I upgraded to 7.10. And in my brilliant tinkering, I managed to completely bork my screen resolution. It's now at something horrible like 800x600. Or at least that's what it looks like. And I don't know how to get back to my slightly less horrible, fuzzy 1024x768. If I can figure out the hardware, can someone point me in the right direction on how to get things back to "normal". I rarely use Ubuntu, but I do do some stuff in it. And any tips on figuring out the graphics stuff would be incredible. I have the dxdiag output from Windows, but I'm curious to know if there's something similar in Linux.
I had resolution problems when I upgraded to 7.10, but using info from this post, I was able to work around it.
It may not be an exact fit, but it should point in the right direction.
Ya know... I should really try that old tried and true method of rebooting more often. It's now back to the slightly less horrible 1024x768. I think I'll leave it at that instead of tinkering. Maybe one of these days I'll dig into the config files and see what's in there. But Ubuntu is really a partition for me to fool around on. Nothing important is on there.
But Ubuntu is really a partition for me to fool around on. Nothing important is on there.
This won't let you "dual boot", but a safer, and IMO easier, way to do what you're doing is to just set up a VM using VM Player... Periodically make a backup of that directory and if you mess something up, just bring back in the directory. No muss, no fuss...
That said, I do not use the VM of Ubuntu that I have for BOINC. I might try it though if there continues to be a significant performance delta between the Linux and Windows apps on AMD hardware...
As for the "Upgrade" to 7.10, gee, what an eternity that took... All that for not much difference, IMO. I have nVidia video hardware, but it is all being handled by the VM layer anyway...so don't know what the update did for me other than just having "the latest"... :shrug:
But Ubuntu is really a partition for me to fool around on. Nothing important is on there.
This won't let you "dual boot", but a safer, and IMO easier, way to do what you're doing is to just set up a VM using VM Player... ...
Will VM player run in Fedora?
Like I said, I don't use Ubuntu for much. The only thing I've been doing with it is using it to do a "personal" (minus root privileges) install of BOINC to help out Eric with him documentation. So it would be nice to reclaim that space that Ubuntu is using and put it toward /home. Ouch, but that would require resizing partitions. I'm not so sure I'm up for that. Gparted is nice and all, but I'm afraid of trashing everything. Then again, no pain, no gain. :-)
I've never tried a VM before. Hmmmm... add it to my list of things that I'd like to play with.
Dunno... They list Host OS support for RHEL, but not Fedora. My understanding is Fedora is the "test/debug" area for future RHEL code, at least that's what the instructor I had indicated, so perhaps it would work...
Gparted is nice and all, but I'm afraid of trashing everything. Then again, no pain, no gain. :-)
I haven't used any of the partitioning tools in Linux. My experience with a tool like that was Partition Magic, which worked perfectly, but that was when it was still owned by PowerQuest. I haven't bought the version from Symantec...
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I've never tried a VM before. Hmmmm... add it to my list of things that I'd like to play with.
Well, it makes backing up the machine real easy. All you have to do is back up the VM directory and you're done... :-)
Dunno... They list Host OS support for RHEL, but not Fedora. My understanding is Fedora is the "test/debug" area for future RHEL code, at least that's what the instructor I had indicated, so perhaps it would work...
Oh wow. That seriously looks like I'll need an entire weekend to devote to it. At least I know I gave gcc and g++ installed. I needed them when I built mplayer.
Gparted is nice and all, but I'm afraid of trashing everything. Then again, no pain, no gain. :-)
I haven't used any of the partitioning tools in Linux. My experience with a tool like that was Partition Magic, which worked perfectly, but that was when it was still owned by PowerQuest. I haven't bought the version from Symantec...
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I've never tried a VM before. Hmmmm... add it to my list of things that I'd like to play with.
Well, it makes backing up the machine real easy. All you have to do is back up the VM directory and you're done... :-)
What kind of backup tools are available under Linux? I've used Norton Ghost in the past, but that's Windows based. I tried G4L, but it seemed kludgy and not very friendly.
My 'farm' is 80% Windows based and I really don't have much dasd devoted to Linux (4 systems; one of which is dual-boot Ubuntu/XP Pro).
What kind of backup tools are available under Linux? I've used Norton Ghost in the past, but that's Windows based. I tried G4L, but it seemed kludgy and not very friendly.
My 'farm' is 80% Windows based and I really don't have much dasd devoted to Linux (4 systems; one of which is dual-boot Ubuntu/XP Pro).
I've read briefly about rsync. But I haven't used it. I'm sure there are GUI programs out there though.
My backup strategy is (as of today) two fold. Weekly (usually on Saturdays) I plug in my external and do a manual backup of my data partition. I try to not keep anything permanently on the root partition. My home directory is also on a separate partition. But in the end my music, videos, documents, etc get put on the data partition (formatted as FAT32 so I can read/write from both Windows and Linux). Last night I figured out how to mount my Windows XP box's drive as a samba share. So anything that wasn't on that drive (a handful of music mainly and some recent open office documents) got copied over there.
I'd like to get rsync working with the samba share and wrap it all up in a script that I can run nightly via cron. Then weekly I can just plug in the external into that box and back that up. But given that it took me a good couple hours to write a 5 line script (I'm a bit slow) I'm figuring that something like this would take me a full weekend. So add it to the list of things to do.
If I were smart (which I'm not) what I should do is just buy a second power converter and keep the external plugged in all the time. Then I could just run rsync nightly to the external. Life would be so much easier if the entire world would pick a power standard and use it. This 110/220 thing is for the birds.
What kind of backup tools are available under Linux? I've used Norton Ghost in the past, but that's Windows based. I tried G4L, but it seemed kludgy and not very friendly.
My 'farm' is 80% Windows based and I really don't have much dasd devoted to Linux (4 systems; one of which is dual-boot Ubuntu/XP Pro).
I've read briefly about rsync. But I haven't used it. I'm sure there are GUI programs out there though.
My backup strategy is (as of today) two fold. Weekly (usually on Saturdays) I plug in my external and do a manual backup of my data partition. I try to not keep anything permanently on the root partition. My home directory is also on a separate partition. But in the end my music, videos, documents, etc get put on the data partition (formatted as FAT32 so I can read/write from both Windows and Linux). Last night I figured out how to mount my Windows XP box's drive as a samba share. So anything that wasn't on that drive (a handful of music mainly and some recent open office documents) got copied over there.
I'd like to get rsync working with the samba share and wrap it all up in a script that I can run nightly via cron. Then weekly I can just plug in the external into that box and back that up. But given that it took me a good couple hours to write a 5 line script (I'm a bit slow) I'm figuring that something like this would take me a full weekend. So add it to the list of things to do.
If I were smart (which I'm not) what I should do is just buy a second power converter and keep the external plugged in all the time. Then I could just run rsync nightly to the external. Life would be so much easier if the entire world would pick a power standard and use it. This 110/220 thing is for the birds.
What kind of backup tools are available under Linux? I've used Norton Ghost in the past, but that's Windows based. I tried G4L, but it seemed kludgy and not very friendly.
My 'farm' is 80% Windows based and I really don't have much dasd devoted to Linux (4 systems; one of which is dual-boot Ubuntu/XP Pro).
I just came across this in a slashdot article. It's supposed to be similar to Time Machine on a Mac. It's built using rsync.
I might have to take a look at it. Looks like it requires some python libs but the page I linked to tells which ones to install.
I'm pulling my hair out trying to get BOINC installed on SUSE Linux, I need a noob dufus guide. I try to create a directory like /home/boinc or /var/lib/boinc per one of the "guides" I've found and get access denied. :(
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Ya know... I should really try that old tried and true method of rebooting more often. It's now back to the slightly less horrible 1024x768. I think I'll leave it at that instead of tinkering. Maybe one of these days I'll dig into the config files and see what's in there. But Ubuntu is really a partition for me to fool around on. Nothing important is on there.
Kathryn :o)
Einstein@Home Moderator
RE: But Ubuntu is really a
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This won't let you "dual boot", but a safer, and IMO easier, way to do what you're doing is to just set up a VM using VM Player... Periodically make a backup of that directory and if you mess something up, just bring back in the directory. No muss, no fuss...
That said, I do not use the VM of Ubuntu that I have for BOINC. I might try it though if there continues to be a significant performance delta between the Linux and Windows apps on AMD hardware...
As for the "Upgrade" to 7.10, gee, what an eternity that took... All that for not much difference, IMO. I have nVidia video hardware, but it is all being handled by the VM layer anyway...so don't know what the update did for me other than just having "the latest"... :shrug:
RE: RE: But Ubuntu is
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Will VM player run in Fedora?
Like I said, I don't use Ubuntu for much. The only thing I've been doing with it is using it to do a "personal" (minus root privileges) install of BOINC to help out Eric with him documentation. So it would be nice to reclaim that space that Ubuntu is using and put it toward /home. Ouch, but that would require resizing partitions. I'm not so sure I'm up for that. Gparted is nice and all, but I'm afraid of trashing everything. Then again, no pain, no gain. :-)
I've never tried a VM before. Hmmmm... add it to my list of things that I'd like to play with.
Kathryn :o)
Einstein@Home Moderator
RE: Will VM player run in
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Dunno... They list Host OS support for RHEL, but not Fedora. My understanding is Fedora is the "test/debug" area for future RHEL code, at least that's what the instructor I had indicated, so perhaps it would work...
OK... Google search says it is doable.
I haven't used any of the partitioning tools in Linux. My experience with a tool like that was Partition Magic, which worked perfectly, but that was when it was still owned by PowerQuest. I haven't bought the version from Symantec...
Well, it makes backing up the machine real easy. All you have to do is back up the VM directory and you're done... :-)
RE: RE: Will VM player
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Oh wow. That seriously looks like I'll need an entire weekend to devote to it. At least I know I gave gcc and g++ installed. I needed them when I built mplayer.
Kathryn :o)
Einstein@Home Moderator
RE: RE: Gparted is nice
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What kind of backup tools are available under Linux? I've used Norton Ghost in the past, but that's Windows based. I tried G4L, but it seemed kludgy and not very friendly.
My 'farm' is 80% Windows based and I really don't have much dasd devoted to Linux (4 systems; one of which is dual-boot Ubuntu/XP Pro).
Seti Classic Final Total: 11446 WU.
RE: What kind of backup
)
I've read briefly about rsync. But I haven't used it. I'm sure there are GUI programs out there though.
My backup strategy is (as of today) two fold. Weekly (usually on Saturdays) I plug in my external and do a manual backup of my data partition. I try to not keep anything permanently on the root partition. My home directory is also on a separate partition. But in the end my music, videos, documents, etc get put on the data partition (formatted as FAT32 so I can read/write from both Windows and Linux). Last night I figured out how to mount my Windows XP box's drive as a samba share. So anything that wasn't on that drive (a handful of music mainly and some recent open office documents) got copied over there.
I'd like to get rsync working with the samba share and wrap it all up in a script that I can run nightly via cron. Then weekly I can just plug in the external into that box and back that up. But given that it took me a good couple hours to write a 5 line script (I'm a bit slow) I'm figuring that something like this would take me a full weekend. So add it to the list of things to do.
If I were smart (which I'm not) what I should do is just buy a second power converter and keep the external plugged in all the time. Then I could just run rsync nightly to the external. Life would be so much easier if the entire world would pick a power standard and use it. This 110/220 thing is for the birds.
Kathryn :o)
Einstein@Home Moderator
Thanks for the suggestions,
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Thanks for the suggestions, I'll investigate.
Seti Classic Final Total: 11446 WU.
RE: What kind of backup
)
I just came across this in a slashdot article. It's supposed to be similar to Time Machine on a Mac. It's built using rsync.
I might have to take a look at it. Looks like it requires some python libs but the page I linked to tells which ones to install.
Kathryn :o)
Einstein@Home Moderator
I'm pulling my hair out
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I'm pulling my hair out trying to get BOINC installed on SUSE Linux, I need a noob dufus guide. I try to create a directory like /home/boinc or /var/lib/boinc per one of the "guides" I've found and get access denied. :(