got the CD of UBUNTU 7.10

hi i got the cd of UBUNTU 7.10 now i want to install that os on my drive so pls help me .and plase cosider me as newbie at LINUX.

My PC cofigration is :
AMD ATHLON 64 x 2 4200
ASUS M2N-MX
1 GB DDR 2 667 Mhz
320 GB WESTERN DIGITAL HDD
SONY DRU 170 AW DVD writer

i have a prtition named d with 30 gb space

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*www.howtoforge.com/the_perfect_desktop_ubuntu_gutsy_gibbon Should give you more than enough details to install it. however please check if your system works with the Live CD.

oye filevoid that link is amazing. Its like teaching a child how to walk!!!
Everything explained so lucidly and the new user will feel quite at home provided he/she reads it and has patience.

Also you can wait for some 14 days and then grab 8.04. Your 7.10 is old BTW.

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oye filevoid that link is amazing. Its like teaching a child how to walk!!!
Everything explained so lucidly and the new user will feel quite at home provided he/she reads it and has patience.

yeah I ahve it bookmarked and usually give it to anyone who wants tot ry UBuntu

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very useful link

installed UBUNTU 7.10 but i am not able to open other partition of my HDD and i found there are two file in each partition named wubildr and wubildr.mbr
what this files doing in my HDD

Mount Partitions
*help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions

For whose files, they are related to the wubi installer.
What way did you install Ubuntu?
did you use the Wubi installer?

howtoforge.com is a god send.. I learnt a lot about configuring linux servers (esp CentOS) and other server softwares...

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gary4gar said:
Mount Partitions
*help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions

For whose files, they are related to the wubi installer.
What way did you install Ubuntu?
did you use the Wubi installer?

i followed the simple installtion method and i dont know what is wubi installer

i hope u havent screwed the partitions

ketanpatel said:
i followed the simple installtion method and i dont know what is wubi installer

Define Simple installtion?

T159 said:
i hope u havent screwed the partitions

actually i did i have partition my 30 gb free space as "/", swap, and EXT2

whats wrong with that

T159 said:
i hope u havent screwed the partitions

haha dont scare him

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how much space for swap and / ?
and what is ext2 partition, isnt it supposed to be ext3 ?

DigitalDude said:
haha dont scare him

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guys tell me i did anything wrong

nothing wrong... that why I said that....

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gary4gar said:
Define Simple installation?

@ketanpatel
You didn't answer my question
Can you tell us, how you installed your system.
FYI, there are many ways to install a Ubuntu System.
*help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation

look here is my partitioning scheme

/ (root partition) as Ext3 type and of 14GB
Swap - well there is no swap for me

Ideally U should have made this something like this:

/ (root partition) Type: Ext3 Size:atleast 3GB
/boot (boot partition) Type: Ext3 Size: Atleast 100MB
Swap Size: twice the amount of RAM

what type of partitioning u chose, Guided installation or complete manaul installation ?

Ideal? Who said ext3 was the ideal format?

And why /boot? IMO , for a newbie 2 partitions are more than sufficient,
/ - ~5Gigs (Dont want to run out of space later)
swap - 2 * RAM - Not more than 1Gig.

K then replace it with generally

Btw I dont use Swap, i kinda made my distro slow tih Swap enabled.

T159 said:
look here is my partitioning scheme

/ (root partition) as Ext3 type and of 14GB
Swap - well there is no swap for me

Ideally U should have made this something like this:

/ (root partition) Type: Ext3 Size:atleast 3GB
/boot (boot partition) Type: Ext3 Size: Atleast 100MB
Swap Size: twice the amount of RAM

what type of partitioning u chose, Guided installation or complete manaul installation ?

i did something like that but dont know xactly is there any other way to know it

post the content of fstab file

gedit /etc/fstab

and

sudo fdisk -l

T159 said:
post the content of fstab file

gedit /etc/fstab

and

sudo fdisk -l

how to get through that command i dont know pls help me to do so

open a terminal and then write these commands and press enter.

Terminal is in Applications > Accessories > Terminal menu

here is the answer of gedit /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda11
UUID=82effd8d-7a6c-44f1-8c99-720d251d8feb / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=A880246980244064 /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda9
UUID=0CC819FFC819E82A /media/sda10 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=A6E4BB85E4BB5671 /media/sda6 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=3800DDA800DD6D7E /media/sda7 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda7
UUID=B8783943783901A4 /media/sda8 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda8
UUID=A01891A4189179CC /media/sda9 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda10
UUID=2ef9ec5d-8912-4f78-8afb-87890de89edb none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0

here is the answer of sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb4c4b4c4

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2551 38912 292077765 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 6467 7771 10482381 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 7772 11296 28314531 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 11297 15212 31455238+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 15213 25786 84935623+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda9 25787 38912 105434563+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda10 2551 3219 5373679+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda11 3220 4435 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 4436 6466 16313976 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

so guys is everything all right or not

ur swap(sda10) itself is 5GB
and root partition(sda11) is 10GB approximate
last partition(sda12) is not used and is 16 GB, its not even mounted as there is no entry in fstab

U should have been able to acces ur ntfs partitions as fstab entries are correct.

post ouput of
mount -a

and

blkid

Why do you have two ext2 partitions if you just started linux, and why is one of them not mounted?

I'm talking about sda12.

mount -a

shown only root can do that

blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="A880246980244064" LABEL="WINDOWS XP" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="A6E4BB85E4BB5671" LABEL="WALLPAPERS" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda6: UUID="3800DDA800DD6D7E" LABEL="INSTALL" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda7: UUID="B8783943783901A4" LABEL="SOFTWARES" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda8: UUID="A01891A4189179CC" LABEL="VIDEO SONGS" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda9: UUID="CC819FFC819E82A" LABEL="SONGS" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda10: TYPE="swap" UUID="2ef9ec5d-8912-4f78-8afb-87890de89edb"
/dev/sda11: UUID="82effd8d-7a6c-44f1-8c99-720d251d8feb" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda12: UUID="339571db-7157-4cbc-9419-bd80e6f9faa6" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

yeah i mean
sudo mount -a

it looks safe and sound

sudo mount -a

nothing happens for this command

that means ur partitions are getting mounted without any problem, so u should be able to access them

By any chance u used Wubi to install Ubuntu ?
*ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=516976

ok man i want to know that is there special version of yahoo messenger for linux i want to use it

T159 said:
that means ur partitions are getting mounted without any problem, so u should be able to access them

By any chance u used Wubi to install Ubuntu ?
*ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=516976

is link me kuch palle nahi pada

Can u acces those partitions from windows ?

Us link mein yehi likha hai ki, if u install using Wubi (wubi lets u install linux from windows) then only those two files are created.

try pidgin as a gtalk,IRC,yahoo messanger replacement

no i am not able see those three partition from windows

Pidgin/Kopete if you are using Gnome/KDE respectively.

If you want one with voice-chat abilities for gnome, try GYachI.

ketanpatel said:
no i am not able see those three partition from windows

I was talking bout the windows partitons (ntfs ones).

Obviously u cant read ext3 partitions from windows by default.

Your partitions are intact, no harm to data

Just some size problem with pratitions for linux, anyway as u learn more and more u will be able to do things more accurately.

rayraven said:
Pidgin/Kopete if you are using Gnome/KDE respectively.

If you want one with voice-chat abilities for gnome, try GYachI.

can i access all of my contacts from one of those chating softwares

sorry guys i am new to linux so i am asking this stupid questoins

Yep. And Pidgin/Kopete are multi-protocol messengers.
Similar to Trillain/Miranda in windows.

So, you can chat with all your different id's at once.
AFAIK, Ubuntu comes with Pidgin by default.

rayraven said:
AFAIK, Ubuntu comes with Pidgin by default.

yep

ok i will try it today and after that i will give u response of that
BUT FIRST OF ALL I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL OF YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE PROVIDED SUFFICIENT INFORMATION ABOUT UBUNTU AND UNDERSTOOD ALL MY STUPID QUESTIONS WITH CALM MIND .

AND FROM NOW I AM GOING OUTSIDE FOR PLAYING CRICKET SO WILL POST HERE AT TONIGHT

THANK ALL OF YOU

^^what is outside ?
I play EA cricket 07.. you ?

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rayraven said:
Pidgin/Kopete if you are using Gnome/KDE respectively.

If you want one with voice-chat abilities for gnome, try GYachI.

Is GYachI stable yet?
I need a Client which supports voice over Yahoo & Jabber(Gtalk) protocols but its should be stable

DigitalDude said:
^^what is outside ?
I play EA cricket 07.. you ?

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u r playing EA cricket 07 in LINUX

^^
XP 4 Life

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T159 said:
yep

its working fine thanks for that

DigitalDude said:
^^
XP 4 Life

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what is that :?:

how can i install games in linux i dont know but i know that linux does not support .EXE files.

man now its boring

ok I just said I'm primarily a windows user

but as for your query some games work in linux with WINE

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For games better stick to windows, There are a few ways to run executable files under linux(hint:wine) but there performance is generally poor than in windows.

As EXE files are writeen only for windows, hence there is a performance drop in linux when you run non-native apps.

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how can i install games in linux i dont know but i know that linux does not support .EXE files.

Check out Wine, Cedega and crossover Office. Theres quite a few Windows applications that can be run in Linux using these products.

ok i will try it

i have real player which came with the digit dvd and want install it how can i do

what type of file is it?
is its a bin file then.
Open terminal & excute it like

Code:

 $./filename.bin

replace file name with actual file

Doesnt mplayer+w32codecs solve real media problem? or Helix?

mplayer plays real media files

How to : Enable Multimedia Suport in Ubuntu 7.10.

gary4gar said:
Is GYachI stable yet?
I need a Client which supports voice over Yahoo & Jabber(Gtalk) protocols but its should be stable

I dont think GYachI is completely stable, but then again I didnt use it for a long time now.

And as for voice chat in Google Talk, you can try Empathy

from where to get mplayer

I am trying for a solution for gtalk voice client in Linux.Will this empathy thing work