http://www.d-a-l.com/help/ en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:36:56 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.d-a-l.com/help/images/styles/dal/misc/rss.jpg http://www.d-a-l.com/help/ http://www.d-a-l.com/help/linux-help/67152-linux.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:35:37 GMT I have no understanding cant even install my favorite apps:taz: I have no understanding cant even install my favorite apps:taz: ]]> Linux Help dingchris http://www.d-a-l.com/help/linux-help/67152-linux.html http://www.d-a-l.com/help/linux-help/67115-get-ubuntu-off-my-computer.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:24:23 GMT I was having problems with my Vista on my laptop and I thought by installing a full Ubuntu would be a good thing. Now I am regretting this. I can't do anything with it, I can't play my games, it doesn't use windows executable files( I tired working with WINE and I hate it), I can't download and install my MP3 player program. I hate this OS. I tried to use my HD deleting tool but, it did not remove or format my HD, Ubuntu is still there. I have tried my restoration cd and it won't work with ubuntu on my HD. Please help, ubuntu is like a virus on my HD. I have only used it for 2 days, and Im ready to throw my laptop into the trash, but I can't live with out it.:taz: ]]> Linux Help violetlass http://www.d-a-l.com/help/linux-help/67115-get-ubuntu-off-my-computer.html http://www.d-a-l.com/help/linux-help/66939-cant-connect-wireless-internet-ubuntu.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:02:13 GMT Hello DAL,

My router: Linksys N-Ultra range Plus model: WRT400N

Usb wireless adapter: Linksys N-Ultra range Plus model: WUSB600N

I am dual booting Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu 9.4 using the program Wubi, because I'm having issues that aren't fixable with my Windows XP, trust me.

In windows I had to setup the USB adapter to my router via a setup CD, which my internet works great in XP. In Ubuntu I inserted the cd tried to run the setup and I got hit with a window with code in it.

So I tried to enter my information manually in Ubuntu. I entered my SSID and WEP key into the "setup wireless internet" option, I entered everything correctly and I just wouldn't connect. It showed the sign of the two ball, yes two balls going around the white circle in the taskbar.

What do I have to do to get wireless working in Ubuntu?

3iz ]]> Linux Help 3izarre http://www.d-a-l.com/help/linux-help/66939-cant-connect-wireless-internet-ubuntu.html http://www.d-a-l.com/help/linux-help/66938-ubuntu-questions-changing-oss.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:49:46 GMT Hello DAL,

I'm going to be changing operating systems. I don't have a dollar at the momment to spare. I'm currently am using Windows XP Pro, and I have so many issues it is unfixable and very unstable.

I heard Ubuntu or Linux was free. I did some research and I really didn't find a whole lot of information, so I thought I'd ask you guys, seems like DAL knows what thier talking about. Once I switch OS's I can go back.

Is Ubuntu compatible with most of windows programs?

3iz ]]> Linux Help 3izarre http://www.d-a-l.com/help/linux-help/66938-ubuntu-questions-changing-oss.html http://www.d-a-l.com/help/linux-help/66922-creating-live-usb-data-recovery.html Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:38:12 GMT Hi (probably Rocky), I have been trying for several days to figure out how to restore data from a reformatted hard drive. (I can describe how this happened or point you out to other pages on which I described it -- partly on this forum.) Finally I found a programme called TestDisk and... Hi (probably Rocky),
I have been trying for several days to figure out how to restore data from a reformatted hard drive. (I can describe how this happened or point you out to other pages on which I described it -- partly on this forum.) Finally I found a programme called TestDisk and PhotoRec, that is/are supposed to do the job, IF I can install them into a linux live USB.
At first I wanted to do this with Knoppix, because I had used Knoppix before to recover data from Windows; I have Knoppix ISOs on a USB stick and on two DVDs. (Knoppix 5.1 runs just fine on my computer; Knoppix 6,0,1 Adriane just brings up an empty LXDE screen that will not respond to any command or click and has absolutely no start bar and no icons on the screen.) So I looked for directions to create a live USB of Knoppix. It seemed that the only way to do so was with programmes such as Unetboot, linuxliveusb.com (if one has windows) or launchpad.net/usb-creator.
After much ado I found out that the way to install Unetboot onto my computer is by giving the following command in Terminal:
sudo apt-get install unetboot

I did so. The programme required 4.3 MB on my hard drive, and I gave it permission to do so.

Then I moved on to the task of creating a live USB. Creating a Knoppix USB from my image would have required me to tell it to get the image from one usb-stick and to put it on a second usb stick (since I was not certain whether it would reformat the stick that it was writing to). (I did not know how to tell it which was which.) So instead I ended up telling it to make a Ubuntu Stick out of its own list of distributions. For some reason this did not work, so I tried Mandriva instead ("one of the most complete Linux distributions"). In order to make my live usb, the programme wrote about 9 GB to my /tmp folder, which probably means nine more GB of data that I cannot recover from before.
The computer WILL start with this Mandriva Live USB, but all I get upon startup is the question, to where I would like to install Mandriva. It seems I cannot test Mandriva without installing it. USB is not one of the options given, and I do not want to install any more distributions to the hard drive.
In the middle of all this, someone told me that making a Ubuntu - USB is very easy: All you have to do (supposedly) is to start the computer from DVD and to tell it to create a USB stick. So I also spent three hours today downloading a ubuntu iso for DVD (the most complete) onto a USB stick (so as not to write anything to my hard drive). From this I created a startup DVD. I can start the computer with this, but cannot creat a live USB from it.
I think I am going to overwrite most of the lost information and/or go crazy, before I figure out how to do this. (And I would like to know how to do this in order not to have the same problem the next time this happens.)


*** Alternatively, you could solve the following mystery for me: Before wiping out my info and reinstalling Mint to my entire hard drive, a friend talked me through backing up my information to USB. Upon examining the info on that USB stick, the only two directories that are NOT in the backed up info are .mozilla and .tomboy -- and that is where nearly all of the lost information was located.

I hope I have included all relevant information in this entry, and not too much irrelevant info. . .

Yours,
Janelle ]]> Linux Help janellesnip http://www.d-a-l.com/help/linux-help/66922-creating-live-usb-data-recovery.html