Linux live cd options

2010-10-28 Thread Glenn Ervin
Hi, I am working on a laptop with 256 MB of RAM, and my Ubuntu 10.04 will not boot up on it, and I am wondering what will boot up with software speech. I have a dectalk, but I'd rather not drag that out for this. Glenn === Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found.

parted help

2010-10-08 Thread Glenn Ervin
Hi, I reinstalled Vista on my laptop, but it only gave me 25GB, out of my 160 GB drive, and I need more. I am in the live CD of Ubuntu, and in the terminal, I opened parted, and I am selecting the partition with /dev/sda1, and I plan on resizing it. When I run the resize command, it wants a

more on partitioning

2010-10-08 Thread Glenn Ervin
Hi, In Ubuntu, I went to the terminal, and in parted, I ran resize, and gave it 32kb, which it offered as a start point, and 125 for an end point. Then it came back and said that it cannot support the file system. I thought that Ubuntu supported NTFS. How do I go about increasing the size of my

installing Ubuntu

2010-09-24 Thread Glenn Ervin
Hi, I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and the Orca that came with it, and I am trying to install from the live CD, and in the partition part, Orca does not explain what is checked and not checked. I am trying to figure out the partition part of this before I proceed with the install, but there just is no

getting to the desktop

2010-09-19 Thread Glenn Ervin
Hi, I don't know if this only happens on the live CD, but I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on a laptop with a gig of ram, it was made to run Vista. I am using Orca too. Anyway, when I do control + alt + tab and get to the top panel, looking for the icon for my wireless, and I arrow around, I get

displaying and recovering a lost partition

2010-09-18 Thread Glenn Ervin
Hi, I am using Ubuntu 10.04. I am trying to repair my Vista laptop partition, and then I plan on making a dual-boot system. It will not boot, and I cannot access the recovery partition. Also, the display is broken on this laptop, which is why I acquired it. My son used to be able to read the

getting to the desktop

2010-09-18 Thread Glenn Ervin
Hi, I am running Ubuntu on several systems, but on the live CD, it is running on the system I wrote in about with the troubled partitions. Anyway, I am using Orca, and it's Ubuntu 10.04, and I have noticed that with this live CD, I cannot get back to the desktop when I use control + alt + tab