Okay I was playing and I screwed up bad, I try'd to dual boot BT3 and XP Pro on my Toshiba Notebook and now I have this error (Invalid Partition Table). I try'd to Redo the LILO.conf but get a read-only system returned. Please help I have been working on this for 3 1/2 days I'm stumped. Thanks for any help.

 

I was installing Backtrack 3 beta, I followed remote-exploit's walk through but it was for BT2I resized the HDD partition to allow 16Gb for BT3. To resize the partition I used Partition magic 8. I used this walk through www.offensive-security.com/documentation/backtrack-hd-install.pdf. I followed these instructions to a T except I had windows installed already so I changed hda1 to hda2, hda2 to hda3 and so on. And last I used the backtrack installer and left all option at default except mount point from hda1 to hda2. I followed these directions and then the system bricked on me, the only thing I found that I could done wrong is on the Install i did not uncheck the option that said "Restore original MBR after LILO"

 

If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it.

 

 

Josh

Guys I am truly a Noob. I am running Fedora 8 on my Compaq Presario V6305nr with an AMD Turion 64 processor. Does anyone have a copy of WINE for my processor?

 

Thanks in advance

hi guys

 

movedx suggested to me a site where you guys could do stuff that's OFF TOPIC from here

 

hence wicked-noob.com

 

he'll run it and stuff if there's any interest

 

so vote

 

cheers

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hi, think i messed up a little, im rather new too linux. and in my quest for eye candy.

i was fooling around with disklets. adding some of the basic ones that come with gDesklets.

im using ubuntu 7.10,

 

well what i did was add a toolbar called infodomestics bar, and at first i couldnt place it.

was kinda stuck to the mouse. when i finally did manage to place the bar, my pidgion login icon moved from the top bar, to this

new infodomestics bar,

then i couldn't delete the desklet, i could move it around, but no option to close,

so i moved it off screen, till it vanished,

i thought. out of sight. out of mind. now, when i close my messanger n other apps. instead of minimizing to my top bar,

they close out all together, wich is rather irritating.

so im curious. is there a way to mass remove the desklets you have on your desktop?

or any advice on removing that infodomestics bar, wich i hope makes things go back to normal

 

any help would be appreciated. :)

 

 

~Knotts

Quote:"The Ubuntu development community has announced that the fifth Ubuntu 8.04 prerelease is now available for testing. Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 5 adds additional polish and reliability as well as a few intriguing new features. The official release of Ubuntu 8.04, codenamed Hardy Heron, is scheduled for late April and feature freeze is already in effect. One of the most significant new features added in alpha 5 is support for Wubi, a new installation mechanism that makes it easier for Ubuntu and Windows to coexist on the same computer. Wubi provides a complete Ubuntu installer that can be run in Windows from the Ubuntu Live CD. It installs Ubuntu into a folder on the Windows file system and sets up a boot menu so that users can choose between Windows and Ubuntu when the computer starts."

I really want to switch to Linux, but there are too many Windows programs I need for my business - Photoshop CS3, Lightroom, ThumbsPlus, PCLaw, Quickbooks etc.

Is my only choice to run a virtual Windows machine, and doesn't that then negate the whole point of switching? Wouldn't those windows apps run significantly slower in a VM under Linux than directly under windows?

 

I'd really appreciate some straight answers here - so many Linux evangelists say "just do it", but that's not realistic if I can't get my work done...

all done,

 

and this is how I did it

 

 

Hello,

 

I have recently tried to setup a Postfix machine but every time I try and send an email to the server it bounces:

 

Since switching to Linux, I've got a million and one problems, most of them stemming from my complete noobiness in Linux. I smugly thought I was a bit of a geek since I know Windows fairly well. But none of my Windows-smarts seem to make a difference with Linux.

 

1) How do I get HDMI to work at 1360 x 768?

 

I have a HD LCD tv plugged into my ATI Radeon X1250 (in-built) graphics card via HDMI.

 

When going through the ATI drives in the Screens and Graphics Preferences I can't get of those to work. I even downloaded and (eventually) ran ati-driver-installer-8-02-x86.x86_64.run but I don't see what it did (a slightly more experienced Linux noob suggested I do this). It didn't seem to help (I probably goofed up somewhere).

 

I can only get it to work with VESA drive (Generic) and I'm stuck with 1024 x 768, though 1360 x 768 is supported by my LCD TV and preferable since the image would not be stretched horizontally.

 

I'm running Mythbuntu 7.10 (Ubuntu that boots into MythTV).

 

 

 

2) How do I detect and configure Dual Screens?

 

I also have a monitor plugged in via D-SUB that supports upto 1280 x 1024. But Screens and Graphics Preferences only seems to detect one (no idea which). I do dual screen in Windows all the time, but Ubuntu has me stumped.

 

3) What driver should I actually be using?