got the CD of UBUNTU 7.10

[Faun]

K then replace it with generally
Btw I dont use Swap, i kinda made my distro slow tih Swap enabled.

 

[heartripple]

look here is my partitioning scheme

/ (root partition) as Ext3 type and of 14GB
Swap - well there is no swap for me


Ideally U should have made this something like this:

/ (root partition) Type: Ext3 Size:atleast 3GB
/boot (boot partition) Type: Ext3 Size: Atleast 100MB
Swap Size: twice the amount of RAM

what type of partitioning u chose, Guided installation or complete manaul installation ?

i did something like that but dont know xactly is there any other way to know it

 

[Faun]

post the content of fstab file

gedit /etc/fstab

and

sudo fdisk -l

 

[heartripple]

post the content of fstab file

gedit /etc/fstab

and

sudo fdisk -l

how to get through that command i dont know pls help me to do so

 

[Faun]

open a terminal and then write these commands and press enter.

Terminal is in Applications > Accessories > Terminal menu

 

[heartripple]

here is the answer of gedit /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda11
UUID=82effd8d-7a6c-44f1-8c99-720d251d8feb / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=A880246980244064 /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda9
UUID=0CC819FFC819E82A /media/sda10 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=A6E4BB85E4BB5671 /media/sda6 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=3800DDA800DD6D7E /media/sda7 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda7
UUID=B8783943783901A4 /media/sda8 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda8
UUID=A01891A4189179CC /media/sda9 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda10
UUID=2ef9ec5d-8912-4f78-8afb-87890de89edb none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0



here is the answer of sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb4c4b4c4

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2551 38912 292077765 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 6467 7771 10482381 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 7772 11296 28314531 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 11297 15212 31455238+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 15213 25786 84935623+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda9 25787 38912 105434563+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda10 2551 3219 5373679+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda11 3220 4435 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 4436 6466 16313976 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

so guys is everything all right or not

 

[Faun]

ur swap(sda10) itself is 5GB
and root partition(sda11) is 10GB approximate
last partition(sda12) is not used and is 16 GB, its not even mounted as there is no entry in fstab

U should have been able to acces ur ntfs partitions as fstab entries are correct.

post ouput of
mount -a

and

blkid

 

[ray|raven]

Why do you have two ext2 partitions if you just started linux, and why is one of them not mounted?

I'm talking about sda12.

 

[heartripple]

mount -a

shown only root can do that




blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="A880246980244064" LABEL="WINDOWS XP" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="A6E4BB85E4BB5671" LABEL="WALLPAPERS" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda6: UUID="3800DDA800DD6D7E" LABEL="INSTALL" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda7: UUID="B8783943783901A4" LABEL="SOFTWARES" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda8: UUID="A01891A4189179CC" LABEL="VIDEO SONGS" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda9: UUID="CC819FFC819E82A" LABEL="SONGS" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda10: TYPE="swap" UUID="2ef9ec5d-8912-4f78-8afb-87890de89edb"
/dev/sda11: UUID="82effd8d-7a6c-44f1-8c99-720d251d8feb" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda12: UUID="339571db-7157-4cbc-9419-bd80e6f9faa6" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

 

[Faun]

yeah i mean
sudo mount -a




it looks safe and sound

 

[heartripple]

sudo mount -a

nothing happens for this command

 

[Faun]

that means ur partitions are getting mounted without any problem, so u should be able to access them

By any chance u used Wubi to install Ubuntu ?
*ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=516976

 

[heartripple]

ok man i want to know that is there special version of yahoo messenger for linux i want to use it

that means ur partitions are getting mounted without any problem, so u should be able to access them

By any chance u used Wubi to install Ubuntu ?
*ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=516976

is link me kuch palle nahi pada

 

[Faun]

Can u acces those partitions from windows ?

Us link mein yehi likha hai ki, if u install using Wubi (wubi lets u install linux from windows) then only those two files are created.

try pidgin as a gtalk,IRC,yahoo messanger replacement

 

[heartripple]

no i am not able see those three partition from windows

 

[ray|raven]

Pidgin/Kopete if you are using Gnome/KDE respectively.

If you want one with voice-chat abilities for gnome, try GYachI.

 

[Faun]

no i am not able see those three partition from windows

I was talking bout the windows partitons (ntfs ones).

Obviously u cant read ext3 partitions from windows by default.

Your partitions are intact, no harm to data

Just some size problem with pratitions for linux, anyway as u learn more and more u will be able to do things more accurately.

 

[heartripple]

Pidgin/Kopete if you are using Gnome/KDE respectively.

If you want one with voice-chat abilities for gnome, try GYachI.

can i access all of my contacts from one of those chating softwares

 

[heartripple]

sorry guys i am new to linux so i am asking this stupid questoins

 

[ray|raven]

Yep. And Pidgin/Kopete are multi-protocol messengers.
Similar to Trillain/Miranda in windows.

So, you can chat with all your different id's at once.
AFAIK, Ubuntu comes with Pidgin by default.