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I have mint 14 mate installed along side of win 7 so I can dual boot , when I boot into mint I get the following message :- Error mounting system-managed device /dev/fd0: Command-line `mount "/media/floppy0"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device ...

Thank-you for your advice .
Unfortunately , (please dont laugh) I deleated the wrong partition !
So I've now had to relaod Mint.
Oh well we all make mistakes sometime

Bernard

Ive been using mint 10 for a very long time .
Yesterday I installed mint 13 on the same drive. So now at boot it gives me the choice of 13 or 10
Now that mint 13 is up and running properly I would like to uninstall mint 10 without messing up mint 13.
How do I do this please ?

Thank-You
Bernard

Just installed the new Linux 11 when I start up computer I now get the message on the Monitor "out of range" 93.0 kHz / 59 Hz Once mint 11 has fully started then everything appears to be OK. This didnt happen with any other version , anybody any ideas please ? PennyLurcher

30 megabit connection, downloading 31.46 mega bit, while with linux downloads 23 megabit. did you conenct to the same server? did you go back to windows to get a comparison in time. Is linux set to negociate at IPV6, and slowing your down in translation to IPV4? Yes I connected to the same server e...

My internet is 30mb with Virgin ,I use a wireless connection. If I use windows 7 then check using speedtest.net my connection is 31.46 If I use mint 10 "Julia" check using speedtest.net my connection is 23.10 Can anyone explain why ? or how to fix mint so I get the correct speed please ? B...

Thank-you very much for your help ,you've solved my problem
the UUID'S were different, edited the fstab one and everything is OK now.
Best wishes
Bernard (g6tet)

cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 60 =================================== sudo swapon -a swapon: cannot canonicalize /dev/disk/by-uuid/c07ff63a-1b38-4d06-a2b5-432d0ada70aa: No such file or directory swapon: cannot stat /dev/disk/by-uuid/c07ff63a-1b38-4d06-a2b5-432d0ada70aa: No such file or directory ======...

# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/sda5 UUID=e1ed2f0f-22d7-4339-9534-4ed39e9687c2 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /dev/sda6 UUID=c07ff63a-1b38-4d06-a2b5-432d0ada70aa none swap sw 0 0...

didnt get this in mint 4. sometimes on startup I get this message :: There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The last error message was: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote app...

Mint 5 was running perfect on my old hard drive. My son bought me a new hard drive for fathers day so I copied my mint 5 on to it from my old hard drive using Acronis Backup. Everything is working great ,but, if I go into Partition Editor swop is off ! I have to go in and turn it on Manually in Part...

I plugged in one of the pendrives and this is what I got when I did sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x3f56a670 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 93...

And there is the problem I dont know how to edit fstab or what to put there !
and my family is pleading with me to reinstall Vista as they cant use their pendrives .
Dont want to install Vista ,help!!!!!

Nothing that I plug in to my USB hub (Hard Drive or PenDrive or Smartcard ) will allow me to use it. so here is my fstab if it helps. # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/hda1 UUID=e6e1d49e-e6...

I have a external harddrive on USB. if I go to "computer" the icon is there. If I try to alter the permissions , it says I cant as the "owner" is root. If I try to create a folder on that drive I get the same message Now I know this must be simple but I cant figure it out. I'm us...

Hi Fred, It was bad news thats why it as taken me so long to come back :( I did try ,but , when I restarted the computer I got to the splash screen (Mint) then it just sat there !! so after 3hrs of trying to sort it out I thought it would be quicker to reload Mint . Ive reloaded mint ,done away with...

Hi there
they are both IDE.

I have 2 harddrives in my machine. Prime master as windows vista on it. Prime Secondary as Mint on it. I wish to remove the drive with vista on it leaving only the drive with mint. Ive tried disconecting the windows drive , computer wont boot Ive tried conecting the mint harddrive as prime master , ...

There is a program called Clone DVD Mobile which is a windows programme , is there a Linux equivelant ?

Thanks for your help , went to pdfonline and they converted it to a pdf for me which of course I could open with document viewer.