Hi all

 

First of all, let me congrats the admins for a great forum!

 

 

Now for the case...

When I boot my Ubuntu on my Asus A6000 A6km laptop with a USB device connected (my mouse is USB connected), the OS freezes at "Starting up ...". Ok.. when I disconnect my mouse, the booting is ok, and everything is ready to go. Then I can connect my mouse when the login screen is showing.

 

Any ideas for what this can be? Is is possible to see what is going on during the boot? I used Mandriva before, and I could see if anything was "OK" or "Failed".

 

Thanks

I'm having a problem with my external hard drive and SuSE 10.3 . It's a 320 gig hdd in an enclosure running to my USB so I can run it from one laptop to another without any major issues. It's formatted to NTFS and SuSE will read it just fine. It just won't write a dang thing to it.

 

The way I see it, there are a few possible solutions:

Solution 1: Format to FAT32. This would be very effective at solving my problem, but it would erase all my data and split my drive into a bunch of tiny little partitions. I don't want to format my drive because I don't want to lose anything.

 

Solution 2: Make SuSE Write to NTFS. I would love to make THIS solution work, however, since I know so little about how filesystems work, I don't want to screw anything up. Anybody have any ideas on how to make SuSE write to an NTFS disk?

 

Solution 3: Make a new, Linux-only partition on my drive. Again, this would probably work wonders and solve world peace, but it wouldn't let me run data to and from my computers which each have Windows AND Linux running.

 

Anybody have any suggestions?

Sooo, Im finally sick and tired of Windows. Been using it for years, my happiness with it gradually declined, and Vista has me banging my head against the wall (DRM sucks hardcore). Windows just isn't worth it to me anymore.

 

I've tried to switch over to linux a few times on dual boot (Mandrake).... and ran into one major road block every time: I have wireless internet, and my wireless card was a Linksys WUSB54G, which did not seem to have any support whatsoever. I've done a few google searches, and it seems to have support at http://prism54.org/ However, I have recently upgraded to a WUSB300N (Also linksys), and I would rather not go backwards... I cant seem to find support on this, does anyone know if it does exist? Also, does this Prism thingey come with distros, or is it something I would need on a CD beforehand?

 

A few other random questions as well:

 

~Best way to set up a dual boot system with linux?? (Should I use the windows boot loader, or linux?)

~How much space will I need for the linux partition (With room for programs I may need, etc)?

~Wheres a good place to learn about the command line?

~Any other roadblocks I may run into that I should be aware of now?

 

And, I may as well ask the question Im sure you've all heard a million times:

 

What distro is good for me? (It looks like fedora, and ubuntu? What are the differences?)

 

 

Any help here would be greatly appreciated! [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png[/img] :lol: [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png[/img]

thanks to Randall for assistance with this

 

here's how,

 

verify that you have the following installed in your distro (if it supports it)

 

rpm-devel, curses, ncurses-devel and gcc and required deps.

 

Once done, download the latest stable kernel from http://www.kernel.org

 

currently that is 2.6.23.9

 

 

once downloaded, unzip the file

 

Quote:[root@localhost ~]# uname -r2.6.23.1-49.fc8

Quote:wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.....6.23.9.tar.bz2 

43.4 MB

 

in yast, i searched for rpm-devel and then isntalled it.

 

next in yast i searched for curses and isntalled ncurses-devel and the 32bit version of same. (ncurses-devel-32bit)

 

then

 

bunzip2 linux-2.6.23.9.tar.bz2

 

then

 

tar xvpf linux-2.6.23.9.tar

 

then once uncompressed

 

cd linux-2.6.23.9/

 

 

 

 

installed gcc and libmudflap for compiling... in yast.

 

make clean && make mrproper

 

cp /boot/config-2.6.16.53-0.16-smp ./.config

 

 

(copies the current sled10 settings in the kernel to the new kernel)

 

make menuconfig

 

make

make modules_install

make install

make rpm

 

 

Wrote: /usr/src/packages/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.23.9smp-2.src.rpm

Wrote: /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/kernel-2.6.23.9smp-2.x86_64.rpm

Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.97342

+ umask 022

+ cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD

+ cd kernel-2.6.23.9smp

+ exit 0

rm ../kernel-2.6.23.9smp.tar.gz

linux-hiz9:/kernel_update/linux-2.6.23.9 #

This is meant as at ip for people installing ubuntu on a computer with the Intel BG 2200 WLAN card.

 

Before you install Ubuntu on the computer, make sure that this WLAN is Enabeled in BiOS (Dafault should be ON, not off).

 

This will save you a lot of work later on.

 

After this do the following to save yourself a little work:

 

Hi all,

I downloaded ubuntu 7.10 and am trying to run it. It boots, i get the 'cyborg/knightrider-swoosh-i'm-busy'thing, then the left to right filling progress bar and after that's at 100%... flash all colors, some mosaic pattern. I tried the different vga options, running in safe graphix mode, and the pattern changes with each different option but there's none that will give me a splash screen or whatever. just a screen filled with rubbish. It's like an old tv with snow, but with color.

 

asus m2n-mx with nvidia MCP61P chipset

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+

 

i tried changing things in the bios, and again, the pattern changes a little but it's still there. i tried waiting a while, but when i returned from taking a shower it was still there, the cd had stopped spinning and there was no activity going on whatsoever. I then popped in a Damn Small Linux CD and rebooted and that worked fine.

 

Does anybody have an idea why this happens and what i should do to be able to get the windows monkey off my back (because of course, that's what it's all about...), or know in which topic this problem has already been covered?

 

i stress that it's right after the progress bar fills up, so 'clicking somewhere' or 'installing' or 'running' anything is not an option, unless it's bios-flash or something.

 

also, first installing the OS and then adding stuff doesn't apply here, because of please read what i've written above.

 

i am a total linux noob and would be eternally grateful for some help.

 

thanx in advance

hrk7474

Hey guys,

 

I have been looking at the linux-noob site for a little while now and its starting to look at little dated... the last major change for the site design was back in 2003.

 

That if anyone doesnt know is when linux-noob came into this world.

 

If anyone thinks that the site could do with a facelift place a vote in the above poll.

 

Cheers

[M]ax

How do I mount this second hard drive?

 

All of the tutorials I find tell me to format the drive.

The hard drive is from a previous Linux installation. I just want it for storage purposes because I have tons of media files on it. Therefore, I do not want to re-format it.

It is IDE and I plugged it in as a slave to my optical drive.

 

Where do I go from here?

I have a hired a linux web server host from a company. I logged through ssh and modified iptables.

By mistake, it is not configured and blocked all ports, including ssh, ftp, http etc.

 

I am able to ping and reboot remotely.

 

All I need to do is to delete the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file and reboot the server.

 

How can I achieve this? I have already raised a support ticket.

 

If they know how to recover, it is fine. Otherwise, I wanted to guide them.

 

Previously for such mistake, i used to login using a CD during boot process.

Now I forget how to do.

 

Is there a way the web hosting company fix using console operation?

 

All i need is to recover my system asap.

 

What are my options and how can I do it?

 

Thanks

 

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