I bought a new laptop with genuine windows 8 with a recovery partition built in. I need to install ubuntu without affecting to the current configurations.
This is how my partition table looks in windows. How should I free up memory to install ubuntu?
there are two recovery partitions. One with 500mb and the other with 8.34 gb. What is the purpose of two of them?
What do these two commands mean?
cd ../
cd /..I am ending up in two directories upwards the tree on the first command and in the root directory from the second command. Why does that happen?
I have accidentally typed my name wrong when I created the administrator account. Although I managed to change the user name at the login screen, I am unable to rename the /home/oldusername to /home/newusername. I tried most of the online tutorials, and it failed.
The code I tried was this:
usermod -l newusername -m -d /home/newusername oldusername
But the output is:
cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.
How can I fix the issue and change the folder to newusername and expect all the applications to work as before?