I have a new PC and it's my first with a UEFI motherboard. I've been using Manjaro on it for a few weeks but now I want to switch distros. Before UEFI it was easy; I'd just tell the new distro's installer to overwrite / and use the existing /home as /home. But now I have these extra partitions that Manjaro created regarding UEFI and I'm not sure how to go about it.
I just used the Linux Mint USB live disc and launched the installer. The partitioning tool showed me /bios and /EFI in addition to the other partitions that are more familiar to me, like /boot, /, /home and /swap. It would not let me alter the /bios and /EFI partitions.
In order to preserve /home. what should I tell the Mint installer to do? Should I just overwrite /boot and / as I've always done? Will it work like that on a UEFI system? Many thanks in advance for all advice.
Output of fdisk -l:
Quote:
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 6143 4096 2M BIOS boot
/dev/sda2 6144 210943 204800 100M EFI System
/dev/sda3 210944 735231 524288 256M Linux filesystem (this is /boot)
/dev/sda4 735232 62175231 61440000 29.3G Linux filesystem (this is /)
/dev/sda5 62175232 1938952191 1876776960 894.9G Linux filesystem (this is /home)
/dev/sda6 1938952192 1953521663 14569472 7G Linux swap
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I am trying to install Kali-Linux. and I get a message that I have the wrong installer kernal that doesn't match. what do I do??? the attachment is a pic of the warning.
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.
Hi
I'm completely new to Linux, i'm using Peppermint 05. Please bare with me. I would like use IDM Internet Download Manager.Can anyone advise me how i go from downloading IDM to using?
Many Thanks
Cam
Okay. I got a newer computer to replace one of my two computers. A friend helped me install Xubuntu 14.10. So now I'm trying to get all the software I had on the old one.
In my writing, I write on a laptop. So I have LO 4.2.3.3 on it. So I put 4.2.3.3 on the other two computers, figuring it would be best to have the same versions on all three machines.
Now I have the folder for LO 4.2.3.3 (see screenshot) but don't know how to install it on the newer computer. I have GDebi Package Installer but that only wants to install files. (Unless I open the Debs folder and do 'select all files" and "open" them with the GDebi installer.)
I went to the LO site and they don't offer 4.2.3.3 any more.
Any ideas?
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
Hello Everyone
As you can tell, I'm a newbe to the forum. I have just recently dumped my windows 8.1 in faver of Mint 17 KDE. I did a fresh install on my Asus G75vw-bbk5 ( that I'm using now ) and I'm loving this distro.
Once up and running however it didn't take long before I realized that this was a completly differant animal, but thats Ok I love the challenge.
My question is which referance material do I need in order to stat learning the Linux language?
The terminology and names of almost everything is so much differant, not to mention the command line.
This looks to be avery exciting and challenging!
Please bare with me as this is my first post.
Hey all,
I've got an HP Pavilion dm4 Notebook that's been like a good friend to me in the past, but hasn't been running as well as it used to. I decided to move on to something new that I knew would work - some form of Linux. I chose Lubuntu, as I had heard so many good things about it and wouldn't need to run loads of processes.
I ran through the installer from a flash drive and installed Lubuntu 14.04 onto my machine, and was then prompted to reboot. Now I'm stuck on the Gnu Grub page, where *Ubuntu is listed instead of *Lubuntu. Whenever I hit Ubuntu to start, screen cuts to black, I see the HP logo and BIOS login note, and am dropped back in front of the Grub page. This is my first true experience with the Linux kernel (I've played with Raspbian).
Does anyone have any insight as to what's going wrong? I haven't yet been able to login and am unsure regarding where to go.
Thanks
-K
So I'm on the last step of this article to run vmware-install.pl to start installation of my VMware tools and I'm getting this error.
[root@LinuxTest01 vmware-tools-distrib]# ./vmware-install.pl
-bash: ./vmware-install.pl: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory.
I do a ls in the directory and it shows the installer in there.
[root@LinuxTest01 vmware-tools-distrib]# ls
bin doc etc FILES INSTALL installer lib vmware-install.pl
The only step I didnt do in this article is the prereq. first step because Yum is always trying to connect to the internet and my Centos 7 box is on a classified network with no internet access.
http://www.ehowstuff.com/how-to-inst...hel-7centos-7/