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Learned Vagrant
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Posted - 2014.05.27 08:16:00 -
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First question: How do I get to the console?
Also, how do I bring up Help? |
Learned Vagrant
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Posted - 2014.05.27 15:17:00 -
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Cool. Thanks.
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Learned Vagrant
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Posted - 2014.05.27 18:33:00 -
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Ok. I'm using Sakura as the terminal (It was the first package I saw that sid 'Terminal')
I guess I didn't understand everything about updating the video drivers. I have a Radeon HD 4600. I tried replacing nvidia with radeon and the response was that it couldn't find radeon or current. Now that I think of it, i left out the '-'. However, when I looked in the directory you mention thathad your nvidia driver in it, I don't have anything. How do I get something like the Radeon driver in there. I know that's not very clear, but I can't see your post now.
Speaking of video, I have two monitors. Right now they both show the same thing. How do I extend one into the other? It would help to be able to look at your post and have another screen to follow the directions on.
I did get Wine installed successfully.
Also, how do I create a script?
I've already got Eve installed on the other Hard drive, which I can see, It's in C:\Program Files\CCP\Eve\. I noticed that, in the script, you put in a path like that. Do I need to do anything special to tell Ubuntu that is drive C:? It's just listed as '80 Gig' now. |
Learned Vagrant
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Posted - 2014.05.28 01:29:00 -
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Now I'm irate!
Everything was going fine. I was just waiting for answers to my questions, the I got a message that said I needed to re-boot. So I did, and that killed Ubuntu. I got the log in screen and logged in just fine. After that, nothing happened. No disk activity. Nothing.
So i put the install CD back in and re-started. Same thing. It started an install and then just stopped on the same page.
At that point I wasn't too upset because I wanted to increase the size of the Linux partition any way. So I used an app to delete the partition, recreated it and formatted it with NTFS in preparation for changing the size. A reboot is required after that.
Now, no matter what I do I get stuck at the GRUB Rescue prompt, and I don't know how to get out of it. It doesn't recognize any of the commands I type, like stop, exit, quit.
I'm wondering how bad off I am. I found a spare HD and installed XP on it so I could get on the net and look for help. Can I exit Grub rescue somehow and boot into XP?
If I can't do that I'm going to have to play musical BIOS, then remove all partitions from those two HDs, so essentially I lose my XP setup. There's nothing left of the Ubuntu install except the Grub installation on the primary HD, so that's no loss.
But during all of this I haven't come an inch closer to finding out whether I can get around the server connection problem or not.
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Learned Vagrant
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Posted - 2014.05.28 10:41:00 -
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I haven't done anything to the hard drive that has Grub on it. It was my primary and Ubuntu was installed in a partition on the secondary.
So far I have a nearly working fres XP install on one HD, A working fresh Ubuntu install on another HD, and the one with Grub and my old XP install is just laying on the desk sunning itself.
I shot myself in the foot again on the new XP install. I keep my password database on a flash drive, and decided to move it to a larger flash drive today. Note I said move. I could kill myself for that. That database has the keys for my driver updaters, but I can't get to it because I need a driver updated. What an idiot. It's not like I don't have any more flash drives. I just got lazy and didn't back it up today. A case of one strike and I'm out. But I did find an old version of the database the has the keys for a bunch of driver updaters, so maybe I can still get to the point where I can read that flash drive.
For more lessons on what not to do, just let me know what YOU are going to try next.  |
Learned Vagrant
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Posted - 2014.05.29 02:15:00 -
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I installed it on the secondary, which didn't have anything in the Windows partition. Little did I know that Grub would end up on the primary.
The database is un-recoverable. That's going to cost me several hundred dollars. Oh well.
Naturally, I blame the whole thing on CCP. I played for 4 years and never had a single problem with the launcher, or logging in. I subscribed because I just wanted to see what is different. I had no idea that it would become such a problem.
I think it would be best if I took this back to the thread I originally started. I don't want to mess up your very good tutorial.
My goal for the evening is to see if I can figure out how to D/L the latest stable version of Wine. ( I hope it is like real wine, and has gotten better over time. ) |
Learned Vagrant
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Posted - 2014.05.29 18:30:00 -
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I've got everything up and running except for the database. What happened with that was that I had it on a flash drive, and updated it every day, What happened was that I moved it to a larger flash disk. Please note that I 'moved' it rather than copying it. The larger flash drive worked fine until I had to rebuild the computer. Now it doesn't recognize that flash disk. I've tried numerous data recovery programs on both of them, but none of them produced a readable file.
That's important to me because I had all of my software keys in it as well as passwords. Now I will have to pay for the software again. Lesson learned. I put the six flash disks with more than 8 Gig capacity in the trash, so that shouldn't happen again.
I'm really happy to hear from you because I'm going through your procedure again, and I have some questions, but I will post them in the other thread.
I want to thank all of you for your input. I've learned a lot, but still have a long way to go. The longer I use Linux the better it looks, but, at 64, I wasn't planning to have to make a fundamental change in OSes before I died. Then Mickeysoft got involved.
Edit: I did some research on Wine last night and read that Wine 1.62 is the last version, of Wine. Apparently they changed the name for the next generation. It also sounds like they have changed focus a little. |
Learned Vagrant
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Posted - 2014.05.31 09:23:00 -
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Ok. I downloaded the Offline install packages. Oddly enough they ended up in the Downloads directory. But I don't think you mentioned what I need to do with them. Do I have to be inside Wine to unpack them? |
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