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[fallenzeraphine]

How to install windows xp and ubuntu Gubsty 7. both in a single hard disk?

How to partition the hard disk when installing ubuntu to a machine which windows xp is already exist............

do anyone know?

This is a very simple procedure GKyasitha, Allways remember that you have to install Windows first, and then Linux

• Create a partition for windows and intall it there assume this as drive C:\
• and if the rest of your hard drive is Unallocated you can procede straight to install Ubuntu, on the partition creation setup screen create partitions for the root , swap and User, ubuntu will auto allocate appropriate space for these partitions
• if the other portion of your HDD is allready formatted, you have to unallocate about 20GB form it and, then proceed to installing Ubuntu, on the partition screen, select the unallocated space and the setup will auto allocate the space.

 

[gayannr]

This is a very simple procedure GKyasitha, Allways remember that you have to install Windows first, and then Linux

There are some ways to install Linux First and then Windows

 

[ICE]

There are some ways to install Linux First and then Windows

yaa true. matter of reinstalling linux boot loader again.

dont knw whether the windows boot loader can be configured for dual boot for linux and xp. never tried.

can it?

 

[gayannr]

yaa true. matter of reinstalling linux boot loader again.

dont knw whether the windows boot loader can be configured for dual boot for linux and xp. never tried.

can it?

In the latest Ubuntu 8.04 it is no sweat,can be installed from inside windows too,goes to add remove programs and comes under Windows boot loader

 

[ICE]

In the latest Ubuntu 8.04 it is no sweat,can be installed from inside windows too,goes to add remove programs and comes under Windows boot loader

wow simple as that. should try. the thing is that i dont have linux installed . hahahah

running on live. ida na ban hard eke linux danna

 

[fallenzeraphine]

There are some ways to install Linux First and then Windows

ofcourse u can, dont want to go in to detail and confuse the guy now wont we

 

[gayannr]

wow simple as that. should try. the thing is that i dont have linux installed . hahahah

running on live. ida na ban hard eke linux danna

heheh danatanam mamath daala naha,oone wunoth Live duwanawa

 

[ICE]

heheh danatanam mamath daala naha,oone wunoth Live duwanawa

hik hik hik

 

[Nic]

i think all of them has almost same applications. The difference is mainly is how it looks . ( the window manager)

Kubundu comes with KDE
ubuntu with Gnome

not sure about edibuntu

i think edubunti is some thiung special edition 4 education

 

[fallenzeraphine]

Well no, GNOME, KDE, and all other Desktop Environments are different and its not only the interface that change, sure most of the aplications work cuz of the compatibility with the linux kernel and runtimes, but they are not the same, and thats a fact

 

[nadman123]

Please help me to write this script

write a UNIX shell script (Bourne shell syntax) called​

admin_script​

​

​

. This script is described below as a usage summary:​

admin_script [ -l n ] [ -f n ] [ -s username ] [ -d username ]
[ -b username yyyymm ] [ -c ]​

Note: if no options are specified, a menu is displayed which allows
users to perform​

​

one of the following tasks and then exit. If
incorrect options are provided, an error message is echoed to standard
output followed by the usage line above and an appropriate exit value
should be returned to the shell. Any combination of the options can be
provided by the user and the options do not have to be provided in the
order given in the usage message.​

-l n​

Display the last​

​

n lines of the /etc/passwd file​

-f n​

Display the first​

​

n lines of the /etc/passwd file​

-s username​

Display the full path name of the login shell used by​

​

username​

-d username​

For the home directory of​

​

username, display an English language string
which shows the permissions of the user’s home directory.
For example, suppose the home directory of cwilson has the following
permission string:
drwxr-xr-- … /home/cwilson
In this case the output from the script would be:​

User cwilson’s home directory has the following permissions set:
Read,Write and Execute for the user.
Read and Execute for the group.
Read only for others.
-b username yyyymm​

Perform a backup of the files in home directory of​

​

username. However,
when using this option we only want to backup files which have been
modified during the month specified in the option. The month is
specified as a four digit year followed by a two digit month (e.g.
200804 refers to April 2008). The files should be backed up to a
directory called .backup in the home directory of username. If this
directory does not exist when the script is run, it must be created by
the script.​

-c​

Return a count of all users registered on the system (not just those
users logged on) whose UID is greater than 500​

-h​

Send information to standard output regarding the author (including
student-id number) of the program and the date it was written​

 

[henderson]

I have a problem with Suse 10.3, i tried to boot this from the live CD, I use a router and its working properly. My NIC is Realtek RTL8139/810X onboard LAN, and the LEDs on that card does not lit when I boot from Suse, while it lits when I boot from XP. means my Ethernet card is the culprit. Can you give me some advice on this matter to setup my stupid Ethernet card.

 

[kasuncs]

Did u configre the network settings. try to restart network
/etc/init.d/network restart

 

[henderson]

Did u configre the network settings. try to restart network
/etc/init.d/network restart

will it work on live cd?

 

[kasuncs]

will it work on live cd?

In live CDs evry thing can be configured, bt can not keep settings for next boot in most cases.

 

[dineitdark]

will it work on live cd?

it will work anyways.

if it doesn't slove your problem,
do these (as root)
0. su
1. ifconfig eth0 up
2. dhcpd -n eth0

if it still don't work, please post the output of ifconfig eth0
*i am assuming that you only have one NIC(eth0)

 

[henderson]

it will work anyways.

if it doesn't slove your problem,
do these (as root)
0. su
1. ifconfig eth0 up
2. dhcpd -n eth0

if it still don't work, please post the output of ifconfig eth0
*i am assuming that you only have one NIC(eth0)

your assumption of one network card is correct and this is the output

linux:/home/linux # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:58:44:65:6F
inet addr:169.254.63.97 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::215:58ff:fe44:656f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2860 (2.7 Kb) TX bytes:2860 (2.7 Kb)

linux:/home/linux # ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:58:44:65:6F
inet addr:169.254.63.97 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::215:58ff:fe44:656f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0x2000

 

[dineitdark]

is your router configured to act like a DHCP server? etc have to given a manual IP to your windows box when its running? or is the IP automatically detected by windows(in this case your router acts as a DCHP server)?

you NIC is detected but it is not up and running. as you can see all the stats of eth0 is about your NIC. and it seems to have the default IP. meaning that the IP was not assigned to it by DHCP. but if you have disabled it in your router or for some reason its not thre in your router or if you are using a manually configured IP in your windows box. you will have to set the IP manually.

#bringing it down
ifconfig eth0 down

#setting your IP and the netmask
ifconfig eth0 147.123.20.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

#bringing it up
ifconfig eth0 up

#adding the default gateway
# route add default gw 192.168.1.254 eth0

all this can be done in a GUI but it deffer from distro to distro. and i haven't used suse for a long time. in any case google should help.

 

[kasuncs]

is your router configured to act like a DHCP server? etc have to given a manual IP to your windows box when its running? or is the IP automatically detected by windows(in this case your router acts as a DCHP server)?

you NIC is detected but it is not up and running. as you can see all the stats of eth0 is about your NIC. and it seems to have the default IP. meaning that the IP was not assigned to it by DHCP. but if you have disabled it in your router or for some reason its not thre in your router or if you are using a manually configured IP in your windows box. you will have to set the IP manually.

#bringing it down
ifconfig eth0 down

#setting your IP and the netmask
ifconfig eth0 147.123.20.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

#bringing it up
ifconfig eth0 up

#adding the default gateway
# route add default gw 192.168.1.254 eth0

all this can be done in a GUI but it deffer from distro to distro. and i haven't used suse for a long time. in any case google should help.

macho slt wala router wala gw eka 192.168.1.1 wage mataka.

 

[henderson]

is your router configured to act like a DHCP server? etc have to given a manual IP to your windows box when its running? or is the IP automatically detected by windows(in this case your router acts as a DCHP server)?

you NIC is detected but it is not up and running. as you can see all the stats of eth0 is about your NIC. and it seems to have the default IP. meaning that the IP was not assigned to it by DHCP. but if you have disabled it in your router or for some reason its not thre in your router or if you are using a manually configured IP in your windows box. you will have to set the IP manually.

#bringing it down
ifconfig eth0 down

#setting your IP and the netmask
ifconfig eth0 147.123.20.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

#bringing it up
ifconfig eth0 up

#adding the default gateway
# route add default gw 192.168.1.254 eth0

all this can be done in a GUI but it deffer from distro to distro. and i haven't used suse for a long time. in any case google should help.

I use manual IP in my windows XP system. but did not disabled DHCP in router. anyway I'll check this and get back to you.