The Personal Computer Thread

[crazylord]

Guys, i am a bit stuck with installing ubuntu. Its only detecting my SATA hdd and not my old PATA one.. What should i do..

[gold_heart007]

Linux recognizes the PATA as /dev/sda and the SATA as /dev/sdb.
Have you tried installing or fixing grub?

[tazz]

Hey Prakash as you can see from below the lag is jumping from 100 ms to 1000 ms and then to 5000 ms, which is very very high...

5:  125.21.167.29 (125.21.167.29)                        100.052ms asymm  6 
 6:  12.86.240.17 (12.86.240.17)                          1003.809ms asymm 11 
 6:  12.86.240.17 (12.86.240.17)                          5902.146ms asymm 11

And since all the 3 IPs are from your BSNL A-class i suggest you start bugging them with this trace out put, anyways most probably is this was a temporary issue and must have been resolved by now...

[crazylord]

Linux recognizes the PATA as /dev/sda and the SATA as /dev/sdb.
Have you tried installing or fixing grub?

Yes I tried fixing grub, using the 'grub-install' command at the terminal, it said 'no error reported.' Ok, here's the problem, Vista is installed on my Pata hdd and Ubuntu on my Sata hdd. When I boot my computer, it simply loaded Vista without even loading grub, so I changed the boot device priority in my Bios so that the sata hdd can boot first, Now, it loads Grub but it has no option for Vista. I also cant access my Pata drives from 'my computer' in ubuntu. Please help

[prakash_mvpa]

Guys, i am a bit stuck with installing ubuntu. Its only detecting my SATA hdd and not my old PATA one.. What should i do..

it should. as tazz told , /dev/sda and /dev/sdb or /dev/hda(pata) and /dev/sda(sata) .
which hdd do you want to install ubuntu Linux ?
in livecd session ,open a terminal and try below command and post it here:

sudo fdisk -l

@tazz:I hope so.

[crazylord]

I have already installed ubuntu on my sata drive. Vista is in the pata drive, the problem is that ubuntu isn't detecting the pata drive. Here's what i get after

sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf2f3f2f3

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4864 39070048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 4865 9728 39070080 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 6777 9728 23711908+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 4865 5046 1461852 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 5047 6079 8297541 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 6080 6776 5598621 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Since grub also doesn't show vista in the boot menu, i have to change the boot disk priority in the bios everytime i want to boot into vista.

[prakash_mvpa]

I guess you have to check your bios.there is some ide "extended mode or enhanced mode" available.enable that. check through your bios options properly.
also ,what is your mobo ?is it a *VERY* new model?sometime ide controller may not be supported with stock kernel.for eg: jmicron one.

also post here the output of "lspci |grep IDE" here.

[crazylord]

Ok. My mobo is an Asus P5GZ-MX (bought it last year). Yes i remember i have seen the 'extended mode option in the bios. I will enable it. And i will also 'ispci | grep ide' and post the result here. Right now i am on my lappy and dont have access to the desktop, so i will post it by evening....

Another thing is that my Hard disks are set as 'primary master' and 'secondary master'. Can this also be one of the reason? Should i set one of them to primary slave.

[prakash_mvpa]

well ,I dont think so :|

[jasmeetsinghchawla]

Sony Vaio C-22
80 gb hdd 1 gb ram
Intel core 2 duo 1.66
13.3 inch lcd
2.3 kg
bluetooth, wifi

[crazylord]

well ,I dont think so :|

ok. After we have sorted this out, i will try and connect to the internet using ubuntu. I use a GPRS connection via bluetooth on my mobile. I have read up some tuts on the net, i have found some nice tuts for connecting via usb cable, but unfortunately i wasn't able to find anything decent for connecting via bluetooth. Lets see, i will update you guys whether i was successful or not.

[prakash_mvpa]

Ubuntu Forums - first register your a/c there.most solutions are there itself .
yes ,but yaar , only gprs for net ? no other options ?say Broadband ?

[crazylord]

Ubuntu Forums - first register your a/c there.most solutions are there itself .
yes ,but yaar , only gprs for net ? no other options ?say Broadband ?

Bingo! Its recognizing PATA now. I enabled enhanced mode for both PATA and SATA drives. Love you dude
And no yaar, no other options for net, only GPRS.
One question , the wiki link you gave me before, they use 'apt - get' to install softwares like vlc, multimedia codecs, etc. Do I need a net connection to use those commands? I have also not enabled compiz yet, does it require net connection to be installed...?

[prakash_mvpa]

congrats dude ! .
you can use synaptic manager to install(in menu system>admin>synaptic).
yes ,you need net connection. else you apt4cd.

[crazylord]

Just a couple of final questions
1. Whats the exact name of the application which i need to play multimedia files like mp3, avi, etc.?
2. Even after trying the whole weekend, i couldn't make ubuntu detect my phone as a modem. So i will be doing offline installs. Suppose i get hold of the .deb packages along with their dependencies, is it just a simple matter of double clicking on the .deb files and installing them?
I need to do all this so that I can install vlc, compiz configuration manager, etc.