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Essential Linux Software

janfebmar
Hi So here I am trying to install Ubuntu. Doesnt work, but when I get it to work I will need essential linux apps I guess. So what is the most essential stuff you use on linux? Im a totally newbie when it comes to linux, so any advices on good software will be highly appreciative =) Cheers.
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Need Advise. Most suitable linux distro

tclam662
Hello, I am new to linux and I would like to have advises on linux distros and additional software packs, anyone help? Machine Spec(from an old laptop): Celeron 1. 2Ghz 10GB Harddisk 128Mb SDRAM Onboard SiS display SiS intergated NIC Floppy drive ***No optical drives*** and thats all Usage(I will put it on my bedro ...
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Linux USB Windows Compatibility

Huckabee
Im trying to put significantly large files on a large quantity of USB drives for students involved in ASB at my school. Can i use a Linux system to load the drives with the files and have full compatibility with windows OSs?.
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/boot shows nothing and 100% full (corrupted?)

samengr
Hi Linux gurrus hope you all will be doing well. Well I am facing a problem first time in my sys admin experience. I am using RHEL-4, I am unable to access /boot partition. when i try to access this partion or want to show its contents, It seems /boot is corrupted.
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Need help installing a keygen

jacatone
I've installed Nero Linux 3. 0. 12 OK, but can't figure out how to install the keygen. I'm not very experienced at using the command line. The instructions are as follows: 1) open a terminal 2) chmod +x keymaker 3).
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Installing RPMs on RHEL4

gavi11
Hello, I am new to this forum and new to Linux also. I have RHEL4 installed on my computer and not able to configure the drivers for Motorola wireless network card dirvers. How can i install drivers for the above wireless network card? Thank you, gavi11.
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FC7 and canon IR 3170 printer

zillah
At work i have got my laptop with FC7. I tried to install our work's printer (on 192. 168. 2. 50) , here what I did : Through GUI, System>Administration>Printing> New Printer ,,,,but i do not what to choost to assign TCP/IP port to the FC7 PC.
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Backtrack 2 Problem

Solomar
i am using backtrack live cd (2) and i did the following commands to allow for read/write access on a NTFS drive: umount /mnt/hda1 modprobe fuse ntfsmount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 afterwards is worked fine, I was allowed to write files but after i restarted the computer and went into windows I was unable to access/read/ ...
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Booting linux and windows from same HDD partitions

ktpmsmd
Hi i am new to this forum. I have a problem with the booting of my system after installing Redhat 9. 0. I cannot enter in to windows XP after that. As i have very little knowledge about booting process ido not know how to cure this problem.
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Please help

ktpmsmd
Hi philipp, i have installed Redhat linux 9. 0 without any problem. But after that windows XP cannot boot. . . the problem is on startup the linux bootloader GRUB is not allowing windows XP to boot. Can I find a solution for that? And also should I can uninstall Linux from my system? Because there is a lot of probl ...
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SQL Syntax Error

nicktan69
Hi, Can someone please, please help me? I recently bought a software to install on my webserver. According to it, no HTML knowledge required. I have followed its instructions on the installation but I just can't solve this problem for days now! It says, 1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual ...
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Older Versions of RedHat

wwachob
Does anyone know where I can find older versions of the RedHat Enterprise packages for download? We have an older system, but need a copy of the O/S for our auditors. Thanks in advance Bill.
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Dualboot HDD XP/FC3 Moved HDD to new Compaq Box

Dingeriffic
Try to make this as short as possible. . i have been running a dualboot syster with FC3 and XP without any problem. I just purchased a newer system from work so I wanted to move my HDD from the older system to the new one.
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Backtrack 2 problem? :(

rustyman1
I have an everex VA2000T core dual 1. 73, 1. 5gb ram, 100HDD and i am tryin to see my HDD in backtrack all I get when i type mount is: tmpfs on / type tmpfs (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devgid=10,devmode=0666) tried fdisk -1 and got fdisk: inv ...
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ssh bash file problem

fpsdyl
Hi! im having a small problem. im running linux , and we have this server running windows, now on windows there is a batch file called myfile. bat that does some stuff,,, now i want to write a bash script that ssh into my windows pc and automaticaly runs the bat file.
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ATA vs PATA?

ed-j
Is there any difference? I have a new 80G Maxtor PATA 133 drive that will not work in an IDE caddy I have just bought. I have a new 80G Seagate Ultra drive that works fine in the caddy, just the same as all my old IDE drives.
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Nvidia driver on Kubuntu

bardoksan
I am trying to install the Nvidia display drivers for Kubuntu 7. 04 and it keeps giving me an error message saying the authentication method is not available. I am trying to install as root in the console with x turned off.
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Problem getting modem to work

jacatone
I installed an internal PCI 56k modem that's design for Linux. I'm running Mepis v6. 5. 02. It picks up the modem just fine and I can hear it making the connection then I get the following error message: May 31 14:51:28 localhost pppd: Connection terminated.
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Converting FAT32 to NTFS on a dual boot with 2HDD

ohbon
I have 1st drive XP FAT32 and 2nd drive Fedora 5. I would like to change FAT32 to NTFS. If I format C: from FAT32 to NTFS it says it will delete all data. With that will it delete the boot loader Grub from this hard disk and then I would not be able to dual boot to the 2nd drive which has Fedora 5?.
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Dual Boot problem, 2 HDDs 1-XPpro 2-FC5

ohbon
I need advice with finishing installing FC5. During installation when it goes to reboot, XP loads and I do not get an option. Two HDDs Master-Active-XPpro Slave-FC5 I did choose for GRUB to be in MBR.
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