I am replacing the drive on my laptop with a bigger one and wanted to know if it would be better to partition the whole drive during the Windows XP install or leave some blank. Said another way is it better to let the Linux installer change the existing partition verses Win XP only partitioning part of the drive for windows? Any comments would help.

thanks

Hi everyone. Forgive me if this info is somewhere else on the forums, I've looked and looked and can't find anything.

I am a total noob and don't know anything beyond user information. Most of the stuff I read on here I don't understand.

I am trying to install the latest version of ubuntu to dual-boot on my laptop alongside vista. I really want to learn how this stuff works....

I need to move a folder from my Network Drive (Iomega Home Media Drive) to an external HD to backup 100 gb worth of data. I am running Mac osx 10.6. I tried dragging and dropping the folder from the NAS to the External HD and I always get an error during the copying process that says "The operation can not be completed because an item name "(Folder name)" already exists". After checking google it looks like it may be a bug in finder and that I could use terminal to copy the items, but I do not know how to copy from the NAS drive.

Hi

I found a "how to make a home server in an hour" guide, so I kind of tried:

Now I have been stuck for 4 days trying to find different ways of connecting to it.

It is an Aopen XCcube
I installed Ubuntu 9.10 server software
I then installed NXclient, NXnode, NXserver on it

Then I tried to get access to it by using NXclient on my laptop, and the first day a was able to get into the terminal.

But now I cannot.

At first i hadn't done anything to the router settings,
but now I have tried to open port: 80 http, 21 ftp, and 22 ssh

Ok... I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on a partition on my external hard drive. I am running Windows 7 on my laptop. I am trying to dual boot. It works fine as long as the external hard drive is plugged in, but if it isn't it won't load the boot loader. I'm not sure how to fix it. When I installed it my intent was to use the Windows bootloader, but now it is using GRUB which is why it can't find the bootloader if the external hard drive isn't plugged in. What can I do to fix it? Please help!

*EDIT*

I hope this isn't stupid.

my domain is www.vacationsnbeyond.com and my internal ip is 192.168.1.101

I want to setup a mail server, etc

the /etc/hosts file should look like this?

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain www.vacationsnbeyond.com vacationsnbeyond mail

next line

192.168.1.101 www.vacationsnbeyond.com vacationsnbeyond.com mail

does that look right?

I want to download Damn Small Linux "Live CD" but when i go to the DSL Download page i click on one of the links and then a list of options appear:

GPL_Sources
archive
current
dsl-n
mydsl
release candidate

Could someone tell me which option i should choose please

I just installed Avast anti-virus and when i tried to run it a small window appeared informing me that registration was required so i clicked on OK and then i was informed that i needed a licence key. So i followed the link provided and came to an Avast page which informed me that: 404 Page not found. So could anyone tell me how i can obtain the license key please. Thanks

I have an againg computer about 4 years old and i would like to install the latest version/flavour of DSL onto it. Trouble is i haven't got a clue how to do it. Was hoping that i might get some help here. Thanks

Hi all,

I would like to start by saying how very useful I have found this excellent guide/site.

I have a simple question, I am about to install the very latest release of Mint (an Ubuntu based distro)into a dual boot setup with my current Vista, and just wanted to ask, will it recognise my broadband internet connection during the install??

I am using a wired connection to my router (simple ethernet cable) and am not really interested in a wireless one as I don't need it.