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Welcome to /flt/, we are always open to users of all levels, including absolute beginners.
There are four ways to try GNU/Linux, you can:
0) Install a GNU/Linux OS on a VM (Virtual Machine/VirtualBox) for "safety purposes"
1) Use the Live ISO directly without installing anything, that way, you can get a "full GNU/Linux experience".
2) Dual-boot GNU/Linux with Windows/Mac (recommended if you want to learn more about GNU/Linux)
3) Go balls deep and overwrite everything with GNU/Linux
Before asking, please search for answers to your questions in resources.
Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread.
Understand that much of your software from Windows will be unavailable, although maybe WINE can make up for it.
Resources:
man <insert command here>
Your friendly neighborhood search engine (searx.me, ixquick, whatever)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/ (Most of the configurations and troubleshoots will literally work on various distros, including Debian)
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Category:GNU/Linux
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/
I have to learn unix/linux for a job in cyber security I was offered. Which distro should I use and what's the best way to learn it? I'd also be working with splunk/hunk if that helps.
>>53655034
Kali Linux is what many use for cyber-security type things. It might be a little rough for your first distro though.
Maybe try some flavor of Ubuntu first?
>>53655057
What's rough about it?
> Shell pasta:
The based GNU Bourne Again SHell:
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
The community driven BASH wiki:
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/
The Grymoire - home for UNIX wizards:
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/index.html
Greg's (also known as GreyCat's) wiki:
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls
SED and AWK; your new best friends:
http://www.pement.org/sed/sed1line.txt
http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt
Google's Shell Style Guide:
https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml
The Linux Command Line - A Book By William Shotts:
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
Interesting, useful and dangerous one-liners:
http://www.commandlinefu.com/
Great online (and offline) linting tool:
http://www.shellcheck.net/
Know what you are doing:
http://explainshell.com/
Hey /flt/, I'm the guy from earlier who was looking to dual-boot his PC with Windows and Debian.
I shrunk my partitions, backed up my stuff and got everything ready. Now I'm finally at the install screen, and about to do the partitioning manually - which I'm pretty intimidated by, I don't want to fuck anything up. I've never done manual partitioning before.
Would any kind soul around here be willing to guide me through it?
My goals:
>Get core system files into SSD's Free Space (first drive that appears, with 64.4 GB)
>Get volatile and home files into HDD's Free Space (second drive that appears, with 644.2 GB)
>Make sure not to touch anything on the Windows partitions
>>53655099
Nothing.
>>53655252
Just have /var, /home on your HDD. Your SSD as /.
Today at /flt/-TV:
Richard Stallman speaks: Welcome to Software Freedom Day (2011)
A short (8 minutes) introdution to Free Software.
mpv https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/stallman-software-freedom-day.ogv
>>53655287
What about the swap partition? How large should it be?
I've read things about having to configure it a specific way so you can hibernate, go into Windows, come back and have the session be saved as before.
If I have 8GB of RAM, should the swap partition also be 8GB?
>>53655099
>no lube
How can I play my .swf memes without installing flash?
>>53655336
The old rule of thumb used to be twice your memory, although that comes from the days of 512MiB and less. If you have 4/8 GiB you likely won't need a swap file.
>>53655110
Wait, what does being in a poly relationship have to do with being an honorary woman?
>>53655419
Exactly
>>53655419
>>53655287
How large should /var/ and /tmp/'s partition be?
I was following this scheme over here which seems to match yours, but also adding /tmp/ and swap to the HDD
>>53655287
>>53655564
Forgot to share link, sorry
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/89213/partitioning-using-2-hard-disks-ssd-and-non-ssd-in-linux
>>53655564
/var depends on the system, on a desktop it shouldn't take more than a few MiB(if logs are rotated). 512MiB or 1 GiB at the most.
/tmp barely contains shit nowadays and shouldn't occupy any hard drive space, it should be mounted tmpfs(in memory).
And with 8GiB or memory, fuck swap. You won't ever use it.
>>53655643
okay, and is there any point in separating /boot from / in the SSD or should I just do / there?
>>53655643
>And with 8GiB or memory, fuck swap. You won't ever use it.
I have 4GiB and I never use it. I top out at about 2 or so. Yet my swap is still being used, at around 500MiB, for some reason.
>>53655664
/boot is usually separated to be on a non-journaled filesystem (e.g. ext2 instead of ext4). This is because the journal serves little purpose in that context and older bootloaders(e.g. legacy grub) didn't support it.
You don't need to make a separate /boot partition at all, you won't gain shit from it.
>>53655393
pls respond
>>53654997
How you change app background color in i3? I mean the wifi and vlc icons that are on my tray when I exec them, they have a grey bg hy default.
>>53655670
Since you specified a swap file, linux is just storing memory in it. Linux would be fine without it but it's shoving things it doesn't need into it.
For example the state of a process that hasn't been scheduled in a while, linux sees no reason to keep that in memory.
>>53655804
chrome blob
>>53655804
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
>>53655336
Hibernation needs swap at least as much as you have RAM, though you can use a swap file as well
>>53655822
I've never seen anything put into my swap
>>53655643
My var uses over 4GB
>>53656075
Do you rotate logs or just accumulate them?
>>53656110
That's not from logs, that's from cached old packages
>>53656122
I guess that might belong in /var but it shouldn't cache 4 gigs of the shit.
>>53656122
Have you ever cleaned it?
>>53655643
So I left /tmp without assigning. Should I have to configure it to us tmpfs like it says here, or will that be done automatically?
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2408/favorite-partitioning-and-mounting-tricks/2422#2422
>>53656075
mine's 16.9G
package cache - 14.4G
emby cache - 1.1G
are the biggest things
>>53656159
Probably automatically, just check once you boot for the first time(command 'mount' with no arguments).
>>53656159
Depends on your distro
>>53656218
It's Debian
>>53656184
Okay, I'll check once everything finishes up.
And again thanks so much for your help, guys
/flt/'s advice + googling things on my own just gives me that extra layer of trust
>>53656168
>>53656169
Maybe you don't need every version of every package you've installed on your system?
Maany package managers(e.g. pacman) need you to manually(or use a third-party tool) to clean it.
>>53656232
Debian doesn't use tmp on tmpfs anymore
>>53656232
On debian /tmp should still be ext4. You can mount it as tmpfs if you want but make sure you actually need that.
>>53656256
But I'm lazy
>>53656256
oh i'm well aware they won't disappear on their own, i used to clean it up, but it doesn't use much space, and it helps when;
- wanting to downgrade packages, though needing to do so is very rare
- wanting to get another system setup quickly (can use the cached packages rather than downloading them again)
pic related, been some time since i last cleared it
>>53656299
>2013
Isn't all that shit too dated to be usable by pacman?
>>53656299
also, if i really didn't want them to be kept, an easy way to do it would be to make that folder a tmpfs mount
>>53656350
na, they still work, it's old PKGBUILD's that might not work due to changes, but built packages don't contain PKGBUILD's, just some basic details, maybe a pre/post-install shell script, and the files, in a typical "just copy them to /" layout% tar Jtf liblqr-0.4.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
.PKGINFO
.MTREE
usr/
usr/include/
usr/lib/
usr/lib/liblqr-1.so
...
Post your epenis.epenis="$(uptime | perl -ne "/(\d+) d/;print 8,q(=)x\$1,\"D\n\"")"; printf '%s %scm' "$epenis" "$(wc -c <<< $epenis)"
8==================================D 37cm
>>53655408
You'll need one if you plan to use suspend. At least equal to the size of RAM.
>>53656435
I actually forgot a \n.epenis() { p="$(uptime | perl -ne "/(\d+) d/;print 8,q(=)x\$1,\"D\n\"")"; printf '%s %scm\n' "$p" "$(wc -c <<< $p)"; }
120 and 144hz modes on my monitor makes video playback stutter hard, why?
>>53656481
compton
>>53656490
Not using compton...though I was at the time, hm. Might test later on
>>53654997
Friendly requesting a picture viewer like irfanview.
I am using Gnewview but it lacks options (kubuntu's default)
>>53656490
>>53656498
Nope, even without compton 144hz playback is fucking aids for mpv, choppy as fuck. Looks like 15fps.
I have a laptop to experiement with stuff on.
What would be the best way to backup the OS on it so that I can test out other distros?
>>53656530
Ristretto, viewnior, everything else recommended on the wiki
>>53656540
What config do you use for mpv? Did you adk in a mpv thread already?
>>53656541
An external drive maybe?
>>53656530
digikam for the win
>>53656548
It's not mpv's problem because youtube videos show the same issue. Though more noticeable in mpv.
It's a driver issue or something.
>>53656559
Just installing it
> After this operation, 240 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Damm. That was what I was looking for
>>53654997
>Your Computer's Name
>-not-fully-supported-by-this-version-of-dmidecode-System-Product-Name
Thanks ubuntu, but I think I might pick something else
>>53655034
Fedora is the go to if you will be working with Linux for a job because it is similar to Red Hat.
>>53656299
>>53656256
>>53656153
>>53656110
>>53655643
I've been using Debian for an hour or so now. Made my /var partition 10 GB (I know that could have been excessive, but oh well) and as it turns out, the log folder has just filled up to 9.4 GB. And I can't download anything more through aptitude because var ran out of space.
What do I do to get rid of the logs, and what do I do to be able to limit their size or something?
There doesn't to be a reason for the log files to be so huge already.
>>53656709
If it helps, it seems like the logs are completely shock full of error messages related to rt2860.bin
I'll see if I can get it, but on the meantime, how do I clean my log folder, just delete files? Or some other way?
>>53656583
Install compton.
>>53656758
No compton makes shit worse or no effect at all. Was using it for about a month, now disabled it.
>>53656651
Fuckoff tripfag. Reddit is this way: >>>/out/
You all wear Birkenstocks, and haven't washed your beards since the .com crash...
>>53656770
That link still leads to 4chins FYI
>>53656765
compton --backend glx
>>53656781
If this is about screen tearing I have that handled on a driver level.
>>53656777
Wtf is a birdstock?
>>53656435
THIS DELETED MY WHOLE HARD DRIVE!
>>53656800
No it didn't.
>>53656800
how are you posting
>capslock cruise control
>>53656806
Yes, it did. I even opened up my computer and checked. The hard drive is gone.
anyone use arch's testing repo? ive been using arch for a few years but i've never bothered to enable it, but i wanted plasma 5.6 early
Experiences?
>>53656815
You mean it stole you're hdd?
>>53656709
>>53656740
you can set a size limit for journald in /etc/systemd/journald.conf (systemmaxuse)
>>53656815
This nigga.
>>53656824
No, it deleted it. The hdd is just gone. No one took it out of the machine. Your stupid code deleted it.
>>53656824
Nigga stole mah HDD!
>>53656821
It will destroyed ur boypucci tripfag
>>53656842
no bully pls
>>53656821
Is it really that hard to wait a few days for it to come to you?
>tripfagging
>>53656821
i tried it once, wouldn't recommend it
>>53656838
Be honest with me. How old are you?
>>53656855
i wanted to try it now, i mean i just wondered if it caused people an insane amount of problems else id like to say on the bleeding edge
>>53656871
Why do you and my grandkids think age makes a difference. There isn't an age requirement on these things.
Is there a libre reverse image search service?
>>53656871
it's funnier with context anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_XaJdDqQA0
>>53656968
>>53656946
oh god I just realised
have you ever considered the fact that probably 99% of reverse searched images are porn?
Is it possible to get a distro to be reliably installed and kept on an external hdd? Curious
What do you use to connect to a ubuntu desktop remotely? I used to use teamviewer but it doesn't play nicely with ubuntu.
Anything thats also available for android?
I just realized that X can create dialogs. xmessage -nearmouse 'Ur a faget.'
Is there a list of all x programs?
>>53657117
Sorry, I'm stupid.
x[TAB] is ofc the solution.
Ignore me. :^)
Epic, why do we even need DEs?
xedit - editur
xcal - calculator
xclock - clock
xwd - screen shooter
xsetroot - wallpaper changer
I mean, there is even:
xeyes - NSA surveillance program
>>53656530
Nomacs is the IrfanView of Linux (and Windows now).
>>53657209
Guess what all those programs make up. A desktop environment.
>>53657117
is there a way to use a pure X desktop?
kekSYNOPSIS
xeyes [-option ...]
DESCRIPTION
Xeyes watches what you do and reports to the Boss.
>>53657235
Tryxinit xterm -- :1and see what happens when you start something graphical. Never tried hard here.
>>53657105
Ssh
Should I still make a swap partition if installing Linux on a machine that has 32GB RAM and it's only drive is an SSD? I won't be using hibernate.
>>53657288
Why ask if ypu already know the answer?
>>53657295
I don't, that's why I'm asking. I did read about it beforehand, but I just wanted to see if I missed anything.
>>53657266
i'm too dumb for pure terminal for now
>>53657325
x11vnc over ssh
>>53657235
>>53657258
Or you could run twm instead, which is the window manager which comes with it.
So, LXDE or LXQt?
>>53657380
gentoo senpai
>>53657380
Do you want to use a DEPRECATED toolkit?
no: use LXQt
yes: use LXDE
>>53657314
If you don't hibernate and have 32gb you don't need one.
How to fix?/Happens when I try to boot installation from USB.
It doesnt fix itself, I let it be like this for 45mins.
>do system analyze
>almost 2 frikking minutes
What can I disable? How do I disable this shit? Especially msql crap
>>53657461
Could you stop the memes? This thread can do without them.
>>53657500
is your usb formatted in fat32?
>>53657505
He's right tho
>>53657500
and now it says thus.
>>53657500
Did you disable your usb 3 controller? Because it looks like you did.
>>53657508
ntfs
>>53657505
>shittk
>not ded
Torvalds hated it so much he moved to C++ just to avoid having to use it
>>53657528
try it on fat32
>>53657516
I haven't, I dont even know how to
>>53657529
Source? I knew he hated c++ with passion. Can't really see him hating something so bad to run away from it to use c++
>>53657504
>Especially msql crap
Why are you running a MySQL server if you don't even know what it is?
You disable it via systemd; look up the commands how to start, enable or stop services.
>>53657529
Why would a kernel hacker use qt or gtk in the first place?
>>53657531
Nevermind, it was Fat32
>>53657380
go bleeding edge, Qt
>>53657536
>>53657539
subsurface
He did a big talk on how cunty the gnome guys are
it was proppa bants
>>53657505
>>53657552
wait shit I think it was another subsurface dev who did the talk and torvalds interjected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0A1dsQOV0
>>53657537
Im forced use mysql.crap(TM) in school to learn sql. I tried disabling it via systemctl, it didn't work. Have no idea what Im doing wrong
>>53657569
What did you write to disable it? If you need it in school, you can disable it at boot and start it manually every time you need it.
>>53657559
I'm pretty sure he's talking about "deprecated" meme.
>>53657567
Sure hope he shared his interjecting ideas. Interjection is licensed under GPL by RMS
>>53657574
>If you need it in school, you can disable it at boot and start it manually every time you need it.
That was my plan, but I can't get it to work.
I tried:
systemctl stop mysql
sytemctl disable mysql
also tried
systemctl stop mysqld.service
systemctl disable mysqld-service
>yes I ran it under root
>>53657514
>>53657500
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. MAXIMUS VIII IMPA is my motherboard. Fairly new I guess.
Do you think it might be incompatible hardware with Linux?
Opinions on Fedora rawhide?
>>53657559
Who cares if free software runs natively on non free operating systems?
>>53657588
Any error messages? Check with systemctl status mysqld if there's anything unusual.
Also, see if there's something unusual in the service file under /usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service
So I want to update my Nvidia drivers to the beta version because it supports Mir and Wayland and I wanted to try them out on the 16.04 beta
But my fucking card is literally only a generation out from the ones listed so it doesn't look like it will be supported in the beta installer, is there a way to trick the installer to make it install the drivers anyway?
>>53657629
>/usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service
Weird, after checking status, When I tried it now it promoted me to input my root password(again) to change something in here. I rebooted and it worked. Well, thanks I guess.
>>53657590
>>53657500
I'm double checking if my Windows is in UEFI.
My motherboard DISTINCTLY says 'UEFI BIOS', not 'BIOS', not 'UEFI' when I boot it up.
>Open File Explorer and navigate to the following folder: C:\Windows\Panther.
>In the folder named 'Panther' you will see a text file titled setupact.log. The file will automatically open in Notepad.
>Once you have opened setupact.log, press Ctrl+F to bring up the 'Find box' and search for an entry named 'Detected BootEnvironment'.
>Once you find 'Detected Boot Environment', you will notice the words 'BIOS' or 'UEFI' mentioned as follows:
>Callback_BootEnvironmentDetect: Detected boot environment: BIOS
OR
>Callback_BootEnvironmentDetect: Detected boot environment: UEFI
But there is no setupact.log in my Panther folder.
I'm just going to try some other distro and see what it says
>>53657658
OK SysiNformation revealed I'm on Uefi.
Don't know wghat might be causing installation to hang
>>53657617
Or another way to look at it is that this toolkit is so much easier/faster/etc that it is being adopted everywhere
>>53657665
If you can, try legacy instead of UEFI. It's less of a headache that way.
How can I change which disk grub resides on? I would like to have it on an sd card and point it to the SSD.
Its currently on sdb1 and it needs to be on sdc
This free space is the correct one I wnat to install this on, if I want to dual boot this with W10, right?
>>53657735
Looks that way. Confirm the size (20080MB) in windows if you want.
>>53657735
also what do I set as 'mount point'?
>>53657735
whats with that abomination of partitions
>>53657751
boot, home, tmp, usr, vat, srv, opt, usr/local - wats the difference?
>>53657766
it has got w10 enterprise dont ask me idk
>>53657751
/
If you have a lot of RAM no problems, otherwise create a small, maybe 2gb swap partition there as well.
>>53657788
i have 16gigs
>>53657678
Okay it's not booting anymore senpaitachi
>>53657797
Then no swap partition (even if it asks, don't because it's a waste)
Filesystem, if you're using something like Ubuntu 15.10 or newer, use btrfs. Mountpoint: /
>>53657840
Did all that. Got it installed. Looks like I'm missing GPU drivers for 980Ti
Looks like Linux/Xubuntu doesn't understand my 144HZ 1440p monitor by default.
Sup people.
I know that Fedora is sort of restricted when it comes to software availability, that you need to use RPMfusion and such. But how's hardware compatibility? Would it be as good as Ubuntu?
>>53657869
Check software updates > additional drivers tab and see if there are different drivers.
3 drivers for nvidia gpu, which one is the best?
>>53657920
Difference between 1 and 3 unclear.
Nouveau is shit though.
>>53657920
the one im using(TM)
>>53657920
Nouveau
I'm not sure about performance though, I've been always an AMD fag but that could solve your problems.
>>53657670
So you think it's not the license making a difference in this?
>>53657678
pls halp i want to ditch winblows
>>53657920
if you're using an old card, nouveau 100%
if you paid any serious money for your card, avoid nouveau like the fucking plague
None of the 3 drivers allowed me to change resolution from 1024x768 to higher or HZ to higher (61 now, want 144hz)
>>53657940
>Nouveau
>Recommending freetardware just because it's open source even though it's shit.
>>53657874
yes
>>53657978
Okay - I neeeded to reboot my PC despite no 'Reboot to update' thing flashing anywhere.
I got 1440p, 144hz. Now I'm wondering why is my Internet so slow despite showing the proper information?
1000mb/s speed, Ethernet interface.
Driver is e1000e, might that be faulty/bad?
>>53657987
Not sure but if he has issues, since he's already using proprietary I would try the other option. It's not like the one at the bottom is going to wield different results.
In my case though all drivers suck. All of them. Can't even use AMDGPU myself so I'm fucked.
>>53658019
>all drivers suck
true
>>53658018
Speedtest shows CORRECT results for the Internet.
So why is every web page drawing so slowly, or is this part of modern Firefox - I've been using Vivaldi?
Does my CPU have shit drivers? Are the nVidia Propietirary GPU drivers so fucking bad?
And thanks for the help, I never thanked ya lot. This sure is friendly thread
>>53658030
Intel drivers don't
What does Fedora offer as a distro? Why should I use it over something else.
>>53658039
Yeah that's true. Why is that? Simplicity or have Intel been bros?
>>53658047
Intel know how to make money. This is why they invest info development on platforms used for things like server farms.
>>53658040
You want a legit good package manager
You use Gnome as your preferred DE
You want something on the freshier side without losing stability
You want to contribute something
>>53658091
So not something I'm picking over Arch then? Especially as an i3 user.
>Mount Volume >Properties >Try to change anything to 'Read Only' results to some load bar and then defaulting back to 'Read & Write'
Umm?
Already loving this more than Shitblows 10, Jesus fucking Wept.
>>53658047
If they were bros there'd be no UEFI 32 bit tablets.
I never, ever managed to install linux on that shit
>>53658094
You could just try it, none wrong with that.
>>53658111
I'm not the sort of person that will try other distros just cos.
>>53658098
guessing you're using a filesystem that doesn't support permissions
>>53658098
Any idea what might bug this? This is just about the only thing I really need to get done, I don't want these NTFS disks to fragment to all hell not even by accident.
>>53658098
What's your question?
Changing permission can take some time.
If it defaults to r&w it could be due to it using a file system that can't handle permissions like ntfs
>>53658120
Well, you tried Arch at some point. What made it so convincing that you were willing to make an exception for it?
>>53658138
Xubuntu is on BTRFS.
The two HDDS (2 and 3) are on NTFS.
The Wangblows half of '1' (same SSD that Xubuntu is on) is on NTFS
>>53658145
How to stop Xubuntu from accidentally writing to the two HDDs?
>>53658158
It was the first one I truly dove into as a daily driver. I tried it because I liked the idea of barebones + rolling release.
>>53658159
>How to stop Xubuntu from accidentally writing to the two HDDs
I don't think it does that anon
>>53658169
How to stop ME from accidentally writing or anyone else who might use them
>>53658177
Mount -o ro
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd
This overwrites everything with zeros right? Is there a quicker way to clean a drive?
Making own config for MPV - do I read this correctly?
https://mpv.io/manual/master/#configuration-files
>>the user-specific one is ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf
So I just make mpv.conf document and throw it in here and it loads it when I open the program?
>>53658038
Welcome to neofox
>>53658250
add
bs=4M
it's the magical 'make it go faster' option
>>53658281
vim ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf
Write your shit
Save and exit
tada
>>53658188
So I 'make a mount point', according to some Ubuntu forum.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/296331/how-to-mount-a-hard-disk-as-read-only-from-the-terminal
>sudo mkdir /media/2tb
This is the 'name' that it gets mounted as, and location where I can find it? Right? It's in 'media' and named as '2tb'?
>sudo mount -o ro /dev/sda1 /media/2tb
but what's the /dev/sda1 part? I suppose it is the actual disk location, so does it refer to the 'location' part in folder properties? Mine is /media/asko right now.
>>53658360
Thanks I got it working. I do seem to think that MPC-HC with madVR looked better, but I haven't really gone through every option with MPV
>>53658378
>Thanks I got it working. I do seem to think that MPC-HC with madVR looked better, but I haven't really gone through every option with MPV
Because you haven't autismed your config yet. Config won't beat madVR by default.
>>53658336
Is there no quick format as such under linux or what?
>>53658399
Yeah I'll do it once I'm sure Kodi or anything wont write to my two storage HDDs.
I just tested high and very high configs from the mpv thread in /g/.
>>53658412
Why would Kodi overwrite your HDDs? And what does it have to do with mpv.
>>53658408
isn't quick format just 'pretend it doesn't exit'?
pretty sure you can do that
>>53658422
I thought quick format under windows was just deleting the file position information, nott he actual files.
>>53658416
Kodi can fetch images (posters, fanart, actors) and it places them to the file's folder - this at least in Windows.
And I'm going to use external player for Kodi, not the one Kodi comes with, thus the MPV installation.
>>53658426
I think you can do this with gparted (right click and click delete)
>>53658429
>>53658378
Unsure if it worked. Can't move files to it, can't make files inside it (tried creating new document, grey'd out) but I can copy its content inside the disk itself and thus write to it?
>>53658439
Yeah ive thought of that in the meantime. Really is an uphill battle if you do anything other than a really simple setup as a beginner.
Simply needing grub on another disk has taken me a few hours so far.
>>53658501
nvm. refreshing that folder and I could write to it.
okay you faggots i'm on a ubuntu live usb stick
I have ubuntu server installed on sdg1 and want grub to reside on sdf1
What do I do? I've spent almost 3 hours and i just cant get it to fucking work.
>>53658517
You sure it was actually written?
Should I use Ubuntu 15.10 at this point?
16.04 is just coming out but I really need something that kinda fucking works.
>>53658622
Dont use amazonjew
>>53658565
please i just want to fucking ditch windows and carry on setting up ubuntu mang this shit is killing me
>>53658098
have you installed ntfs-3g?
https://wiki.debian.org/NTFS
>>53658670
Yeah, one of these.
>>53658664
What else then
>>53658698
Do you have the correct permissions for the folders you are trying to change?
>>53658729
Do you refer to this? It also says in 'user settings' that my user (Esko) main group is sudo if that's any matter.
When I tried to askubuntu thread's advice it said my HDD is not a block device
>>53658770
What folder are you trying to alter?
There shouldnt be a 'sudo' group.
Depending on how your system is setup,it should be esko, or users that own the folder, unless you're making a system folder
>>53658794
NTFS HDD from Read & Write to Read Only.
I'm not trying to make any folder, just alter the permissions related to these two HDDs and my user account.
I just don't want, not by even accident, to write on these two disks, right now at least.
>>53658770
If I change any of the options, a load bar goes and it tries to do something and then it defaults back to settings seen in the pic.
>>53658669
fuck all ya'll niggus i fixed it myself
>>53658836
You could use udev and write a rule when it gets connected it is mounted ro
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev
>>53658864
That's a big ass page to read for such simple thing to do. Guess I'm off to reading, see you in an hour or so
>>53658855
Great, feels good doesn't it?
>>53658836
don't use the ntfs-3d or ntfsmount drivers
just use the kernel ntfs driver for read only access
compile it into the kernel if not already enabled
see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NTFS for kernel options
>>53658883
Not all of it is relevant.
>>53658898
If only I knew what I actually did
I just created a raid5 with 4 disks using mdadm.
3 disks show as in sync and one says recovering. raid status was degraded immediately after creation. Is this normal?
>>53658931
>mdadm
>Not using RAID with btrfs
>>53658947
>using an unfinished filesystem
>>53657636
bump
>>53658964
No program is ever finished, anon. btrfs has been long since production ready.
That's like me saying:
>using an unfinished kernel
>>53658964
Retard.
>>53658993
Indeed, btrfs being "unstable" is a meme at this point.
>>53659017
you new here bud?
>>53659036
no u
>>53659017
>falling for b8
trying to pick a good remote desktop application to access ubuntu from windows.
Teamviewer is unacceptably laggy, like 1fps and realvnc is not much better.
Wat do? Can't do terminal only just yet as I'm still an amateur.
>>53654997
I'm in the process of building myself a new desktop.
What GPU brand makes the least difficulties with Linux drivers? No, Intel is not an option, it should be fairly high power.
>Close my MG279Q Asus monitor from the power buttan.
>Linux wont 'open'/'wake up' after I put it on
h-h-elp?
>>53659089
openvnc
I had to disable UEFI to install any distro.
Did I fuck up or does Linux really not support UEFI?
>>53659121
is that not basically the same as realvnc?
>>53659107
Everything makes problems oyher than intel. What's your setup? Different monitors or something? If you want it stable and a bit higher performance go with something new from amd with foss drivers and if you can accept instability but need very high performance go with nvidia proprietary drivers.
What do you use it for?
>>53659107
I'd probably go with AMD seeing as Nvidia are dicks about older (but perfectly good) hardware, this was me >>53657636
>>53659022
It has a couple of showstoppers but I agree with you, on the whole, it's "there"
>>53659089
teamv should not be that slow, you're doing it wrong faggot
>>53658622
just wait a few fucking hours, 16.04 beta 2 is out today, should be as stable as 15.10 if not more
>>53659118
I assume it's some stupid hibernate option in whatever distro is in use.
They never werk. Disable it.
>>53659179
What am i doing wrong then m8?
iLO works fine. Teamviewer is slow after a clean ubuntuserver with unity installed.
>>53659141
No, you just fucked up. Linux supports UEFI just fine.
>>53656541
Is it windows? just shrink the partition size using disk management and create a new partition for linux.
