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    Linux Which Linux Distro Sor Shis System Setup/Installation And General Help

    Because i was getting the 'not authorised - unable to mount' error before so i had to try something.. it was driving me crazy..
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    Linux Which Linux Distro Sor Shis System Setup/Installation And General Help

    No i did not add any user.. :( All that happened was i got a powercut... when i was using ubuntu.. Since linux mint was running so awesomely... technically ubuntu should not suck.. but god knows what happened.. Now i solved a few problems by googling.. 1 -big and ugly Ubuntu boot screen How to...
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    Linux Which Linux Distro Sor Shis System Setup/Installation And General Help

    No i waited for around like 15 minutes.. with those five dots going on and on... still nothing happened... and that image was for my second question... And i do not have any usb drives in.. And now i got that another problem... I lost all my administrative rights... :@ not able to do anything...
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    Linux Which Linux Distro Sor Shis System Setup/Installation And General Help

    yup its not starting at all..... when i press a key.. a command type page comes up where it shows whats loading but the end it gives an error... not sure why... Now plzz tell me why this is happening,, Now during installation the boot up screen was like this.. After installation its like...
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    Samsung Wave S8500 India release

    Im not saying that it is bad..infact its really good....but all im saying is that WAVE isnt build for these invisible shields... it is best suited for fones like iphone and galaxy types where the body is plastic and you only have to apply one on front and one on back.. wave just loses all its...
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    Linux Which Linux Distro Sor Shis System Setup/Installation And General Help

    :P i have learnt that much by now.. Ok now got another question... Now when i installed ubuntu.. my OS HDD was shown as /sda ... i have 3 hdd's in total.. but when i tried to install linux mint the same was /sdb... so i cancelled the installation... i was afraid i might screw up the grub...
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    Linux Which Linux Distro Sor Shis System Setup/Installation And General Help

    @vishalrao - these are the files that i have LinuxMint-9-Gnome-DVD-i386 - Universal-USB-Installer.. mandriva-linux-free-2010-spring-i586 - unetbootin-windows-471 ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386 - universal usb installer...
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    Linux Which Linux Distro Sor Shis System Setup/Installation And General Help

    ^^^^arre thats only my doubt.... Actually I did install it via live cd... i think i used this command - ' sudo apt-get grub install' or something similar to this... when i tried that command with 'root directory' and commands similar to this i got the error ' this device is not mounted on...
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    Linux Installing Ubuntu on External Hard disk - will it erase already stored data?

    Use 1 GB - for Swap.. 3 GB - for home.. 8 GB - for /
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    Samsung Wave S8500 India release

    ^^^ yes... use mass storage mode... you can do it from the settings.. --- Updated Post - Automerged --- Guys plzz Read this.... DO NOT BUY FULL BODY INVISIBLE SHIELDS FOR WAVE..... THEY SUCK If u absolutely want to buy invisible shield just buy it for the SCREEN only and NOT FULL BODY...
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    Linux Which Linux Distro Sor Shis System Setup/Installation And General Help

    ^^^ i tried that from the live cd... For every distro installation the bootloader got automatically installed.. in the /dev/sda. The last of my instllation was in sda9... whose bootloader was set to install in the above manner.. Then i removed sda8 and sda9[mandriva and ubuntu] and just...
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    Linux Which Linux Distro Sor Shis System Setup/Installation And General Help

    arre i had created 5 different partitions.. /home , swap and / for linuxmint, mandriva, ubuntu... so when i re installed ubuntu... i deleted the last two.. mandriva and ubuntu partitions and created a new one just for ubuntu.. and after i finished installing, it asked for restart... now when...
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    Linux Which Linux Distro Sor Shis System Setup/Installation And General Help

    Guys big big problem... to get rid of that ubuntu administrator problem i tried to re install it... and also along with that i was gonna delete the mandriva partition which wasnt booting.. but now after restart... there is no boot menu at all nothing... it gives me this error.... "No such...
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    Linux Which Linux Distro Sor Shis System Setup/Installation And General Help

    arre i dont know whats wrong with ubuntu... But its not even letting me open the hard disk drives now.. It doesnt even restart or shut down or anything on when click it... its like i have no permission to do anything.... is there any way i can boot via administrator.. and please can someone...
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    UNOFFICIAL IRC Chat Channel - Techenclave

    chat not working...... is the channel still on ????
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    Linux Which Linux Distro Sor Shis System Setup/Installation And General Help

    Ok here is what i did so far... and the doubts that follow... First i have 3 partitions on my 250gb drive - 80 -70 -80..........of which the entire 70gb is for linux only.. Now firstly i started out with Mint... installation was easy... made 10gb for home 3gb swap and 10 more for /. Then i...
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    Linux Which Linux Distro Sor Shis System Setup/Installation And General Help

    @haider By googling i found that fedora is the best for everyday use.. and mint is very easy for migration to linux.. @darkstar already read and repped that thread before i started this one.. but as i said earlier various google searches point to that fedora is the best for everyday use...
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    Linux Which Linux Distro Sor Shis System Setup/Installation And General Help

    After some reading i have decided to go with Fedora 13... or may be LinuxMint 9 Isadora...really cant make up my mind.. Is it possible to tripple boot ??? win 7 and fedora and isadora ???? But before that can anyone tell what is the difference between cd and dvd versions ???????????// cd...
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    The Badass Clearance Sale

    HEy... pLease put me out of hold... i was gonna repair one of those.. but i got a used one from my friend.. sorry for the trouble and best of luck for your sale..
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    Linux Which Linux Distro Sor Shis System Setup/Installation And General Help

    Thnks for the quick response.. --- Updated Post - Automerged --- Now which one exactly do u suggest i386 or i586 ??? Would Fedora or Mandriva be way more complex to understand or just a little hard ???? Also that link gives 404 not found error.. And what about the partitions ??? im...