Linux Ubuntu going over to the dark side

**Marmite the Dog** · 19-08-2007, 03:23 PM

I shall be reinstalling the cracked version of XP on my work PC during the week. Thankfully it'll be a lot less hassle than this Linux malarkey.

**Gerbil** · 19-08-2007, 08:37 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I shall be reinstalling the cracked version of XP on my work PC during the week. Thankfully it'll be a lot less hassle than this Linux malarkey.

Damn right.

Total load of bollux this linux on the desktop. Leave it on servers where it belongs. Uh, except mail servers where Exchange is the dogs bollux, and IIS 7 for web servers, which are cool beyond words. oh and SQL Server 2005 Servers which are just a dream to work with.

**mrsquirrel** · 19-08-2007, 08:54 PM

ntfs-3g for read and write access to NTFS drives

**Gerbil** · 19-08-2007, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

ntfs-3g for read and write access to NTFS drives

.... and drink a potion of newt eyeballs and frogs intestines at the same time. Every little helps while dealing with the dark arts.

Growing a beard and wearing sandals all the time helps I believe. Not sure about a bumbag though.

**Mr Earl** · 19-08-2007, 11:52 PM

This thread has convinced me that I want to stick with a proper OSX.
My little Mac power book is 4 years old now and due for an upgrade/backup.

I'm going to buy a new MacBook and partition the drive and load a copy of XP to run the windows apps I want. And I'll have OXS on the other side which is very stable and easy to use IME.

I was seriously considering a Lenovo Thinkpad and using OSx86. But that option seems to have almost as many technical bugs as the Linux option.
I don't remember shit about writing code and don't really want to. My poor brain is already saturated with trying to learn Thai! Jeezus fuck!

**mrsquirrel** · 20-08-2007, 09:04 AM

Go for the Thinkpad option

Do it. I love my thinkpad to death.

Have you seen the x61t tablet. Farking sexy sexy sexy 1.2kg full rotating screen to tablet form.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHhhhhhh sexy

**Agent_Smith** · 21-08-2007, 09:49 AM

OK, printed out FF's suggestions on how to partition the drive (thank you Frisco) but have to wipe out these 2 malingering OS first. But wait! Gotta back up some files first and the damn thing won't let me log in because the memory is filled up.

So, I go into the text screen (main menu?) and start slashing music and game files left and right. Thank god for rm *.* command. Now I can access the GUI and transfer some stuff to my thumbdrive. Done.

Now I gotta wipe the hard drive. I type in cfdisk in the main menu and up pops "FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 7: enlarged logical partitions overlap" How do I get around this obstacle? Sometimes I think computers were created in Hell.

**friscofrankie** · 21-08-2007, 02:54 PM

Most Guis are just front ends to Command line utils
By typing lvm and enter you should get a list of various commands try reading the man pages on
lvscan
"man lvscan"
lvs
"man lvs"
lvremove
"man lvremove"
also vgdisplay
and vgremove

here is a list of all lvm (logical volum manager) commands

Code:

Use 'lvm help <command>' for more information

  dumpconfig      Dump active configuration
  formats         List available metadata formats
  help            Display help for commands
  lvchange        Change the attributes of logical volume(s)
  lvconvert       Change logical volume layout
  lvcreate        Create a logical volume
  lvdisplay       Display information about a logical volume
  lvextend        Add space to a logical volume
  lvmchange       With the device mapper, this is obsolete and does nothing.
  lvmdiskscan     List devices that may be used as physical volumes
  lvmsadc         Collect activity data
  lvmsar          Create activity report
  lvreduce        Reduce the size of a logical volume
  lvremove        Remove logical volume(s) from the system
  lvrename        Rename a logical volume
  lvresize        Resize a logical volume
  lvs             Display information about logical volumes
  lvscan          List all logical volumes in all volume groups
  pvchange        Change attributes of physical volume(s)
  pvresize        Resize physical volume(s)
  pvcreate        Initialize physical volume(s) for use by LVM
  pvdata          Display the on-disk metadata for physical volume(s)
  pvdisplay       Display various attributes of physical volume(s)
  pvmove          Move extents from one physical volume to another
  pvremove        Remove LVM label(s) from physical volume(s)
  pvs             Display information about physical volumes
  pvscan          List all physical volumes
  segtypes        List available segment types
  vgcfgbackup     Backup volume group configuration(s)
  vgcfgrestore    Restore volume group configuration
  vgchange        Change volume group attributes
  vgck            Check the consistency of volume group(s)
  vgconvert       Change volume group metadata format
  vgcreate        Create a volume group
  vgdisplay       Display volume group information
  vgexport        Unregister volume group(s) from the system
  vgextend        Add physical volumes to a volume group
  vgimport        Register exported volume group with system
  vgmerge         Merge volume groups
  vgmknodes       Create the special files for volume group devices in /dev
  vgreduce        Remove physical volume(s) from a volume group
  vgremove        Remove volume group(s)
  vgrename        Rename a volume group
  vgs             Display information about volume groups
  vgscan          Search for all volume groups
  vgsplit         Move physical volumes into a new volume group
  version         Display software and driver version information

The top three commands ae just command line arguments the rest are stand alone commands to be entered at the command prompt Or with in the lvm shell if it was setup that way (probably not)

Each one of these commands will have a man page
Instead of using a menu driven logical volume manager I used the command line it took a bit longer (almost ten minutes to clear the problems I had & recreate an expandable and logical volume group and logical volume)

Once you use the utils to clean up the crap laid down by the GUI (Probably removing the bad-boy or repair it) you can then use cfdisk.

never have used ubuntu but once the data a is backed up can't you just rerty the install and clean the shit out that way?

**Agent_Smith** · 21-08-2007, 03:25 PM

I like your last suggestion and I was planning to do that as a last resort but will try it first. Can I make new partitions that will obliterate the other OS's partitions? At any rate, you've given me some more ammo in this neverending war with technology. Thanks a million

**Agent_Smith** · 10-09-2007, 12:07 AM

I can't watch youtube. Says I need flashplayer but when I download any of the 3 types and then type in the terminal it says that Flashplayer 9 isn't there. I've downloaded tg.z yum and rpm and nothing happens. Is there an easy way to fix this problem?

**dirtydog** · 10-09-2007, 12:16 AM

Yep, use firefox browser, I have the same problem with opera browser and I must have downloaded the poxy extension 100 times and the poxy thing wont work.

**friscofrankie** · 10-09-2007, 12:44 AM

Originally Posted by Agent_Smith

I can't watch youtube. Says I need flashplayer but when I download any of the 3 types and then type in the terminal it says that Flashplayer 9 isn't there. I've downloaded tg.z yum and rpm and nothing happens. Is there an easy way to fix this problem?

I would think these package managers should do it all correctly. But.
I have firefox setup in /usr/local/firefox under that directory is another called "plugins" By creating a link to, or copying, the file 'libflashplayer.so" to this directory it should work, system wide (for all users)

You need to find out where firefox is installed on your machine. Try "whereis firefox" at the command prompt this should give a dir if it is in your path, if this doesn't work try "slocate firefox/plugins" if you don't have slocate try locate. The nice thing about locate is it searches a databse and does a text match so you can narrow your hits down. The bad thing about locate is it searches a dtabase and does a text match, so if hte DB is out of date the rsults will be inaccurate. before running locate you may want to run updatdb as root. This will build a snapshot of your drive at that time.

If you only want it to work for your self create a link to (or copy) this file to ~/.firefox/plugins (~indicates your home directory, usually /home/username). Oncew you get the link of a copy of the file in one of these directories shut down firefox and restart.

Try youtube again should work.

**Agent_Smith** · 10-09-2007, 05:47 PM

^^I've got Firefox

^Frankie, that did the trick. I got the youtube and everything works fine (except my download rate is crawling as usual).

You've been a great help and if I ever get up to your neck of the woods then I'm buying. Thanks man.

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