Hello all. First off i want to just say this and get it out of the way. I am very new to linux. Started using it for a class i am taking, (finals next week) and i am a semi converted from Windows. I have Xp on my Dell latitude D500 laptop, took it off and placed Mandriva on it, which i do like. And ...

so this was obviously pretty dumb of me, but hopefully it's not too hard to fix. I deleted my ubuntu partition from windows, and of course now I can't boot into anything. It says error 17. I have a lot of important files in windows that I need to access. What should I do?...

Ok-I'm getting ready to try a few more experimental installs on my 2 Testbeds-my desktop PC and my laptop. They are desktop=HP Pavillion a810n Athlon64/160GB HD/1GB RAM and laptop=Toshiba 7000CT Portege' Pentium 2/160MB RAM/4GB HD I've had a lot of trouble with the laptop for these reasons- 1)smalli...

I understand the whole process of what the command ln does which is the following for an example: ~ ]$ ln file1 file ~ ]$ ln file1 file3 This means that file1 is hard linked to file, and file1 is also hard linked to file3. Correct? If this is the case, file, file1, and file3 are all one file, which ...

i was able to create a Fedora 9 Amazon Web Service EC2 image from scratch. however, when i launched an instance of it and added more crap to it and wanted to rebundle the image, this time from the existing AMI, i got the following error: mount: Could not find any loop device. Maybe this kernel does ...

iam installing ubuntu helix3 the computer stalls right in step 5 of the installation wizard. after you enter the name of the the computer and the password. you click forward and the computer stalls. the cd is not running and the hard drive is not doing any thing. PS. I resized my harddrive. and the ...

This was a thread reply that got massive, and I thought it best to make it its own thread :) Overall, I've found that the best method to learn Linux is by breaking stuff and then fixing it - no joke. Besides that, after you're familiar with basic concepts like package management (not on a specific d...

I been trying to install the Mandriva 2009.0 dvd to a 8gig USB Key. Each time takes 3 hours and each time starts saying "No operating system found" When I load a live Linux cd and mount the key all the files are there. IS there a way to make Mandriva install to my USB key as it would a har...

I haven't used any flavor of unix in five years so please pardon my rust. I was given an RHEL 5.3 server distribution mounted on a Windows CD-ROM to install on a Linux 4.6 box. I used a tool called Tunnelier (an SSH2 Client) to move the contents of the CD to a directory (RHEL53-SERVER) off of the ro...

I have a directory that contains some files. Let's call it ./ActiveContent. I have a tar ball that contains some updated files, let's call it updates.tar.gz. How do I unpack updates.tar.gz in the directory ./ActiveContent so that files in updates.tar.gz overwrite the identical named files in the dir...