Re: ethernet Q
James Takac wrote: > Hi Guys > > I had a motherboard blow on a computer a few weeks back and finally got > the system rebuilt with a new mobo. However the ethernet connection is now > seen as eth1 instead of eth0 and on various reboots ubuntu is not seeing > it at all. I suspect it has something to do with the new assigment and so > am wondering where I might look to edit things so as to edit out the old > ethernet assignment since that adapter no longer exists and what do I need > to watch out for if taking this road udev rules, I would think -- derek -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: grub on usb?
James Takac wrote: > I find myself in an interesting spot at the moment. I have an eee pc which > I was dual booting 2 ubuntu's. one on the default drive and one on a 16 > gig usb drive. I reinstalled the default Xandros on the original drive and > it seems there's no grub on the usb drive so I'm looking for either how to > install grub on the usb stick or to modify grub on the xandros install to > point to ubuntu on the usb stick as well allowing a dual boot When it comes to booting from multiple devices, I've taken to installing grub on each device, and chain load from the primary to the secondary. So you'd need to "grub-install" to the external (in either case - should be just "grub-install --root-directory=/path-to-root-on-external /dev/xxx" ). To chainload to the secondary, modify the primary's /boot/grub/menu.lst to include: title External drive root(hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 -- derek -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Eee PC os install advice
James Takac wrote: > Currently I have gutsy on both the internal 4gig drive and on a 16gig > flash drive. I'm looking at scrubbing gutsy from the internal and > installing something else as I mainly boot from the flash drive at the > moment. I'm guessing that will require some changes to my grub file on my > part so the flash drive wont throw up errors when gutsy ain't there on the > 4gig drive? If grub is actually installed on the flash drive, then it isn't going to care that there's no (or another) OS on the internal drive, unless you try to select the entry for the non-existent OS. otoh, if grub is on the internal drive (more usual), you won't be able to boot at all if you remove the /boot directory. So you'd need to do a "grub-install" to the flash drive (before scrubbing the internal!). -- derek -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Can I use Debian DVD's to install on Ubuntu
Karl Goetz wrote: > On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 14:12 +1030, squareyes wrote: >> Hi all, >> I have a 3 DVD set of Debian 4 "Etch", and was wondering if I can use >> them to >> install applications like Scribus, Inkscape etc. on Ubuntu 7.04 ? > > No is the short answer. > Not safely, and without causing major long term issues is the longer > answer. > I beg to differ, with many caveats. If Etch is older than 2006/10 (before feisty was synced with dapper) it shouldn't (famous last words!) cause any upgrades to existing packages - so it shouldn't break anything that already exists. If it's newer than that, it still shouldn't be a problem if you don't _let_ it upgrade existing packages. However, many times the etch package may just not be installable, and others it may install broken software. Far better to just order a copy of the Gutsy DVD. -- derek -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
