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The following tutorial will enable a user to check if a computer system can boot from a USB device and ultimately help determine if the computer can boot a Linux version from USB. In most cases if the test is successful, you should have no problem running Linux portably. In addition to testing your PC for USB Linux boot capability, the " Memtest86 " system memory diagnostics program that is included, allows the user to scan their system memory for errors by simply booting memtest from a USB device or flash drive. Basic USB Boot Test Essentials: USB flash device USBTest.zip (includes Memtest, Syslinux and a custom batch file) Installing Memtest on USB to test for USB Boot compatibility: The following explains how to install Memtest on a USB device and further run Memtest from USB. Enabling us to test whether a system can boot from USB. Download the USBTest.zip and extract the contents of the zip to your flash drive. See Screenshot below: Navigate to your flash drive and ...

DOSBOX RUN DOS APPLICATIONS AND GAMES IN UBUNTU LINUX sudo apt-get install dosbox (Your can use Synaptic Package Manager and search for dosbox) After Installation you can make a folder xxxxx in your home directory (eg: $mkdir mydos) copy your favorite dos programs and games like Turboc, dave, digger etc in this directory Now you can run dosbox by typing dosbox in a terminal or by select it from menu You will get a small dos window with Z:\> prompt in Z prompt type the following Z:\> mount c /home/xxx/mydos This command for mounting your dos directory to C Drive (in my case my dos files are in /home/xxx/mydos ) Now You are ready for running your dos programms Z:\> c: ( change drive to c:) Z:\> dir (this will list your dos files placed in /home/xxx/mydos) if ther is our old famous digger game Z:\> digger and Enjoy it. More Topics : Themes for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Edit NTFS partitions on Linux (Ubuntu, Debian ...)... Who is Linux Torvalds? Origin: Famou...

The following command help you to find the disk space used by different packages in ubuntu open a terminal window and run the command dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package;-50}\t${Installed-Size}\n' | sort -k 2 -n | grep -v deinstall | awk '{printf "%.3f MB \t %s\n", $2/(1024), $1}' That will sort the packages by size, putting the largest ones on the bottom. you can pipe(|} the output for last 10 by using | tail -n 10 at the end of the command

After having tooled around with a USB Linux version using your multi partitioned flash pen drive, you might find it necessary to revert it back to a single fat partition (restore the flash pen drive to it's original state) that can again be read by all computers. For those working from Linux this task can easily be accomplished via the following Linux tutorial. Windows users can Download and use either the SP27608 HP-USB Format tool or follow the Windows instructions below that utilizes the newer HP USB Format tool. WARNING: This process will delete any information that is currently stored on the USB key. Proceed with caution! Restoring your USB key to it's original state via Windows: Download the HP USB Format tool Run the USB Format tool. Select your Device from the list, select your File system type, and click Start to format the drive: That's it, your USB flash drive should now be formatted in a singular partition just as it was from the factory Restoring yo...

Setting the default root password: Some Live Linux distributions are created without a root password by default (the root account is inactive). This is particularly true with Debian based distributions like Ubuntu. Setting a root password enables us to access some essential tools such as the synaptic installer. In most cases, having no root password is fine when your running from a Live CD and don't need to do administration tasks, make changes or install additional packages. But for those of us who do want to make administrative changes and save them back to a USB device or local storage device on for example a properly created "casper-rw" partition. Setting the root password might then be necessary. How to set the default root password: This process is known to work on most Debian based LIVE distributions like Ubuntu or Pendrivelinux releases previous to Pendrivelinux 2008. Other distributions may vary. Open up a terminal and type sudo passwd root Follow the onscree...

Ubuntu 8.04 USB Live installation from Windows : This simple tutorial covers how to install, boot and then run Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Hardy Heron) from a USB flash drive. Upon completion of this tutorial, Ubuntu 8.04 can be run from the portable flash device in the same fashion (but much faster) than it would from the Live CD. This specific tutorial does not cover a Ubuntu 8.04.1 persistence (persistent) feature option. Hence the user cannot save changes back to the USB device using this tutorial. Note: This is a QuicknEasy install. If you would like to perform a more advanced persistent install, saving and restoring changes on subsequent boots, please use the Persistent USB Ubuntu 8.04.1 install tutorial Ubuntu 8.04.1 running from USB screenshot: USB Ubuntu 8.04.1 creation essentials: Windows PC to perform conversion Ubuntu 8.04.1 ISO 1GB or larger USB flash drive Ub8convert2.exe HP USB Format tool Easy Ubuntu 8.04.1 USB flash drive installation tutorial: Download the HP USB format ...

Exaile is a wonderful music player for Linux written in written in Python. It incorporates Handling the library of music. To open tabs on the playlists and have several open lists.. The easiest way to dispose of exaile Ubuntu is updated by adding their repositories.  To add repositories are going to System -> Administration -> Origins of the software -> Third-party software and add the following lines:  deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/exaile-devel/ubuntu intrepid main   Another serious option from the terminal with the following commands:  sudo gedit / etc / apt / sources.list   and add at the end of the document: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/exaile-devel/ubuntu intrepid main   Now at the terminal type: sudo apt-get update   Once you're done one of two steps and we are going to the terminal: sudo apt-get install exaile