc/fstab (remember because you are already logged in as root you don't need the sudo command) in the file that opens add this line: /dev/sda3 (under filesystem) /home (under mount point) ext3 (or ext4 if that's what you used) (under type); make the rest correspond with what you see in the line that has the root (/) mount point. save and close. restart and log in as a normal user. if all goes well you should not have any problem logging in if so in the termiinal type df | grep home; you should see something like

filesystem 1-k blocks used available use% mounted on
/dev/sda3 xxxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xx% /home

if so you are ok; if you were not able to login, logout, login as root type "gedit /etc/fstab" again and put a hash # in front of the line and we will discuss this thing again.


as for the multiboot thing i only install grub on the mbr from my prefered os subsequent installs of other oses are installed to the mbrs of their partitions; after which i open /boot/grub/menu.lst (both of the newly installed diostro and of my preferred distro ) and i copy the line that cooresponds to the newly installed distro and paste in the menu.lst of the preferred one. i know it seems a lot of wahala but once u've done it once or twice it's not so difficult again

whew that was a long one; now u see why it took me so long to reply; and i'm not sure i haven't confused u more

@soft-touch
actually about the drivers that is not actually correct; if you used mandriva/fedora/opensuse with exactly the same or more recent kernel version as the version of ubuntu you're using i can bet you that you will have the drivers too; truth is drivers are tied to the kernel except some "rare" hardware that does not yet have linux support; the main reason why all these brands are called linux is because they all get their kernels from the same kernel source (though each brand has been known to add a few extra customizations). i have been in a situation where a friend who had mint linux (which is based on ubuntu) couldn't connect to a wireless network while the puppy linux i had worked seamlessly - and i've had many people complain about puppy's networking issues. if you get your OpenSUSE/ Fedora/ Mandrake from computer village then don't be surprised when they don't support your sata hard disk etc.

@4llerbe
well you've used puppy now; i like it 'cos it's lightweight and i can try lots of experiments on it (i remember in my earlier linux days if i wanted to run a (standalone) program in puppy that i had in slackware  all i had to do was copy the libraries from slackware and it will run - most of the time. if i tried that with ubuntu i will get a serious segmentation fault)

slackware my favorite because its the first linux distro i ever had (i think people usually have a speciall attachement to the first distro they use) - ok the first version i used was basiclinux which is based  on slackware and came in 2 floppies (then i didn't have internet connection and had disk space issues), puppy was my second. if you are not interested in working from command line keep of this distro, by default it starts in the command line - though you can customise it to go into gui mode. i like it 'cos of the flexibility it gives me; while i can and have recompiled kernels locally to use with puppy and ubuntu i'm less nervous about doing so with slack; it's more basic (from a technical point of view) and less customised, i even once configured one on an external harddisk that i could boot from at any time. i know there are specialised tools to help you do so in many distros but try doing it without any of those tools in those distros men you'll sweat big time - in fact just google it up and see how many steps it takes without using those tools. For me slackware gives me what i like about linux - flexibility, control and the task of making it work for yourself increases your knowledge too. One major problem you may hafve with slackware is that it has a very basic package manager that doesn't check dependencies so you may download a program and when u try to run it get a library Bleep.so not found then u have to search the internet to find the library. most distros install the required libraries for u

Arch i only tried this one recently after all bigrovar's comments and i'll say like i did for slack if you don't like command line stay away from this distro it's even worse than slackware in a sense. at least in slackware i download 3 isos, install and have a working os  with gui; with arch you download a small iso and then you have to download (from within arch) the other programs you need includin your X server and ur window manager

actually Koala comes out 2morrow nd while i can easily download it, i'll just execise patience and order 4 it;
i've bin collecting free ubuntu cds and am not about 2 stop. Even though i prefer kde i still think debian- based
distros do better with gnome - ok i once tried kubuntu myself but that was a while ago (6.06 i think it was) but
since then i haven't had the heart to try it again but on opensuse and slackware i use kde.
Puppy's quite nice though sort of llightweight; nowadays they seem to be thinning off the apps even more
but even then the size of the iso is getting bigger.
why not just download fedora? there's always the risk that the cd u buy will not install completely
i guess u're a network admin since u seem to be looking for network tools that us basic pc usersdon't even know about

yeah and there's this google update thingy that i'm always seing in my taskmanager; i've gotten tired of disabling it from starting up automatically; i just leave it now but as per Internet Explorer, nothing doing; if possible i will remove it totally from my pc for good

sharing the gospel with one person is ok so long as you're not disturbing anyone - including the person you're sharing with
but shouting at the top of your voice in an aircraft is not only wrong, it's uncivilised

thanks but i'll stick with my opera, firefox and chrome; who knows what security issues this one might have?

how do you know that the error is with the registy and not something else? is there some specific message that you get?
if so pls post it in full am sure someone on the internet (if not in nairaland) has encountered that sort of error before

u know 4llebe i think its time a new thread was oened for Ubuntu 48 pages is quite a bit

also i think moderators are really witch-hunting you, what with the way they keep blocking your posts
even after u created a new account

type win+r and in the run dialog that comes up type devmgmt.msc the device manager should come up;
is there any under disk drives is there any yellow icon with an exclamation mark or a question mark?
if not going to the run dialog again and type diskmgmt.msc to bring up the disk manager, you can then check if you
can find the disk there and assign it a drive letter;
or to make things easier if you are not a techie, post screenshots of your disk manager and your device manager;
(p.s. make sure they are maximised) and i believe there are enough people in this forum (myself included) who can
help you on from there

@akinsobo2 i get that sometimes with my lappy disk drive too what happens is that either the disk drive is faulty or the cd is faulty or both.
it's a hardware problem (no amount of formatting or installation wil fix it) but if you can't live with it, you can replace the cd drive

deji2009:
I dont know why some tecs like user calling them. I'm sure this users knows where to take their laptop. so asking them ring this number etc

just out of order and beside a user report this problem the best you suggested was to reformat dont get it

We"ve not even ask the user some questions

don't mind them, the sad thing is that they may not even know as much as they profess to know; besides there are lots of sites where one
can get better solutions to some of these issues than the person advertiing can even offer; imagine formatting ur laptop just because you can't
eject a flash drive via the remove device utility - that's like using a hammer to kill a fly

tv is an abbreviation

on googling i all the sites i found seem to imply that you don't actually have any words
without vowels or vowel like letters (e.g. w and y). also words like shh and grr are not really words but sounds

tryst, trysts

model no pls, is it a table phone? if so you should see the model no at the back

i knew there was a reason why i was refusing to buy a car; but honestly i believe the govt just wants o make sure every car owner is a taxpayer

Lagos ke? God 4bid bad tin o, make dem no come spoil lagos too the way dem don spoil naija; in fact come 2011 pdp must go!!!

@dimco next time your pc comes up 1)press crtl+alt+del so that your taskmanager comes up then 2)click on the processes tab, 3)scroll down the list of processes till you see explorer.exe then select it and 4)click on end process, in the dialog that comes up select yes . 5) after that click on the menu file - > new task (Run) and in the box that comes up type explorer and press enter, that should fix your problem. (p.s. if you didn't see explorer.exe in step 3 then go staight to step 5)

and what will anyone want to use it for? gsm?

can we know the model no of the screen so we can help you look up the details?

can we have the brand name of your modem?

4llerbe, u're one bad windows user; i couldn't have said it better myself; ok et me add a few points:
another way to disable autoplay is to go through the group policy editor just type win+r and in the dialog box that comes up type:
gpedit.msc the group poicy editor will come up (ps. this will not work for the home editions of windows for that you'll have to get a 3rd party tool)
in the dialog that comes up navigate to computer configuration -> administrative templates -> system scroll down to turn off autoplay ; make sure turn off autoplay is set on all drives, click apply then close. one other tip: when you want to open a removable drive, is better to use explore instead of open otherwise the autorun.inf file still gets executed. Also make sure your antivirus is up to date, one thing that surprises me is how many people that connect to the internet from their pcs have antiviruses that are not up to date. i don't have the most powerful antivirus, in fact i use a free edition of avg but i never forget to update it once i connect to the internet with windows

never heard of a new kernel causing data loss; i've recompiled my kernel more than once (tho not recently), even had multiple kernels so i could choose which to boot with and it has bnever affected my user files; as for the proxifier thing i will try to find out what it does and look for something that works similarly