I don't know this is a right question . But I want to know whether can I make a bootable Ubuntu for my friend from my already installed Ubuntu desktop ? I.e. I want to make a bootable copy of Ubuntu for installing to my friend PC . But I have a desktop which already contain Ubuntu OS . Any possible way to make a bootable Ubuntu from my already installed Ubuntu Desktop ? Any software or tool can I use ?
Don't know that you can just snake an already installed image off your drive.
What you could do however is download the latest Ubuntu Image from here, then find an old USB drive you have laying around and use this fancy utility.
PenDrive makes it super easy to format a USB drive into a bootable device with the image of your choice. BUT, note that a format of the drive is typical.
Hope this helps!
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I recently found this OS: http://www.kaios.org/. I was wondering how I can install it on VMWare Fusion. There is no .iso or .vmx that it comes with.
Please understand, I'm still learning about Linux and how it works. I'm using Mac if it makes any difference. Thank you!
KaiOS is a small operating system which isn't typically like a Linux distro which you are probably more familiar with. As a result it won't come with an installer or come on an .iso which you could load as an image into VMWare.
The KaiOS site documentation shows you how to boot the OS via PXE, which you could do with VMWare although would need to set up a PXE server VM as well as another VM which you would boot via PXE from the server you set up.
You won't be able to traditionally install this OS via loading an image unfortunately.
There is some documentation on PXE with VMWare here.
Long story short, I bought a pre-installed linux laptop and would like to be able to run other linux distros, but use the same linux drivers w/ other distro so as to have all my hardware work flawlessly as it does with the custom linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
If I could save or copy all of my hardware drivers someplace to reinstall once I've got a new linux distro installed.
So far I think the answer lays in compiling a linux kernel and modules from my running linux laptop, and try to get flashed in my new linux distro that I'm installing. Not sure if that will work? or is the easiest method.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
i just want my linux workstation hardware to work as good as it does w/ Ubuntu 14.04, with any linux distro I choose to try.
Thanks in advance
A bit weired, but, as far as I gnow:
you can do the thing you ask for to customize the same distribution.
"Compiling a linux kernel and modules from my running linux laptop": You said the running one, so You can pick it instead directly from "/boot/vmlinuz-KERNEL_VERSION
"If I could save or copy all of my hardware driver": You can copy the content of "/lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION" folder in the same emplacement in the target. This folder contains kernel modules, among others, device drivers.
After having these in place, you can make the drivers working with "modprobe", you should have a list for all modules (you might use "lsmod" in the original system) and load them one by one or find a way that manage to load them all at once for you; in CentOS, there is a scrpit "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit" that can among other stuffs, do that for you.
I really wonder why you are worried about drivers on Linux distributions, coz, as far as I know, they are really good when it comes to device drivers.
So this is my problem :
I have a macbook pro. I have installed linux on a separate partition (Ubuntu 12.04) and everything was working fine (touchpad, keyboard, etc) and it was perfect. One day, I decided to download a program called wine for gaming purposes. After I did that and rebooted, the mouse (or touchpad) wouldn't work anymore (NOTE: The touchpad is working fine when I boot into mac osx but it does not work when I boot into ubuntu). Now I don't know if the direct cause for it not to work is me downloading wine or if its for any other reason, my question is:
How can I solve this problem?
How do I completely remove wine from my system with all of the files that come with it ? (If that even is the problem)
Is there some kind of configuration file for the touchpad found in the ubuntu system ? If so how do i access it and check it and alter it to work again or something. I just need any solution to this problem I really need the touchpad to work again. NOTE: Connecting an external mouse while booted in ubuntu MAKES THE MOUSE WORK but I don't want that I want the touchpad of the macbook pro to work.
Another side note : the program i use to dual boot is rEEfit.(I can access EFI shell from there .. Is that useful at all ?)
Thanks in advance ..
Wine is a software which helps to run windows applications under linux OS. It has nothing to do with your macbook touchpad drivers. Did you install any drivers or enable any PPAs? did you do a system upgrade just before it worked?
The touchpad on Macbook has always been less than perfect under Ubuntu but have a look at this answer here and the guides here. If you still cannot get it working it might be better if you post the question on Ask Ubuntu.
I am currently trying to download a few server versions of Linux operating systems in order to compare which is best in terms of memory usage etc. I am running these off of the vmware program and have managed to download the ubuntu server and desktop ok. However, I cannot seem to find any version of red hat that isn't free, or indeed the server versions of Mint and Fedora. I have managed to download Fedora only to discover it was the desktop version which doesn't have a terminal and any time I have downloaded a version of Mint(any version at all), when I run it on vmware player, it tells me that vmware player does not recognise the operating system and then nothing else happens. I have been sure to download the iso file for these as well but with no success.
Does anyone know then any links where I can download the servers for Mint, Fedora and Red Hat that actually work? it is very frustrating that it hasn't worked so far.
Most available ISO images will fit into Vmware. However, you can find some of the images below
http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/
I had made a USB installation using linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso. Then I run it inside from windows 7 and intalled it. After when I reboot the linuxmint is a giving an arror like this
(initramfs) losetup: could not find any free loop device
in the prompt (intramfs) I can type "help" command.
But I am not a linux user, so I dont know which should be used ? Please help to me solve this issue ? Thanks in advance.
The words "USB" and "linux iso" you mentioned lead me to think you did this: you put that iso in the usb flash stick in a way to make it BOOTABLE (like a live cd), or, you TRIED to do that.
To make sure you usb flash stick is really bootable, you should really try to boot from usb stick.
Now, this is what (i think) you should do, and what you did.
What you should do, with the bootable usb stick:
Boot from usb, and click "install on Hard disk" or whatever linux mint has inside it, after succesfully booted the linux SO;
What you did:
Booted windows and used the files inside usb stick, prepared for "loop mount", to install linux.
Hope this helps.