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Posted 06-07-2009 at 09:54 AM by uinseann

I haven't touched my motorcycle rebuild job since I hurt my back a while ago! But I keep looking at the poor thing just stood there all alone in the corner of the garage. I can't just ignore it I have to continue, after all the work I did! I had the frame shot blasted, then re-coated with plastic. I completely stripped the engine, replaced anything that needed replacing, like new rings all round, new gudgeon pins (or piston pins as they are now called). I ground all the valves in (16 of them), then...

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Ubuntu 9.04

Posted 06-07-2009 at 08:17 AM by uinseann

Tags intreoid ibex, ubuntu 9.04, upgrade

Well; I aquired the Linux format DVD (from a friend), with Ubuntu 9.04 and Mandriva 2009.1 as well as quite a few applications on the DVD (all applications are in tgz format though).

I decided after a day or so, seeing as I have a disk image of my Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, I would do an upgrade. I have nothing to lose,time on my hands, and I'm interested to see what happens, as I have quite a lot of programs on this computer.

It's a special Linux Format Magazine edition...

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grub cannot access LVM partition anymore

Posted 06-06-2009 at 09:34 PM by fritz_p

hi,

on an older computer I installed openSUSE 11.0 in a LVM partiton, just to try it, with GRUB on a different ext2 partition.
It worked fine until I installed fedora 10 in another partition which I resized with qtparted.
I also changed slightly the LVM partition with qtparted, using the little empty space between the tree chunks (swap, home, root).
Now I cannot boot opensuse anymore!

I have learned how to access the LVM partition, thanks to...

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I think we need to remember what we are doing

Posted 06-06-2009 at 01:12 AM by cjparad

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Originally Posted by cjparad

This forum is here to help and aid people with Linux questions not discourage them from wanting to learn it and use it.

Linux is so hard to understand and to switch to because Linux users dont want to help with the transitioning of windows users. They like to think they are a select few who understand the inner working of the computer world.

We all started out at the same place; not knowing anything about Linux. Then we learned, what seems like second nature for us

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Ultra X Creator

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Screen Resolution Problem

Posted 06-06-2009 at 01:09 AM by cjparad

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Originally Posted by cjparad

Like I stated in my last post now you have lock files and log files stopping you from getting into the GUI, right?

if so try using the xfix in recovery or

Drivers
The problem is the correct driver is not installed. You need to install envy:
Open a terminal
type sudo aptitude install Envy
type Envy -t

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and follow the prompts
/etc/init.d/gdm restart

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