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"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence."
-Russell
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Apr 30 |
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System not mounting swap partition Cheers. Nothing's jumping out at me here. It seems odd. The only possible thing I can think of is that, seeing as you're using extended partitions, / should appear first i.e. /dev/sda5 and swap as /dev/sda6. This is just grasping at thin air however. I'm interested to see how this one will be resolved. Perhaps you could use UUIDs in place of /dev/sdX? To find these values do sudo blkid. |
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Apr 30 |
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How to properly play .mkv files? Are you in the new fancy Unity desktop? If so, I don't know where to look for this option. If you are, log out & then log in to the old GNOME desktop. This shows you how to do that. Then you go to System > Administration > Additional Drivers. Choose to 'Deactivate' the proprietary driver. |
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Apr 30 |
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System not mounting swap partition Would you mind posting up the contents of /etc/fstab? |
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Apr 30 |
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How can I resize my partition? @Cas - yes that'll also work. Probably what I'd do here. |
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Apr 30 |
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How to properly play .mkv files? Don't know what? |
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Apr 30 |
asked | Dual booting Debian Squeeze & Ubuntu Natty: should I share /home and/or other partitions? |
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Apr 30 |
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How to properly play .mkv files? OK, that means it's a proprietary one. In my experience proprietary graphics drivers work better than the ones in the kernel. Nonetheless, you may have some luck by disabling the proprietary driver for testing purposes. See if that solves your problem. The option to switch it off is under System > Administration (from memory). |
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Apr 30 |
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How to properly play .mkv files? Hmm... I wonder if this is a graphics driver issue. Are you using the Linux kernel driver or a proprietary one? |
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Apr 30 |
answered | How to properly play .mkv files? |
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Apr 30 |
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How can I resize my partition? @JavaNut13 - if you want it back do sudo apt-get install gparted. |
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Apr 30 |
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Freeze at startup: “It seems that you do not have the hardware required to run Ubuntu” +1 - This sounds like the most obvious answer here. @Séverin Lemaignan - what type of graphics card are you using out of interest? |
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Apr 30 |
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Very safe to install Ubuntu on Mac? No hurry. Just go through it at your own pace. I hope you get Ubuntu up and running. |
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Apr 30 |
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Very safe to install Ubuntu on Mac? Well, go through the instructions again closely and it will. It's a drop down box in the 'Format' area. |
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Apr 28 |
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No grub display after installing aside Windows 7 Do you remember where you installed GRUB? Was it to the MBR? |
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Apr 28 |
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Cannot use ubuntu - black screen What architecture are you trying to install? AMD64 or i386? As I understand things, you have a PowerPC computer. The two archs mentioned above won't work. |
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Apr 28 |
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Problem mounting Drive Yes, that's exactly right concerning the 'loss' of space issue. It's frustrating that things aren't standardized but that's how it works unfortunately. |
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Apr 28 |
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Problem mounting Drive Would you mind putting up a print out of /etc/fstab? The GParted graphic above says that the mount points for both Ubuntu and Win7 are /. You can't mount them both there simultaneously, but you could mount Win7 at, say, /Win7. |
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Apr 28 |
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How can I activate Unity? I've been giving 11.04 a test run this evening. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it's just good old GNOME that I've come to know and love! |
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Apr 28 |
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Why (again) Ubuntu's recommended version (for 11.04) is 32bit, not 64bit? I have to admit that this one really puzzles me too. Perhaps most Ubuntu users have <4 GB RAM installed, perhaps Flash is still a problem, perhaps it's rampant conservatism. The Athlon 64 came out eight years ago. Surely most desktop users have 64-bit CPUs nowadays. I feel it's time to make a very bold stride forward into a brave new world of computing. |
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Apr 28 |
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Very safe to install Ubuntu on Mac? That's also a valid technique for sure. It also raises the important issue of rEFIt. Good find. |
