Had a server that was using windows at first. Tried installing RHEL 5.3 after the completion of the installation process the machine gave a feedback of 'missing operating system'.

I ran another installation and this was the error given.(Input/output error during read on /dev/cciss/c0d0). what does that mean? How do i go round it?

I want to switch to Ubuntu Linux for a long time but I have a few programs that I use for work( Solid Works, Pro / Engineer, and most importantly, "personal e-bank" that works only in windows).

Do you know if someone has a version of these programs for linux or at least a good substitute?

I want to add a repository to install an application from internet on Ubuntu 9.4.

Unfortunately, when I add the PPA link to the synaptic package manager, it is not considered and no changes are made, can anybody help, please?

I am  installing ubuntu on my system (F: drive) along with Window 7 which is already installed on it.I got an error as "No root file system is defined".I changed the file system from NTFS to EXT2 ,formatted the drive and tried again.

Unfortunately, I chose E:drive in place of F: drive. So, my all data lost from E: drive. Also, since its file system has changed, it is not visible in window 7.

However, when i go to computer management .I see the image which is attached here with. Can anyone suggest a way to recover the data from the formatted drive as it contains some important data.

I have installed Red Hat Linux 5 in my de. Now i want to connect my modem with my desktop.

How can i do it?

The Linux Distributions I have looked at support X Windows.

Does this mean that after everything has been configured I can say, start up my computer and won't be shown a Unix prompt, it'll boot up to the X Windows interface?

I am trying to install Ubuntu as a secondary operating system to my Windows XP system.

I booted from Ubuntu LiveCD, ran installation setup and chose to create an EXT3 partition in an unallocated space of 15GB.

However, during the "Installing system" step, I get a "Failed to create a file system" error. What am I doing wrong?

Error:

Failed to create a file system
The ext3 file system creation in partition #9
of IDE1 master (hda) failed.

I have a problem with Ubuntu 9.04, sometimes the whole system freezes and does not respond to any keyboard or mouse input. Is there any keyboard shortcut to reset the system to avoid forcing the computer to restart manually? I would appreciate your help. Thanks

Hi!

I am facing problems with installing microsoft 7 in ubuntu. I also tried wine to install but it gives the error ".exe file cannot be opened".Is there any other way to install. I tried from the terminal but it doesn't works.

Thanks,

Sam

I have installed alsa mixer to configure sound on ubuntu 10.04. The sound card is detected and works very well but I still have a problem with microphone, I guess it is not installed. Do I need to install other sound packages?

I'll be very glad if I get the answer. Thank you.