Questions tagged [fedora]
A Linux-based operating system. Only questions about Fedora that involve Ubuntu are on topic here, other questions should be asked at the Unix & Linux Stack Exchange.
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How to make an Ubuntu live USB stick in Fedora?
I have Fedora installed on my desktop and I want to make a live USB stick with Ubuntu to install it on a laptop. What's the easiest way to do it?
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How do I triple-boot Ubuntu, Fedora and Windows 7?
I have an Acer Laptop with windows 7 pre installed. I want to install Ubuntu and fedora and make a triple boot configuration. I want to know how? I am a newcomer to linux and I need help.
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Is Ubuntu One available for Fedora?
I just wondering why Ubuntu is not developing the Ubuntu One client for Fedora even the closed source one. It will help to broaden the Ubuntu Cloud and revenue generating Ubuntu Music store by ...
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Ubuntu does not put Fedora into GRUB menu
I have installed a number of operating systems, including Fedora. Most recently I installed Ubuntu, and Ubuntu installed its own version of the GRUB bootloader. However, Fedora does not show up on the ...
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What is the logic behind the user name restrictions in *buntu?
In Fedora, I use my preferred account name, which happens to be a fully qualified domain name. By using a fully qualified domain name as my user name across most of my accounts (both on my own ...
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Can't boot ubuntu 13.10 after install Fedora 20 on a x86_64 EFI machine
I can't boot Ubuntu from gub menu after I install Fedora 20 (but I can boot Fedora and windows)
error: can't find command 'linux'
error: can't find command 'initrd'
But I can boot from here
Do you ...
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How to make vm boot from live cd
I have created a vm for ubuntu 13.04 and configured it to boot from live CD (I want to try Fedora on it), but it doesn't boot. It displays a shell terminal I think and this is it.
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Why can't I boot into Ubuntu after installing and then erasing Fedora?
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I'm trying to install Xubuntu on a 2015 Dell XPS 13 laptop, but I've been running into all sorts of bootloader-related problems. To make a long story short, I've installed several ...
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How do i get my monitor working in 4k 60 Hz in Linux?
I used linux for two years. I bought a new 4K Dell monitor, connected it to HDMI, booted into Windows, and it worked fine, then I booted into Ubuntu Linux and it just show no picture (the same thing ...
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How to remove fedora from boot menu after formatting the disk of fedora?
I have two disks 512 and 128 and i installed fedora on 128gb and i formatted the volume next day but when I start up I can still see some parts of fedora like fedora-workstation from dev/mapper/fedora ...
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Dual boot ubuntu 11.04 and fedora 15
I want make dual boot with feodra 15 and ubuntu 11.04 for testing features,please guide me the same.
i had done dual boot with windows and linux but not linux linux.
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How to set the minimum time between double clicks?
How to set the minimum time between double clicks (two clicks)? Avoiding single click turns out to be double clicks
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Fedora login gone after Ubuntu updates on a dual boot [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ubuntu does not put Fedora into GRUB menu
After a software update for Ubuntu, my dual boot with Fedora will not show Fedora in the start menu. It just boots into Ubuntu and ...
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how to remove other linux os and stay with ubuntu only
I have latest ubuntu 15.4. I wanted to try fedora so I installed it afterwards and got dual boot. Now I want to remove fedora and stay with only ubuntu.
How do I completely remove fedora and retrieve ...
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Corrupted 7z file
I recently wanted to try out Fedora. So I transfered all my files to it via USB. Then I got frustrated with it, placed all my files in a 7z archive and then copied them back to the drive. Now, every ...
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Is there a difference between Ubuntu Gnome-shell and Fedora Gnome-shell? [closed]
I am using ubuntu 11.10 with gnome-shell installed. I often hear people talking about the "pure gnome-shell experience" with regards to Fedora.
What does this mean? Are there differences between ...
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Why do I need to create a bios-grub partition when I install 12.04?
Is the bios-grub partition in Ubuntu 12.04 mandatory?
I have used 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04, But I was never asked for this.
Today I tried a fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.04 and for the first time ...
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How to create a Debian/Fedora live USB on Ubuntu 17.10?
I tried to use Startup Disk Creator, but it seems that it can only create Ubuntu live disks. Is there any software that can help me create live USB disk for any .iso files? Please also mention how to ...
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Trouble getting a bridge working with GNOME Boxes [closed]
I set up a Fedora VM using GNOME Boxes. I can launch it, everything's OK.
I'm using virt-manager and I want to create a bridge so that I can get the VM on the network, but every time I attempt ...
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extracting RAR files on Ubuntu 20.10,Ubuntu LTS also on Fedora 33 not working
I decided to leave Windows and jump in to the Linux, but when I install Ubuntu LTS 20.04 and want to extract RAR, with Archive Manager it stays in (Extracting files from "site.rar [86mg] ") ...
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Can't boot to Windows anymore after removing Grub on a Netbook [duplicate]
Today I decided to try out Fedora by booting it from USB. I liked the OS, and decided I wanted to install it to my hard-drive. I couldn't complete the installation because I needed to free up a ...
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Ubuntu install CD hangs at 5 red dots while booting
I put the disk in for 12.04, go to the Bios, and I boot off the disk, it works until the 5 dots go red when it is ready to load the desktop and it just hangs. Worked before when I had windows and I ...
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Is it a good idea to share partitions between distros
This is what my laptop's partitions look like
windows: about 100 GB
Ubuntu root: 50 GB (mounted at /)
Free space: 50 GB
Ubuntu home partition: the rest of the space (mounted at /home)
I want to ...
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Touchpad right click not working - How to enable touchpad buttons and keep two finger click?
The right button on my touchpad only does left clicks. When I press in the lower right corner of my touchpad, a left-click is done.
How can I configure the touchpad to behave like on Windows, where I ...
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Ubuntu and Fedora dual boot
I've successfully dual-booted Fedora and Ubuntu. How do I remove the bootloader from Fedora and just use Ubuntu's bootloader for both Fedora and Ubuntu?
(Ubuntu version 14.01 and Fedora 21 )
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Dual booting Ubuntu 11.10 and Fedora 16 [ problem partitioning ]
I have 320 gb hard drive. It already has a drive each for Ubuntu installation, Home, an NTFS drive and swap partition.
With the space that is left over, I want to try Fedora 16 too as it has some ...
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Install Fedora over Ubuntu partition? [closed]
Is there any way for me to install Fedora over Ubuntu in a partition I made?
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Dual boot Fedora with Ubuntu
I have a laptop currently running Fedora, how can I dual boot it with Ubuntu?
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How do I create a Fedora 16 live usb from Ubuntu? [closed]
UNetBootin and LiveUSB Install don't support Fedora 16 yet, so how do I manually create a live USB?
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can't create startup disk in ubuntu when selecting fedora iso
I can't select a fedora image to create a bootable usb stick. It works with ubutu and gnome ubuntu but not with fedora. Does the ubuntu startup creator only work with ubuntu isos?
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Should Ubuntu or Fedora be installed first for dual boot?
I am currently running Ubuntu 16.04 (BIOS boot). I want to set up my computer for EFI booting, dual booting into Ubuntu and Fedora. Any thoughts on which OS I should install first? Also, since I have ...
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Why is Ubuntu's grub2 menu made the default grub menu? Is it possible to change it?
I have 2 hard disks — a 240 GB SSD and a 2 TB standard disk. I put Windows, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu 16.04 on the SSD, the sda and Fedora and Kali Linux on the 2 TB disk, sdb.
Now, as I was installing ...
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Grub overwritten
I've accidentially overwritten my bootloader. I was prepping some live USB sticks and think I accidentially wrote to my local disk instead of my USB stick. Now my machine will only boot in to Fedora ...
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Is dual booting ubuntu and fedora/openSUSE as easy as popping in a liveCD?
I wish to dual boot ubuntu (currently installed) with fedora and/or openSUSE (fedora for vanilla gnome and SUSE for a good KDE experience). I do not know much about dual booting and grub. Do I only ...
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Unable to boot into Ubuntu after Ubuntu-Fedora Dual Boot
I tried to dual boot Ubuntu and fedora, but now I am unable to boot into my Ubuntu installation. Here is the situation
I had Ubuntu installed already on /dev/sda2 and I resized it to create another ...
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Intel I219 Experiencing HUGE Package Loss
There are some discussions and seems this issue has been solved. However, the literature is few. So I wrote this note and hope it will help others.
Symptom
Intel Ethernet Connection I219 Series, ...
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How to uninstall Fedora OS from Ubuntu? [closed]
I have Ubuntu,Fedora and windows OS in my laptop.I want to remove Fedora OS only.How can i uninstall it ? Kindly suggest any good ideas.
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Can't Install Windows 8, Fedora 19 with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Need Help... :'(
I am new here, I want to install windows 8, Fedora 19 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my laptop. Which is Dell Inspiron 15R 7520 SE. But whenever I install Ubuntu After Fedora, the GRUB is showing Fedora is ...
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Icon missing in tasks witcher and window, (but not in app launcher nor Task Manager)
For several but not all apps (installed with flatpak), there are icons missing in the task switcher and the application window itself. Yet these icons are available in the application launcher and on ...
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Prevent xbindkeys to work in terminal
I try to implement Emacs keybindings in my browser.
Currently I have .xbindkeysrc and this chord
"if [[ "$(xdotool getwindowfocus getwindowname)" =~ "Chrome" ]]; then xdotool key --window "$(xdotool ...
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Internal laptop screen is not avaiable after lid close event, instead multiple times attached
I am running Ubuntu 17 on a Surface Pro 4. I had the same issue with Fedora 27. Both running gnome as desktop.
I have a external (DELL) monitor connected to my surface 4. When I close the lid, ...
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Kubuntu upgrade broke KDE programs
I upgraded to Kubuntu 15.10 from 15.04 on Friday. I use Awesome WM with the KDE programs. After the upgrade they seemed rather broken.
A fresh user account with KDE has the problem that KDE starts ...
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How do I use an Ubuntu notebook as second monitor for a Fedora desktop? [closed]
I was wondering if there is a possibility to use my netbook with 12.04 as a second monitor for my Fedora desktop, because its keyboard is broken but everything else is running just fine.
I already ...
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how to avoid manually updating grub [closed]
I have dual boot system with Ubuntu 11.10 (installed first) and Fedora 16. I have actually two problems.
how to avoid manually running update-grub after a Fedora kernel update?
after running update-...
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How can I add different files to multiple directories in one command? [closed]
I need to add one file to about 7 different directories. I'm using Fedora 24... I know I need to use the touch command but what parameters will I need?
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I am tryng to dual-boot Ubuntu 11.10 and Fedora 16
I am going to dual-boot Ubuntu 11.10 and Fedora 16. I am installing Ubuntu first. Partitioning 15 MB for Boot partition, and the rest of my space divided by 2 for each Ubuntu and Fedora (500 GB each). ...
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Unable to start Fedora from USB
I already installed Ubuntu 13.10 and I wanted to dual boot Ubuntu and Fedora. I created Live USB with command:
sudo dd if=Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-19-1.iso of=/dev/sdb1
But I am not able to boot ...
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get back command prompt after opening programs from terminal
When I launch any application from terminal, then the terminal gets locked until I close that application. What I want is just to use terminal for launching programs and then use the same terminal for ...
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Adding more already installed OS's to BURG
Can I add more already installed operating systems [such as BLAG linux or Fedora] to BURG [after BURG is installed] so they will appear on boot menu?
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Maximizing HDD space on dual boot Fedora 16 and Ubuntu 12.04 system
My question is very specific. In the screenshot here of my GParted, you can see Fedora 16 installed on /dev/sda4 and Ubuntu (with the mount point "/") on /dev/sda6. Partition /dev/sda5 is taking up ...
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