Lanbo's questions

I recently purchased an SSD to speed up my computer experience. Before, I had Windows 7 and Ubuntu in a dual-boot system. The plan was to install Windows 8 on the SSD and then set aside ~30GB for the system files of Ubuntu.

I installed Windows 8 just fine on the SSD, then I booted the Ubuntu install CD to make my partitions like always - but GParted tells me the entire SSD is unallocated. Now I am afraid I will lose my Windows installation if I try to do anything to it.

Why does GParted think there is no partition on the SSD? Shouldn't it be 4 Partitions, like the Windows installer told me?

And is it possible to ignore this and install Ubuntu on the hard disk (where it, frankly, already is) and somehow make it possible to install GRUB on the SSD to revert my dual-boot system without damaging the installed Win8?

I have a collection of videos, in the .mkv and .mp4 (AAC+H.264) formats. The .mkv files are ok, but all the .mp4 files have such a low volume that I can hardly hear it on my phone, even when volume is maxed.

I convert them using avconv so they're smaller for my phone. It works fine, but I have not yet found out how I can normalize the volume on all the .mp4 files so they match the .mkv files.

Just raising the volume alone would be a great achievement.

I want to install Xubuntu 12.10 on a system which has already Windows 7 on it. However, the Ubiquity installation program does not recognize any partitions on the system and shows it to me as empty. But fdisk and /dev list the partitions to me, and I can mount them manually.

From this question I tried the provided solutions, but neither the dmraid -rE command nor running the ubiquity via sudo helped here. According to the last recommendation, I used boot-repair to sum up the trouble, and the paste can be found here. Obviously, os-prober does see the Windows installation, just ubiquity doesn't.

I'd be very thankful for a quick help, I need the dual-boot system for work.

I have a bunch of mp3s that are awfully quiet. Even on max volume on my player, they're hardly intelligible.

On the other hand, I have a few mp3's with perfect volume all over, could be used as a reference. A coworker mentioned there is a way to "normalise" volume on sound files, but couldn't help me on how exactly it's done.

Anyone know how to do this on Ubuntu?

I'm using three Ubuntu systems in an irregular pattern, and since I use Chrome/Chromium anyway and have a Google account, I decided to make my life a bit easier and sync them.

Now I am having a problem: When I want to remove bookmarks from my lists, they not only come back when I switch the machine, they double. By now, I have up to ten identical bookmarks in the list and I spend a lot of time scrolling over them.

Is there any way to remove them permanently?

EDIT: Apps, too.

I've just bought my shiny new Lenovo Edge E320, without an OS (though it was claimed to contain a DOS).

After now 4 re-installations of Ubuntu, I am desperate. When I pull the USB stick off and reboot, the laptop tries to boot from network. It does that, because it doesn't see the OS on the HDD. Every time it fails with the message "No operating system."

I've set the "boot" flag on all the partitions, checked the boot-order, set the HDD to top, re-parted and reset all the flags, re-installed Ubuntu, and I have no idea what else to try.

Please help me, I've saved up for an exciting new laptop and I can't use it.

Ever since I installed Xubuntu Natty, my mp3 player is not mounted any more. lsusb also does not list it. Normal USB sticks are normally mounted. How can I re-enable auto-mount for it or mount it manually?

I've installed Xubuntu on my laptop last night, and then again on my computer at work, and I came to notice that the Xfce desktop looks so much better on the latter. On my laptop, I get all the panels ordered the same way, but the colours are plain and the icons are very different. I suspect it has to do with the fact that my laptop's had an xubuntu on itself once, until about 4 months ago, before I went to look at Ubuntu's Netbook Edition. How can I get the same shiny desktop settings as I have on this fresh, virgin install?