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09 Jan 00 : 42 | video card problems I just got a dell 830 with an academic install of xp which I partitioned with gparted freeing up half the hard drive. I installed ubuntu to free space without a hitch. I then connected to the internet and set my advanced preferences to extra. I was prompted to install nvidia driver. I downloaded... Source : LinuxQuestions.org 5 hours ago |
08 Jan 06 : 54 | RedHat 3/4 not detecting Dell Inspiron 1525 Sata Hard Disk Hi, I recentely purchased a new Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop. While installing XP on it, i have to modify BIOS setting from AHCI to ATA setting. Now when i m installing RedHat 3/4 on this machine, i m getting a message that "No Hard Drive found". Can anybody please let me know what to do in this... Source : LinuxQuestions.org 23 hours ago |
08 Jan 22 : 22 | / is out of room + deleting issue + backing up PLEASE HELP I haven't been using this machine for a while. I don't have access to it at this moment. So I know it will be hard to help me with what I need to know, but I appreciate all the help that you can give me. The machine is a desktop that was installed with ubuntu 6.06 desktop version and the... Source : LinuxQuestions.org 7 hours ago |
06 Jan 23 : 09 | clone hard drive to smaller hard drive how do I clone my 80 GB drive with Ubuntu 8.10 (70 GB free) to a smaller 40 GB hard drive? Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
05 Jan 16 : 02 | Encypt hard drive without having to enter a passphrase at boot Hi, I am looking into encrypting the hard drives used in a embedded linux router I am creating at work. The main goal of encrypting it is because I dont want customers or competitors to take out the hard drive and be able to mount it on a normal PC (there by getting my scripts/code). Is it... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
05 Jan 07 : 35 | Problem in installing Redhat linux 8 in external hard drive Hi, I tried to install red hat linux 8 on external hard drive(transcend), but it not detecting the external drive. so i cant procede further. how to fix this issue? Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
04 Jan 20 : 06 | automount usb hard drive at startup I am trying to automountmount usb hard drive at computer startup I have added following line to fstab: /dev/disk/by-label/Fre... /home/kutlu/FreeAgent ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 This is ok at startup, but when I unplug and plug it, it does not mount again. Do you now how to solve that problem Or do... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
08 Jan 13 : 44 | rsync and cron hello everyone I'm trying to setup my backup I was thinking of writing a script like sudo rsync -av MYUSERNAME /media/BACKUPDISK/rsync then put it into cron daily would it make sense? What happens if my external hard drive is not connected? What time does the daily cron start? Is it possible to... Source : LinuxQuestions.org 16 hours ago |
03 Jan 23 : 08 | Copy os and files to a new bootable hard drive Hi, my parents have an old computer with windows me. They filled up the hdd and need more space. I first considered just adding a slave drive, but thought it might be better just to copy all of the content from the old drive to the new drive. Then, make the new drive as the master and the old as a... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
05 Jan 20 : 45 | thumb drive appears as CD Rom Note: I used google already. I searched the web already. I searched these forums. I only post here when all the usual solutions don't work. I know how to write udev rules. I have an external hard drive, a zip drive, a cheap camera that mounts as if it were a small hard drive. And they all mount... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
03 Jan 04 : 54 | Mounting an External Hard Drive with Hardy Ok, I have Ubunutu- Hardy, and i recently got a 320 gig CAUM series Calvary 320 gig hard drive, but now I am totally unsure how to mount it. It recognizes it, but it gives me this http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...Screenshot.png Errr, I have no idea what I'm doing. Will someone please help? ... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
08 Jan 08 : 29 | Manually changing sda(x) order from left to right. I recently found myself needing some more partitions, and have decided to create a second extended partition from my third primary partition, I just wanted to know, because I believe I've done something like this before and it went wrong; When I repartition my hard drive, I would like them to be... Source : LinuxQuestions.org 21 hours ago |
02 Jan 07 : 16 | hard drive problems, recovery possible? i have an internal hard drive in a windows machine that started to go on me. i haven't noticed it clicking or making the typical hardware failure noises, instead it wouldn't respond or have read errors. i disabled it in windows and later a device would randomly appear and it would have the wrong ID... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
01 Jan 23 : 56 | Hard Drive or File System needs to be Defraged The hard drive I have Suse 11.0 on needs to be defraged. I have no idea how to go about doing this. Any suggestions and instructions would be appreciated. Running Suse 11.0 under VMware. Thanks Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
08 Jan 02 : 33 | CD-ROM in GRUB boot menu? I wanted to add CDROM to my grub boot menu. That way when I have a live disk I can select it to boot from the CD instead of the hard drive. This is so I can ave boot from CDROM disabled in my BIOS yet still have the option to boot from the CD. Would that be possible? Thanks, Kyle Source : LinuxQuestions.org 27 hours ago |
07 Jan 23 : 50 | Ubuntu 8.10 boot problem I am having problems with Ubuntu booting all the time. A little background, I just setup my first Linux box. This is my first ever experience with Linux. The computer is a Dell 2350 with a P4 2.2 ghz, 512 ram, 100 gb ATA hard drive, some no name CD and DVD drives. I configured the system as a dual... Source : LinuxQuestions.org 30 hours ago |
30 Dec 02 : 17 | Sony Vaio hard drive that will not boot Hello all. My trusty Vaio will not boot. The hard drive ticks endlessly. The local repair shop tells me they did their best--including freezing it--and said it's toast. However, a friend vastly more technical than I says try Knoppix and Linux. But very quickly he started speaking over my head. ... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
03 Jan 19 : 23 | Problem detecting HP Tape Drive Hello I do have problem using Linux with an external HP tape drive. The server platform is also an HP Server; the server is an HP ML350 G4, and the Tape drive is a HP Storage Works Ultrium 448 - 1U Rack-mountable. HP Ultrium documentation says two drivers should be automatically up, sym53c8xx... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
03 Jan 04 : 00 | LXer: How to run Linux from a USB drive Published at LXer: Nothing can beat having a great Linux distro installed on a super-fast hard drive, with all your favourite apps configured just how you like them and all your files at your fingertips. But this has one major drawback: perfect as your setup is, it's also just one machine, and... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
29 Dec 02 : 01 | Make a Wireless External Hard drive? I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 on my HP DV9000 and I have a large (750 gb) external harddrive. While I usually use my laptop in my room with the desk and just hook the external to the laptop straight, sometimes I like to go into the living room with the laptop and watch some TV while I do stuff on my... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
28 Dec 17 : 50 | Recover hard drive partitions from software raid I had a Fedora 10 Linux system with 3 drives. 2 were set as software RAID, while 1 was set as a separate drive (I back data to it). I then tried to upgrade my system to CentOS 5.2. When it got to the hard drive partitioning section, it said something like, it didn't recognize the layout or... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
07 Jan 13 : 23 | Backtrack2 does not see both Processors, on SuperMicro Server Manufacturer: SuperMicro Model: P3TDEI+ Chipset: Serverworks Serverset III HE-SL chipset CPU's: Dual Intel Pentium III Tualatin 1400/512/133 RAM: 4x PC133 ECC Samsung buffered 1GB (4GB) Video: ATI Rage XL SVGA AGP 2x Hello, I am setting up a Project Rack with 40 of the above servers,... Source : LinuxQuestions.org 40 hours ago |
28 Dec 07 : 58 | My hard drive is clicking Hi all, I attached a new samsung 250 GB disk, but whenever the computer stops there is a clicking sound, i googled for this problem and found the solution here http://eric.biven.us/2008/10/09/my-h...-ubuntu-boots/ I tried what is said in this howto and found that my clicking sound has now... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
27 Dec 00 : 44 | fedora 10 is not loading my second hard drive my second hard drive is not seen in computer window but when I type /sbin/fdisk -l I get Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0001247c Device Boot Start End ... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
07 Jan 07 : 05 | Suspend Works But Resume Fails on Fedora 10 Please Help! Got a problem trying to resume from suspend I'm running a fresh installation of fedora 10 (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64) on a HP Pavillion dv5-1235dx. After trying to resume from suspend (to ram) everything appears to work, wifi light comes back on, all my lights come back on, x-windows... Source : LinuxQuestions.org 46 hours ago |
01 Jan 20 : 50 | LXer: Linux Solid-State Drive Benchmarks Published at LXer: With the number of netbooks on the market continuing to increase each month and more of these mobile devices switching to solid-state drives for their reliability, extended battery life, and faster performance, SSDs are becoming quite common and finding themselves meeting many... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
25 Dec 22 : 14 | Second Hard Drive Hello, I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 and am curious as how to have my second drive mount at boot. I have searched Google here, but all the directions I seem to find are for specific info about mounting. Also, I would like to know if I can have certain directories point to specific places on my second... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
01 Jan 08 : 37 | emergency ask for help on booting not from hard disk Hi, now I explain exactly what I need, I have a fc10 on IBM architecture , I need to boot from a CD-ROM or USB drive , and I need just start-up process to use it, it means that T just want that this external drive mounting the actual root partition and loading the kernel image (exactly as what i... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
25 Dec 17 : 24 | unable to format external hard drive I'm running Novell SLED 10.1 and need to back up approximately 40GB of data to jump over to Ubuntu 8.10. I cannot store data on my external HD; I get access denied errors. I have tried reformatting and repartitioning the drive, and I still cannot write to it, and there is still data there even after... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
07 Jan 02 : 01 | Linux 12.1 new install Built new computer purchased Linux Slackware 12.1, Hard drive has been zeroed out. How do i partition the hard drive to start installing the 6 disks? HELP Thanks Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
07 Jan 20 : 29 | Slackware 12.2 installation problem While trying to install Slackware 12.2 onto an HP nw9440 Portable Workstation (laptop), running into weird problem - setup gets to loading software - usually just after installing GutenPrint and system shuts down and won't restart until power and battery are pulled and replaced - then system will... Source : LinuxQuestions.org 33 hours ago |
24 Dec 14 : 54 | USB Hard Drive disconnects We have 32 red hat linux 4 servers, each with western digital USB hard drives that have their own power supplies (NOT bus powered). The drives are only used nightly when a script runs to backup some data. Occasionally, on most of these servers, the drives "disconnect" and are missing from the /dev... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
22 Dec 17 : 03 | How do I mount a second hard drive? (PC/OS : Ubuntu) I have FreeDOS installed on a second internal hard drive that is recognized (/dev/sdb) but not mounted. My primary hard drive is 20G Linux ext3 and swap. The second is 5 different partitions, all fat16 or fat32. I cannot access the second drive without a live CD (win 98 or FreeDOS). I am sure there... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
31 Dec 01 : 18 | hard disk accessing problem in hardy i had windows XP installed on my 60GB harddisk.i recently installed hardy on my machine using "install in windows" option in the c: drive which occuped 15GB.i was hoping to see the remaining 45GB accessible to both OS.however after installation the ubuntu OS shows only 5GB free and no partitions in... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
29 Dec 17 : 04 | Linux partition on windows drive A couple of weeks ago I noticed that the second partition of my hard drive was only showing a partition size of 70GB. When I first installed Windows xp I setup the drive to have the 500GB split up so that the boot partition was 137 and approx. 363GB for the second partition. I used the partitioning... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
30 Dec 13 : 28 | Hard drives not automounting in Intrepid How do I get my hard drives to mount on startup? I tried entering the appropriate lines from /proc/mounts in fstab Code: /dev/sdb1 /media/disk-2 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859- 1,shortname=mixed,utf8,flush 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/disk-3 fuseblk... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
06 Jan 14 : 46 | how to use multipath on red hat 5? Hi everybody. I have to install an additional volume made by 2 hard drives with fiber channel. The problem is that the Red Hat see 2 volumes (because there are 1 fiber per hard drive). I need Red Hat see just 1 volume (merge the two hard drives). Thanks in advance. Marcel. Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
20 Dec 19 : 18 | Mandriva 2009 has suddenly become very slow and is constantly hitting the... Hi- I installed mandriva 2009 about a month ago on my desktop and it has been working fine - fast, responsive - until about a week ago. It now intermittenly becomes extremely slow and unresponsive while the hard drive light remains constantly lit. I haven't installed any new hardware and the only... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
19 Dec 11 : 21 | Install from ISO on hard drive... Hi. Can I install from an ISO (Live CD) on the hard drive into another partition? I'm wanting to use the GUI graphic installer that comes with many LiveCD linux distros without having to burn a CD and reboot to do it. I've seen ways to uncompress, copy, chroot and manually prepare a system but... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
06 Jan 04 : 50 | magnetic screwdriver dangerous to my HD? I am supposing that I don't dare use my new magnetic-tipped screwdriver in the computer (such as in screwing a PCI card in), that I'd be begging to erase the hard drive. Am I right, or is a magnetic screwdriver probably not magnetic enough? Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
16 Dec 17 : 41 | Setting up External Hard Drive (USB) as a backup system on Slack 12.0 Hey everyone, I recently got a USB external hard drive for use as a backup system. Now, I am using this hard drive as a backup for a windows computer as well. Basically all I can do right now is mount it (using mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/tmp) and see the windows file system, but not write to it. So... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
14 Dec 23 : 48 | I am trying to boot a live cd from my hard drive KI know this question has been asked before but I never saw any real definitive solutions. Just alot of "hey, this might work" but it never does. So, I am trying to boot live cd's from my hard drive. Weather it be from ISO files (preferably), or from unpacked ISO's. now I'm not a newb...I can... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
25 Dec 06 : 45 | Needed - Distro that supports wireless internet, ability to run from 8 GB... My brother's laptop hard drive died. Since it couldn't be saved, I bought him an 8 GB USB Drive. I need to know a good distro that I can:be somewhat easy to use (he's new to Linux) install the full OS to the USB drive with room to add a few apps. (Firefox, if not already installed for example) ... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
05 Jan 07 : 40 | LXer: 14 of the Best Free Linux File Managers Published at LXer: A file manager is software which provides a user interface to assist in the organisation of files. It helps users with their daily work in managing their files on a hard drive or other storage device. With terabyte hard disks becoming prevalent, file managers represent an... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
05 Jan 05 : 33 | filesystem Good Morning I have a new external hard disk. I want it to be used in both in Linux(4.3) and windows(XP or and VISTA) Can any one please tell through which filesystem should i need to format the external hard drive? Waiting for your email Thanks and Regards Rehan Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
23 Dec 03 : 56 | need better standard drive partition identify method Some Linux will name the internal drive partitions as; hda1,etc, while other distributions will call them as; sda1, etc. And if you have a SATA external hard drive with some Linux installed, then the fdisk-l shows the external drive as; sda, and my internal IDE PATA drive as; sdb. So when you want... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
21 Dec 03 : 30 | Quite the challenge: installing with no ROM drive I am in quite the predicament. i would like to install Linux (trying for fedora core 10) on my Fujitsu laptop (T4020) . I bought this laptop without a DVD drive, and sense Fujitsu is so award, the only drive that will fit the slot is about $180 on ebay. also.... the BIOS has a password on it, and by... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
22 Dec 13 : 25 | Testing a drive contoller Hi all, I've been having some problems with installing several different Linux distros on my Acer Aspire desktop and someone on another thread has suggested it might be a problem with the drive controller. So I'm thinking, could I eliminate this possibility by trying the installs via external USB... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
04 Jan 03 : 46 | USB Linux on Dell Mini - no wireless Hi all! I have been trying to set up a USB drive (4gb) to boot linux on one of those DELL Mini computers. I tried pendrivelinux and SLAX. The Computer is my wife's. EVERYTHING SEEMS TO INSTALL EXCEPT THE WIRELESS CARD. My wife liked the SLAX interface ... is there a USB linux that will work? I am... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
03 Jan 23 : 51 | help with open GL I have a Dell XPS 720 with 4 gigs of ram, a partioned hard drive with Linux Ubuntu 8.10 and windows vista my G card is a Nvidia Geforce 8800 ultra and I have the Nvidia driver installed. I also have the wine software installed but my knowledge of using Linux and using the terminal is new and I'm not... Source : LinuxQuestions.org |
