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Running ubuntu from LIveCD with no harddisk [duplicate]
can i boot Linus from LiveCD into a copmuter system where computer system doesnot have a physical hard drive.
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Get files from disk on Ubuntu livecd?
I have a messed up hard drive that, when I boot it, just drops to initramfs. I am a newbie to ubuntu, and I think the hard drive is failing. Is there any way to "take my files and run", per say? Like, ...
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How can I boot a live system from a hard disk and then install to the same drive?
I need to install Lubuntu on to a hard drive that has no other means of installation other than the hard drive itself (USB, CD, Net, none of those are available on this system).
What I have already ...
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Does Live CD require a hard drive to be installed? [duplicate]
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Will Ubuntu live cd/dvd work with no hard drive installed?
I have an old laptop which doesn't have a HDD and I can't get Live CD to boot on it. (Trying to boot using ...
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/dev/sda is in use — from liveCD
I'm confused-- I booted from a ubuntu cd and selected the "try ubuntu" option. As I understand it, this is the new "live cd" style.
I then try to check my HDD using fsck and it says that /dev/sda is ...
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How do I mount my external USB drive from the LiveCD so I can get files off of my laptop?
my laptop running ubuntu 11.10 was updated to 12.04 but failed halfway through update.
i had no option but to turn the laptop off as it had frozen and back on again to find the laptop non functioning. ...
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How do I get root access to hard drive from livecd?
ubuntu 11.10 has faffed up on me, It wont let me get passed the login-screen ( i have been searching around online the last two days and none of the proposed solutions worked) as at this point I dont ...
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Does Ubuntu Live session write anything on the primary partition
Here is the situation.I am a duel windows ans ubuntu user. Accidentally I formatted the C partition(root partition of windows).
Now I ran several live ubuntu sessions from CD. And found a way to ...
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How do I access a hard drive from a live CD?
How can I access my hard drive from a Live CD? As far as I can tell the hard drive can only be accessed via /media/longnumberhere after its been mounted. Is there a way to access the hard drive a ...
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Where can I find the log files for mounting disks?
I understand if I boot from a live cd I can see all the system logs under System > Administration > File Log Viewer
I have a major error with a disk not mounting and I want to trace i tback to the ...
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LiveCD mounts the partitions, but it doesn't see any
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 from Live CD.
I can access the partitions already created ( two NTFS and one ext3 prepared ), but when I'm trying to install, at the step where I should select the ...
