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I would like to dual boot ubuntu 12.04 and OSX Lion. Is there a way that I can access all my music, documents, etc. from my ubuntu partition?
You should be able to read the OSX partition from Ubuntu without any modifications. You might have to mount the partition, although I would expect Ubuntu to automatically mount it read only, so you just have to find the partition in the file browser and open it.
OSX by default uses journaled HFS+ as it's file system. Ubuntus kernel has support for this file system built in. If you want read/write access to the OSX partition, you have to disable journaling in OSX. Here are some guides with more details:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/hfsplus
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/man7/hfsplus.7.html
Note that I would not recommend disabling journaling, and I do not recommend writing to the OSX system partition from a different OS. If you want to read and write to some files from both OSs, you should create a separate partition for this purpose. Non-journaled HFS+ would work as a file system, FAT 32 should also work.
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apologies in advance in case someone answers this already (but looks like have tried everything)
Just build my first pc recently:
AMD® Ryzen 5 3600 6-core processor
ASUS Prime X570-P ATX Motherboard
burn Ubuntu to USB from my MacBook and it's all working fine. ( Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS )
The problem is that I wanna install Windows 10 into PC also.
Have done partition on SSD (have just one SSD + HDD).
But no matter what I try can't seems to install everything right.
It's one of these:
Or pc just can't find my flash drive ( probably something is wrong with the way I burn iso to it)
Or if it does found it I get an error somewhere in the middle of installing, that there is no file for the next step or something like that. ( iso downloaded from Microsoft official page)
I have tried it with various programs (on ios and ubuntu) or even a command line. Even changing settings in BIOS to boot any external drive.
The easy way is to format your Ubuntu partition and install Windows first. Then the Ubuntu installer will automatically detect Windows and and you should be fine.
The hard way is to keep Ubuntu and install Windows. Then you will need to restore grub (Ubuntu's boot loader).
You have to run and install both OS with in (U)EFI mode and adjust some settings in UEFI. This could be the reason for the flashdrive not being found. If you have used tools like Rufus for creation of the bootable USB drive it could also be broken. It is enough to format the flashdrive with FAT32 and copy the contents of the ISO into its root.
Maybe this and this will help
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I am trying to install Ubuntu on windows using Oracle VM virtual Box from an ISO disk image.When I try to install, the installer gives a prompt that " The computer currently has no operating systems" I am wondering if this should have detected my windows operating system or is it just trying to detect Operating systems within the virtual Box.
The reason being it gives only two options to install
--Erase disk and install Ubuntu
-- Resize partition for Ubuntu
I do not want to erase all files on my windows operating system. Does anybody know what does the 'disk' in the discussion mean>
The installer is looking for OS installations on the disk in the VM, not the host machine. You are perfectly safe selecting Erase disk and install Ubuntu, and in most situations in a VM, that is the correct choice.
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Im using VMware and my guest OS is mac OS X 10.7.5. My host OS is windows 7
Now the vmdk file ( the virtual hard disk file) is almost 120GB. In my windows, the total size of the partition is 120GB, where the virtual OS located.
I cannot use my virtual Mac any more because of the storge. Is there any way to reduce the size of the virtual machine. I have already cleaned my Mac and deleted some stuff inside Mac, but it seems no decline from my windows, still red alert on that partition.
If it's a fixed size virtual disk you can not shrink it unless you convert it to a dynamic size. The only way to do that is to copy all the data into a new dynamic sized disk with
VBoxManage clonehd [old-VDI] [new-VDI] --variant Standard
Command from here
Just note you'll need the space to store two copies of the disk so this might not work without more storage space
If it's dynamicly sized you need to remove files in the virtual OS to shrink it other wise there's no way to shrink it.
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I am attempting to install Windows XP on my Macbook. I use bootcamp assistant and partion 32GB for windows. I insert the XP disk and I go through the initial blue screen disk formatting screens. After the partion is formatted (side question: which option is correct to choose: NTFS or FAT?) and the files are copied, it claims it will shutdown and continue installation after restarting. The computer boots up the normal way with OSX Leopard. What am I missing? The only choices I'm really given are for partition size and File System. Is there a way to continue setup using a hotkey as it boots? I figured that having the CD in the drive would be what would tell the computer to continue setup. Help?
You have to hold down the Alt button (between Ctrl and Cmd) when the Mac Gong sounds at bootup, and it should present you with OS choices. If not, use the latest version of BootCamp and use the same sequence.
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Windows recognizes and gives my fedora partition a drive letter, but it shows it as blank. Is there a way to get windows to read ext3 filesystem? Its a Fedora 10 partition.
I'd take a look at EXT2 IFS for Windows.
Several things to keep in mind with this.
Ext3 is backwards compatible with Ext2, it just doesn't write to the journal
NTFS is case insensitive, this may screw with you depending on what you are moving
Some filenames that are valid in Ext2/3 are invalid in NTFS/VFAT like : and $
Special files will be inaccessible, sockets, soft links, block devices
permissions are not maintained
Will not work with LVM volumes
It will let you read and write to it though ;)
I know that you want to mount your Fedora partition but from experience I have found that the best way to share a partition with Windows is to format as NTFS and use ntfs-3g to access it in Linux.
I tried using the ext2 Windows app mentioned by JensenDied a couple of years ago and ended up having problems accessing data on the USB drive that it was being used with.
See the answers to my similar question on ServerFault.com:
What Windows ext3 driver should I use?
Summary of the best answer I got (and other answers were later deleted, I assume by their authors): Use ntfs-3g to access the NTFS filesystem from Linux. You will have a much smaller chance of filesystem corruption doing it this way than using any of the existing ext2/3 drivers from Windows.