New installation coming up. 120gb SSD for OS and HOME and 1tb HDD for storage. 16gb of ram which means 16gb of swap if I recall correctly. SSD space is too valuable for a swap partition right? If my thinking is correct can someone guide me through or point me in the right direction for putting a swap partition on a second hard drive? I have always selected the automatic settings when installing ubuntu. Thanks!
Can anyone explain me with fairly simple words and not too technical concepts what exactly is GRUB, what is its primary usage and how to use it efficiently for a dual boot Windows/Ubuntu installation?
I have already read a couple of resources but I am still confused.
I downloaded
virtualbox-4.2_4.2.12-84980~Ubuntu~raring_i386.deb (63.9 MB) and Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.12-84980.vbox-extpack (11.6 MB) from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads.
I installed VBox on my laptop (Dell 1545 Core2Duo T6400; 4 GB RAM) running Lubuntu 13.04 giving the guest OS (also Lubuntu 13.04) 1536 MB RAM and 8 GB fixed disk space.
Performance is okay but I'm having trouble with the screen size. The desktop doesn't occupy the full width of the screen as the image shows (red ellipses).
I can use "scale mode" but that looks ugly as though things have been stretched horizontally.
Some reading indicates that installing Guest Addditions would help. But I can't figure out how to install it. I have /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso.
I've tried to mount VBoxGuestAdditions.iso:
But when I click on Devices, Install Guest Additions, I see this window:
Also puzzling is that there's an option to "force unmount" when the text above says "unable to mount".
How do I install ccmake (not cmake)?
I have tried the following to no avail:
sudo apt-get install ccmake
Not a COM32R image
boot
is a message that the console infinitely keeps spitting out when I try to install Ubuntu 10.04 from a USB. I created the USB using the StartupDiskCreator in 11.04.
What is the reason for this behavior? What do I do to set it right?
I have followed the steps perfectly, as enlisted in the Ubuntu Install from USB page.