[Ilugc] Firefox 3.5.5 crashes in ubuntu 9.04

2009-12-01 Thread Dhanagopal R
Hi I am multibooting a system with Ubuntu 9.04 Windows XP. I have installed firefox 3.5.5 in Ubuntu 9,04 following exactly the steps outlined in the link below: http://ubuntumanual.org/posts/193/installing-firefox-3-5-in-ubuntu-the-easy-way However it crashes randomly while opening some sites.

[Ilugc] xubuntu 9.1 x does not start error

2010-01-11 Thread Dhanagopal R
Hi I have installed xubuntu 9.1 in a Intel P III/256mb/40gb box. It was working fine for few days. Suddenly it fails to boot giving the following message after getting updated to latest kernel. I shall appreciate if someone guide me to solve this problem. X doesn't start (important). It gives

[Ilugc] dynebolic linux - unable to log in as user

2009-01-01 Thread Dhanagopal R
Hi I have installed the recent version of dynebolic linux in my old P III with 256mb RAM dual booting ubuntu 7.1 with grub. I am able boot into dynebolic linux as root (default option). It is working fine. I created a user account with adduser command with password. A home dirctory is also get

[Ilugc] Tamil transliteration IME ubuntu 12.04

2012-09-23 Thread Dhanagopal R
Hi Is there any easy tool like google tamil transliteration IME, which could be used in Ubuntu 12.04 for off-line tamil typing. I find other tamil typing tools/methods available for Linux difficult for novice. Thanks. R.Dhangopal ___ ILUGC Mailing

[Ilugc] Installing grub in the root partition

2013-04-27 Thread Dhanagopal R
Hi I was dual booting windows xp and ubuntu 12.4. Now I have installed windows 7. I would like to install grub in the root partition of ubuntu to use Easy BCD utility to add ubuntu 12.4 to the windows 7 boot loader. I followed the steps listed below and gets error message. Can someone help me

[Ilugc] Partition issue to dual boot windows 7 and Ubuntu

2014-02-25 Thread Dhanagopal R
Hi I have recently got a Dell Inspiron 17 Laptop online from US. I would like to install Ubuntu and dual boot with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit (already factory installed in C: by default. The HDD remains partitioned as follows: 1. 39 MB OEM Partition 2. 21.67 GB Recovery (System active Primary

[Ilugc] Dual booting ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit with Windows 7 64 bit

2014-11-17 Thread Dhanagopal R
Hi I am planning to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (dual boot) in my Dell Inspiron 17 Laptop. It has Windows 7 professional 64 bit OEM version. The processor is Intel core i5 3337U 1.8 GHz which supports 64 bit instruction set. I would like to know which desktop image PC (intel 386) or 64 bit PC (AMD

[Ilugc] Limit of maximum 4 primary partition vs linux installation

2016-01-28 Thread Dhanagopal R
to have all the linux partitions as primary for smooth installation? Regards Dhanagopal R ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines

[Ilugc] Ubuntu 14.04 LTS dual booting with Window 7 Partition problem (Dhanagopal R)

2016-01-26 Thread Dhanagopal R
--- On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Dhanagopal R <dhanagop...@gmail.com> wrote: | 2. Selected the free space using the Ubuntu partition utility | 3. Created 1gb /boot logical partition ext4 - no problem | 3. Then created a 30 gb / root logical partition ext4 - no problem | 4. Then created

[Ilugc] Ubuntu 14.04 LTS dual booting with Window 7 Partition problem (Arun Khan)

2016-01-29 Thread Dhanagopal R
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Dhanagopal R <dhanagop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 byte

[Ilugc] Ubuntu 14.04 LTS dual booting with Window 7 Partition problem

2016-01-28 Thread Dhanagopal R
Hi, --- On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Dhanagopal R <dhanagop...@gmail.com> wrote: | 1, OEM 39mb OEM partion (Not sure logical or primary) | 2, Recovery partition 29 Gb (Not sure logical or primary) \-- Do these show up when you install Ubuntu? # yes --- | As I am not sure whether the

[Ilugc] Ubuntu 14.04 LTS dual booting with Window 7 Partition problem

2016-01-26 Thread Dhanagopal R
Hi I attempted to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit in my Dell laptop (Inspiron 17 3721 i5/ 6gb / 750 gb HDD / Windows 7 pro) to dual boot. In the laptop legacy bios was enabled and secure boot disabled. I booted the system using the downloaded ISO DVD and did the following steps: 1. Deleted the