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#1 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Dual booting- ntloader missing » 2010-07-01 15:25:30
that could possibly save my life i'm trying it right now.
#2 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Dual booting- ntloader missing » 2010-06-30 22:57:12
Which I find bizzare, becuase I had two seperate partitions, one 60gb one with my xp and one 7gb one with my linux and 2gb swap. Idk how my linux partition screwed up my xp one.
#3 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Dual booting- ntloader missing » 2010-06-30 22:55:09
Ok, well I understand how to have crunchbang not write to the mbr while installing (somthing I learned after the fact) but I'm not sure how that helps me now that its allready installed (and overwritten my hard drive?! Idk what happened but I broke down and took the hard drive out and plugged it usb into my desktop and there are still no documents, just program files and other things that were on my c drive. Everything BUT documents and settings.
#4 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Dual booting- ntloader missing » 2010-06-30 21:21:56
Wait, I got it to mount, but my documents are not there! Program files and windows are there, but no documents and settings. I've got my recycle bin, so I can have anything that I didn't want haha. Is this something anyone has heard of before? If not I'm still plugging away at it.
#5 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Dual booting- ntloader missing » 2010-06-30 20:53:55
And also, if worse comes to worse (and I didn't fry my whole partition) I can just remove my hdd and usb it into my lab machine. But I'd like to leave that as option z becuase, as it is a toughbook, its a painfully long proscess that involves many layers of foam and gel. But specifically I do need to use some of my windows programs for work and would rather not go through the two-day proscess of re-installing windows by floppy.
#6 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Dual booting- ntloader missing » 2010-06-30 20:20:57
As for the first part, I'll go try those utilities, as for the second part...I wish! I can't mount the windows partition (even with -o) it says directory doesn't exist.
#7 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » tar.gz issues » 2010-06-30 13:20:18
well i have as yet been unable to find out how to turn on compiz...which might be easier. and i installed build-essential and i still have the same error.
i will go check out the misterhouse page.
#8 Help & Support (Stable) » Dual booting- ntloader missing » 2010-06-30 13:04:59
- pillbug
- Replies: 10
ok, so here is my sad, tragic story [bring out worlds tiniest violin]. i am trying to dual boot win xp and crunchbang on my laptop. and guess what? i'm an idiot who didn't back up her files before screwing with the MBR. i'm a computer tech, i know better, so if i loose all my files it's my own fault.
however, that being said, if there is a way that i can recover my xp partition so i can boot into it again, that would be great.
here's what happened:
i have a panasonic toughbook cf-27. it has a floppy, but no cd-rom drive. it does not support booting from usb or lan. i managed to install xp on it last year using a floppy technique. i really wanted crunchbang on it becuase xp runs absurdly slow [but i need it for my work programs], so i used unetbootin to perform a frugal install and installed crunchbang on a seperate partition on my hard drive[sda2]. when i rebooted, there was no option for booting into my windows partition as there allways had been on my other dual booting machines. so i edited my grub menu.lst to include my windows partition. now however, when i try to boot into it it comes up saying "ntldr is missing"
i cannot use fixmbr from the xp cd, becuase i can't boot from usb cdrom. is there anything at all i can do from the linux side to fix this?
Thanks in advance.
#9 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » tar.gz issues » 2010-06-07 02:01:08
i'll go check out those pages. i was trying to compile 3ddeskeffects-2.0.1.tar.gz and misterhouse-1.0.8.tar.gz
#10 Help & Support (Stable) » tar.gz issues » 2010-06-05 03:04:49
- pillbug
- Replies: 7
Hello all...
i've been trying to install a few programs on my #! box for several days now and i've been having frustrating issues. I can't seem to compile any of the tar.gz files. i've attempted about ten or eleven different programs and they all failed to work. three of them came up with this error when i got to the ./configure step:
./configure
error: ./configure: file or directory not found.
and all the other ones cameup with this error, at the same point in the install[bear with me, it's long]:
checking for g++............................................................no
checking for c++.............................................................no
checking for gpp............................................................no
checking for acc..............................................................no
checking for cc................................................................no
checking for cxx..............................................................no
checking for cc++............................................................no
checking for cl.................................................................no
checking for fcc...............................................................no
checking for kcc..............................................................no
checking for rcc..............................................................no
checking for xlc_r...........................................................no
checking for xlc...............................................................no
checking for c++ compiler default output file name....configure:error: c++ compiler cannot create executables
now mind you i've never in my entire life gotten a tar.gz file to work. somthing allways goes wrong. in this case, thankfully, i had some kind of error mesage to work with. can anyone help me out here? Thank you in advance. i'm so lost.
#11 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Some assistance with numerous things for a major noob » 2010-06-05 02:43:40
Sweet Sucess!!!! I have two conky's running!! Thank you beyond words that's been driving me nuts. i was able to get it running both through terminator and through autostart.sh. one of my problems what that i was using a "-" instead of a "~". so yay! two of my problems down, three to go. i
ran the "lspci" and i found out that i have:
"intel multimedia audio ac'97 82801eb/er itch5" for sound and
"vga matrox mga g400/g450"
"phillips semiconductors saa7130 video broadcast decoder"
and "vga matrox mga 2064w millenium"
for video. however, linux-drivers.org didn't help me much and i can't find linux drivers for these cards...and when i do, how do i go about installing them in #!?
thanks for all the help so far
#12 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Some assistance with numerous things for a major noob » 2010-06-02 17:12:48
And another script seems to "work" but instaed of putting a conky on my desktop to tell me what rythmbox is playing, the script just opens rythmbox and puts nothing at all in the conky...
#13 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Some assistance with numerous things for a major noob » 2010-06-02 17:10:08
And then with yet a nother script, it hangs on:
Conky: drawing to double buffer
And does nothing after that
#14 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Some assistance with numerous things for a major noob » 2010-06-02 17:06:23
And when I try a different conky script, I get:
Conky: not implemented obj type 44
Which also repeats for eternity
#15 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Some assistance with numerous things for a major noob » 2010-06-02 17:01:41
Ok...so here is what I get when I try to do the multiple conky's in terminal:
-c command not found
Sh: conkyExaile: not found
And that one repeats forever until I exit terminal.
#16 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Some assistance with numerous things for a major noob » 2010-06-02 03:00:58
is there maybe a program i could get running in my #! to give me a print out of my system specs? [like belarc advisor] that way i had a start point for my video/sound issues...i don't actually know what is in my box bc its a custom build and the parts i got in there don't have much on them in the way of brand and model numbers. [i just found linuxdrivers.org]
#17 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Some assistance with numerous things for a major noob » 2010-06-02 02:50:44
Thanks! i have many things to go try...um @sector11 :i *guess* i'm using the one based on ubuntu? it's the one i downloaded from this site last month-ish...
all my .deb's have been working just fine so i'm going to go with yes.
and i'm deffinitly going to try the autostart.sh method immeaditly bc i've had really good success with editing that so far- THANKS!
@annonymous: well, i don't know how to run it from the terminal. i'm guessing put in the directory leading to the file?
and i can't use apt-get bc i have no internet connection...
@everyone who chimed in about mounting: thanks! that did it.
an
#18 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Some assistance with numerous things for a major noob » 2010-06-02 02:28:41
Oh, i forgot:
-i also have a 250gb hdd in that i was able to format via gparted but i can't mount it? it's just inaccessable. well, i probably just have no idea how to mount a drive in linux is all.
#19 Help & Support (Stable) » Some assistance with numerous things for a major noob » 2010-06-02 02:14:18
- pillbug
- Replies: 17
Hello all,
I am officially a convert to #! as it is the most amazing os i've ever come across. however i have a few wrinkles i'd like to iron out of my understanding of how to make this work.
to start off with, i have no internet. this is not to say that i can't get it to work, i actually don't have access to internet with my #! machine. so i can't install programs via apt get ect.
-i have four video outputs on my machine: i'd like to get at the least, two or three of them to work. as it is, #! only recognized the one video card [that has two outputs] and it WILL NOT expand the desktop to both monitors. i tried using lxander and grndr [i think that is right, i'm on my xp laptop now so idk for certain] and they just recognize "default monitor" and all the option for "mirror desktop" or "expand desktop" is shaded out. it is doing the "mirror desktop" thing automatically, that is i have the same thing on two of my three monitors. my third is in standby mode, getting no output from the computer.
i went to the restricted drivers to see if it recognized anything and it's empty- "no proprietary drivers in use"
-two, i have no sound. i suppose this is also a driver issue, but i don't know where to go to download linux drivers that i can move over via usb key
-three, i installed bottlerocket via a .deb i got from the ubuntu package manager site, and i know that i have to go to /usr/bin and copy it's info into the menu editor to get it to show up [i did this successfully with other programs] but i can't actually open the file. the waiting circle spins a little and then nothing happens. am i missing somthing in my install?
-four, when i [someday!] get all my monitors running on large desktop, i want to get multiple conky's running on the screen. i have followed the instructions from multiple parts of this site and i keep getting error messages in the terminal when i try to tell conky to look for multiple conky.rc files. the messages are different every time, but when i get back to my lab i'll try to recreate them and post them here to help you out. idk i might be completly skipping a step or somthing. anyone know of an easy way to get multiple conky's running?
any help at all would be greatly appriciated. i have no idea what i'm doing, but i'm trying to learn as i go.
thanks in advance!
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