I am trying to install Ubuntu Linux on my 8gig USB thumb drive.
I am using this tutorial:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/06/11/qemu-ubuntu-804-with-a-shared-folder/#more-416
I can get to the “live cd demo” part, but when it comes to installing it says that the drive has only 425mb allocated to it.
I need to increase this to at least 3gigs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
It is formatted is FAT32.
and I have 5gigs of free space
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I am currently using a vaio vgn-fz140e which came with vista. I have a 60 gig external hard drive from my previous computer and I wiped the hard drive and installed Ubuntu linux on it. For some reason, the computer automatically tries to boot ubuntu but can’t load it from the external drive. It doesn’t even try to load vista. When running ubuntu from the live cd, I can see that both vista and ubuntu are installed on their respective drives, but they won’t boot at all. I tried to get into the BIOS, but for some reason, I can’t. Can anyone help me?
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I had an old 60 gig drive with c and d partitions. got a sweet deal on a new 250 gig drive, copied the d partition over and expanded the c to fill the 60 gig. Did all this with gparted, which is a linux-based live cd with the gparted program on it.
Now I’ve decided I want to run windows of the faster new drive, so I shrunk the existing partition on the new drive, and created a 70 gig partition at the beginning. used gparted to copy the entire c (60 gig) drive to this partition.
1 hour later… ok it copies, so I take out the 60 gig, set the jumper to master on the 250, fire it up and….
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
Please re-install a copy of the above file.
grr. fine. plug in the old 60 gig again, go into windows. copy hal.dll over manually. No luck, same message.
google around the past few days and my brain is aching.
norton ghost seems like an option but costs money…
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I have an extremely old pentium 3 550mhz processor, with 384mbs of ram and a 20 gig hard drive. I dont know what the smallest linux that doesnt run off a live cd is. I have used slax portable linux but i want a permanently installed os (preferably with a kde interface and maybe looks like ubuntu) and I dont want to permanenly install slax becuase it still functions as a live cd, just running from the hard drive.
So the bottom line is, I need a list of small sized linux OS’s with links to a download. remember, I am choosing a best answer.
Thanks!!
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I Accidentally Screwed up my 80 Gig HDD with Windows ME. It seems i deleted my Master Boot Record. I have repeatedly tried to use “Fdisk /MBR” to repair the problem, but the command doesn’t seem to do anything. I can access all of my files using the DOS on my boot disk, but Windows still won’t boot up. I can, however, boot up Xubuntu using a live CD. If I Use the Xubuntu Install to disk feature, it gives me the option to create a new partition. Would Creating a new partition, and installing Linux Create a new MBR? Would that help get Windows ME going again? or would that only compound the problem?
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Tagged boot, boot disk, Disk, gig, hdd, Linux, linux partition, Master, master boot record, mbr, partition, Record, windows, XUBUNTU
