Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (7 Viewers)

[Martin]

What do you mean creating? Just make create a partition and leave it. You can format with NTFS later.

 

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[V]

And why are you creating it with gParted? Just fire up windows install, create a partition from there and leave the rest unallocated. Than when you install Ubuntu, partition the rest how you like.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I think there's something wrong with the disk. I got reports earlier that there are bad sectors, and that the HDD may have been damaged!

Can you make out anything from this?

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@vlatko: Of course. What was I thinking!!

 

[Martin]

Sheik, that looks like a common hardware error. But I wouldn't despair yet, sometimes those happen and it's only a temporary failure.

Btw you tried to format with fat32 there, not ntfs.

I would not use gparted, just plain old cfdisk. Quick and easy.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Yes, I tried FAT32 thinking that Gparted has some issues creating ntfs drivers, so just tried FAT32 to test that. But anyway, here I am, back on Windows.

 

[Tommy]

So here I am, backing up all my data in HD1 to HD2 before wiping it out and starting from scratch!

PS: Somebody answer Tommy's post! He's been asking this for days!!

I would but I've never heard of proxifier

:frown:
It's an application which applications like bittorrent require to run by tunneling througha proxy server

 

[V]

This perhaps?

http://linuxappfinder.com/package/proxychains

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I think there's something wrong with my HDD. After restarting Windows 7 for the first time, my boot managr went missing! :S

 

[Martin]

:frown:
It's an application which applications like bittorrent require to run by tunneling througha proxy server

I gather as much from the name, but I've never tried anything like that. Sorry.

 

[Martin]

I think there's something wrong with my HDD. After restarting Windows 7 for the first time, my boot managr went missing! :S

Bad harddrives tend to give a lot of read errors and make a lot of noise when they're malfunctioning. Things disappearing spontaneously is not an equally common thing.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I've never had any unusual noises or read errors from that hard drive. These Seagates have been quite reliable. Would hate to see the boot sector get totally fucked up.

Which reminds me, could this be the work of the boot sector virus?

 

[Martin]

I've never had any unusual noises or read errors from that hard drive. These Seagates have been quite reliable. Would hate to see the boot sector get totally fucked up.

Which reminds me, could this be the work of the boot sector virus?

I don't really know how those work, never had one. But if you have the opportunity to backup the whole drive and basically repartition the whole thing from scratch, then it's wiped clean.

 

[Tommy]

This perhaps?

http://linuxappfinder.com/package/proxychains

thanks this looks good

 

[V]

I knew more than Martin in a linux related subject.

 

[Martin]

 

[icemaη]

Is anyone experiencing a slight lag while playing flash videos on Ubuntu? Its not always noticeable though...

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Flash implementation for linux sucks monkey balls. Adobe's fault.

 

[Martin]

Flash implementation for linux sucks monkey balls. Adobe's fault.

correct

Although actually it's currently not as bad as it used to be, don't get insane cpu spikes anymore.

 

[V]

Note to self; never run "emerge --sync && layman -S" ever again. 10 minutes and counting.

 

[Martin]

Note to self; never run "emerge --sync && layman -S" ever again. 10 minutes and counting.

Why not? It's not as if you have to pay close attention while it's running. You can post in the Trez thread.


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