Sorry, but I just have a terrible time getting started in Linux. What I want for the moment (having set up a partition on WinXP and ran a distro before) is a live MINT USB distro on a 64GB stick plugged into a Win7 machine. Since stick is 64GB, I am dealing with exfat. Found Gparted and seems to be okay, but gives an ominous warning about launching the win 32 formatter off of the stick drive and NOT windows (C:\). That part is understood. However I see the prompt "hit any key to format L" and when I look up at the colored title bar of the window, I read cmd: C:\ etc. that makes me wonder am in C: or L: (the USB drive letter). The Gparted iso in resident in L: but the drive needs C: for computing power etc. I know, I'm such a newbie it must be painful for many to read. I just don't want to screw up the MBR of C: In short. Unetbootin, MINT 17 and Gparted are all on L: and unzipped on a exfat USB thumbdrive. I want to fix the exfat to be readable by Unetbootin so I can make a live USB. I might be doing it correctly, but the top bar of the widow reading cmd: c:\etc etc scares me.
Lots of posts on internet about flash drives ending up read-only in Linux after using on a windows or mac systme. Gather it is a problem with incorrectly ejecting or the ejection being poorly done.
Usually I can go back to the box and re-eject and all is well. This time even GParted and the resident fedora 21 Disk Utility programs did not even see the drive (which Was visible under "files").
Using disk utility on the "offending" machine, it seems there were many files that were truncated (due to some eject issue? Note the ejection was done "according to Hoyle" ); regardless the flash drive was still read-only. Howeverk, re-trying GParted, which now recognized the drive, the drive was unmounted checked. Some repair was necessary. Currently, I can read, write and copy within the drive.
However, the drive itself is still only read-only for all but the owner (which is not even root). I cannot copy any file to the flash drive. Chmod does nothing (no matter if root or other user tries). I suppose I should be satisfied for the access there is, but if anyone has any more suggestions, it would be great.
Thanks in advance for any info/interest
Did it again!
Last week, with help from this forum, I was able to install Linux Mint 17.1 dual boot with Windows 8.1. It worked so well, I decided to explore other Linux distros recommended by forum members as some I wanted to check out.
I was using Unetbootin to download and install these as live sessions on my Windows 8.1 partition.
On my last such download, something went wrong, and no doubt I caused the error, but no clue as to how.
When I opened up this PC, I got the normal dual boot option for Windows and Mint. When I selected Windows, I found an additional dual boot option between it and Unetbootin! Somehow I created a partition (?) on my C Drive for Unetbootin (see Thumbnail below).
This Unetbootin option only goes to a page for me to choose another OS. Further, when I rebooted, the Windows/Mint dual boot option no longer existed, just the Windows/Unetbootin one.
Been checking out various articles and websites about BCD/MBR repair, but nothing definitive (that I can understand) about modifying these to delete the Unetbootin partition and restoring the Windows/linux dual boot.
Naturally, this is a newbie land mine area, so I'm very reluctant to try anything I can't fully understand, which is the category everything I've Googled on this topic falls into.
Anyone know how I can resolve this short of a complete start over
installation based on steps that basically a PC fence post can follow?
TIA
Cheers!
I have a computer that I made myself a few years ago. The internal DVD drive does not work anymore. What are my options to install a linux distro on it. I am not able to boot from an external USB DVD drive that I have, on this machine. My understanding is that you need a CD to install Plop to inorder for it to work so that I can boot from an external USB stick?
What are my options without having to buy another DVD drive? I know I can install my .iso file to a USB stick using Unetbootin, but than what? How do I get it to boot on this machine?
Thanks!!!
Booted my computer with 2 USB flash drives inserted. One of the drives turned out to be an MS-DOS boot drive. The PC booted in DOS and wiped out the partition table of the other flash drive with my data on it. This second (64Gb) drive had a single 64Gb type 83 (Linux) primary partition (ext4 file system).
Is there a way to recover the data that's on the second stick?
I've been told that all I have to do is repartition it exactly as it was and my data will be there. But I'd like to have advice from the pros here before I start messing with it.
For the time being, I dd-ed the entire stick, as is, onto a blank partition of my hard disk (dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda14). The process completed without errors but /dev/sda14 is unmountable for the moment.
Thanks for any help.
Hello all,
I am new to linux but not new to PC's.
I am self taught in everything i know so far.
I have an issue i am looking for some guidance on, i have burned an ISO copy of AVLinux & booted from the Live DVD.
chose to install on partition & created all the necessary file systems etc with GParted then proceeded with the install.
Completed install but when i try to boot no joy.
I have EasyBCD installed on Vista to manage to boot processes.
I am able to get to Grub4dos window & grub> prompt.
I have tried many commands of which i have identifeid the partition is there as correct filesystem, when running the /vmlin....TAB command it locates the name of the linux distro, if i set the drive partition to makeactive it boots up saying no operating system them have to change it back to Vista.
I have two pics that show the grub configuration reading from the live DVD, the install appears to have some missing or not right as opposed to the DVD, can anyone assisst how i can fix this issue?
Do i have to copy each file over manually from the Live DVD's folders?
Cant attach images here so here is the differeneces,
these are the listing on the Grub configuartion being read using the Live DVD,
1. /etc/grub.d
2. /boot/grub/device.map
3. grub-install
4. grub-mkconfig
5. grub-mkdevicemap--device
6. grub-mkfont
7. /boot/grub
8. /boot/grub/grub.cfg
9. /etc/default/grub
Here is what way they are on Live DVD,
1. Present
2. Present
3. Present
4. Present
5. Present
6. Present
7. Present
8. Yellow information bubble
9. Present
My install on partition,
1. Present
2. Yellow information bubble
3. Red X bubble
4. Red X bubble
5. Yellow information bubble
6. Present
7. Yellow information bubble
8. Yellow information bubble
9. Present
what do i need to do to remedy this?
i have attempted the install on couple of different drives, no success.
Hello!
TL;DR: Deleted Linux partition from Windows. Stuck at Grub rescue prompt.
I'm sorry to trouble you guys, because I'm an idiot.
So I'm wanting to dual-boot Kalilinux and Windows 8.
I went through the steps such as creating a bootable USB, changing the
boot order and so on. I get into Kali, start Gparted and try to partition stuff.
I'm far from an expert, so I wasn't sure what to do. Long-story short, I
didn't seem to get Kali installed correctly, due to something with an EFI
drive being required. So I boot into windows and then stupidly, because it said in the guide,try to "uninstall" Kali by removing it's partition, inside Win8 haha... So I did.
Now I simply get the Grub rescue command prompt when I boot from the same
USB and I have no idea how to fix it. I've run bootrec.exe/fixmbr in Windows haha,
for what it's worth. However Grub can't find any partition it says.
In windows, I have like... 2-3 Recovery partitions. Does anyone know how to remove
them??? I've tried to clear as much as I can, besides the C drive and Auxillary D drive.
Any advice would be very appreciated.
Hi guys,
I'm new to this forum and linux too.
I thought of installing a lightweight distro of linux and did some research on the net where I found people recommending Puppy Linux. Plus it is (theoretically speaking) possible to run it from a USB (flash) drive which I decided to try out but it seems like it's not that simple a task as a lot of people (all over the internet) say it is.
What I tried so far is this: installing it into a thumb drive using unetbootin follwing a youtube tutorial (which basically showed how to download an iso of puppy, use unetbootin to make the thumbdrive bootable and install puppy on it). It didn't work. The USB wasn't recognized as a bootable device. I know for sure it can be booted from it since I tried ubuntu from the same USB and the same Laptop (which is able to boot from USB).
I thought that something with the Flash Drive not OK so I tried to use a windows installer to install puppy like other windows programms but this didn't work either. This time Puppy was recognized because there was an option to boot either Puppy or Windows 7 but when I chose to boot from Puppy nothing happens just a screen flash, some letters in the top left corner saying something like NTSC or NTSF (I can't read it properly because it goes away too fast) then after the screen flash the whole thing again (boot from win 7 or Puppy I choose Puppy again the flash... basically a loop).
Any ideas what I'm doing wron or what the problem is?
Thank You for any replies.
I made the mistake of cloning over my cloning drive....reinstalled and updated to Ubuntu 14.04. I didn't setup the drive to begin with and I have no idea what's going on. After the reinstall and updates, I try to test the cloning instructions I was given and I get the line "sudo:gparted: command not find". Is there a step I missed in reinstallation or something I need to do to make this work?
First time Linux Mint user and fist time poster to this forum. Need to install a Linux distro on my family member's HP Mini 1000, an older netbook with minimal hardware (1 GB memory stick, Intel Atom N270 processor, 80 GB ATA HDD, and it runs XP SP3. . I advised her to uninstall XP and buy Windows 7, but she doesn't want to spend the $93. So ...
I have been testing different Linux distros from flash drive on my HP Probook 4530S laptop. Have tried Ubuntu 14x and now Mint, which I prefer. Ubuntu wouldn't boot to desktop on the netbook after choosing "Use without installing." Mint runs OK on it, but I can't configure the wireless connection. I suspect that either the network hardware isn't compatible or I am missing something when trying to manually configure the settings. I read some info from the Mint web site about this issue, but not sure about whether the Mini's wireless card is compatible: Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN. Does updating Windows drivers help with this?
TIA,
Don
Want to format a 1 TB Western Digital drive in an old dell 32 bit machine. Machine has Lubuntu installed and a Virtual machine on which which is loaded Windows 7 (32 bit).
Machine does not "see" the new 1 TB (SATA) drive after I physically install it in the machine.
I have other windows and Linux machines. I have some drive cradles in which I can connect to (windows) USB ports.
Is it possible to use the old Dell machine to format the new drive?
(It appears that this question has been answered before. So I will check those materials as well.)
Thanks for any assistance.
Geoffrey Wolfe