| xubuntu38w | Hello, I am new to using this type of chat service. I have forumalted a question about Bionic Beaver with screen shots. Is this the appropriate place to ask the question and post screen shots? Thank you for your patience. | 01:35 |
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| krytarik | xubuntu38w: Depends on the question really, just start by asking it. | 01:42 |
| xubuntu38w | OK, thank you. Here is the question and is there a way to show screen shots on this forum? Question: Hello, My goal is to explore temporarily Bionic Beaver without installing it to my HD. I am attempting to help a friend with her Xubuntu 18.04 OS. I run Puppy-linux 6.05 64bit Frugal install from partition sda1. My friend lives in another town, so, I thought I'd download Bionic Beaver and try out the desktop version so that I | 01:47 |
| xubuntu38w | Oppps! looks like amount of text is limited. | 01:48 |
| xubuntu38w | My friend lives in another town, so, I thought I'd download Bionic Beaver and try out the desktop version so that I can view the screens she is referencing. My machine is: HP HDX Premium Series 64 bit 4GB RAM plus swap Processor is: Intell Core 2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz 2534.00MHz Intell Core 2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz 800.00MHz The machine has no CD/DVD drive. I downloaded 18.04 64bit iso from official Xubuntu site. Hash M | 01:49 |
| xubuntu38w | The file is on my second partion sda2. The file shows as a raw cd image. Clicking on the cd image mounts the file. But nothing else activates. How do I activate the raw cd image so that I can temporarily explore Bionic Beaver? (remember, I have no CD/DVD drive). Thank you in advance for any suggestions or observations. | 01:49 |
| krytarik | xubuntu38w: If your existing Linux installation uses Grub2 to boot, then you could have it boot the ISO from hard disk. Otherwise, an USB stick is an option, of course. | 01:53 |
| xubuntu38w | OK, thanks krytarik, yes, I use Grub2. I'll put it on a flash drive and boot from that medium. You answered my question. G'night. | 01:55 |
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| xubuntu15w | Xubuntu 3.19.0-80 upgrade form 3.19.0.25 and mouse will not work, how to get in there to fix? | 02:29 |
| Kumool | Will installing daemontools mess with systemd? | 03:03 |
| Kumool | nvm, not installing it | 03:16 |
| nevada1 | Xubuntu feels so nice and lightweight. I just booted it up in VirtualBox. | 18:13 |
| nevada1 | Props to the team working on it. | 18:13 |
| Unlimiter | Is it safe if I changed the line `root❌0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash` in "/etc/passwd" to a one that contains my home directory instead of root's one? (I asked here because I can't access ##linux) | 20:09 |
| Kumool | Unlimiter: its not safe | 20:20 |
| Unlimiter | Can you explain why? | 20:20 |
| Unlimiter | does the root home dir gets overwrited? | 20:21 |
| Kumool | There are things you should do in root that you should not do as a user | 20:21 |
| Kumool | and yes, there are programs that write to the root home dir | 20:22 |
| Unlimiter | Kumool: but, do they overwrite all of it? | 20:24 |
| Kumool | what? | 20:25 |
| Unlimiter | Kumool: Nevermind. And, will they write to my home dir if I set root as its user | 20:25 |
| Kumool | there will be files in your home directory that will be created as root, which wont permit you from accessing them | 20:26 |
| Kumool | you can sudo chmod | 20:26 |
| Kumool | after | 20:26 |
| Unlimiter | Kumool: what I want to do, is be root forever | 20:26 |
| Kumool | that is a terrible idea | 20:26 |
| Unlimiter | I know, safety | 20:26 |
| Kumool | its not a bad idea, but so far seems farfetched for linux | 20:28 |
| Unlimiter | yeah :P | 20:28 |
| Kumool | you could include yourself in the root group | 20:29 |
| Kumool | I think that might work | 20:30 |
| Unlimiter | I did, but when I, for example, create a file as root, I can't remove it as myself | 20:30 |
| Kumool | of course not | 20:30 |
| Unlimiter | so, being in the root group doesn't mean you have root privileges | 20:32 |
| Unlimiter | entirely | 20:32 |
| Kumool | what file are you trying to erase? | 20:32 |
| Unlimiter | Kumool: just a regular file in my home dir | 20:32 |
| Unlimiter | Not a problem | 20:33 |
| Unlimiter | I know what I need to do | 20:33 |
| Kumool | you need to give yourself write permissions for the group | 20:33 |
| Kumool | I think | 20:33 |
| Unlimiter | write permissions? | 20:33 |
| Unlimiter | aren't those just for files | 20:33 |
| Unlimiter | ? | 20:33 |
| Kumool | chmod 0770 | 20:34 |
| Kumool | Unlimiter: everything is a file in unix | 20:34 |
| Unlimiter | Kumool: even groups? | 20:34 |
| Kumool | mostly everything | 20:34 |
| Kumool | try doing ls -l on that file | 20:34 |
| Unlimiter | `-rw-r--r--` | 20:35 |
| Unlimiter | `-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 27 21:34 test` | 20:35 |
| Kumool | so, the first rwx is the owner, which is root (the first one), the second is the group, which is also root, and the third is other, so everyone else | 20:36 |
| Unlimiter | yup | 20:36 |
| Kumool | if you are part of the root group, and if the file is ----rwx--- then you can erase it | 20:36 |
| Unlimiter | okay | 20:37 |
| Unlimiter | I know I gotta use `sudo` but, it's really exhausting | 20:38 |
| Unlimiter | everytime... | 20:38 |
| Kumool | you can just change to root using su | 20:38 |
| Unlimiter | Kumool: I know, but I gotta be careful | 20:38 |
| Kumool | ... | 20:39 |
| Unlimiter | and the home dir will be root's | 20:39 |
| Unlimiter | if I used su | 20:39 |
| Kumool | no, using su is different than sudo | 20:40 |
| Kumool | I mean, yes, you are right | 20:40 |
| Kumool | but you don't have to be careful | 20:40 |
| Kumool | you still do, but at least you won't have to keep running sudo for everything | 20:41 |
| Unlimiter | it's really useful, but the only notch here, is that the home dir (`~`) will be `/root` not mine | 20:42 |
| Unlimiter | so if I did `cd`, it will go to `/root` | 20:42 |
| * Unlimiter exits from the 2nd toilet of the 1st floor | 20:47 | |
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