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<title><![CDATA[Crear particiones con la herramienta GParted (Linux)]]></title>
<link>http://miblogcurricular.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/crear-particiones-con-la-herramienta-gparted-linux/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Miquel</dc:creator>
<guid>http://miblogcurricular.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/crear-particiones-con-la-herramienta-gparted-linux/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A menudo las herramientas de particionado a nuestra disposición nos resultan incomodas, limitadas o ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>A menudo las herramientas de particionado a nuestra disposición nos resultan incomodas, limitadas o complicadas de usar, todos los sistemas operativos incluyen herramientas de particionado, pero raras veces son tan completas como quisiéramos, en esas ocasiones puede sernos de utilidad una herramienta como GParted.</p>
<p>Para realizar el proceso detallado en este tutorial necesitaremos el <a href="http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php">Cd Live GParted</a>, si vuestro ordenador permite arrancar desde USB podréis ahorraros un CD.</p>
<p>1) Como es costumbre con los Live CD, introducimos el CD y configuramos en la BIOS el arranque desde el CD-ROM, guardamos los cambios y salimos de la BIOS.</p>
<p>2)Este Live Cd nos presenta una<em> interface</em> bastante amigable y cómoda de usar, nada complicada, seleccionamos la opción &#8220;<strong>GParted</strong>&#8221; para iniciar el programa y acto seguido nos aparecerá la tabla de particiones, en función de si el disco está vacío o si disponemos de particiones ya creadas el aspecto que presentará sera distinto pero fácil de entender.</p>
<p><a href="http://miblogcurricular.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/capture_10112009_180835.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-86" title="Gparted inicial" src="http://miblogcurricular.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/capture_10112009_180835.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="421" /></a></p>
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<li>La opción &#8220;<strong>New&#8221;</strong> nos permitirá crear nuevas particiones, mientras que la opción &#8220;<strong>delete</strong>&#8221; nos permitirá borrarlas convirtiéndolas en espacio no asignado, la opción redimensionar nos permitirá reducir o aumentar el tamaño de una o mas particiones así como mover de sitio la partición si deseamos colocarla al final o delante de otra.</li>
<li>La tabla de particiones se nos muestra con un aspecto similar a un gráfico, pudiendo observar las distintas particiones, su posición, el espacio que ocupan o su nombre.</li>
<li>El nombre de la partición si tiene.</li>
<li>El sistema de archivos de la partición, &#8220;extended&#8221; hace referencia a la memoria Swap.</li>
<li>El tamaño total de la partición, su espacio ocupado y su espacio libre.</li>
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<p>Si deseamos crear una partición, deberemos situarnos sobre el espacio del disco duro no asignado (<em>en gris</em>) y o bien con botón derecho o bien con el icono &#8220;<strong>New</strong>&#8221; podremos configurar sus características.</p>
<p><a href="http://miblogcurricular.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/capture_10112009_181101.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-87" title="creando una particion - GParted" src="http://miblogcurricular.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/capture_10112009_181101.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="421" /></a></p>
<p>Podremos ajustar su tamaño tanto introduciendo el numero exacto en la casilla &#8220;<strong>Tamaño nuevo (MB)</strong>&#8221; como manualmente mediante el gráfico superior <em>(algo mas impreciso que introduciendo el numero)</em>, la opción &#8220;<strong>Crear como</strong>&#8221; hace referencia a si deseamos una partición primario o lógica, en &#8220;<strong>Sistema de archivos</strong>&#8221; seleccionaremos el que se ajuste a nuestras necesidades, Ext2 o Ext 3 si ha de albergar un Linux, Swap si ha de ser la de intercambio.<br />
Si deseamos ponerle una etiqueta a nuestra partición para tenerla diferenciada podemos hacerlo escribiendo aquellos que nos parezca acertado, el<strong> </strong> &#8220;<strong>espacio libre precedente</strong>&#8220;<strong> </strong>y &#8220;<strong>el espacio libre a continuación</strong>&#8221; lo dejamos a 0.</p>
<p>Pulsamos en &#8220;<strong>add</strong>&#8221; y ya tendremos configurada la partición, podremos crear aquellas que necesitemos, en mi caso, dos para la instalación de una distribución Linux, por lo que necesitaré otra partición Swap.</p>
<p>Una vez creadas las particiones necesarias, procederemos a guardar los cambios, pulsaremos en &#8220;<strong>apply</strong>&#8221; para que se apliquen los cambios y escriba las particiones en la tabla de particiones, cuando termine se habrán realizado correctamente todos los cambios realizados y podremos salir del CD-Live con la opción &#8220;<strong>exit</strong>&#8220;.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Creating a super-pendrive]]></title>
<link>http://sahilahuja.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/creating-a-super-pendrive/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sahil Ahuja</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sahilahuja.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/creating-a-super-pendrive/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hi, Its been really long since I blogged. Before going ahead, want to tell you that will be posting ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Hi,</p>
<p>Its been really long since I blogged. Before going ahead, want to tell you that will be posting my endeavours on running virtual machines soon.</p>
<p>This, however, is my experience/guide for creating a super pen drive  (a.k.a. a usb disk that if booted from presents a grub menu with options &#8211; GParted, Fedora, .. and any other linux distro hopefully, and has Fedora persistence, and has a spare partition too for you to use it as a normal pen drive).</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t as straight forward as I thought (like&#8230; all other things).</p>
<p><strong>Steps:</strong></p>
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<li>Decide the partitioning layout and partition the pen drive.</li>
<li>Install grub on one partition</li>
<li>Install GParted on another</li>
<li>Install Fedora on another</li>
<li>Install grub again on the partition in step 2 <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> , and setup grub.conf</li>
<li>Sit back, and enjoy (may need to crouch forward in some cases.. )</li>
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<p>A super neat trick:</p>
<p>To check at any time how you pen drive would behave if you boot from it, use the command : qemu -hda /dev/sdb -m 256 -vga std</p>
<p>This command reduced my research time to one third.</p>
<p><strong>1) Decide the partitioning layout</strong></p>
<p>I used GParted on my Fedora installation (on my harddisk) to set up the partition of the pen drive.</p>
<p><strong>2) Install grub on one partition</strong></p>
<p>Make sure you manually mount the grub partition. The /media/something folder in which it gets mounted automatically gave me some trouble. So unmounted it from there, and mounted /dev/sdb5 to /mnt/usbgrub</p>
<p>grub-install &#8211;no-floppy &#8211;root-directory=/mnt/usbgrub/ /dev/sdb</p>
<p><strong>3) Install GParted on another</strong></p>
<p>Use UNetbootin for GParted</p>
<p><strong>4) Install Fedora on another</strong></p>
<p>Need to make sure that usb disk is ext3 before doing this. When I did this on a vfat disk, I got an &#8220;error 22&#8243; when trying to boot from the usb disk.</p>
<p>Use liveusb-creator or live-iso-to-disk for Fedora.</p>
<p>Persistence is buggy according to http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-219250.html so instead, a better solution is to directly install fedora on the pen drive on a separate partition, like in http://linuxsoftwareblog.com/blog/?p=156</p>
<p><strong>5) Install grub again on the partition in step 2 <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> , and setup grub.conf</strong></p>
<p>mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/usbgrub/</p>
<p>grub-install &#8211;no-floppy &#8211;root-directory=usbgrub/ /dev/sdb</p>
<p>Now, to setup the grub menu:</p>
<p>cd /mnt/usbgrub/boot/grub/</p>
<p>cp /boot/grub/grub.conf .</p>
<p>cp /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz .</p>
<p>gedit grub.conf</p>
<blockquote><p># grub.conf generated by anaconda<br />
#<br />
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file<br />
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that<br />
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.<br />
#          root (hd0,1)<br />
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/VGSahil-LVRoot<br />
#          initrd /initrd-version.img<br />
#boot=/dev/sda<br />
default=0<br />
timeout=5<br />
splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz<br />
hiddenmenu<br />
title Fedora (2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE)<br />
root (hd1,1)<br />
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/VGSahil-LVRoot rhgb quiet<br />
initrd /initrd-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE.img</p>
<p>title GParted Live<br />
root (hd0,5)<br />
kernel /live/vmlinuz1 boot=live union=aufs    noswap noprompt acpi=off irqpoll noapic noapm nodma nomce nolapic nosmp ip=frommedia vga=normal<br />
initrd /live/initrd1.img</p>
<p>title Omega 11 Live<br />
root (hd0,6)<br />
kernel /syslinux/vmlinuz0 root=/dev/sdb7  rw liveimg quiet  rhgb<br />
initrd /syslinux/initrd0.img</p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[GParted LiveCD versión 0.4.8-1 liberada]]></title>
<link>http://elsoftwarelibre.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/gparted-livecd-version-0-4-8-1-liberada/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Soft-Libre</dc:creator>
<guid>http://elsoftwarelibre.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/gparted-livecd-version-0-4-8-1-liberada/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[GParted, constituye una poderosa herramienta para trabajar con particiones en GNU/Linux; en esta opo]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Using GParted to Resize Windows Vista Partition - How To]]></title>
<link>http://scomunited.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/using-gparted-to-resize-windows-vista-partition-how-to/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sinyo</dc:creator>
<guid>http://scomunited.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/using-gparted-to-resize-windows-vista-partition-how-to/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One of the more advanced options for resizing your Windows Vista partition is to use the GParted Liv]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The all new "Karmic" experience: it's just a result of “Karma”.]]></title>
<link>http://arvindsraj.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-all-new-karmic-experience-its-just-a-result-of-%e2%80%9ckarma%e2%80%9d/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Arvind</dc:creator>
<guid>http://arvindsraj.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-all-new-karmic-experience-its-just-a-result-of-%e2%80%9ckarma%e2%80%9d/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well, the new version of Ubuntu, christenend &#8220;Karmic Koala&#8221; was released on Oct 29. I]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Well, the new version of Ubuntu, christenend &#8220;Karmic Koala&#8221; was released on Oct 29. I]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Vista, Windows 7 and Gparted.]]></title>
<link>http://modernityblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/vista-windows-7-and-gparted/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>modernityblog</dc:creator>
<guid>http://modernityblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/vista-windows-7-and-gparted/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I had the misfortune to be forced to use a Vista installed laptop recently. It was a very nice piece]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Open Source and System Rescue CD:  Really Cool]]></title>
<link>http://billhensley.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/open-source-and-system-rescue-cd-really-cool/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bill Hensley</dc:creator>
<guid>http://billhensley.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/open-source-and-system-rescue-cd-really-cool/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have written before about how cool it is to use Open Source software to Get Stuff Done. This is so]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I have written before about how cool it is to use Open Source software to Get Stuff Done.  This is somewhat related to a couple other things I have written about, namely my quest to replace my computer-based DVR function.</p>
<p>I have a 250GB disk that came out of a Dish Network DVR that had been used for recording (but not paying for) movies.  I wiped it and used it in the school server for file serving, but I was the only one who ever used it, and the roughly 10GB of space I had on the main server disk was only 20% full.  So I pulled the 250GB device.</p>
<p>The computer I want to use for my DVR has an 80GB primary disk with Windows on it.  I have a 20GB disk that came out of a failed laptop a couple years ago; it has a GRUB boot partition and a Linux partition on it.  I had recently upgraded the Linux partition from Fedora 5 to Fedora 10; all my personal files I have on DVD from the backup that I did before the installation.</p>
<p>My idea was to put the 250GB disk into the computer, and image the 20GB over to it, then stretch the Linux partition out to 40GB just for some extra room (the 20GB Linux partition is only about 25% full, but you can never have too much disk space, right?).  Then I would take all the extra space on the 250GB, make a partition, and format it for NTFS (the theory here being that Fedora talks to NTFS, and Windows talks to NTFS, but Windows can&#8217;t talk to a Linux ext partition).  This way, both Windows and Fedora can share the big space.</p>
<p>So I put the 250GB drive in, pop in System Rescue CD 1.4, do an fdisk -l to make sure it sees all the disks, and then use dd (Disk Duplicator) to copy everything on /dev/sdc to /dev/sdb.  dd runs in about 20 min, and for the first time since I started using it, I had some errors reported during the copy process.  Hmmm, thought I.</p>
<p>I shut down, pulled the System Rescue CD from the drive, pulled the 20GB drive, and moved the 250GB drive to that slot on the IDE bus.  Booted both Windows and Linux, so good there.  No problems from the reported errors.</p>
<p>A short detour:  When I upgraded my Linux partition to Fedora 10 from Fedora 5, all of a sudden I could not boot ANYTHING.  I used System Rescue CD to boot the system, mount the Linux partition, and change the boot drive from the default of (0,0) to (1,0).  This allowed GRUB to find the operating system commands.  But for some reason, the OS selector menu wouldn&#8217;t show.  If I hit the up arrow key a number of times, then enter, then Linux would boot.  Down arrow (or let it just set throught the default timeout), and XP would boot.  I looked online a bit, but this evening I figured it out:  the &#8220;splashimage&#8221; command was pointing to disk (0,0) also.  I changed it to (1,0) and we were off again.  Whatever was setting GRUB up in the Fedora 10 installation was figuring out where the various OS&#8217;s were, but didn&#8217;t put them back into the right place in grub.conf.</p>
<p>So now I have a 250GB disk with a 20GB Fedora 10 Linux installation.  I go back to System Rescue CD, and fire it up.  I go into the Linux GUI and start Gnu Partition Editor (GPartEd).  It sees the two disks, but it does not recognize the OS on the 250GB drive.  Hmmm.  I check the version number.  I then reboot to the Fedora, and load the latest version of GPartEd using Yum, and run it.  It reports that the parition type is Linux LVM, which is correct, but it also informs me that LVM isn&#8217;t supported yet.  </p>
<p>So I create a new partition in all that free space, and format it as FAT32, so both Windows and Linux can read and write it safely.  I was planning to do this as NTFS, I seemed to remember that FAT32 would not support more than something like 120GB, but when I identified the space for formatting, FAT32 was an option, and the process was successful.</p>
<p>I booted into both the Windows and Linux partitions, and they worked, and could read and write to the FAT32 partition, so overall success.</p>
<p>So my basic requirement is accomplished:  I imaged my existing Fedora 10 and boot partitions from a 20GB to a 250GB disk.  I have a HUGE amount of space to store DVR data.  I was not able to stretch my Fedora partition, but I will go and see if there is a schedule for GPartEd or some other Open Source tool to support LVM.</p>
<p>Open Source wins again:  Linux/Fedora, GPartEd, Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB).</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lỗi “UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY”]]></title>
<link>http://zxc232.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/l%e1%bb%97i-%e2%80%9cunexpected-inconsistency-run-fsck-manually%e2%80%9d/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>zxc232</dc:creator>
<guid>http://zxc232.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/l%e1%bb%97i-%e2%80%9cunexpected-inconsistency-run-fsck-manually%e2%80%9d/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[LỖI “UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY” Trong quá trình khởi động Linux, màn hình đang ở c]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Deleted partition table and other disasters]]></title>
<link>http://sixlinux.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/deleted-partition-table-and-other-disasters/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Andrea Coronese</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sixlinux.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/deleted-partition-table-and-other-disasters/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well, I recently tried to reanimate my old crappy laptop by installing Gentoo on it. Its cdrom drive]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-37" title="ubuntu_gos_screenshot" src="http://sixlinux.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/ubuntu_gos_screenshot.jpg?w=300" alt="ubuntu_gos_screenshot" width="300" height="235" />Well, I recently tried to reanimate my old crappy laptop by installing Gentoo on it. Its cdrom drive is actually not 100% working so I had to use an usb key to transfer data to it. In effect, I have been reformatting and repartitioning the usb drive lot of times using my desktop computer. After a few times I deleted for the tenth time the key&#8217;s partiton table to format it again.</p>
<p><strong>Huge mistake.</strong></p>
<p>I was using <strong>GParted </strong>to do tasks and <strong>inadvertently </strong><strong>deleted my primary hard disk partition table</strong>. Omitting variuous <strong>blasphemies and swearwords</strong> when I realized what I just did, I took an Ubuntu 9.04 cd and here is how I solved the problem.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a little program that can be found in repositories, called <strong>testdisk</strong>, that brings up a partition table recovery function, wich is pretty fast and accurate. With the first scan it already recovered my PT, and an in-depth scan confirmed first results. In a snap!</p>
<p>But just in case, here is how to backup your PT for emergency recoveries. Just in the case that one day you&#8217;ll be stupid like me.<br />
Using the <strong>dd</strong> command (see man pages for details) you can do something like this:</p>
<blockquote><p>dd if=/dev/sdX of=/tmp/sda-mbr.bin bs=512 count=1</p></blockquote>
<p>replacing /dev/sdX with the drive of interest and /temp/sda.mbr.bin with the path of the file you would like to store informations in. Save this file somewhere safe outside of the disk. One day, you will do something like this to restore the PT:</p>
<blockquote><p>dd if=sda-mbr.bin of=/dev/sdX bs=1 count=64 skip=446 seek=446</p></blockquote>
<p>always replacing sda-mbr.bin with the backup file and /dev/sdX with the decive you want the PT to be re-writed.</p>
<p>Never understimate the power of <em>dd</em>. It has super powers.</p>
<p>PS: I donated 10$ via paypal to <em>testidisk</em> developers. It literally rescued my ass.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ubuntu and Linux beat Windows to Death]]></title>
<link>http://sigonasr2.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/ubuntu-and-linux-beat-windows-to-death/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sigonasr2</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sigonasr2.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/ubuntu-and-linux-beat-windows-to-death/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t think of a more nicer title for this post, so basically you know what this is about]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I couldn&#8217;t think of a more nicer title for this post, so basically you know what this is about. Me <strong>bashing</strong> Windows and <strong>praising</strong> Ubuntu.</p>
<p>What is my case you may ask?</p>
<p>It all started on Saturday when I was thinking about how I could use Ubuntu to my advantage and I remembered a long time ago (I believe 2 or 3 years ago?) I tried it once but after a few weeks I switched back. I was reading some of my old blog posts and came upon my Linux tips. Then I started thinking you know, Linux is actually amazing. So I got out my <strong>Ubuntu 9.04</strong> disk and installed the system onto my computer. Now, I still had my Windows XP installation with the <strong>GRUB</strong> bootloader when I came across a problem. I put Ubuntu on the <strong>Largest Continuous Free Space</strong> on my hard drive, which was 2.4 GB&#8230;Just enough for an install of Ubuntu. I realized this when I tried to install the updates and it said I had 216 MB of hard disk space left, not enough to update. Then I knew I was in trouble. What could I do? I thought. I got <strong>gparted</strong> and tried to edit the partition when I came across, heh funny thing, a triangle icon with an exclamation point inside of it. This meant it couldn&#8217;t be resized and had to be formatted. Great, so now what? I tried to get it checked with CHKDISK (I believe that&#8217;s the program, too bad if I&#8217;m wrong!) and when it finished the exclamation point went away in <strong>gparted. </strong>So I thought yes! I can change it now, right? Wrong. <strong>It just gave me an error message</strong> and eventually leading me to just deleting the partition.</p>
<p>So now I put Ubuntu on with 80GB, and the other 50GB goes to Windows XP. So now that that was out of the way there was another problem. <strong>GRUB disappeared!</strong> Huh? I installed Ubuntu first and then Windows XP. So then I thought about trying to be smart. Maybe I can edit the <strong>Windows bootloader!</strong> So I go in there, set it so that it boots to partition 1, remove the ugly windows stuff, and try it and&#8230;..<strong>FAIL</strong>. So now what&#8230;.? It failed. I brought out my <strong>Ubuntu Live CD</strong>, popped it in, and accessed my ext3 filesystem drive with ubuntu. Hooray! I have access to it! I looked up how to get GRUB installed <strong>using Linux Live CD. </strong>Since it came with the wireless driver, no worries about having to deal with that. So I reinstalled GRUB by itself, I changed the <strong>GRUB Bootloader file</strong> and tada! I had a working bootloader again that was GRUB and booted into Linux and Windows XP. After that I simply said, Screw Windows! You can&#8217;t do anything Linux can do!</p>
<p>And that is so true. Think about it&#8230;. <strong>Linux can do anything Windows can do</strong>, but Windows can&#8217;t do everything Linux can do? Eh&#8230;Maybe Microsoft should learn something from this. So guess what Microsoft? <strong>I&#8217;m a Ubuntu freak now!</strong> For real though.</p>
<p>So why is this time different? Well you see, I finally realized how much <strong>more I can do with Linux</strong> than with Windows. I am still able to do my daily things, I am still able to play my games I like, and I get to do all this in lovely Linux. Who cares if I have lost some of the high-awesome graphics games? I don&#8217;t play games all my life, sheesh. I like to make practical use of my life. So what did I do once Linux got installed? (Jeeze, lots of questions today, right?)</p>
<p>I started putting stuff on there, I backed up about 3GB of my stuff I needed to keep, installed <strong>Diablo 2 </strong>and <strong>Diablo 2 MedianXL</strong> on there, and they work perfectly fine with Wine. Then I tried Game Maker, and boy was that fun to deal with. You see, I&#8217;ve been using Game Maker for about 5 years now, and if I didn&#8217;t have this, as you know with the <strong>Z-Gamers V.3</strong> website, I would be saddened alot because I wouldn&#8217;t be able to use Linux all the time now. But guess what? I got it working under <strong>Virtualbox Windows XP installation!</strong> Awesomeness! There are three catches to it, but they are minor:<br />
1) I have to import a mouse cursor so that I know where the real position is if it is offset.<br />
2) There are no sounds. But that&#8217;s not hard to add in because you just play them&#8230;.And that&#8217;s it! I could go on XP for 2 seconds if I needed to verify if it worked or not.<br />
3)Games must not be 3D and must be tested in fullscreen. No 3D may be a big deal, but here&#8217;s my plan for FF3D. Most of the stuff I have to develop is through code. I develop all my code, just run it on Linux to make sure no errors occur, and LATER deal with the 3D coding if there are problems. I think I am <strong>so fluent in GML coding</strong> and trust my abilities with it that I will not need to test every little aspect of it to know it is working. In fact, I found out you can test stuff in 2D mode, and then just activate 3D mode with the models and 3D drawing once you get on Windows XP. And fullscreen? No big deal, just aligns stuff. Again, <strong>number 1 with the mouse cursor</strong> makes sure it is not off center.</p>
<p>So what else do I love about Ubuntu? I can access my server directly from the OS&#8230;.awesome.<br />
I can install packages right on the fly and have new programs&#8230;.Awesome.<br />
Starting to learn Java Object-Oriented Programming&#8230;.Awesome also.<br />
Improving my Bash programming skills&#8230;.Awesome.<br />
Learning new things about Ubuntu everyday&#8230;.Great!<br />
Able to do alot more than with Windows and still do everything I did with Windows&#8230;<strong>EPIC</strong>.</p>
<p>I have to say&#8230;.I just <strong>LOVE</strong> Ubuntu now. I just can&#8217;t stop now&#8230;I haven&#8217;t logged on XP since that epic failure described above&#8230;I do not wish to go back unless I have a super problem, which is fixable with Linux of course and not Windows <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> . I guess that is about it.</p>
<p><strong>Continue to support us on </strong><a href="http://z-gamers.net"><strong>http://z-gamers.net</strong></a><strong>! </strong>Read my previous blog post for more info on donating to our server!</p>
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<link>http://crystalunicorn.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/gparted-the-weapon-of-mass-destruction/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
<guid>http://crystalunicorn.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/gparted-the-weapon-of-mass-destruction/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When George Bush waged war against Iraq, he found a pack of Ubuntu disks. Weapons of Mass Destructio]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Recuperar la tabla de particiones]]></title>
<link>http://cirovladimir.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/recuperar-la-tabla-de-particiones/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cirovladimir</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cirovladimir.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/recuperar-la-tabla-de-particiones/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[El otro día quise instalar Windows después de haber instalado Ubuntu, asi que reparticione mi disco ]]></description>
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<p>El otro día quise instalar <a href="http://www.eskimo.com/%7Ewebguy/writings/winsucks.html" target="_blank">Windows</a> después de haber instalado <a href="http://www.google.com.mx/url?q=http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download&#38;ei=RX7cSuyOFI3kNZyBuekH&#38;sa=X&#38;oi=smap&#38;resnum=1&#38;ct=result&#38;cd=1&#38;ved=0CAgQqwMoAA&#38;usg=AFQjCNEN3NvTQ9ZjvsdSJxXS0KFVLFrb9g" target="_blank">Ubuntu</a>, asi que reparticione mi disco con el fabuloso livecd de <a href="http://www.google.com.mx/url?q=http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php&#38;ei=VH7cSpC8HZXiMJmvqOQH&#38;sa=X&#38;oi=smap&#38;resnum=1&#38;ct=result&#38;cd=1&#38;ved=0CAcQqwMoAA&#38;usg=AFQjCNFpIZysHryZj6m3r5_YOba7lsi6ZQ" target="_blank">gparted</a>, y supuestamente, ya tenia todo listo para insertar el disco de instalacion de windows y dejar que él hiciera el resto. Me llevé una sorpresa cuando al seleccionar la partición donde quería instalar Windows me marcaba un error de que no podía encontrar una partición donde pudiera instalarse. Intente una y otra vez eliminar y crear la partición que tenía destinada para el Windows sin conseguir éxito. Decidí desistir por ese día y volver a trabajar en mi querido Ubuntu. Fue ahí cuando me lleve una terrible sorpresa, &#8220;Insert disk, Operating System not Found&#8221;&#8230; WTF&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p>El problema es que tenía una <strong>partición extendida</strong> y el espacio que deje para Windows lo puse en esa partición extendida, esto ocasionaba que Windows no se pudiera instalar. Lo que no entendí es, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">PORQUE DEMONIOS BORRÓ MI TABLA DE PARTICIONES.</span> En fin, para recuperarla hay una excelente herramienta que se llama <a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download" target="_blank">TestDisk</a> y es muy fácil de usar. También la puedes encontrar en el &#8220;<a href="http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html" target="_blank">Ultimate Boot CD</a>&#8221; (fabuloso para toda clase de tareas de diagnóstico y reparación), lo díficil es encontrarla en los menús&#8230; :-&#124; bump ..  pero si no mal recuerdo esta en la opción de &#8220;Recovery Tools&#8221; (yo andaba perdido buscandolo en Partition Tools, Hard Disk Tools, Antivirus <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' />  jajaja)</p>
<p>Una vez recuperada tu tabla de particiones tienes que vovler a cargar el <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB" target="_blank">GRUB</a> en el <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Boot_Record" target="_blank">MBR</a> (asi es, Windows no solo borró la tabla de particiones, reescribió el MBR completamente :@ ) para poder arrancar Ubuntu. Esto lo puedes hacer con cualquier disco de Linux (<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download" target="_blank">Ubuntu</a>, <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora" target="_blank">Fedora</a>, <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/" target="_blank">OpenSuse</a>, etc), yo lo hice con el de Ubuntu <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Basta con arrancar el liveCD de Ubuntu (seleccionar &#8220;probar Ubuntu sin modificar mis archivos&#8221;) y una vez que carga la interfaz gráfica, abrir una terminal (Applications-&#62;Accesories-&#62;Terminal)<br />
Ejecuta el siguiente comando para entrar en la consola de GRUB</p>
<blockquote><p>sudo grub</p></blockquote>
<p>Ejecuta</p>
<blockquote><p>find /boot/grub/stage1</p></blockquote>
<p>Te va a regresar algo como &#8220;hd?,?&#8221;, p. ej. &#8220;hd0,0&#8243;, vamos a usar esa ubicación para el siguiente comando</p>
<blockquote><p>root (hd?,?)</p></blockquote>
<p>finalmente ejecuta</p>
<blockquote><p>setup (hd0)</p></blockquote>
<p>Nota: El ultimo comando instala el GRUB en el MBR, si quieres instalarlo en una partición utiliza setup(hd?,?).</p>
<p>Listo! Hemos recuperado nuestra tabla de particiones (gracias TestDisk) y reinstalado el GRUB (boot loader).</p>
<p>Fuentes:<br />
<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2486121#post2486121" target="_blank">Ubuntu Forums &#8211; Ubuntu install not recognizing current partitions. </a><br />
<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351" target="_blank">Ubuntu Forums &#8211; How to install Grub from a live Ubuntu cd.</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Formatear un disco duro multimedia con Fat 32 en Ubuntu]]></title>
<link>http://sliceoflinux.com/2009/10/09/formatear-un-disco-duro-multimedia-con-fat-32-en-ubuntu/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pruizar</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sliceoflinux.com/2009/10/09/formatear-un-disco-duro-multimedia-con-fat-32-en-ubuntu/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Si, has leído bien. Ayer me convertí en el afortunado propietario de un disco multimedia de la marca]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-5057" title="zaapa" src="http://sliceoflinux.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/zaapa.jpg" alt="zaapa" width="130" height="130" />Si, has leído bien. Ayer me convertí en el <span style="font-style:italic;">afortunado</span> propietario de un disco multimedia de la marca Zaapa. Concretamente se trata del modelo ZC-MDYSAT o bien ZC-R200, dependiendo de la parte de la caja que leas.</p>
<p>Inicialmente, el disco viene formateado con el sistema de archivos NTFS. Sin embargo, cuando copié sobre él una serie de archivos multimedia para comprobar su funcionamiento y lo conecté al televisor, descubrí que sólo se veía un directorio, vacío, que para colmo tiene el sugerente nombre de BILL GATE.</p>
<p>Mi primera reacción fue empaquetar todo de nuevo y devolverlo a la tienda. sin embargo, el precio de compra era tentador y me pareció que se merecía una segunda oportunidad, así que estuve investigando un poco en Internet.</p>
<p>Al final averigüé que, aunque el dispositivo funciona adecuadamente como disco duro externo mientras está conectado al ordenador, para que funcione como reproductor multimedia debe estar formateado como FAT32 (parece increíble, ¿verdad?).</p>
<p>Lamentablemente, los usuarios de Windows no pueden dar formato con este sistema de archivos a discos duros que tengan más de 32GB (este tiene 750), pero en el caso de Ubuntu, el tamaño no importa&#8230;</p>
<p>Llegado a este punto, lo único que tuve que hacer fue seguir los pasos que te indico a continuación.   <!--more--></p>
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<li>El trabajo lo realizaremos con el programa GParted, por lo que, si no lo tienes instalado, tienes que hacerlo ahora. Afortunadamente, se encuentra dentro de los repositorios oficiales, por lo que sólo tendrás que recurrir a Synaptic (como en otras ocasiones) o, sencillamente, abrir una ventana de Consola (<span style="font-style:italic;">Aplicaciones &#62; Accesorios &#62; Terminal</span>) y escribir la siguiente orden:<br />
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<p style="border:thin dotted grey;background-color:#e6e6dc;text-align:left;padding:10px;"><code> <strong>sudo aptitude install gparted </strong></code></p>
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<div id="attachment_2441" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"> <a href="http://sliceoflinux.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/zaapa01.png"> <img title="Figura 1" src="http://sliceoflinux.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/zaapa01.png?w=300" alt="Figura 1" width="300" /> </a> <p class="wp-caption-text">Instalar GParted</p></div>
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<li>Una vez instalado el programa, podrás encontrarlo en <span style="font-style:italic;">Sistema &#62; Administración &#62; Editor de particiones</span>.<br />
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<div id="attachment_2441" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"> <a href="http://sliceoflinux.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/zaapa02.png"> <img title="Figura 2" src="http://sliceoflinux.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/zaapa02.png?w=300" alt="Figura 2" width="300" /> </a> <p class="wp-caption-text">Ejecutar el editor de particiones</p></div>
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<li>Cuando se abra la ventana del programa, te mostrará la estructura de particiones del disco duro desde el que hayas arrancado tu sistema. Como la unidad sobre la que vamos a trabajar es otra, tendremos que ir al menú <span style="font-style:italic;">GParted &#62; Dispositivos</span> y elegir la unidad que nos interese (en mi caso <span style="font-style:italic;">/dev/sdb</span>, que es la que no estaba activa).<br />
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<div id="attachment_2441" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"> <a href="http://sliceoflinux.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/zaapa03.png"> <img title="Figura 3" src="http://sliceoflinux.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/zaapa03.png?w=300" alt="Figura 3" width="300" /> </a> <p class="wp-caption-text">Seleccionar dispositivo</p></div>
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<li>A continuación, deberás hacer clic, con el botón derecho del ratón sobre la única entrada que aparece y, en el menú de contexto que aparece, seleccionar la entrada <span style="font-style:italic;">Formatear como</span>. Verás que aparece un nuevo submenú. En él, debes seleccionar <span style="font-style:italic;">fat32</span>. para completar la operación, tienes que hacer clic en el botón <span style="font-style:italic;">Aplicar</span>.<br />
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<div id="attachment_2441" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"> <a href="http://sliceoflinux.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/zaapa04.png"> <img title="Figura 4" src="http://sliceoflinux.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/zaapa04.png?w=300" alt="Figura 4" width="300" /> </a> <p class="wp-caption-text">Elegir tipo de formato</p></div>
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<li>Aparecerá una ventana que te muestra el avance del proceso. Lógicamente, cuanto más grande sea el disco, más tardará en formatearlo. De todas formas, el proceso no es demasiado largo.<br />
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<div id="attachment_2441" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"> <a href="http://sliceoflinux.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/zaapa05.png"> <img title="Figura 5" src="http://sliceoflinux.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/zaapa05.png?w=300" alt="Figura 5" width="300" /> </a> <p class="wp-caption-text">Realizando operaciones pendientes</p></div>
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<li>Cuando termine, ya tendrás tu disco USB formateado con el sistema de archivos requerido.<br />
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<div id="attachment_2441" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"> <a href="http://sliceoflinux.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/zaapa06.png"> <img title="Figura 6" src="http://sliceoflinux.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/zaapa06.png?w=300" alt="Figura 6" width="300" /> </a> <p class="wp-caption-text">Trabajo concluido</p></div>
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<p>Lógicamente, como habrás supuesto al leer el punto 4, el proceso es el mismo para formatear una partición con cualquiera de los sistemas de archivo soportados. además, en este caso, el disco tenía sólo una partición y así queríamos que quedara, pero desde aquí, también podríamos haber cambiado el tamaño de la partición existente y haber creado alguna otra complementaria.</p>
<p>Espero que el artículo de hoy te resulte útil.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Aman mempartisi dengan Parted Magic]]></title>
<link>http://jarwadi.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/aman-mempartisi-dengan-parted-magic/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jarwadi</dc:creator>
<guid>http://jarwadi.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/aman-mempartisi-dengan-parted-magic/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Bagi saya memodifikasi suatu partisi hardisk yang mana telah terinstall suatu OS bukanlah perkara mu]]></description>
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<p>Bagi saya memodifikasi suatu partisi hardisk yang mana telah terinstall suatu OS bukanlah perkara mudah. Perubahan ukuran partisi ini saya ingini karena dalam partisi utama ubuntu saya sudah terlalu penuh, laptop terinstall dua SO, ubuntu dan jendela**, memang ketika dulu saya menginstall tidak terlalu banyak pertimbangan mengenahi urusan ukuran partisi ini. Yang pada gilirannya menyisakan masalah.</p>
<p>Saya ingin menyelesaikan masalah partisi ini. Kalau bisa dengan dampak sekecil mungkin. Resiko akan macet nya kedua SO sebisa mungkin berusaha saya hindari karena bagi saya merupakan suatu petaka.</p>
<p>Saat itu tidak mudah bagi saya untuk mengambil keputusan mengenai bagaimana saya akan mempartisi, tool apa yang akan saya gunakan, dan banyak pertimbangan lain. Saya memulai dari belajar dengan pengalaman Paman Google, ingin mengetahui sejauh mana root partition, boot sector, ubuntu dan windows, gparted dan lain lain. Tidak luput dari sasaran curhat saya adalah id-ubuntu, mailing list ubuntu indonesia.</p>
<p>Beruntung bagi saya, karena di id-ubuntu, banyak mendapati banyak masukan, dan sharing pengalaman dengan komunitas disana. Sampai saya mendapati rekomendasi dari Mas Bayu Albelly untuk menggunakan Parted Magic yang dapat di unduh di http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/ .</p>
<p>Dan fyiiii akhirnya, Partedmagic bekerja sepenuhnya untuk saya.</p>
<p>Gambar saya ambil dengan ponsel, meski Partedmagic menyediakan fasilitas untuk screen capture. Yang karena rasa tidak sabar yang ingin segera melihat apakah pem-partisi-an dapat bekerja dengan baik sampai sampai saya tidak cukup sabar untuk menjajal fitur fitur dari Partedmagic ini.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[23 Useful System Applications for Linux]]></title>
<link>http://ubuntugide.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/23-useful-system-applications-for-linux/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hardik123</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ubuntugide.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/23-useful-system-applications-for-linux/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I earlier wrote about&#160; Top 5 BitTorrent Clients for Ubuntu Linux, 7 Awesome 3D Graphic Design A]]></description>
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<link>http://zappedpoint.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/how-to-format-ntfs-partitions-with-gparted-in-ubuntu/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anxious Nut</dc:creator>
<guid>http://zappedpoint.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/how-to-format-ntfs-partitions-with-gparted-in-ubuntu/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Open a Terminal and type: sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs Restart your Gparted (Partition Editor).]]></description>
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<code>sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs</code></p>
<p>Restart your Gparted (Partition Editor).</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Acht Mini-Reviews für meine Liste mit Linuxalternativen]]></title>
<link>http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/mini-reviews/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>byebyeapplecomputer</dc:creator>
<guid>http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/mini-reviews/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Eine der ersten Seiten dieses Blogs war vor etwa einem Jahr die Liste mit Linuxalternativen. Hier wo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Eine der ersten Seiten dieses Blogs war vor etwa einem Jahr die<a title="Liste mit Linuxalternativen" href="http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/liste-mit-linuxalternativen/"> Liste mit Linuxalternativen</a>. Hier wollte ich die &#8220;must-have&#8221; Linuxprogramme auflisten, die man als Mac Nutzer installieren sollte, damit einem der Wechsel von einem Betriebssystem zum anderen nicht so schwer fällt. Ich hatte auf dieser Seite all die Programme zusammen getragen, die ich unter MacOS X häufig genutzt hatte. Die Liste der Alternativen zu diesen Programmen war in den ersten Monaten noch ziemlich dünn, füllte sich dann aber nach und nach.</p>
<p>Beim Schreiben des Jahresrückblicks (<a title="Der faule Apfel (1 Jahr Bye-bye Apple Computer – Das Fazit: Teil 1)" href="http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/der-faule-apfel/">Teil 1</a> / <a title="Ready When You Are (1 Jahr Bye-bye Apple Computer – Das Fazit: Teil 2)" href="http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/ready-when-you-are/">Teil 2</a>) ist mir dann aufgefallen, dass die Liste mit Linuxalternativen auch nach einem Jahr immer noch ein paar Leerstellen aufweist. Ganz schön viele eigentlich sogar. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Azureus</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">ColorSync</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Cyberduck</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Dashboard</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Disk Utility</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Dock</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">DVD Player</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Exposé</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">EyeTV</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">iCal</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Preview</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Quick Look</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">QuickTime Player</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Spaces</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">VLC</span> (Stand: 19. September 2009). Für all diese Programme hatte ich bislang keine Linuxalternativen aufgelistet. Nun ist nicht nicht so, dass es keine entsprechenden Programme geben würde. Ich hatte bislang nur noch keinen Artikel über diese geschreiben. Das war zum Teil meiner Faulheit geschuldet &#8211; zum Teil aber auch der Tatsache, dass einige Programme nicht spannend genug für eine umfangreiche Besprechung waren. Dennoch will ich euch die noch nicht besprochenen Linuxalternativen nicht vorenthalten. Viele dieser Programme nutze ich bereits seit Monaten, ohne das bislang erwähnt zu haben.</p>
<h3 id="Azureus">Azureus &#124; Transmission</h3>
<div id="attachment_577" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 460px"><img class="size-full wp-image-577" title="Transmission ist ein eleganter, kleiner BitTorrent Client. Merkwürdig, dass ich den unter MacOS X nie installiert hatte." src="http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/screenshot-transmission.png" alt="Transmission ist ein eleganter, kleiner BitTorrent Client. Merkwürdig, dass ich den unter MacOS X nie installiert hatte." width="450" height="470" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Transmission ist ein eleganter, kleiner BitTorrent Client. Merkwürdig, dass ich den unter MacOS X nie installiert hatte.</p></div>
<p>Mein Standardprogramm für BitTorrent war unter MacOS X <a title="Azureus" href="http://azureus.sourceforge.net/">Azureus</a>. Kein besonders elegantes Programm. Aber es unterstützte die Verschlüsselung des Datenstroms und die Umleitung aller Trackeranfragen durch das <a title="Tor" href="http://www.torproject.org/">Tor-Netzwerk</a>. Ubuntu installiert als BT-Standardsoftware <a title="Transmission" href="http://www.transmissionbt.com/">Transmission</a>. Das hat ebenfalls Funktionen für Umleitung und Verschlüsselung. Im Gegensatz zu Azureus ist es viel eleganter zu bedienen und es ist cross-plattform. Ich hätte es also auch auf dem Mac nutzen können. Manchmal ist man hinterher schlauer.</p>
<h3 id="Cyberduck">Cyberduck &#124; Nautilus</h3>
<div id="attachment_571" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 361px"><img class="size-full wp-image-571" title="Die gute Integration von FTP, SMB, WebDAV und Co. in den GNOME Dateimanager Nautilus macht Programme wie Cyberduck für mich überflüssig." src="http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/screenshot-connect-to-server.png" alt="Die gute Integration von FTP, SMB, WebDAV und Co. in den GNOME Dateimanager Nautilus macht Programme wie Cyberduck für mich überflüssig." width="351" height="361" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Die gute Integration von FTP, SMB, WebDAV und Co. in den GNOME Dateimanager Nautilus macht Programme wie Cyberduck für mich überflüssig.</p></div>
<p>Wer auf Daten zugreifen will, die nicht auf dem eigenen PC liegen, steht vor der Frage: Kann mein Betriebssystem das out-of-the-box, oder installiere ich eine spezielle Software dafür. Üblicherweise kommt am Ende eine Art Misch-Lösung dabei heraus. Zumindest bei mir war das bislang immer so. Für die SMB-Verbindungen zu den Rechnern im Netzwerk konnte ich den MacOS X Finder nehmen. Für FTP und WebDAV musste ich <a title="Cyberduck" href="http://cyberduck.ch/">Cyberduck</a> installieren. Die Finder-Integration dieser Protokolle war zu schlecht. Im GNOME Dateimanager <a title="Nautilus" href="http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus">Nautilus</a> ist die Integration der gängigsten Protokolle eine ziemlich runde Sache.  Nautilus mountet Server als Laufwerke. Der Finder kann das theoretisch auch. In der Praxis war das aber immer ganz schön hakelig. Nautilus bekommt das viel besser hin. Alle Protokolle funktionieren reibungslos, man kann Bookmarks setzen, die Passwörter werden im GNOME Schlüsselbund gespeichert &#8211; das ist elegant, mir reicht das. Obwohl Cyberduck ein gutes Programm war, vermisse ich es nicht.</p>
<h3 id="Disk_Utility">Disk Utility &#124; GNOME Partition Manager</h3>
<div id="attachment_572" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 460px"><img class="size-full wp-image-572" title="Apple Disk Utility: Es gibt unter Linux kein Programm mit einem ähnlichen Funktionalitätsprofil. Der GNOME Partition Editor (Abbildung) ist noch am ehesten vergleichbar." src="http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/screenshot-dev-sda-gparted.png" alt="Apple Disk Utility: Es gibt unter Linux kein Programm mit einem ähnlichen Funktionalitätsprofil. Der GNOME Partition Editor (Abbildung) ist noch am ehesten vergleichbar." width="450" height="221" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Apple Disk Utility: Es gibt unter Linux kein Programm mit einem ähnlichen Funktionalitätsprofil. Der GNOME Partition Editor (Abbildung) ist noch am ehesten vergleichbar.</p></div>
<p><a title="Disk Utility" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_Utility">Disk Utility</a> (deutsch: Festplatten Dienstprogramm) ist so eine Art Schweizer Messer für alles rund um Festplatten, DVDs, Diskimages und so weiter. Obwohl&#8230; Der Begriff &#8220;Schweizer Messer&#8221; ist mir irgendwie zu postiv besetzt. Disk Utility ist eher so eine Art &#8220;Allesmöglicheprogramm&#8221;. Ich bin ja kein Fan von Multifunktionsanwendungen. Mit Disk Utility kann man DVDs brennen, Diskimages erstellen und mounten, das Dateisystem überprüfen, Festplatten formatieren, RAID-Systeme aufsetzen und sogar Backups machen. Ein Programm dieser Art gibt es für GNOME (zum Glück) nicht. Die Funktionen von Disk Utility findet man bei Ubuntu sinnvoll auf die passenden Programme verteilt. DVDs kann man beispielsweise mit dem Dateimanager Nautilus brennen. Im Sinne von &#8220;Festplatten Dienstprogramm&#8221; wäre der <a title="http://gparted.sourceforge.net/" href="GNOME Partition Editor">GNOME Partition Editor</a> ein mit Disk Utility vergleichbares Programm. Es macht das, was es soll (Festplatten formatieren), sehr gut. Sprich: Es ist selbsterklärend und der Workflow ist so angelegt, dass man seine Festplatte nicht so leicht aus Versehen formatiert.</p>
<h3 id="VLC">DVD Player / QuickTime &#124; VLC Media Player</h3>
<div id="attachment_573" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 421px"><img class="size-full wp-image-573" title="Der VLC Media Player spielt alle erdenklichen Videoformate problemlos ab." src="http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/screenshot-vlc-media-player.png" alt="Der VLC Media Player spielt alle erdenklichen Videoformate problemlos ab." width="411" height="423" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Der VLC Media Player spielt alle erdenklichen Videoformate problemlos ab.</p></div>
<p>Wenn ich mir auf einem Mac Videos ansehen wollte, dann stand zunächst mal immer die Entscheidung an: <a title="DVD Player" href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2499">DVD Player</a>? <a title="QuickTime Player" href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2507">QuickTime Player</a>? Oder <a title="VideoLAN" href="http://www.videolan.org/">VLC</a>? DVDs aus Deutschland habe ich dann immer mit dem Apple DVD Player angesehen. Für QuickTime-Formate (mov, m4v, mp4, qt) habe ich den QuickTime Player benutzt. Für den Rest, also für DVDs aus den USA, für divx, xvid und Co., habe ich VLC genommen. Ich weiß natürlich, dass das blödsinnig war. VLC spielt auch deutsche DVDs und QuickTime ab. Vermutlich habe ich QuickTime Player und DVD Player einfach aus Gewohnheit immer weiter genutzt und deshalb nie gelöscht. Ich war ja schon seit 1995 Mac-Nutzer und kannte zunächst nur QuickTime. Die Standard-Ubuntuinstallation bringt den Media Player <a title="Totem" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/">Totem</a> mit. Wenn man die entsprechenden Codecs nachinstalliert, spielt der auch eine Menge Videoformate ab. Ich hab mich im Alltag dennoch für VLC entschieden. Vermutlich wieder aus Gewohnheit, weil ich den ja vom Mac schon kannte. &#8220;Hüben wie drüben&#8221;: Der VLC funktioniert auch unter Ubuntu völlig problemlos und ist momentan mein einziger Videoplayer.</p>
<h3 id="Expose">Exposé &#124; Compiz Scale</h3>
<div id="attachment_574" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 460px"><img class="size-full wp-image-574" title="Wem die Ubuntu-Taskbar zu unübersichtlich ist, der könnte es mal mit der Compiz-Option &#34;Scale&#34; versuchen." src="http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/compiz_scale.png" alt="Wem die Ubuntu-Taskbar zu unübersichtlich ist, der könnte es mal mit der Compiz-Option &#34;Scale&#34; versuchen." width="450" height="281" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Wem die Ubuntu-Taskbar zu unübersichtlich ist, der könnte es mal mit der Compiz-Option &#34;Scale&#34; versuchen.</p></div>
<p>Ich bin ja <a title="Ein Blick auf den Ubuntu Desktop" href="http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/ein-blick-auf-den-ubuntu-desktop/">kein großer Fan der GNOME Taskbar</a>. Ein etwas übersichtlicheres Konzept für Fenstermanagement kommt von Apple und heißt <a title="Exposé" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expos%C3%A9_(Mac_OS_X)">Exposé</a>. Ein Klick und man sieht alle offenen Fenster nebeneinander verkleinert auf dem Desktop. Diese Funktion kann man unter Ubuntu auch nutzen. Der Fenstermanager <a title="Compiz" href="http://www.compiz.org/">Compiz</a> hat eine Option &#8220;Scale&#8221;. Die muss man aktivieren. Dummerweise bin ich klickfaul. Die unübersichtliche Navigaton via Taskbar benötigt genau einen Klick weniger als Exposé bzw. Compiz Scale. Obwohl es schick aussieht, benutze ich &#8220;Scale&#8221; selten.</p>
<h3 id="iCal">iCal  &#124; Mozilla Lightning</h3>
<div id="attachment_579" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 460px"><img class="size-full wp-image-579" title="Lightning für Mozilla Thunderbird ist nur 2 Megabyte groß. Meine Linuxalternative für Apple iCal." src="http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/screenshot-september-2009-thunderbird.png" alt="Lightning für Mozilla Thunderbird ist nur 2 Megabyte groß. Meine Linuxalternative für Apple iCal." width="450" height="383" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Lightning für Mozilla Thunderbird ist nur 2 Megabyte groß. Meine Linuxalternative für Apple iCal.</p></div>
<p>Leider habe ich keine eigenständige Kalender-Software für meinen GNOME-Desktop gefunden. Ich fand es immer gut, dass Apple in sein Mail-Programm nie einen Kalender eingebaut hat. Der Multifunktionsansatz von Microsoft Outlook  oder auch von <a title="Evolution ist enttäuschend" href="http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/evolution/">Evolution</a> (Linux) hat mich nie überzeugt. Ich hatte kurzzeitig mal Mozilla Sunbird ausprobiert. Aber bei dem Programm besteht ja akut die Gefahr, dass es nicht weiterentwicklet wird. Vielleicht sollte ich mal einen Blick rüber in KDE Lager werfen. Momentan siegt bei mir die Faulheit. Das <a title="Mozilla Lightning" href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/">Lightning-Plugin</a> für Mozilla Thunderbird (nur 2 Megabyte!) funktioniert problemlos und genügt meinen (möglicherweise geringen) Ansprüchen. Das ist zwar jetzt auch eine integrierte Mail/Kalender-Lösung. Aber die ist wenigstens eleganter als das klobige Evolution. Meine alten Kalender aus Apple iCal habe ich importiert &#8211; und mir weiter keine Gedanken zum Thema Kalender gemacht.</p>
<h3 id="Preview">Preview &#124; Eye of GNOME (Image Viewer)</h3>
<div id="attachment_580" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 460px"><img class="size-full wp-image-580" title="Eye of GNOME ist ein leistungsfähiger PDF- und Bildbetrachter - eine Alternative zu Apple Preview" src="http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/screenshot-ct-1009-180-183-neu1.png" alt="Eye of GNOME ist ein leistungsfähiger PDF- und Bildbetrachter - eine Alternative zu Apple Preview" width="450" height="526" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Eye of GNOME ist ein leistungsfähiger PDF- und Bildbetrachter - eine Alternative zu Apple Preview</p></div>
<p>Auf der WWDC Keynote 2003 hat Steve Jobs den Dokumentenbetrachter <a title="Preview" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preview_(software)">Preview</a> als &#8220;fastest PDF viewer on the planet&#8221; bezeichnet. Und &#8220;gefühlt&#8221; war er das auch so &#8211; gerade im Gegensatz zum Adobe Reader. Preview kann selbst sehr umfangreiche Dokumente quasi ohne Verzögerung öffnen und anzeigen. Die Suche innerhab der Dokumente ist schnell. Neben PDFs zeigt Preview auch alle möglichen Bildformate an &#8211; auch die alle sehr schnell. Ubuntu bringt für diesen Zweck <a title="Eye of GNOME" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/">Eye of GNOME (Image Viewer)</a> mit. Der zeigt ebenfalls PDFs und Bilddateien an. Ist auch sehr schnell. Im direkten Vergleich zu Preview aber vielleicht etwas langsamer. In jedem Fall ist der Image Viewer ein guter Ersatz für Preview.</p>
<h3 id="Spaces">Spaces &#124; Compiz Expo</h3>
<div id="attachment_583" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 460px"><img class="size-full wp-image-583" title="Wechsel zwischen zwei virtuellen Desktops mit dem Compiz-Plugin &#34;Expo&#34;" src="http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/spaces.png" alt="Wechsel zwischen zwei virtuellen Desktops mit dem Compiz-Plugin &#34;Expo&#34;" width="450" height="281" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Wechsel zwischen zwei virtuellen Desktops mit dem Compiz-Plugin &#34;Expo&#34;</p></div>
<p>Als Apple im Jahr 2007(!) mit <a title="Spaces" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaces_(software)">Spaces</a> erstmals virtuelle Desktops für MacOS X einführte, waren sie spät dran. GNOME, KDE und Co. hatten diese Funktion bereits seit Jahren. In der Standardinstallation von Ubuntu sind bereits zwei &#8220;Workspaces&#8221; angelegt. Man erreicht den zweiten Schreibtisch üblicherweise über den kleinen Workspace-Switcher unter rechts.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-582" title="workspace-switcher" src="http://byebyeapplecomputer.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/workspace-switcher.png" alt="workspace-switcher" width="66" height="22" /></p>
<p>Wem das nicht funky genug ist: Es gibt eine Menge Plugins für Compiz, die die Verwaltung der Desktops verschönern und erleichtern. Am bekanntesten ist sicherlich <a title="Compiz Cube" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fedora-Core-6-AIGLX.png">Cube</a>. Ich selbst nutze ich das Plugin &#8220;Expo&#8221;.</p>
<h3>Was jetzt noch fehlt: ColorSync, Dashboard, Dock, EyeTV und Quick Look</h3>
<p>Das Projekt Bye-bye Apple Computer neigt sich allmählich dem Ende zu. Meine Liste mit Linuxalternative ist fast komplett. Es gibt noch fünf Leerstellen: ColorSync, Dashboard, Dock, EyeTV und Quick Look. Bislang habe ich diese Programme/Dienste aus ganz unterschiedlichen Gründen nicht vermisst. Deshalb hatte ich mich auch noch nicht auf die Suche nach Alternativen gemacht. Mein alter Mac mini ist noch als Videorecorder in Betrieb. Ich brauche momentan keine Alternative zu <a title="EyeTV" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgato#EyeTV">EyeTV</a>, weil ich es auf meinem VCR-Mac ja noch nutze. Auf die Suche nach einer Linuxalternative für das <a title="Dock" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_(Mac_OS_X)">Dock</a> hatte ich mich bislang noch nicht gemacht, weil ich das Grundkonzept des Apple Docks nicht gut finde. Ähnliches gilt fürs <a title="Dashboard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_(software)">Dashboard</a>. Im Prinzip finde ich Widgets für Wetter oder Fahrplan ganz gut. Aber der Zugriff über das Dashboard-Layer war mir im Grunde immer ein Klick zuviel. Tja und <a title="ColorSync" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorSync">ColorSync</a>? Soweit ich das sehe, ist Farbmanagement für Linux kein großes Thema. Wenn ich den entsprechenden <a title="Linux color management" href="http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_color_management">Eintrag auf Wikipedia</a> richtig verstehe, dann unterstützen etliche Applikationen im Prinzip ein Farbmanagement. Wie ich meinen Monitor vernünftig kalibrieren kann, weiß ich aber nicht. Das Ergebnis: Momentan sehen meine Fotos noch auf jedem Monitor unterschiedlich aus.<br />
<span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/xLvDePMrFk8&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/xLvDePMrFk8&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span><br />
Und dann gibt es da ja auch noch <a title="Quick Look" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_Look">Quick Look</a>. Die Instant-Vorschau für den MacOS X Finder. Ganz ehrlich: Das ist eine Funktion, die ich tatsächlich schwer vermisse. Auf dem Mac kann man sich eine sehr große Vorschau einer beliebigen Datei anzeigen lassen, indem man die Leertaste im Finder drückt. Das ist sehr sehr praktisch. Für Linuxsysteme ist diese Funktion erst noch in Entwicklung. Das Projekt nennt sich Gloobus und es scheint ganz gute Fortschritte zu machen. Ich kenne bislang nur vielversprechende YouTube Demos (siehe oben). Mit der Installation warte ich aber wohl ein paar Monate. Stoff für den ein oder anderen Beitrag scheint es mir auch nach einem Jahr &#8220;Bye bye Apple Computer&#8221; noch zu geben. Ein Glück.</p>
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<p>- at many reboot steps, you need to hold down the c key to give you your boot options of hdd&#8217;s or dvd&#8217;s</p>
<p>- to work out a few driver issues in Windows (for older versions of OSX), use boot camp (free from apple) to create the windows drivers cd but DO NOT  				use it to partition your drive or any of that other jazz. Just make the cd which you&#8217;ll need later. If you have a later version of OSX all the drivers should be on your OSX install disk which you can put in after booting into your new OS.</p>
<h3>Lets begin!</h3>
<p>1. Make sure you have OSX installed on your macbook. I should not have to tell you this.</p>
<p>2. Run the following diskutil resizeVolume command (with a leading sudo command) in the osx terminal (according to your hard drive size) which resizes your osx partition and adds 2 others with the windows partition last (osx: hfs linux: linux windows: ms-dos fat32&#8230;will be converted at Windows install) So, run it like the following (except you&#8217;ll need to split up the sizes according to &#8220;YOUR&#8221; hard drive&#8230; and don&#8217;t go over):<br />
(before running this command, check the list of partitions.<br />
disk0s2 is most likely the main partition name. To find out type: &#8216;diskutil list&#8217; and verify the name as well as the fact that there should be one EFI partition (disk0s1) and then your OS X partition(disk0s2)</p>
<div id="diskutil">terminal command$   sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 75G &#8220;Linux&#8221; &#8220;Linux&#8221; 15G &#8220;MS-DOS FAT32&#8243; &#8220;Windows&#8221; 20G<br />
(after it does its thing&#8230;  run &#8220;diskutil list&#8221; again to verify that it worked right)</div>
<div><strong>This does not work for every macbook and I am guessing it is just the newer 10.5+ versions of OSX that this will not work.  If you are getting a message with something saying that &#8220;Linux&#8221; is not a proper format do this:</strong></div>
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<blockquote><p>- Download Gparted from this link <a href="http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php" target="_blank">http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php</a> and burn the image to disk.  If the link is expired just Google Gparted and download the image from another site. (If you are unsure how to burn an image to disk you are probably not ready for this tutorial, but check if I have made a tutorial on burning images to disk.)</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>- Boot into Gparted by holding down the c key on your keyboard when starting up.  Follow the onscreen instructions.</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>- Once you are in the GUI (graphical user interface) of Gparted you can now see all your HDD&#8217;s and partitions.  Now you can resize your OSX partition and create new ones.  Resize your OSX partition to your liking and create an NTFS partition at the end on the HDD and a ext2 partition in the middle.  (Windows can only be booted from the last partition.)</p></blockquote>
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<p>3. (while pressing c) Reboot with the Windows DVD in the drive. Install windows on the correct partition(should be sda4 or hda4) Don&#8217;t worry if Windows doesn&#8217;t finish all the way or won&#8217;t boot all the way yet. Just get as far as you can in the installation and then go to the next step. Preferably you get a chance to boot into Windows to make sure it is working.</p>
<p>4. (while pressing c) Reboot and install Linux OS from the dvd of your choice. Make sure it&#8217;s also installed on the right partition and during installation, install the grub bootloader when it asks. Make sure grub is installed on the linux partition and NOT the base of the hdd (for example: sda3 instead of sda)</p>
<p>6. Don&#8217;t worry about any problems with Fedora not working perfectly either because Windows and Linux OS most definitely won&#8217;t work or boot yet due to a range of problems between file systems, boot loaders, operating-system greediness and so on&#8230;(Unless you have installed rEFIt already which is how I did it, but other suggest to do it later. I don&#8217;t see the harm in installing it earlier in lets say step 0.  This way you will have the choice of booting into Windows right away to see if it works otherwise&#8230;)</p>
<p>7. Boot into OS X and download a program called rEFIt and extract the files to the root directory in OSX (for example: Macintosh HD, just put the &#8220;extracted&#8221; files right in there and then&#8230;</p>
<p>8. The new version of rEFIt will install itself (reboot after install and see if you get the boot menu) otherwise&#8230;open up the terminal (still in osx) and cd into /efi/refit directory and then run ./enable.sh, it will ask for your password and bam, you have the refit boot screen loader for your mac making it possible to see all your installed partitions at startup (by pressing the alt/option key and selecting the rEFIt logo) and OS&#8217;s (even though they&#8217;re not all working yet)</p>
<p><strong>If you can not boot into any operating system yet from rEFIt: (or if you can at least boot into Linux OS skip to 19)</strong></p>
<p>9. (while pressing c) Boot into the Linux OS DVD and run the command &#8220;linux rescue&#8221; Get to the prompt (skipping the disk check and the ethernet setup)</p>
<p>10. Once at the prompt, chroot to /mnt/sysimage</p>
<p>11. cd into /boot/grub and type:  cp grub.conf grub.conf.backup(for a backup)  and then type:  nano grub.conf</p>
<p>12. In nano, add the following at the bottom(and don&#8217;t save just yet):</p>
<p>title Windows at sda4<br />
rootnoverify (hd0,3)<br />
savedefault<br />
makeactive<br />
chainloader +1</p>
<p>(this is where the magic occurs allowing grub to point to the windows MBR on boot&#8230; but we&#8217;re not done)<br />
13. Make a few other minor changes to what was there already in the file &#8211; just make sure your grub.conf file matches this 				and you should be ok:</p>
<p># grub.conf generated by anaconda<br />
#<br />
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file<br />
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that<br />
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.<br />
#          root (hd0,2)<br />
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00<br />
#          initrd /initrd-version.img<br />
#boot=/dev/sda3<br />
default=0<br />
timeout=50<br />
color white/blue<br />
foreground ffffff<br />
background 0639a1<br />
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz<br />
#hiddenmenu<br />
title Linux OS<br />
root (hd0,2)<br />
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet<br />
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img</p>
<p>title Windows at sda4<br />
rootnoverify (hd0,3)<br />
savedefault<br />
makeactive<br />
chainloader +1</p>
<p>14. Ctrl-x and confirm with &#8221; y &#8221; to overwrite the existing file</p>
<p>15. Go back to root ( cd / ) and type:  fdisk /dev/sda (that&#8217;s a space after fdisk)</p>
<p>16. Enter option: &#8221; t &#8221; &#8230; and then partition number &#8221; 4 &#8221; (the windows partition number) and then the id number &#8221; 7 &#8221; (which changes the Windows partition to an HPFS/NTFS partition id) Then type &#8221; w &#8221; to write the changes to the drive &#8211; This will save you from a windows booting error when the filesystem ID&#8217;s clash -</p>
<p>17. Type exit twice to reboot</p>
<p>18. (while pressing c) Reboot and DO NOT ENTER THE rEFIt MENU and then&#8230;  				eject the linux OS dvd and insert the windows dvd.</p>
<p><strong>This is all I had to do to make it work:</strong></p>
<p>19. Boot into the windows dvd and after choosing the language, click on &#8220;repair&#8221; instead of install and just follow each step. It will automatically find a windows startup problem and fix it automatically (if it doesn&#8217;t detect the OS or the problem the 1st time, reboot and do it again&#8230;it didn&#8217;t detect the problem the first time on mine&#8230;if it does on yours&#8230;kudos!)</p>
<p>20. After windows is repaired and the computer restarts, take out the DVD, select the rEFIt menu, and if you did everything correctly (and in the right order)&#8230;choose any OS and VOILA! You should have a triplebooting machine!!!</p>
<p><strong>For older OSX versions:</strong></p>
<p>~ And now, for those windows drivers from the cd you made. This can be a little tricky but pretty necessary if you want Windows to be totally functional with your mac. First, put in the drivers cd and start the installation. It will then begin to install all the necessary files and drivers into a directory but then&#8230; the installation will fail (at least it did on mine several times) So what you must do is snatch the folder full of drivers before it quits. Luckily, Windows stops at the end of the drivers installation and asks for some kind of verification on something. That is the window of time to go to Program Files (assuming you know where that is) and then copy and paste the &#8220;macintosh drivers&#8221; folder that it installed to your desktop. After the verify window is closed, it fails and rips back all those files, but if you did it fast enough, then you&#8217;ll have a copy on your desktop. Then you simply go into the Device Manager and update any drivers you want in there. I also looked through the whole folder and installed anything that looked necessary (if it wasn&#8217;t compatible then it wouldn&#8217;t let me). Sometimes it would say, &#8220;do you want Windows to re-install that software with the recommended settings&#8221; and i&#8217;d just say yes and let it do its thing. But, it&#8217;s your computer and you can do it any way you please.</p>
<p>Other things worth mentioning:<br />
- Linux OS will automatically install everything pretty nicely except for your wireless adapter, ACPI (sleep mode), and other little things, use the updater or other resources online to fix Linux OS the way you want them.</p>
<p>Many thanks to: http://tripleboot.is2.byuh.edu/</p>
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<title><![CDATA[First post!  Installing Xubuntu 9.04]]></title>
<link>http://ericd1.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/first-post-installing-xubuntu-9-04/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ericd1</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ericd1.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/first-post-installing-xubuntu-9-04/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well, one has to start somewhere, and the title seemed as good as any. I&#8217;ve been interested in]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Well, one has to start somewhere, and the title seemed as good as any.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been interested in open source software for quite some time, and I finally decided that I should stop thinking about it, and actually start doing something.  I put together a nice Opteron-based desktop machine a while ago that wasn&#8217;t seeing much activity, so it&#8217;s going to be my development box.</p>
<p>First step: Install a current Linux distro.  Xubuntu 9.04 was my choice.  I like the ubiquity of Ubuntu, but would rather have a relatively small number of apps initially installed along with the OS.  I have a laptop on which  I have tried several distros; the method of installation for these experiments was via USB stick using <a title="UNetbootin" href="http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">UNetbootin</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/"><img class="aligncenter" title="UNetbootin screen" src="http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=173791" alt="" width="410" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>In my experience, this has worked quite well, so I prepared a stick with the Xubuntu 9.04 AMD64 alternate install.  Oops.  I found out that the BIOS on my target machine didn&#8217;t allow for booting from a USB stick.  No matter &#8211; I made an &#8220;old fashioned&#8221; .iso CD, and proceeded with the installation.</p>
<p>I faced one other problem.  My new dev box has two hard drives.  I had previously fooled around with a RAID1 setup; for this incarnation, I decided against RAID and simply planned to have a very large &#8220;home1&#8243; partition on the second drive for backup use.</p>
<p>(Yes, I know everyone has backup scheme advice, and I know that what I&#8217;m doing now isn&#8217;t ideal.  What I&#8217;ll <em>eventually</em> do is add another drive with capacity &#62;= the total of the existing drives, convert the original two drives to RAID0, and backup regularly to the third drive.)</p>
<p>Setup of the &#8220;hda&#8221; drive went just fine, but I was getting warnings about volume issues when I tried to work on the second drive, and I was unable to proceed.  I was able to fix things by using a <a href="http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php" target="_blank">GParted Live CD</a>.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 450px"><a href="http://gparted.sourceforge.net/"><img class="  " src="http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screens/gparted_1_big.jpg" alt="Example screen shot from the GParted site." width="440" height="296" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Example screen shot from the GParted site.</p></div>
<p>I&#8217;ll readily admit that I&#8217;m not a CLI guru, so I appreciated the clear GParted GUI.  Believe me, this live CD (or updated versions thereof) will be part of my permanent tool kit.</p>
<p>Anyway, the rest of the installation went well, and I was happy to see that wireless networking <em>just worked</em>.  With earlier distros of Ubuntu &#38; Fedora (a couple of generations back, I might add), I just could not get the damn wireless working, and I eventually bought a Linksys <span style="visibility:visible;"><span style="visibility:visible;">WRT54GL, flashed it with DD-WRT, and configured it as a bridge.  Now, the internal card works nicely.  In a future entry, I&#8217;ll cover updating the  WRT54GL with the latest version of DD-WRT (or something similar), so I can use it as my main wireless router.<br />
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<title><![CDATA[How-to: preparare una macchina Windows al dual boot (pulizia e "miracoli")]]></title>
<link>http://andrealazzarotto.com/2009/07/24/how-to-preparare-una-macchina-windows-al-dual-boot-pulizia-e-miracoli/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lazza</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Spero che non vi stupiate per il titolo a effetto (che miracoli vi farò mai fare?) però installando ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Spero che non vi stupiate per il titolo a effetto (che miracoli vi farò mai fare?) però installando Linux sia ad amici che a persone incontrate alle install fest, mi sono reso conto che quasi sempre la maggior parte del tempo che si perde per creare un dual boot è quello speso a preparare Windows a &#8220;subire&#8221; l&#8217;intervento. <img src="http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/276/facehumio6.png" alt="" align="absmiddle" /></p>
<p>Mi sembra banale dire &#8220;ho visto cose che voi umani non potete nemmeno immaginare&#8221; (non so se la citazione sia esatta, tra l&#8217;altro) però me ne sono capitate veramente di tutti i colori. Quando installo Linux in dual boot mi trovo di fronte a sistemi disastrati, pieni di software installati e non più utilizzati, &#8220;inutility&#8221;, file residui sparsi in giro, ed un disco frammentato in maniera improponibile. Se poi il sistema monta Windows Vista (o successivo), ci si mette anche il sistema operativo a impedirci di ridimensionare con tranquillità le partizioni.</p>
<p>Tutto ciò mi è già capitato di persona ed è stato abbastanza snervante, più che altro per la perdita di tempo. La prima domanda a cui rispondere è: perché mai ci si dovrebbe impegnare a ripulire Windows? Non possiamo lasciare all&#8217;utente il disastro e semplicemente installare Linux? La risposta è: avere spazio e guadagnare sicurezza. <img src="http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/6978/facewinkll0.png" alt="" align="absmiddle" /></p>
<p><!--more-->Le schifezze e i software inutilizzati occupano spazio. A volte parecchio spazio. A un&#8217;install fest è venuto un amico che aveva l&#8217;hard disk praticamente pieno (forse il caso peggiore che abbia mai visto). Solo facendogli usare un pulitore abbiamo tolto 3 giga di file. Sì, ho detto 3 gigabyte. Un altro amico mi ha chiesto di allargargli la partizione di Ubuntu e ridurre quella di Windows. Gli ho detto che non c&#8217;era tanto spazio e che volevo togliere del software inutile, chiedendogli se usava alcuni dei programmi più grossi. Una volta avuto il via libera, alla fine ho tolto qualcosa come 15-20 giga (poi vi spiegherò perché ci sono cose, a volte, che occupano così tanto).</p>
<p>Da cosa deriva la sicurezza? Partizionare è una operazione ormai abbastanza sicura, ma non infallibile. Inoltre, a seconda di come è ridotto il disco, richiede più o meno tempo. Una partizione contenente molti file, ed eccessivamente frammentata, potrà essere ridimensionata con molta fatica. Tutto ciò oltre a provocare già di suo un calo di prestazioni da parte di qualsiasi sistema voglia accedere a quei file.</p>
<p><strong>Preparazione del materiale</strong></p>
<p>Per essere sicuri di poter procedere in sicurezza durante tutto il processo, ci si avvalerà di tutta una serie di software. Sul lato Windows saranno richiesti alcuni software non liberi (ma gratuiti). Mi dispiace, ma non c&#8217;è molta alternativa, altrimenti ve l&#8217;avrei detto. In sintesi tutto ciò che ci servirà è indicato nel seguente elenco:</p>
<ul>
<li>Parted Magic modificato aggiungendo delle utility Windows</li>
<li>Windows Vista recovery disc (se il sistema è Windows Xp ci rende più semplici alcuni passaggi, però è sempre meglio averlo dietro così se capitano utenti con Vista si può lavorare lo stesso)</li>
<li>Un disco con la distribuzione che vogliamo installare</li>
</ul>
<p>In totale quindi sono 2 cd e un terzo cd oppure un dvd (dipende dalla dimensione della distro scelta).</p>
<p>Per la preparazione del disco modificato di Parted Magic servono alcuni &#8220;ingredienti&#8221;. Per prima cosa scaricate la iso più recente dal <a href="http://partedmagic.com/" target="_blank">sito ufficiale</a>. A questo punto dovete procurarvi le versioni portable di questi software per Windows: <a href="http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds/downloading-portable" target="_blank">CCleaner</a>, <a href="http://www.defraggler.com/download/builds/downloading-zip" target="_blank">Defraggler</a>, <a href="http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html" target="_blank">Revo Uninstaller</a>. Ripeto una seconda volta, assicuratevi che siano le versioni <strong>portable</strong>, ovvero quelle che non richiedono installazione. Scompattatene gli archivi zip e tenete a portata di mano le tre directory (io le ho anche rinominate per avere un nome più comprensibile).</p>
<p>A questo punto è necessario installare <a href="http://www.littlesvr.ca/isomaster/" target="_blank">Isomaster</a> sul vostro sistema Linux (leggo sul sito ufficiale che esiste anche per Windows&#8230; ma voi usate Linux, vero? <img src="http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/6978/facewinkll0.png" alt="" align="absmiddle" />). Questo software serve a modificare la iso di Parted Magic per aggiungerci le tre cartelle dei software di cui sopra. Io ho creato una directory chiamata &#8220;Windows&#8221; nella radice del disco e li ho messi dentro lì. Non mi dilungherò sull&#8217;uso di Isomaster, è molto intuitivo. Non sono neppure presenti delle grandi guide online.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1154" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h22m09s232" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h22m09s232.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h22m09s232" width="420" height="345" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>In pochi click la iso è pronta per essere creata e masterizzata</em></p>
<p>Per quanto riguarda il Windows Vista recovery disc, è bene tenerlo nel &#8220;kit del perfetto installatore pinguino&#8221; <img src="http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8887/facetonguegr7.png" alt="" align="absmiddle" /> anche se ci sono persone che hanno ancora Windows Xp. È sempre meglio avere tutto a disposizione, piuttosto che trovarsi ad aver fatto una modifica di cui ci si pentirà. Questo disco altro non è che una versione ridotta del disco di installazione di Windows Vista (non installa nulla, anche se presenta ancora l&#8217;apposito bottone, che restituisce errore). Ai tempi della beta di Windows Vista <a href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070929/vista-sp1-recovery-disc/" target="_blank">si poteva creare con un apposito strumento del pannello di controllo</a> (dopotutto non è nulla di strano, visto che non porta con sè una copia di Windows ma può solo ripararne di già installate).</p>
<p>Nelle versioni definitive di Windows Vista è stata rimossa questa possibilità, tuttavia il disco è <a href="http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/" target="_blank">disponibile al download</a> via torrent (pesa 120mb). Io tuttavia non ero riuscito a far andare quel torrent ad una velocità accettabile, ed avevo ripiegato per cercarlo sui siti di file hosting, <a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=re0rym28" target="_blank">trovandolo qui</a>. Ribadisco che l&#8217;unica utilità di questo tipo di disco è quella di ripristinare una installazione di Vista rovinata.</p>
<p><strong>Presentazione del &#8220;caso&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Non avendo a disposizione una licenza di Windows Vista (come sapete, sto chiedendo il rimborso), ho utilizzato la RC pubblica di Windows 7, il prossimo sistema di Microsoft. La cosa &#8220;fantastica&#8221; è che da gli stessi problemi di Vista per fare il dual boot. <img src="http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2483/facesurprisenm6.png" alt="" align="absmiddle" /> Quindi le indicazioni che darò per Windows 7 sono le stesse che per Windows Vista, nessun problema. Anche in Windows 7 si può creare un disco di ripristino, ed è disponibile dal pannello di controllo. <a href="http://forums.techarena.in/guides-tutorials/1114725.htm" target="_blank">Leggete qui</a> per come fare. Eseguendolo in macchina virtuale, ho dovuto utilizzare <a href="http://www.virtualcd-online.com/" target="_blank">Virtual CD</a> per avere un masterizzatore che salvasse in iso. L&#8217;usabilità di questo software è pari a zero.</p>
<p>Ora che avete preparato tutto il materiale, siete pronti ad affrontare qualsiasi pc con Windows Xp o Vista senza particolari problemi. <strong>Rimane sempre buona la raccomandazione di fare un backup e installare tutti gli aggiornamenti.</strong> Vi presento ora la macchina virtuale che utilizzerò per questa guida:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1155" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h31m46s115" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h31m46s115.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h31m46s115" width="420" height="320" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Carina, vero?</em></p>
<p>Si chiama Discarica. <img src="http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/4363/facegrinza0.png" alt="" align="absmiddle" /> È una macchina virtuale con 1 giga di ram e 30 giga di hard disk, che ho moderatamente &#8220;torturato&#8221; simulando un utilizzo continuo e medio di Windows (quando in realtà è stata aperta solo poche ma intense ore). Ho installato Windows 7 e l&#8217;ho sporcato un po&#8217;. Poi ce l&#8217;ho reinstallato sopra nuovamente in modo da simulare un aggiornamento da precedenti versioni di Windows (causa di grande spreco di spazio). Ho installato diversi programmi assolutamente inutili oppure ridondanti (avrei potuto fare molto peggio, ma è un esempio e non volevo fosse troppo esagerato), e ho navigato in lungo e in largo seminando cache ovunque. Ho anche riempito il cestino di file.</p>
<p>Fortunatamente Discarica è solo una macchina, altrimenti con tutte le &#8220;violenze&#8221; che ha subito mi avrebbero denunciato. <img src="http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8095/facetonguewinkif7.png" alt="" align="absmiddle" /> Scherzi a parte, come ho ridotto la macchina è veramente poco in confronto a come diventano i sistemi di chi generalmente chiede di avere un dual boot.</p>
<p>C&#8217;è quindi un assaggio di tutti i problemi riscontrabili:</p>
<ul>
<li>file inutili</li>
<li>registro con chiavi corrotte</li>
<li>software installato e inutile</li>
<li>partizione frammentata</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Prima pulizia dei file e del registro<br />
</strong></p>
<p>Prima di tutto, si evidenzia che il disco è troppo pieno per poter accontentare subito la richiesta dell&#8217;utente (dividere il disco al 50% tra i due sistemi operativi).</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1156" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h34m11s33" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h34m11s33.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h34m11s33" width="291" height="108" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Metà disco è occupato</em></p>
<p>Naturalmente ripeto che è solo un esempio, 15 giga occupati non sono molti, però fingeremo che siano di più, e ci concentreremo sul &#8220;metà disco è troppo&#8221;. È giunta l&#8217;ora di avviare CCleaner e fare una prima passata. Inseriamo il disco di Parted Magic che vi ho fatto modificare prima, e apriamo CCleaner portable.</p>
<p>Nella prima schermata premiamo <em>Analyze</em>, e vediamo come la sporcizia occupi tranquillamente qualche centinaio di megabyte. Premendo <em>Run cleaner</em> e accettando l&#8217;avvertimento i file inutili verranno rimossi.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1157" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h33m39s228" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h33m39s228.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h33m39s228" width="420" height="282" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Qui ho 332,1 mb da cancellare</em></p>
<p>Il passo successivo è la pulizia del registro. Aprendo la scheda <em>Registry</em> si potrà analizzare il registro cliccando su <em>Scan for issues</em>. Per rimuoverle, clicchiamo su <em>Fix selected issues</em>, e poi su <em>Fix all selected issues</em>. Rispondete pure negativamente alla richiesta di creare un backup del registro.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1158" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h35m37s121" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h35m37s121.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h35m37s121" width="420" height="282" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>&#8220;Solo&#8221; 30 chiavi corrotte nella macchina di prova</em></p>
<p>Ora è il turno del pulitore interno di Windows. Non utilizzeremo tutte le sue funzionalità subito, ma una buona parte sì. Lo strumento dovrebbe essere raggiungibile tramite <em>Start &#62; Programmi &#62; Accessori &#62; Utilità di sistema &#62; Pulitura disco</em> (più o meno, avendo il sistema in inglese traduco io). Dopo una prima analisi lo strumento vi presenterà ciò che è possibile cancellare. Selezionate tutte le caselline, e poi cancellate. Il processo ci metterà un poco. Se avete delle installazioni di Windows precedenti vedrete che occupano davvero molto!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1159" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h48m38s252" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h48m38s252.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h48m38s252" width="371" height="172" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Altro spazio liberato <img src="http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8775/facesmilebigsp5.png" alt="" align="absmiddle" /></em></p>
<p><strong>Rimozione del software inutile</strong></p>
<p>Il software, si sa, è utile solo se viene utilizzato. Su Windows esistono un sacco di programmi che spesso vengono installati e poi nella pratica non servono a nulla. Esistono svariate situazioni, e poi con l&#8217;esperienza si comincia a capire se un certo programma serve o no a ogni tipo di utente. Una lista di esempi, per niente esaustiva, può essere questa:</p>
<ul>
<li>toolbar per i browser</li>
<li>strumento di connessione adsl di una certa azienda, quando l&#8217;utente usa un router con dhcp</li>
<li>software pubblicitario</li>
<li>software demo il cui periodo di prova è scaduto</li>
<li>videogiochi vecchi che l&#8217;utente non usa più</li>
<li>presenza in contemporanea di Office e OpenOffice quando l&#8217;utente usa solo ed esclusivamente quest&#8217;ultimo</li>
<li>4 o 5 browser diversi e il pc non appartiene a uno sviluppatore web</li>
</ul>
<p>Avviate Revo Uninstaller dal cd e verificate la situazione per quanto riguarda i programmi installati. Ecco un esempio:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1160" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h53m04s94" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h53m04s94.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h53m04s94" width="420" height="306" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Non ho voluto esagerare</em></p>
<p>Mi sono trattenuto, e ho solamente installato un sacco di browser e la Toolbar di Yahoo!. Potevo fare di peggio (e sicuramente vi capiterà di peggio). Vi mostro come si usa il software solo per rimuovere la Yahoo! Toolbar. Prima di tutto c&#8217;è da dire che Revo Uninstaller combina le sue tecniche di disinstallazione con la disinstallazione classica fornita dal programma che si vuole rimuovere. In primo luogo crea un punto di ripristino di sistema (li toglieremo dopo), poi analizza i dati dell&#8217;applicazione. Fa partire la disinstallazione normale del programma (anche se non funziona non importa), e infine parte la scansione post-disinstallazione.</p>
<p>Voi scegliete sempre il metodo avanzato per fare la rimozione. Nella fase di rimozione standard del programma, ricordatevi di rifiutare qualsiasi riavvio del computer che vi propone, altrimenti non potrete finire l&#8217;opera con Revo. Nella post-rimozione, la regola generale è di eliminare tutte le chiavi di registro che trova (sempre che siano sotto alle 500-600 al massimo, se vedete che comincia a scorrerne un numero elevatissimo lasciate stare che è meglio). Infine rimuovete i file che vi propone (controllate magari prima). Ricordate che oltre a selezionare gli elementi dovete premere il pulsante <em>Delete</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1161" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h54m38s18" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h54m38s18.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h54m38s18" width="420" height="273" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Chiavi di registro&#8230; qui saremmo già altini! <img src="http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/276/facehumio6.png" alt="" align="absmiddle" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1162" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h55m33s51" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h55m33s51.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-17h55m33s51" width="420" height="273" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>File residui</em></p>
<p>Ho rimosso altri programmi ed ecco ciò che è rimasto dopo la cura:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1163" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h01m45s114" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h01m45s114.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h01m45s114" width="420" height="115" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Potevo rimuovere anche altre cose</em></p>
<p><strong>Seconda pulizia dei file</strong></p>
<p>Ripetete quanto detto su CCleaner per i file, e soprattutto per il registro. Molto probabilmente non troverà nessun problema di registro, perché Revo Uninstaller funziona molto bene. A questo punto riaprite lo strumento di pulitura disco di Windows, ma stavolta andate nella scheda <em>Avanzate</em>. Lì c&#8217;è un pulsante per pulire i punti di ripristino e le copie shadow. Fatelo senza pietà.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1164" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h03m09s6" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h03m09s6.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h03m09s6" width="386" height="211" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Nessuna pietà!</em></p>
<p><strong>Deframmentazione del disco</strong></p>
<p>Siamo a buon punto. Avviando Defraggler dal disco, possiamo constatare subito come l&#8217;occupazione di spazio su disco sia ragionevolmente calata:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1165" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h04m41s156" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h04m41s156.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h04m41s156" width="420" height="318" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Il grafico a torta parla chiaro</em></p>
<p>Premendo <em>Analyze</em> tuttavia si riscontra come la disposizione dei file su disco sia relativamente pietosa. Forse un giorno alla Microsoft decideranno di usare qualche filesystem decente, come ad esempio ext4. Lo so, sono troppo ottimista.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1166" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h04m49s240" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h04m49s240.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h04m49s240" width="420" height="57" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>I file sono poco frammentati, ma lo spazio lo è molto</em></p>
<p>Dopo la deframmentazione la situazione è molto migliorata:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1167" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h10m38s105" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h10m38s105.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h10m38s105" width="420" height="57" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>I file sono quasi tutti all&#8217;inizio del disco</em></p>
<p>Guardate la piccola zona viola nella prima parte del disco. Quella è la MFT, un punto vitale per il filesystem NFTS. Nessuno strumento di deframmentazione la può spostare mentre il sistema è in esecuzione. Nel caso in esame essa si trova sorprendentemente ad inizio disco, di fatto rendendo molto facili le cose, nel senso che se ci si limita a ridurre la partizione spostando la fine, difficilmente si corromperà l&#8217;avvio del sistema (può succedere lo stesso). In tutti i computer che mi sono capitati la MFT era più verso la fine del disco, complicando notevolmente le cose. Ho pertanto usato un espediente per generare la situazione d&#8217;errore, ve lo spiegherò in seguito.</p>
<p>Aprendo lo strumento di partizionamento incluso in Windows (è veramente basilare e scarso, non mi spreco nemmeno a dirvi come accedervi), si può vedere che dopo la deframmentazione, mi lascia ridurre di pochissimo la partizione:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1168" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h11m24s91" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h11m24s91.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h11m24s91" width="420" height="290" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Duec&#8230; duec&#8230; duecento cosa? <img src="http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2483/facesurprisenm6.png" alt="" align="absmiddle" /></em></p>
<p>Ecco, egregi lettori, quanto mi permette di guadagnare in spazio il partizionatore di Windows, dopo aver anche deframmentato il volume. 281 megabyte. E che ci faccio io, un micro-swap? A risolvere il problema ci pensa Parted Magic.</p>
<p><strong>Partizionare l&#8217;hard disk</strong></p>
<p>Riavviate il computer con il cd ancora inserito e fate fare il boot a Parted Magic.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1169" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h12m45s133" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h12m45s133.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h12m45s133" width="420" height="320" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Se potete (e sicuramente potete), avviate la prima voce, che carica tutto in ram e fa andare il sistema come una scheggia!</em></p>
<p>Si presenterà un desktop ricco di strumenti ottimi per gestire tutto ciò che riguarda dischi e partizioni. A noi interessa solo lo strumento <em>Partition Editor</em>, avviabile con un doppio click dal desktop.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1170" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h14m57s167" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h14m57s167.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h14m57s167" width="420" height="293" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Gparted è un ottimo strumento</em></p>
<p>Il partizionatore è molto semplice da usare. Fate le modifiche sul grafico delle partizioni, e poi cliccate su <em>Apply</em>. Ovviamente attenti a non fare sciocchezze. Io ho dimezzato (a occhio) la partizione, e l&#8217;ho messa alla fine del disco. In questo modo sono sicuro che la MFT si sposta, e Windows Vista (o superiore) va in errore (devo pur mostrarvelo). <img src="http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8887/facetonguegr7.png" alt="" align="absmiddle" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1171" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h16m00s32" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h16m00s32.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h16m00s32" width="420" height="55" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>La situazione dopo le modifiche</em></p>
<p>Contenti dell&#8217;opera riavviate il computer e vi apprestate a verificare il corretto avvio di Windows&#8230; Se il computer ha Xp potete stare tranquilli, in genere non succede nulla. Ecco però cosa accade su Windows Vista o Seven:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1172" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h16m35s126" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h16m35s126.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h16m35s126" width="420" height="320" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>La solita eleganza spartana degli errori di avvio</em></p>
<p>Non vi resta altro che inserire il recovery disc (visto che serviva?) e riavviare il computer. Quando richiesto, premete un tasto qualsiasi per avviare il disco. Se si tratta di quello di Vista, dopo avere inserito la lingua dovrete scegliere <em>Repair your computer</em>. Il disco di Seven invece richiede semplicemente la lingua.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1173" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h18m38s80" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h18m38s80.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h18m38s80" width="420" height="320" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>La scansione alla ricerca dei sistemi Windows</em></p>
<p>Nella quasi totalità dei casi, spunterà un pop up come questo:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1174" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h18m52s218" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h18m52s218.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-23-18h18m52s218" width="410" height="176" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Intelligente, dopotutto!</em></p>
<p>Premendo <em>Repair and restart</em>, in un attimo il computer si riavvierà. Stavolta lasciate che parta Windows e sarà tutto a posto. Se invece dopo la scansione il pop up non compare, aspettate che vi indichi il sistema installato, cliccate su <em>Next</em> e scegliete <em>Startup repair</em>. Questo impiegherà un paio di minuti ma avrà lo stesso effetto.</p>
<p>Questo è quanto. Ora potete tranquillamente installare la distro prescelta con la sicurezza che avete già un adeguato spazio libero su disco non allocato, nel quale adagiare le partizioni. <img src="http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/6131/facesmilevx9.png" alt="" width="22" height="22" align="absmiddle" /> Io ho scelto di installare <a href="http://andrealazzarotto.com/2009/06/26/ubuntu-pure-remix-9-04-jaunty-pronta-per-luso/">Ubuntu Pure remix</a>:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1175" title="vlcsnap-2009-07-24-12h59m48s171" src="http://lazza.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vlcsnap-2009-07-24-12h59m48s171.png" alt="vlcsnap-2009-07-24-12h59m48s171" width="420" height="330" /></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Ubuntu confonde Windows 7 con Vista, ma non fa nulla</em></p>
<p>Spero che la guida vi possa essere utile nelle prossime installazioni che farete. Sono cose che ho fatto più volte sempre in modo un po&#8217; disordinato e frammentato, e quindi aiuta anche me avere stilato delle linee guida che potrò seguire le prossime volte. <img src="http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/6978/facewinkll0.png" alt="" align="absmiddle" /></p>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ivan Zini</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Fino alla versione di esx 3.5 update 2 non vi è la possibilità di espandere o modificare la dimensio]]></description>
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<link>http://comohiceeso.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/como-se-eliminan-las-particiones-ext3-en-favor-de-ntfs/</link>
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<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Me tocó por razones de espacio eliminar mi instalación de ubuntu desktop, para poder instalar las ap]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Me tocó por razones de espacio eliminar mi instalación de ubuntu desktop, para poder instalar las aplicaciones de Adobe en la partición de windows para poder trabajar. Fue una desición difícil porque tener linux trae sus ventajas, pero con un disco de apenas 40 gb es dificil tener ambos sistemas operativos. En mi caso, el sistema propietario es el que me trae el dinero al bolsillo, así que tuve que optar por mantenerlo solito. Ya volverá Ubuntu cuando pueda actualizar mi equipo.<br />
Para eliminar las particiones, empleé Gparted, cargándolo a través de la distro <a href="http://partedmagic.com/"><strong><em>Parted Magic</em></strong></a>, la cual se especializa en el manejo de particiones y otras tareas de gestión del sistema.<br />
<strong> (Todo lo que menciono en este párrafo se hace en Gparted:)</strong> 1. Primero se deben eliminar las particiones creadas para ubuntu, 2. luego se cambia el tamaño a la partición ntfs, para que ocupe el espacio liberado, y por último 3. se hace un chequeo de la misma. Si no hacemos el chequeo, cuando volvamos a cargar windows, nos reportará en el explorador el tamaño antiguo de la partición, y efectivamente, el espacio recuperado no será reconocido.<br />
Este chequeo obliga a windows a hacer un chkdsk sobre la partición del sistema al momento del inicio, con lo cual incorporará el espacio libre a la partición. Sin embargo, primero debemos lidiar con el hecho de que al eliminar ubuntu habremos desconfigurado el grub y el mbr, por lo cual veremos un error 22 en grub al momento de cargar.</p>
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<pre>GRUB Loading stage1.5.

GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 22</pre>
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<p>La opción que elegí para repararlo fue usando la consola de recuperación del cd de instalación de XP. Inserto el CD y cargo el equipo con él. Espero a que cargue y tengo cuidado hasta que aparezca el primer menú en el que se me pregunta si quiero instalar windows o repararlo mediante la consola de recuperación. Presiono R para entrar a la consola de recuperación. Allí debo enviar los siguientes comandos:</p>
<blockquote><p><code>fixmbr<br />
fixboot</code></p></blockquote>
<p>Hecho esto retiro el CD de XP y mando <strong>exit</strong> para volver a cargar el equipo, el cual cargará windows normalmente, luego de hacer el mencionado chkdsk.<br />
Hasta la proxima Ubuntu! no es un adiós, gracias! <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<dc:creator>ArkangelX</dc:creator>
<guid>http://errordecapa8.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/particionando-el-disco-duro-antes-de-instalar-debian-lenny/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Unos de los grandes problemas es que para instalar alguna distribución Gnu/Linux(en este caso debian]]></description>
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