Hello.
For Create a Linux USB boot, Cool disk File system must be EXT or FAT or...?
I used "dd if=/ISO File Patch of=/dev/sdc" but my Linux can't boot.
Thank you.
Have Toshiba Tecra 64-bit 500gb disk 4gb ram running Windows 7 professional it has Intel core i5 processor.
I downloaded iso file of DVD LinuxMint Rebecca Cinnamon to DVD.
When I restart the system with the DVD inserted it immediately opens in Windows 7.
I could not follow the instructions to "disable secure boot and (u)efi".
Have partitioned the disk to allocate 100 gb to Linux in E:
First of all I really would like to run Live DVD and then later on to install it permanently it the E: partition.
Can I just simply copy the iso file into disk E:
Help from anyone is greatly appreciated.
Best regards to all of you.
Hello All. This is my first post here. I am worse than a newbie; I'm a PC dinosaur! Not joking either.
Recently got a Dell Inspiron 3048 with Windows 8.1 pre installed. As I am a die hard XP user (my other PC is a Dell Dimension 2400), and seeing that PC's days may be numbered, I want to start using Linux, and decided Mint 17.1 would be first on the list.
Ordered a Linux Mint 17.1 boot disk and went to install it. At the option for a dual boot with Windows, I got lost, and did not understand the "other" choice versus making Linux the only OS on the PC. I wound up wiping my HDD and lost contact with Windows 8.1. Fortunately, the Dell Tech I got at Dell Support was able to walk me through getting Windows back up, but the only way I can now access Mint 17.1 is with the boot disk, but there is no set up options as it is already set up, even though incorrectly for a dual boot.
How do I wipe out Linux without losing Windows 8.1 as well so I can re install Linux and this time make the correct selection for a dual boot?
Anyone willing to respond please do so small and slow so I can follow.
TIA.
BTW, I have tried installing Zorin OS 9 Ultimate on my XP machine via DVD and USB, but I can't get past the f1/f2 loop, even though I have reconfigured my boot sequence according to the drive I'm installing from. Zorin support has been MIA on this. Anyone having a similar problem?
Cheers
Hi,
I am new to the installation of Linux, and wish to install 3 different distro's on the same hard disk.
I have installed Centos 7 successfully as follows :
The /boot is /dev/sda2
/dev/sda1 is listed as unknown so i assume it is the Master Boot Record with Grub installed. I do obtain the option to boot to the various kernels after updating the OS.
/dev/sda3 is a Linux LVM with the various partitions i required.
When i installed the CentOS 7 the installer stated an error about the bootable partition - which was effectively /boot, so i moved this to /dev/sda2.
What i am not sure about is that if i want to install 2 other Linux OS's will i run out of /dev/sdaX assignments ?.
I read somewhere that there are 4 maximum that can be used a /boot (SDA1, SDA2, SDA3, SDA4), so does this mean i can only install one other OS ?.
Any guidance gratefully received. Thanks.
Regards,
Richard.
Again my friends I am having trouble,
Have Toshiba Tecra 64-bit 500gb disk 4gb ram running Windows 7 professional it has Intel core i5 processor.
I burned iso file of DVD LinuxMint Rebecca Cinnamon to DVD.
When I restart the system with the DVD inserted it immediately opens in Windows 7.
Then I pressed F1 to change the boot order to USB ODD.
Then I re-started several times to no avail.
When I press F1 to select the boot device it only gives me the Windows 7 option.
I know the disk is good because I checked the files it should contain and they are there.
Help from anyone is greatly appreciated.
Best regards to all of you.
Hello everyone,
Recently, I installed Linux Mint 17 (Cinnamon) on my HP dv6 Laptop. During installation Linux was not detecting my original Windows 7 and was attempting to occupy the entire hard disk. So I used the "Something Else" option to manually create separate partitions for Linux (Previously I had allocated around 120 GB free space for Linux using Windows Disk Management). This installed the Linux but after booting it does not detect Windows 7 and directly boots to Mint. I have tried installing and updating the grub but it did not help either.
Please Help...
Hi everybody,
I am trying to set up my sd card with an embedded ubuntu I build lately according to this linkhttps://eewiki.net/display/linuxonar...-Ubuntu14.04.1 (Topic Setup microSD/SD card).
I am doing this on Ubuntu running in VirtualBox. I am quite new to linux and barely understand the command that causes the first warning. Here is what happened:
ubuntu@ubuntu-VirtualBox:~$ sudo sfdisk --in-order --Linux --unit M ${DISK} <<-__EOF__ --force
> 1,12,0xE,*
> ,,,-
> __EOF__
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
BLKRRPART: Invalid argument
OK
Disk /dev/sdc1: 1019 cylinders, 246 heads, 62 sectors/track
sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
/dev/sdc1: unrecognized partition table type
Old situation:
No partitions found
New situation:
Units = mebibytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End MiB #blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1p1 * 1 12 12 12288 e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
/dev/sdc1p2 13 7591 7579 7760896 83 Linux
/dev/sdc1p3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdc1p4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Successfully wrote the new partition table
Re-reading the partition table ...
BLKRRPART: Invalid argument
If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1)
to zero the first 512 bytes: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1
(See fdisk(8).)
ubuntu@ubuntu-VirtualBox:~$ sudo mkfs.vfat -F 16 ${DISK}p1 -n BOOT
mkfs.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07)
/dev/sdc1p1: No such file or directory
So after I entered "sudo sfdisk --in-order --Linux --unit M ${DISK} <<-__EOF__ --force
> 1,12,0xE,*
> ,,,-
> __EOF__ "
everything looked fine since it sad that it created the partition sdc1p1 etc. but as soon as I want to format this partition with "sudo mkfs.vfat -F 16 ${DISK}p1 -n BOOT" it tells me that there is no partition called /dev/sdc1p1
I would be very gratefull if somebody could help me out on this. I thought about trying a different tutorial but they look really really different so I tried to stick to the one that worked well for me so far.
Thank you very much!
Regards,
Lenni
I recently purchased a laptop that came with Windows 8.1 as the OS. I am trying to switch it over to Linux Mint 17.1 (Rebecca). I found an Ubuntu disk loader that I placed on a DVD and it boots just fine. Downloaded the 32-bit Linux Mint .I so and burned it to a DVD. Tried to boot from it and nothing. Being new, the problem pretty much has to be something insanely simple but I sure can't find it. Would really appreciate any expertise out there.
I have an external disk connected to a raspberry pi to act as a nas, which I am accessing from a linux mint desktop machine.
The nas disk is 30GB, but according to my desktop machine, which connects through the file browser via samba, only around 318MB are reported as available.
If I try to copy a 400MB file it tells me there is insufficient space.
The disk is currently empty, so all 30GB should be available.
On the nas box, cfdisk seems to report the disk size and the partition size correctly:
Code:
cfdisk (util-linux 2.20.1)
Disk Drive: /dev/sda
Size: 30016659456 bytes, 30.0 GB
Heads: 64 Sectors per Track: 32 Cylinders: 28626
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sda1 Boot Primary ext4 30016.66*
I'm not sure where to look next.
Gents,
last time i installed windows was some silly years ago. So i'm at loss now.
Trying to add XP on RH6.5 system to dual boot.
One of the immediate problems/concerns is that Windows Installer wants to write something at the beginning of the boot disk (/dev/sda), BUT :
a. /dev/sda is fully partitioned for Linux
b. /dev/sda is under lvm control.
I gave XP 72GB on /dev/sdd2 extended partition.
Question how to add windows without ruining normal OS?
Details:
Code:
[root@server ~]# pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda1 VG_Storage lvm2 a-- 465.67g 0
/dev/sda5 VG_Storage lvm2 a-- 465.67g 0
/dev/sda6 VG_Storage lvm2 a-- 465.93g 0
/dev/sdb2 vg_server lvm2 a-- 148.56g 1.00m
/dev/sdc1 VG_Oracle lvm2 a-- 74.53g 0
/dev/sdc2 VG_backup lvm2 a-- 74.52g 1.48g
/dev/sdd1 VG_Oracle lvm2 a-- 74.53g 0
/dev/sdd3 VG_backup lvm2 a-- 83.83g 0
[root@server ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
<skip>
Disk identifier: 0x1af11af1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 60789 488287611 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 60790 182401 976848390 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 60790 121578 488287611 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 121579 182401 488560716 83 Linux
fdisk -l /dev/sdd
Disk /dev/sdd: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
<skip>
Disk identifier: 0x00073bcf
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 9729 78148161 83 Linux
/dev/sdd2 9730 19457 78140160 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdd3 19458 30401 87907680 83 Linux
Good evening;
Following instructions on-line I attempted to create a bootable USB drive (32GB Sandsik extreme) with Linux 17.1 installed to enable a trial before attempting a permanent install beside windows 7 on a new computer with Win7 prof. installed.
On the usb I see a 4.0 GB area highlighted in G Parted but not accessible from the Linux file manager. This shows up as a ~1.4 GB sub-directory titled casper. and also as 4.0 GB 'file' named casper-rw. Can anyone explain what is the purpose of this sub-directory? The software I used to create the usb bootable drive and install Linux to is 'Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.5.9'. This is a windows executable. My intent was to create a bootable usb drive for Linux that also contained my required hardware drivers, etc. This doesn't appear to be working 100%; although Linux 17.1 boots the nvidia hardware drivers do not appear to be available even though I downloaded these and they are on the same usb. On boot-up a message box indicates that hardware acceleration is not enabled and higher than normal processor usage may occur.
Any assistance / direction, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
Regards;
Mike