How does a man like me boot from a dvd to test the Ubuntu studio distro. I don't know what keys to press when rebooting and it's not re booting by itself.
If I install a mother distro... In this case Ubuntu studio. Does it wipe all my files that I already have on my previous versio of Ubuntu or is a distro change like. A system upgrade that leaves all your documents in tact?
When the updaternruns for a particular distro ( in my case ubuntu studio) does it update everything connected with the Distro or just the ubuntu system software.
Thanks
Wireless mouse and wireless keyboard is not working in Linux distro's.
Read the similar threads on this issue. Boot mode is set for UEFI and Legacy therefore not sure what to do to enable mouse and keyboard? The mouse and keyboard use the same 'receiver' and the receiver indicator is green when Linux distro is fully loaded. Have tried various distro's, Ubuntu, and Ubuntu based distro's using LIVE DVD method on all. Latest distro tried is Peach 14.04.1 TW.40 64 bit. Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3, CPU AMD FX6300 3.5 Ghz six core.
Thanks for any assistance.
jmwrocky
Hey,
When you have decided to multi-boot several distros and have space to do so. Is there a preferred sequential order for those distros?
Let me see if I can make it even more confusing. I presently have two Linux distros on my PC, PClinuxOS and Manjaro 0.8.12 XFCE. My PCLOS was installed first then came Manjaro.
If I am able to install a third distro would I do it from when I am using Manjaro, or would it be better sequentially to do when I am using PCLinuxOS? Or does it not make a hill of Garbanzos which distro I happen to be using at the time of the third installation?
How does 'GRUB' feature in to this equation?
The Grub screen (I think it's called) shows 'Manjaro' at the top, then Manjaro Advanced. Then below it is, PCLinuxOS followed by PCLinuxOS Advanced. Last is the MEMTest.
Would this hypothetical third distro and there is no problem with installation or with 'GRUB', appear at the top of the list when booting into it?
"XXX.distro
XXX.distro advanced
manjaro
manjaro adcanced
pclos
pclos advanced
MemTest"
Just for elucidation the third Linux distro I am considering adding is; Ubuntu 15.04 Mate Edition.
Thanking All in Advance.
herakles_14
I have an old debian distro installed on hard disk. The distro is on sda1 partition. I also have Win7 on a seperate hard disk which is on sdb1.
When I boot up, GRUB bootloader opens up and gives me the option to select either OS.
So I recently installed a new debian distro and put into my sda2 partition.
But now when I boot up, GRUB only sees the new distro in sda2 and I can't access the distro in sda1 or Win7 in sdb1.
On one thread someone said mounting the partitions and then using 'update-grub' will resolve the problem.
I tried it and re-booted, but GRUB still only offers the newly installed distro in sda2.
Can someone help please?
Hi guys, I have 2 distros on my computer and I want to get rid of one and instal another in its place. My basic Ubuntu is amazing so I want to leave that I. Place but the music distro I have installed is not to my liking . I would like to install amother in its place. What do I have to do to create the space for a new distro?
Im looking for a distro for a web server (Apache).
Ive always used Ubuntu but I didnt think it was the best for the job so I looked around and found CentOS.
CentOS is great, really simple to use but I wanted the latest and greatest.
Im getting replies that CentOS is about stable and I cant put the latest so I see now that distro is not for me.
Im looking for a distro that is simple to setup to run a small website off of (no big traffic, if any) and with the latest possible to be installed. It will probably be Wordpress. What distros do you guys recommend that I can run cutting edge web server technology (talking Apache 2.4.12, MySQL 5.6.24, PHP 5.6.8, etc.) and upgrade as soon as a new version comes out.
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
I am using the ubuntu studio Distro and one of the pro music programs is called ardour. When the program is loaded there is no way to get access to the other programs. The dock doesn't function and the ubuntu sign has disappeared. I can't even log off or see my name in the top right hand of the screen. My only option is to quit the program. There aren't any workspaces visible and no matter where I put the mouse clicker nothing appears. What am I doing wrong? I'm sure it's not just ardour that does this.
Hey guys, what's the best way to try out distros? Do I completely reinstall each time I want to change a distro and if so, would nt that wipe all my data? Or does my personal data , text files etc etc stay on the system and only the distro changes?
My Linux computer comes today and it has Ubuntu installed which I believe is a very popular and stable system but I really want to check out the so evolve distro because it looks fantastic and the reviews were very favorable. BUT I was warned on this forum not to get involved with beta distros until I know what I'm doing.
Does swapping distros erase all data ?