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solved it through .. well this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/74105/ho ... -partition

i am having trouble mounting an external drive, it is formatted to ntfs and is loaded with all my files to transfer over (so reformatting is out of the question) when i plug it in via sata cable i get this blob of text: Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/cpowell1164/4D251CCA2F66DD2E: Command-line `m...

cheers guys, i managed to solve it but just switching back to regular mint, cheers though

It wasn't pre installed with the os, I installed it via package manager

hello all, in a previous installation i had wine installed, upon changing from 17.2 to Debian edition i cannot seem to find a way to run windows exes, i used to be able to right click and use wine windows program loader, but that option doesn't appear, so my question is how do i go about using that ...

hello again all, when mounting an external drive through usb cable i get this error: An error occurred while accessing 'Windows10_OS', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sdb5 at /media/cpowell1164/Windows10_OS: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o &qu...

Pjotr wrote:Like this:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... nel-module
(item 1.3.3, left column)

woooooh thanks buddy, just rebooted and wifi was enabled automatically .... sweet sweet bliss , cheers

Pjotr wrote:You can of course add it to /etc/rc.local (without sudo!), but it would seem cleaner to simply put that module on the blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.

ahhh okies, would ya be able to walk me through blacklisting the module please?

hello all again!, so after solving a few other issues that have been bugging me i have decided this one must be solved! :D each time i boot up my pc i have to enter this: sudo modprobe -r ideapad-laptop and then password for sudo to enable my wifi, for some reason it doesnt seem to turn on automatic...

helloimustbegoing wrote:Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but all I think you need to do is right-click the executable (the ".exe" file) and select "Open with Wine."

domo arigahto buddy it worked

alrighty ill give it a shot, cheers

hello all again, so quick question, i have wine and playonwine installed and have managed to install a few apps, but for some of my games and visual novels they dont need to be installed since they come with all files necessary in a neat little folder, so my question is, how does one go about runnin...

Just out of curiosity, could you please post the output of this terminal command >>> inxi -p Now I feel dumb, Reorx. I should have thought of that myself... cpowell1164@cpowell1164-Lenovo-G50-30:~ > inxi -p Partition: ID: / size: 30G used: 7.4G (27%) fs: ext4 ID: /boot size: 479M used: 46M (11%) fs...

i appreciate the help guys <3

hello all, so i installed mint a while back on my laptop, during said installation a friend helped me partition it manually, now i didnt create a swap partition, so i was wondering, do i need one with 4gb of ram and how can i create one when i only have one hard drive on my system , thanks in advanc...