Posts Tagged ‘partition’

I recently downloaded and created an ubuntu 10.10 disc and I want to install it on a partition on my intel mac, but I can’t seem to get linux to recognize the apple wireless keyboard and mouse I am using. Is it possible to get linux to recognize them before installation? Or do I have to install using other peripherals and then pair the apple stuff?

I’m trying to delete a partition on my Linux and i totally forgot the Authentication key or code or whatever.

I’m not familiar at alll with Linux.
I totally forgot what it was though! :<

I’ve been looking at the Ubuntu Linux site for a while, they tell you how to partition a drive, but not how to set it up for two HD’s with a choice of which to boot on startup.

I know I could have the BIOS always pop up on powerup, but is there an easier way?

I installed Linux and during the installation i left windows 7 in a different partition for transferring my stuff.Now i want to know how to make a single partition for Linux.Help me PLEASE.

I installed OpenSuse Linux 11.1 on my hard drive, and the installer set aside a large chunk of the hard drive for windows. After installing linux and restarting, windows was no longer a boot option (under grub). Also, the partition for windows was no longer readable. I tried to recover the data using data recovery software without any luck. From another windows machine the recovery software says that it cannot read the data.

Hello everyone !
I have Ubuntu Linux version 9.04 installed in one partition of my laptop. There’s a newer better version that has just been released (10.04) And I want to install it, but at the same time replace the old one completely with the new installation.
What is the best way to do this ? The way that it’s less error-prone, or the easiest way.

Note. I have Windows installed as well and I use GRUB for dual booting.

On Windows Vista, i deleted the partition which contained linux. Now when I restart, I used to get a screen that allowed me to choose to boot linux, or other. I would choose other for Windows to load.

However, now I just get a command prompt from grub, and do not know how to get it to load windows. How would I tell this grub program to boot the OS (windows vista) on the machine.

Note: I barely used linux, so I’m a noob with that, and need some noob friendly instructions on what to do, thank you.
Thanx guys, from the other info i got, that appears it will work, also as a alternative to not having the vista disk, i found that I can type

root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
boot

and that forces grub to boot my windows.

I have an ATA 133 drive and will soon add a SATA 300 drive. On the first I have an existing /home partition. When I add the SATA drive, will it be possible to create a partition there and combine it with the existing /home-mounted parition to create a single, larger /home across the two disks?

Would I need to set up software RAID?

Would it be anywhere near sensible?

I have windows 7 and vista on my PC
I have a lot of extra room and wanted to try out a version of Linux.
Linspire looked good but i want to know the minimum requirements so I don’t make a partition that is to big.

Please Help!

Alright so I want to install Mac OS X on my windows machine, yeah I know the legalities so moving on I was wondering what kind of partition I would make for it. Would I use NTFS or FAT32 or would it really matter because I would format the partition to Mac OS X within the Jas 10.4.8 installer?