Unreadable External USB Data Storage(hdd)

Given: Laptop o/s:Xandros 3.0.3 Business Ed
Hardwa dell c840laptop

Question: How do I get this laptop to recognize this wireless chip. I know from prior research and experience this chip is optimal for this laptop (used it on winxp)

O/s: Xandros 3.0.3 Business
Laptop: Dellc840
Given: Wireless card recognized by laptop and executable driver file sitting waiting for installation.

Question:When I click on the .exe file (driver file) it opens and installs somewhere that I can't find, even with the Tools - Find Files/Folders option using the *.inf file format as a search handle.
How do I control where this file opens to? If I could control where it opens to, I could then find it to install it for use.

Hi guys

We are urgently moving Oracle application to a backup server for some patching etc. The backup server is installed with Oracle 6.6 64Bit linux with default partitions. We found that the system has ext4 file system, while our external storage through HBA interface/IBM is formatted with ext3 file system.
Hence, please let us know what kind of performances issues we may come across, or the same could be ignored?

regards

im using the latest version of ubuntu on a 4 year old dell 780 optiplex and I am more than impressed with the speed and agility of the machine. Im so impressed that I have asked my friend for an old dell laptop so I can go mobile with this thing.
my question is.... do i install the same distro for a laptop as i am using on this desktop or is there a widely used laptop distro that the linux experts always use or at least on avarage use more than any other.
thanks guys

Hello everybody,

I am seeking help regarding sharing internet connection. I would be greatful.

I have;
A Laptop : Samsung RV509, i3, 300GB HDD, 3GB Ram, Dual boot Windows7 & LM 17 cinnamon 32bit. WiFi & Bluetooth available. A Desktop PC : Celeron CPU 2.4GHZ, 40 GB HDD, 1GB RAM, LiveUSB-LM 17 cinnamon 32bit, No WiFi hardware available, No Bluetooth hardware available. A mobile phone : Nokia Asha 500, WiFi & Bluetooth available. An old USB data cable: with which the mobile phone can be connected to the computers. I have successfully connected and transfered data back & forth, and also shared/connected Mobile-Broadband-internet to both Laptop and Desktop.

What I have been doing now is; I have an internet connection to my Laptop with an external modem and Ethernet. Its working fine. I have an unlimited plan and so I want to share this internet connection on the mobile phone too; instead of incuring extra cost by connecting to the internet directly through the phone. I am successful at that. I can share this internet connection on my phone through WiFi.

Now, what I want to do is; without buying any extra hardware, to share this same internet connection on my Desktop PC, too.

What I tried is; I searched the web, but didn't find any solution. Now I am here. Please kindly help me.

Thank you & Regards

Anil

Hi

I'm a telecom/IT contractor and my work laptop died so instead of buying a new one, I decided to give my spare laptop a try. It's a cheap Lenovo G585 with only 2Gb ram and a AMD E1. Needless to say this is a real slow laptop. W8 was preinstalled and barely runs. Even for simple work related tasks its too slow.

Instead of wasting money on it, I am contemplating the idea of installing a Linux distro. I manage via ssh a few linux servers for my customers (centos, red hat, ubuntu server) but actually never used it as my main OS.

I just want something lighter than W8 so the laptop will be faster. Which distro should I get? I was thinking about LXLE but there's too much distros I can't choose.

Speed is the priority in this case. I also like a good looking UI.

Also, how's Microsoft Remote desktop from a Linux client? Is it fast and well optimized?

Thanks!

Hello,
I have a setup with arch linux installed on external ssd as normal (non-live) installation.
I had to do that after my main laptop was broken. I don't want to put my drive into the new hardware, so I run it as external one for until the main will be repaired.

It boots as usual, everything is working fine until the usb drive reconnects for some reason (may be the physical connection problem). It probably mounts itself as read-only, the system freaks out and dies slowly from I/O errors process by process. I cannot issue commands from shell, even reboot. I have to physically reset the machine.

Is there a way to change its behaviour to auto remount as rw after reconnecting the USB and just keep running as usual?

I think the fstab is the file that i should modify, but cannot find a way how to do it properly. Please correct me if I'm wrong. My current fstab:
Code:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>	<dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sdb2
UUID=145b3c51-6531-48f3-a79b-fb1ae238c7ee / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1

# /dev/sdb1
UUID=AFC4-6899 /boot vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 2

/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0

Hello.

I have checked the other threads and either I have missed my answer or did not understand that it was the answer. I apologise in advance if I am being a repeater:

The Problem: I am running 17 mint. I installed a toshiba external Hard Drive using Gparted- Fast and easy, BUT, somehow I installed the external as root, I cannot move files to the external because I am not root? Under permissions it states that the Owner Cannot Be Determined.
Any help would be great.

Have a great night, morning or afternoon!

I'm looking at getting a laptop to install linux for use with audio recording software ardour. But I'm looking at chromebooks with their ssd drives and it seems like a better idea than a laptop. Am I missing the point? Is there some reason, either the processor, ram or anything else that would make a laptop a better choice than a chromebook? The chromebook is $200 and the laptop is about $700. Will the chromebook run everything a laptop will run?

I keep my Music on a USB flash drive. I do not have room on my laptop to store my mp3 library so this is not an option. Whenever, I remove the flash drive (or restart my computer, i think) my music player (rhythmbox currently) forgets where the music is stored. I have to go through reimporting my whole music library which is time consuming and tedious. I imagine that my music player can't find the files because the flash drive gets mapped to a different mount point or something after restarting or removing the drive.

TL;DR
How can I setup my laptop so that my music player can find my music library on a usb flash drive without needing to constantly re-import my library?

Also, I have the same question to syncing to cloud storage. How can I automatically sync flash storage to the cloud?