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Linux newbie here…Why won’t my LiveCD recognize both of my hard drives?

Posted on January 20, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

My WinXP hard drive recently crashed. I can still access it using my LinspireLive CD, but my slave drive doesn’t show up. My flash drive shows up as a dos disk, and my corrupted drive shows up as winxp, but my slave drive doesn’t show up at all. (I assume it would show up as a dos disk because there is no OS on it.) I tried booting up under Linspire Live without the flash drive plugged in, but the slave drive still did not show up. I would like to be able to move my important files from the corrupted drive to the slave drive. How can I get Linux to recognize my slave drive so that I can do this? (I’m relatively new to Linux so be gentle…LOL)

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Writing Partitions on Linux?

Posted on April 27, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment

I’m Using Knoppix Linux and i want to write partitions on my A Data 2 Gb flash drive so that i can have a live cd on that drive. It is in FAT 32 format and the CFDISK program wont let me write partitions because it says Fatal Error: Bad primary Partition 0. Partition Begins with end-of-disk. My ultimate goal is to have linux on a pendrive to boot to other computers and the instructions i got tell me to write partitions.

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Which version of Linux is best?

Posted on January 20, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

It has to be run from a live CD or flash drive, unless you can tell me how to get an OS boot menu without messing up windows xp. I currently have Knoppix.
Today is the first time i have ever used Linux, I have herd alot of good and bad things, so i decided to try it for my self. So far i am amazed at its speed and stabality.
now im using UBUNTU, its great, takes a fue menits to get wsed to the color of it but then its great and easy on the eys.

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Can you boot ubuntu through flash drive?

Posted on July 29, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

About a month ago my 80gb ps3′s blue ray lazer went to crap, so me being impatient just went out and bought another playstation 3 (im addicted to cod mw2). Anyways i want to install linux on my old ps3, considering it still runs. But the problem is i cant boot a live cd. So can you boot ubuntu on the ps3 through a thumb drive?

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Linux live-USB help. Boot Bios and flash drive.?

Posted on July 23, 2010 by admin| 4 Comments

I am taking a intro to Linux course and would like to set up a Linux live-usb so I can get some practice using the command line terminal and do my Linux home work.

I don’t understand what to set my bio’s to, to boot from the usb flash drive.
It has choices like boot from usb SD reader, usb CF reader, usb SM reader, usb MS reader etc…… Will any of those settings work for a flash drive?

Also do I need to transfer everything off my flash drive before I install the Linux to it?
or can I partition with files already on the drive as long as there’s space for the Linux OS?

It’s an 8 gig flash drive.

And after the Linux live-usb is created can I still use it for normal drag and drop storage from my windows pc or will it now be just a Linux live-usb?

My text book came with a Fedora CD but it seems to be a install disk and not a live-cd. If I use the CD to install Fedora on my pc will it mess up my windows or will it just ask me to partition space for the Fedora? I guess I don’t understand if partitioning is something you can do at any time safely or if it’s just done with fresh formatting etc…

I would just order a live-cd but I don’t have time to wait.

Thanks for any help/advice.

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