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| justin_ | hey can anyone help me install ubuntu on my macbook pro? | 00:26 |
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| seidos | have you checked the forums justin_ ? | 00:27 |
| justin_ | yes | 00:27 |
| justin_ | i have spent about 2 days trying to do this install | 00:27 |
| justin_ | and i keep hitting dead ends | 00:27 |
| seidos | all i could really do is help with web search | 00:28 |
| seidos | never tried installing on a macbook pro | 00:28 |
| justin_ | hmm well i keep getting the error "initramfs unable to find a medium containing a live file system" | 00:29 |
| seidos | sounds vaguely familiar | 00:31 |
| seidos | did a web search turn up anything justin_ ? | 00:31 |
| justin_ | nothing helpful | 00:31 |
| holstein | how are you trying? | 00:31 |
| justin_ | everything i have found in web searches is for older models of mac's, i tried to use boot camp to install it by switching the cd's after the drive is partitioned | 00:33 |
| justin_ | also i have tried using different cd's | 00:33 |
| justin_ | the only thing i could find about that error is that i may be using a bad cd | 00:33 |
| seidos | i think i saw that error when i upgraded to jaunty awhile back, had to reinstall | 00:34 |
| seidos | could've been another incident though... | 00:35 |
| justin_ | hmh :S | 00:36 |
| seidos | i can't really think of anything to try, can you check the cd when you boot from it? | 00:36 |
| seidos | is there an option to do that? it's been awhile since i did an install of ubuntu | 00:37 |
| seidos | i know there's a memtest | 00:37 |
| seidos | i'm reading this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1885287&highlight=initramfs | 00:38 |
| seidos | what's the model number justin_ ? did you search by model number on the forums? | 00:40 |
| justin_ | yes its 8.2 | 00:40 |
| justin_ | sorry i was alttabed seildos | 00:41 |
| justin_ | im trying to install ubuntu 10.04 on mbp 10.04 | 00:41 |
| seidos | justin_: are you aware of the risks involved in trying to install ubuntu? | 00:41 |
| justin_ | yes, i might brick my laptop | 00:41 |
| justin_ | if that happens i will bring it to the store and exchange it | 00:42 |
| justin_ | :P | 00:42 |
| justin_ | i have ubuntu 11.1 on my desktop, 10.04 server on my other desktop and ubuntu 10.04 on my other laptop | 00:43 |
| seidos | i'm not entirely sure what in the firmware would stop an ubuntu install | 00:45 |
| seidos | or even how bootcamp works | 00:45 |
| seidos | but, i'll give you an ear if you want to get your thought processes out in the open | 00:46 |
| seidos | not literally *holds on to ears* | 00:46 |
| seidos | i'm not sure if anyone here has a mac | 00:47 |
| justin_ | i have made a post on the forums with info :P | 00:49 |
| justin_ | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11538407#post11538407 | 00:49 |
| seidos | are you open to other distros or do you need ubuntu for some reason? | 00:51 |
| justin_ | i would like to stick to ubuntu, i have been using it for a while and just like it | 00:52 |
| seidos | might shed some light to try fedora or slackware or something. reading about bootcamp, the problem may be in how ubuntu has to handle the os x partitions | 00:52 |
| seidos | just speculating :) | 00:52 |
| justin_ | yes thats what it seems like | 00:52 |
| seidos | :( | 00:52 |
| justin_ | but i cant figure out how to fix that :S | 00:52 |
| justin_ | maybe if i fullon wipe the hard drive and install ubuntu :P | 00:53 |
| justin_ | but i kinda want to keep mac and be able to duel boot | 00:53 |
| seidos | have you tried a newer version of ubuntu? | 00:53 |
| justin_ | yes | 00:53 |
| seidos | same problem? | 00:53 |
| justin_ | i have tried 11.1 and 10.04 and 9.04 | 00:53 |
| justin_ | yes | 00:55 |
| justin_ | exact same problem | 00:55 |
| seidos | sounds like the key is with bootcamp after reading wiki/Boot_Camp_(software) | 00:55 |
| justin_ | oh? | 00:55 |
| seidos | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software) says users have installed linux with it | 00:56 |
| seidos | perhaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software)#Limitations applies to your case justin_ | 00:58 |
| justin_ | i shall try that | 01:00 |
| justin_ | so now i have a boot camp partition and a blank partition and my mac partition | 01:05 |
| justin_ | im going to restart and book from the cd in a sec | 01:05 |
| justin_ | although, i have the bootcamp partition but i dont have windows installed | 01:06 |
| justin_ | do you think that will make a difference ? | 01:06 |
| justin_ | the moment of truth! | 01:10 |
| justin_ | NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO | 01:11 |
| holstein | justin_: check the iso too | 01:11 |
| holstein | and the burn | 01:11 |
| justin_ | i have 5 diferent copys | 01:11 |
| holstein | from 5 different iso downloads? | 01:11 |
| holstein | made from 5 different burners? | 01:12 |
| justin_ | 2 diferent burners | 01:12 |
| holstein | made from 5 different brand CD-r's? | 01:12 |
| justin_ | 3 diferent iso's | 01:12 |
| justin_ | 2 diferent cds | 01:12 |
| justin_ | 1 cd, i dvd | 01:12 |
| justin_ | 1 cd, 1 dvd | 01:12 |
| holstein | i finally gave up on my mac i had | 01:12 |
| justin_ | buttt | 01:12 |
| holstein | i ran xubuntu in virtualbox | 01:12 |
| holstein | ran great | 01:13 |
| justin_ | yeah, i have it running in vbox but i want to duel boot | 01:13 |
| holstein | yeah | 01:13 |
| holstein | i got it installed | 01:13 |
| justin_ | oh?? | 01:13 |
| holstein | it would run for like a week, and lock up | 01:13 |
| holstein | that was 10.04 | 01:13 |
| justin_ | how did u get past the interfams error? | 01:13 |
| holstein | i heard it got better | 01:13 |
| holstein | justin_: didt have it | 01:13 |
| holstein | didnt* | 01:13 |
| justin_ | oh. what mac did you have? | 01:14 |
| holstein | and early white one | 01:14 |
| holstein | 1,1? | 01:14 |
| justin_ | aww | 01:14 |
| holstein | something early | 01:14 |
| justin_ | ahh* | 01:14 |
| justin_ | yeah with the newer ones it a pain in the ass | 01:14 |
| justin_ | they partion the drives diferently | 01:14 |
| holstein | with the older one, i just gave up | 01:15 |
| holstein | shouldnt matter about the drives | 01:15 |
| holstein | you can take the hard drive out, and try and run the disc live | 01:15 |
| holstein | you *should* try and run the disc live | 01:15 |
| holstein | first | 01:15 |
| justin_ | um, the recovery partion in lion is precived as a swap drive by ubuntu | 01:15 |
| justin_ | and i have tried every boot option | 01:16 |
| justin_ | im not sure if i really want to take the hd out because that would viod the warrenty | 01:16 |
| holstein | justin_: you'll need to do something | 01:16 |
| holstein | im just saying, run ubuntu live, and see | 01:16 |
| justin_ | ok | 01:17 |
| holstein | you can run and install linux without swap | 01:17 |
| justin_ | hmh | 01:21 |
| justin_ | how? | 01:21 |
| holstein | justin_: sorry... got busy | 01:26 |
| holstein | you just dont make swap when installing | 01:26 |
| philipballew | Hey. I am not getting a Internet connection from my router. is there a good way to see if I have a router problem, or if it is my school who is cutting me off? | 02:52 |
| seidos | philipballew: you can ping the router? | 02:53 |
| philipballew | seidos, yeah. I even went to the ddwrt home page from the browser | 02:54 |
| philipballew | well actually. pinging says it cant find the router | 02:55 |
| philipballew | but i can visit the page in chrome. | 02:55 |
| philipballew | I thought it was a router problem so i unpluged and re pluged the router | 02:56 |
| seidos | maybe you have icmp blocked or something | 02:56 |
| philipballew | seidos, okay. I can ping the router | 02:56 |
| philipballew | But all outside sites are gona. Maybe i am being attacked my the geds :) | 02:57 |
| seidos | philipballew: log on to the page and check if you have an external ip assigned to the router? | 02:57 |
| philipballew | *feds | 02:57 |
| philipballew | alright. lets see | 02:57 |
| * philipballew tries to remember where ip address is loacted in DDwrt | 03:00 | |
| philipballew | seidos, I dont have a host name or domain name | 03:01 |
| philipballew | ill see if the actual port in the wall is bad | 03:02 |
| seidos | i'm sure the feds have bigger problems philipballew | 03:03 |
| seidos | well if you think you're being attacked philipballew, maybe you should review the security | 03:04 |
| philipballew | lol true. my school may have kicked me off the domain | 03:05 |
| philipballew | well, I plug my laptop into the cat 5 cord coming from the wall and i have accsess. time to maybe reset the router | 03:05 |
| philipballew | seidos, thanks for the help. still dead. I believe its my desktop thats the problem. I will look into it | 03:24 |
| seidos | philipballew: weird. even bypassing router and you don't have internet? | 03:29 |
| philipballew | seidos, yeah, it works there just fine. I think it might be a problem with either the the desktop and nm or the router is just messing up and what not | 03:31 |
| seidos | oh, well, then problem is the router. maybe reset to defaults philipballew | 03:33 |
| philipballew | hum. alright. ill reset the router. | 03:33 |
| * philipballew still think ddwrt is the shiz-niz | 03:34 | |
| Unit193 | DD-Wrt is good alternate firmware, and so is Tomato. I can confirm that dd-wrt shouldn't be the issue in itself | 03:35 |
| philipballew | well, reseting the router worked. but now i lost my uptime | 03:41 |
| philipballew | I was goin on 2 months | 03:41 |
| philipballew | seidos, thanks for the tips. | 03:45 |
| seidos | glad it worked | 03:53 |
| seidos | maybe i should thank you for having a problem philipballew | 03:56 |
| seidos | now i feel somewhat useful | 03:57 |
| seidos | lol | 03:57 |
| philipballew | you could try to do random acts of kindness and feel really good | 03:57 |
| philipballew | but thanks! | 03:57 |
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| s-fox | Hello. | 14:43 |
| Anahi | hi, i have just installed ubuntu 11.10 on my desktop machine... for some reason i cant get access to my hotmail account.. i have tried with firefox and chrome.. none of them work... i havent changed the default settings... i can see the log in page.. but when ever i try to access the page will just take a looong time trying to open... finally it appears "problem loading page"... i have tried reloading... and nothing happens... and also i have tried i | 15:08 |
| Anahi | also my pidgin account wont access msn | 15:08 |
| Snicksie | Anahi, strange... it seams you cant get a connection with the hotmail-server.... | 15:15 |
| Snicksie | try setting your pidgin settings from your msn account to 'web' or something like that and test if it works that way.... | 15:15 |
| Snicksie | also, try clearing your dns cache. open a terminal (ctrl-alt-t) and paste (ctrl-shift-v) this command: "sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart" (without quotation marks) | 15:18 |
| Anahi | i wil try... thank you... | 15:28 |
| Anahi | :( it didnt work :( | 15:30 |
| holstein | Anahi: i would also just wait a while.. the hotmail system can be down temporarily, and for just some users | 15:31 |
| Anahi | mmm the thing is i have tried several times at different hours in different days... and it is always the same result :( | 15:32 |
| holstein | Anahi: sure, but theres literally nothing thats going to block you about ubuntu | 15:32 |
| holstein | Anahi: can you remember any networking customizations you have done? | 15:33 |
| Anahi | i have just installed ubuntu 11.10 in my desktop and havent changed the default settings.... the strange thing is that i have a desktop and a laptop... in my laptop i also have ubuntu 11.10 and right now i can access my hotmail account with it... the problem is with the desktop machine... | 15:35 |
| holstein | Anahi: right... i would double check your password and all the normal issues | 15:35 |
| holstein | make sure you dont have caps-lock | 15:35 |
| Anahi | holstein: i already have double checked | 15:36 |
| holstein | Anahi: triple check then while i look around on the forums and launchpad | 15:36 |
| holstein | Anahi: can you access your router's config page? | 15:37 |
| holstein | 192.168.x.x or whatever? | 15:37 |
| Anahi | i dont know how | 15:37 |
| holstein | Anahi: there is a suggestion to try disabling ipv6 | 15:38 |
| Anahi | how can i do that? | 15:38 |
| holstein | Anahi: have you checked for and applied all available updates? | 15:38 |
| Anahi | yep... i have | 15:39 |
| holstein | Anahi: open a terminal, and run... | 15:39 |
| holstein | ifconfig | 15:39 |
| Anahi | hlstein: im really sorry to bother, but i really appreciate your help | 15:39 |
| holstein | hit the enter key... copy and paste that into http://paste.ubuntu.com/ | 15:40 |
| holstein | you can pm it to me if you feel it is sensitive | 15:40 |
| Anahi | ready.. i have just pasted it | 15:41 |
| holstein | Anahi: ok... share the link with me, and i can look at it | 15:42 |
| Anahi | ok, thanks http://paste.ubuntu.com/771236/ | 15:43 |
| holstein | Anahi: open an empty page in FF and go to 192.168.1.1 | 15:43 |
| Anahi | holstein: firefox tells me "unable to connect" | 15:45 |
| Anahi | firefox cant establish a connection | 15:45 |
| holstein | Anahi: i have somethings i would like for you to try | 15:45 |
| Anahi | sure | 15:45 |
| holstein | i am getting these suggestions from https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/42602 | 15:45 |
| holstein | this is going to be a temporary change that you can decide to make permanent if it works | 15:46 |
| Anahi | ok | 15:46 |
| holstein | open a terminal and copy this and paste it in | 15:46 |
| holstein | echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_default_win_scale | 15:46 |
| holstein | report errors | 15:47 |
| Anahi | echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_default_win_scale | 15:47 |
| Anahi | bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_default_win_scale: No such file or directory | 15:47 |
| holstein | OK.. that got moved it seems... | 15:48 |
| Anahi | yep :( | 15:48 |
| holstein | Anahi: *carefully* run this | 15:48 |
| holstein | gksudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf | 15:49 |
| holstein | the result should *not* be an empty file, correct? | 15:49 |
| Anahi | correct | 15:50 |
| Anahi | it opened up gedit | 15:50 |
| Anahi | and asked for my pwd | 15:50 |
| holstein | OK... i say be careful becuase i dont want you to change much in there | 15:50 |
| Anahi | ok | 15:51 |
| holstein | go to the bottom and copy paste this in... | 15:51 |
| holstein | on its own line | 15:51 |
| Anahi | ok | 15:51 |
| Anahi | in the gedit document right? | 15:51 |
| holstein | Anahi: yes... lets add 2 lines... heres the first one | 15:52 |
| holstein | #holstein and i added this | 15:52 |
| holstein | then, on its own line after that, add this... | 15:53 |
| holstein | net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0 | 15:53 |
| holstein | Anahi: feel free to copy and paste that into a pastebin if you question what you have done | 15:53 |
| holstein | you can copy just a few lines there from the end... | 15:53 |
| Anahi | ok.. the first thing is #holstein and i added this..... and then #net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0 | 15:54 |
| Anahi | right? | 15:55 |
| holstein | Anahi: the "#" indicates a comment, so you can tell what we have done, and undo it if necessary | 15:55 |
| holstein | Anahi: yeah, they are on seperate lines, correct? | 15:55 |
| Anahi | correct | 15:55 |
| holstein | Anahi: cool... so, save that.. and you'll need to reboot to see if it works | 15:56 |
| Anahi | ok | 15:56 |
| holstein | Anahi: again, im getting this from.. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/42602 | 15:56 |
| Anahi | thanks... | 15:56 |
| Anahi | can i come back | 15:56 |
| holstein | and, you can easily undo that if its not working... i'll be here for a bit though if you want to try and report | 15:56 |
| Anahi | ok... | 15:57 |
| Anahi | i wil do it quickly then | 15:57 |
| holstein | Anahi: any joy? | 16:00 |
| Anahi | mmm just waiting | 16:00 |
| Anahi | :( | 16:00 |
| Anahi | no joy | 16:00 |
| holstein | yeah... try opening 192.168.1.1 | 16:00 |
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| Anahi | :( | 16:01 |
| Anahi | same result | 16:01 |
| holstein | Anahi: interesting... i would undo what we did, reboot, and bypass the router, and test, and go from there | 16:02 |
| holstein | not sure what that could be... | 16:02 |
| Anahi | ok... how can i undo what we did? | 16:02 |
| holstein | Anahi: same | 16:02 |
| Anahi | and how can i bypass the router? | 16:02 |
| holstein | you can open the terminal and hit the up arrow and you'll eventually see the command | 16:03 |
| holstein | the gksudo gedit command we ran | 16:03 |
| holstein | just delete those 2 lines | 16:03 |
| Anahi | ohhh... thank you | 16:03 |
| holstein | Anahi: you plug right into the modem, bypassing the router, and test | 16:03 |
| holstein | or, just hang for a bit, and maybe someone else has an idea | 16:04 |
| holstein | anyways... good luck... | 16:04 |
| Anahi | thank you | 16:04 |
| Anahi | i really apreciate you taking your time | 16:04 |
| Anahi | nice to meet you | 16:04 |
| seidos | \o | 16:43 |
| LemonAid | When you do /etc/init.d/networking restart, are the configurations taken from /etc/network/interfaces ? | 19:12 |
| bobweaver | Hello there is there anything that I could use to take a mp3 or a video file and get subtitles out of it or some sort of text file ? Say I had a recording of a song that I wrote and I would like to upload via mp3 then run some sorta software that would convert it to text | 19:24 |
| LemonAid | I don`t think Ubuntu has anything of that sort. What you need is a voice recognition software. Google is your best bet to finding one. | 19:26 |
| Unit193 | LemonAid: Yes, that's the config file it's taken from | 19:31 |
| LemonAid | Fond that out when i tested it and got an error. For a wlan interface on the line "wireless-key 'my-wireless-key'" i get an error-> argument invalid 'my-wireless-key'. Any ideas? Should that line not be there? And if so, where is the key stored? | 19:34 |
| LemonAid | I mean, where are the keys for all the wireless networks i configure stored? Separate file? | 19:35 |
| Unit193 | Is it something like this? http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch13_:_Linux_Wireless_Networking#WEP_Key_Configuration_for_Debian_.2F_Ubuntu | 19:40 |
| LemonAid | Hmm.. i found a file /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf, but nothing there.. | 19:40 |
| LemonAid | Let me check it out. | 19:40 |
| LemonAid | Yes, the wpa keys is what i`m looking for. Checking the link now. | 19:41 |
| LemonAid | Yeah, that`s the exact thing i`m getting an error on. The configuration file /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf does not exist though. | 19:45 |
| Unit193 | Did you take a look at iwconfig? | 19:46 |
| LemonAid | Uh, what do you mean exactly? I only did iwconfig to see some settings. Is there a conf file ? | 19:48 |
| LemonAid | Because iwconfig is a script file if i`m not mistaking. | 19:49 |
| Unit193 | man iwconfig give you a good look at some features | 19:51 |
| LemonAid | Ah, you ment the manual for iwconfig. I`ll take a peak. | 19:51 |
| LemonAid | Unit193, i finally got it :) So the line should look like "wireless-key s:my-network-key". If the key is entered in ASCII it should have the "s:" prefix! I sitl don`t know where the networkmanager stores the network keys though (if it does), is it some sort of temporary file? | 20:48 |
| Unit193 | I'd have to look into it, and I may be able to do that tonight :P | 20:50 |
| LemonAid | I give up. I`m too tired right now. What i could find though, were fingers all pointing to a /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file, witch does not exist by default. | 21:21 |
| JackyAlcine | I think NetworkManager stores it in different locations depending on the desktop environment. If it's on KDE, it uses KWallet, if on GNOME, it saves it in GConf. | 21:23 |
| LemonAid | Let`s take a look then. | 21:24 |
| LemonAid | Hmm.. what i learned from this is that i need to learn more about GConf :) Thanx. | 21:30 |
| JackyAlcine | No problem. | 21:33 |
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