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trying to burn ubuntu(SOLVED)
#14764664 - 07/13/11 08:28 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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but I'm having this problem, first, I need to download a partition disk iso, which I did, partition magic iso. then I downloaded an iso burner, magic iso. I dragged and dropped partition magic into the magic iso burner. then I try and burn it to the cd/dvd rom drive, with a disk in there, but it won't highlight the burn cd button because it says there is no disk found in the cd drive. this is so frusterating, I'm trying to create another partition, then install ubuntu on it.
I guess I don't NEED ubuntu, but I thought I'd do myself a favor and install it because sometimes it's a lot easier then windows, as long as you don't mind using the command prompt, and don't expect to be able to play a lot of games.
I don't suppose anyone will know why this isn't working, but jeez wtf, and I can play anything else in the dvd drive just fine. idk
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: Timmair1]
#14764779 - 07/13/11 08:51 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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windows xp professional oem. I haven't burned ubuntu yet, as I haven't partitioned off another space on the hard drive yet, hence the need to burn partition magic with magic iso burner
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: imachavel]
#14764781 - 07/13/11 08:52 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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You can make a bootable USB ..just download unbooting ...I hate messing with cd Am on backtrack 5 ..it's awesome u can do so much with it ..like let's say your traveling and there's wifi but its wep protected u can simply crack it in 1 minute
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: gkipz]
#14764810 - 07/13/11 08:58 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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well that's nice. so if I have a western digital hard drive I can boot to it and use a partitioner AND install ubuntu? the thing though is, I already have linux burned to a cd, but if this will make it so much easier, I'll do it.
can you give me instructions? Thanks
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: imachavel]
#14764966 - 07/13/11 09:27 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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U just download unbootin ..and it pretty straight forward u just locate the iso file and it would make the os boot from USB ..and am guessing there would be a installation icon at the desktop from there u should be able to pick the drive u want to install it to and that's it
But I don't see the need if u have the cd already burned ..but it's still the same there should be an Installation icon on the desktop
Sorry can't be more helpful but am on my iPad and it very limiting
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: gkipz]
#14765369 - 07/13/11 10:40 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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ok, I don't really want a live boot install, i've installed a live cd before, and it can sometimes be patchy, although not always. but I still need to create another partition, so having just the boot os wouldn't work for that by itself. since I have the cd already, I'll just install it from that, when I finally get the partition magic problem worked out that is.
ok I think I know what's wrong. the problem is that the burner is looking for a cd-r cd, but what I have placed in the cd drive is a dvd-r disk. does anyone know how to change those settings?
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: imachavel]
#14765829 - 07/14/11 12:19 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Partitioning the Hard drive is part of the OS install. Make sure your partitioning the correct Hard drive
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: magicbastard]
#14765850 - 07/14/11 12:24 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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that only allows you to make one partition. to make others you need a partitioner. if I install ubuntu right now it'll just reformat the partition I have windows on, the one I am currently using. I even tried THIS:
Click Start, click Run, type services.msc /s, and then click OK. Double-click IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service. Under Service Status, click Start. Try to write data to a CD.
and it didn't fix it. anyone??????
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: imachavel]
#14766795 - 07/14/11 08:53 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think what your trying to do is dual boot ..in backtrack the os am on you can do it straight from the installation wizard ..but am not sure if ubuntu is the same
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: gkipz]
#14767431 - 07/14/11 11:34 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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pretty sure you can't. I should've just created 2 partitions when I installed windows the first time
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: imachavel]
#14769684 - 07/14/11 08:47 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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imachavel said: ok I think I know what's wrong. the problem is that the burner is looking for a cd-r cd, but what I have placed in the cd drive is a dvd-r disk. does anyone know how to change those settings?
Do you have a DVD burner? if not, then a DVD-R won't be read by you CD burner.
Read this: http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/gnu-linux/linux-tools/shrink-your-windows-xp-ntfs-partition-to-half-size-and-install-linux-while-keeping-the-nt-bootloader
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: magicbastard]
#14769979 - 07/14/11 09:39 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Why not use the ubuntu windows installer? Can't get more simple than that.
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: imachavel]
#14770021 - 07/14/11 09:47 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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imachavel, if I am following you correctly and you already have an Ubuntu Live CD, I would suggest the following. I gather you have Windows installed on one large partition on your hard drive. Defrag Windows first. The live cd already comes with partitioning software, Gparted. What you'll want to do is boot up the live cd and gparted will allow you to resize your current partition that has Windows and then you create a new partition from the unused space.
Now from the livecd install Ubuntu to the new partition, it will recognize that you have Windows in the other partition and create a dual booting bootloader for you, there is an option for that during install.
There are other options for running ubuntu with windows, like Wubi* or a virtual machine, but the above seems like what you are wanting to do.
*Wubi allows you to install Ubuntu under Windows just like any Windows program. You would run Ubuntu while running Windows instead of separately, therefore no partitioning. Just a different way to go.
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: veggie]
#14770704 - 07/15/11 12:58 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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umm, who said it was a live cd? I'll boot to it now to find out. so that's the problem? yeah that would make sense, I'm putting dvds in a cd drive. but if this disc isn't ubuntu live, should I retry this partition magic thing on the other pc? it definitely has a dvd drive in it, I know for sure, the pc originally had two cd drives, one was cd r, the other was dvd/cd r, I removed the cd r and now just have the dvd.
any good instructions on finding gparted when the ubuntu cd comes up? Hey, thanks a lot man. I would've shot myself over this, but once again I was making it a lot harder then it really is. Thanks Ok no it doesn't have a partiion editor, but it is a live cd like you said. I have a pc called pc-2(ingenius how I named it huh? ) with a dvd drive so I'll just burn that partition magic, partition off another section, then install ubuntu. I can't wait! ubuntu is like a fine woman while windows is like a fucking whore. but for some reason ubuntu doesn't cost you $200 just to take her for a swing. I guess whores aren't always cheaper huh?
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: imachavel]
#14770966 - 07/15/11 03:38 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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well I partitioned off a new spot easy enough. I used gparted, which was sweet because it's a linux partioner 
anyway now I'm having a problem burning ubuntu, the 'try ubuntu without any changes to your computer' and also 'install ubuntu' don't seem to work. is my ubuntu disk broken? Wtf it's weird. I can't wait to get it installed. SOOOO sick of ONLY having windows. thanks for the help
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: imachavel]
#14771935 - 07/15/11 10:45 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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If you can't get past the initial screen on the Ubuntu CD, yes either the original .iso or the disc could be corrupted. Download a new .iso and burn another CD and try again. You are almost there. Good luck!
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: veggie]
#14773840 - 07/15/11 04:44 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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ok burned a new one, then installed it. only thing is, once installation is finished, I needed to restart the computer, but the partition is gone! or so it seems. it just booted to windows, even if I tried to go to boot menu, it just gives me the option to load either cd drive or hard drive or usb etc. what does utility partition do?
anyway the new ubuntu I've heard is awesome, older distros of linux had some problems doing certain windows things. I've heard this new ubuntu can run games, movies, do just about any windows thing. I hope the world one day wakes up to linux. I mean it's hard to not use windows, most people don't buy custom built computers, in which can an oem will automatically have windows on it. But seriously linux keeps getting better and better as time goes on, hopefully one day windows will be almost obsolete. poor bill gates, he'll only have his $60 billion and no more microsoft 
I think the coolest thing about unix, is the fact that server is free, and programming is almost unlimited. remember jurassic park, when the uses the old unix file system gui to turn on the locks in the park? that type of shit is possible with this os or what? anyway thanks a lot veggie appreciate all the help
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: imachavel]
#14773883 - 07/15/11 04:53 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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yall, he really doesn't need ubuntu, read a few of his post here and ask yourselves, can this guy do linux? he can't even do windows. no offense imachavel, just saying.
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: imachavel]
#14773903 - 07/15/11 04:57 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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which boot menu are you talking about? perhaps within windows you need to set the active partition.. within the gui in windows it's something like control panel > administrative tools > computer management > disk management i think (it's been a long ass time since using windows)... from there you should be able to see the partitions on your c drive and right click the proper partition and set it as active.
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: iateshaggy]
#14773944 - 07/15/11 05:07 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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iateshaggy said: yall, he really doesn't need ubuntu, read a few of his post here and ask yourselves, can this guy do linux? he can't even do windows. no offense imachavel, just saying.
i'm going to shut team viewer if you keep this up. there's no real good cookies you can steal from me anyway, but still, I don't want an angry tech know it all telling me what I do and don't know. at least I assembled my own computer, and installed windows on it. so I used a copied .iso, I'm not trying to attempt programming, or brain surgery, or rocket science here. and that link you gave me didn't remove the 'windows isn't valid' prompt window. go change jumpers on hard drives or something. idk w/e
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: CosmicJoke]
#14773968 - 07/15/11 05:12 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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CosmicJoke said: which boot menu are you talking about? perhaps within windows you need to set the active partition.. within the gui in windows it's something like control panel > administrative tools > computer management > disk management i think (it's been a long ass time since using windows)... from there you should be able to see the partitions on your c drive and right click the proper partition and set it as active.
ok yes, I got there, and can see the partition. the problem is, I see the options:
open explore and mark partition as active, but that option isn't highlighted
that partition appears to have the 'healthy' status, but I don't get the option to activate that partition. I tried. thanks for the help. oh well
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: imachavel]
#14773973 - 07/15/11 05:13 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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dude, u literally asked me how to open a rar file. u have 3 open threads in here asking how to do the simplest stuff, and instead of following the directions given to u, u just ask 50 questions about the directions given to you. either you are completely computer illiterate, or trolling.
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: iateshaggy]
#14773990 - 07/15/11 05:18 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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you seem just like the type of person I'd want to give access to my computer through team viewer. I was just thinking what a trust worthy type of guy you are. thanks for the help, but remember since I haven't seen rare file before I must be too stupid to use open suse or ubuntu or whatever
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: imachavel]
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imachavel said: how do I reboot the router?
you, the guy that just made that post, doesn't know what rar files are, is going to figure out linux? have fun. i was actually gonna hook your pc up, i have no need to hijack your pc, i'm fine without antivirus 2009 k thks bia.
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: iateshaggy]
#14774196 - 07/15/11 06:18 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Why not use the Windows installer Ubuntu offers that was mentioned earlier by veggie and myself. It is completely idiot proof. Run it like you would a normal app and let it do it's thing.
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: imachavel]
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ok yes, I got there, and can see the partition. the problem is, I see the options:
open explore and mark partition as active, but that option isn't highlighted
that partition appears to have the 'healthy' status, but I don't get the option to activate that partition. I tried. thanks for the help. oh well
maybe you can only set a windows partition as active through the gui, i'm not sure... again, haven't used windows in ages... but...
from a command prompt:
DISKPART (to open the partition utility) LIST DISK (disk number(s) will be shown) SELECT DISK n (where n is the number of the disk - probably 0) LIST PARTITION (partition number(s) will be shown) SELECT PARTITION n (where n is the number of the Primary partition you wish to make Active) ACTIVE (the selected partition on the selected disk will be made Active) EXIT (to exit DiskPart) EXIT (to exit the Command Prompt)
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: iateshaggy]
#14775840 - 07/16/11 01:15 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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imachavel said: how do I reboot the router?
you, the guy that just made that post, doesn't know what rar files are, is going to figure out linux? have fun. i was actually gonna hook your pc up, i have no need to hijack your pc, i'm fine without antivirus 2009 k thks bia.
hey, why don't you go overheat the gpu, your xbox 360 advice sucks. what do you think linux is, harder to use then ms dos? I used ms dos, and linux is a TON easier. go apply at intel or some shit since you know everything. I'll bet they'd laugh for 30 minutes straight just glancing at your resume "i fixed 360s dude, I know what a rar file is, I can set up a vlan, I went to howtosubnet.com and learned a bunch of stuff"
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: Othyem]
#14775850 - 07/16/11 01:19 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Othyem said: Why not use the Windows installer Ubuntu offers that was mentioned earlier by veggie and myself. It is completely idiot proof. Run it like you would a normal app and let it do it's thing.
I don't trust things that are supposed to run at boot, to try them a different way. with computers, when it's idiot proof, it usually screws up. especially if it's supposed to run at boot. If I hadn't first booted to partition magic, and created a partition, then installed ubuntu on it, I wouldn't have been able to chose how large of a partition I wanted. all I skipped in the install was the file swap partition, but w/e. I had the option to run it like that, and I didn't. how does this change viewing the partition or not at start up? it's not like that is a completely unheard of problem, to install a partition then not see it at start up.
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Re: trying to burn ubuntu, it should be easier then counting to 10 [Re: CosmicJoke]
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ok yes, I got there, and can see the partition. the problem is, I see the options:
open explore and mark partition as active, but that option isn't highlighted
that partition appears to have the 'healthy' status, but I don't get the option to activate that partition. I tried. thanks for the help. oh well
maybe you can only set a windows partition as active through the gui, i'm not sure... again, haven't used windows in ages... but...
from a command prompt:
DISKPART (to open the partition utility) LIST DISK (disk number(s) will be shown) SELECT DISK n (where n is the number of the disk - probably 0) LIST PARTITION (partition number(s) will be shown) SELECT PARTITION n (where n is the number of the Primary partition you wish to make Active) ACTIVE (the selected partition on the selected disk will be made Active) EXIT (to exit DiskPart) EXIT (to exit the Command Prompt)
ok that had nothing to do with partitions. anyway I don't know it said 2 disks, but my external passport is plugged in. anyway, I activated the second partition, which previously said unknown, it now says it's active. thanks for the help. command line seemed easiest way to do this. I'll reboot and see if linux comes up right now. appreciate it 
ok I'm on now! lol, I forgot how weird linux is, I haven't used it in a moment. anyway, I made the mistake of encrypting key folders when I Installed. no big deal, they let me write down my encryption passphrase:
it's 0663dc3afe9551b147eb5caf92af886
lol that's long. oh wait I told you! 
just kidding, I doubt anyone is going to come into my house, use my computer, log onto the linux partition that's now active, and use that passphrase to log into my root folders or whatever. most likely they'd probably log onto the windows partition and notice that it isn't active, and probably assume I looked up cracking the activation, and couldn't achieve, and chuckle that I'm not too bright 
anyway, since this encryption is encrypted within the file system, I assume removing it wouldn't be as easy as say, removing a bios password, which, is as simple as removing a jumper on the motherboard, placing it elsewhere, then replacing it at the original position. I did write down the pass phrase, but really, I'm sure I'll lose it or something. Anyway thanks I got this up and running and won't have to worry about dumb activation crack codes not working. The dumb thing is, if I had used the same disk that came with the computer, and reentered the same activation code that's on the side of my computer next to the bar code, it STILL probably wouldn't work, considering it was activated in the factory. I guess not necessarily, but anyway what a mess oh well whatever. I got linux working, so I can forget about that other problem for now, appreciate it
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I did not say to edit my signature soulidarity! Now forever I will never remember what I said about understanding the secrets of the universe by paying attention to subtleties!
I'm never giving you the password again. Jerk
Edited by imachavel (07/16/11 01:42 AM)
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