Ubuntu to Notebook HP

Mon May 5 16:20:18 UTC 2008

i have not encountered any problem with ubuntu installation on present day notebooks. to boot from an external hard drive, that drive must have been enabled in your bios/setup.

visit http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download and download the option for 64bit AMD and Intel computers
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>    1. Ubuntu to Notebook HP (Marcelino Quintanilha)
>    2. Re: how to install TV application on Ubuntu (Simone Lusenti)
>    3. Re: Ubuntu + shutdown (Ed Greshko)
>    4. Re: Upgrade to 8.04 (Phil Sexton)
>    5. Re: how to install TV application on Ubuntu (loody)
>    6. Re: Ubuntu + shutdown (loody)
>    7. Re: help with Add/Remove Applications (Pastor JW)
>    8. Re: help with Add/Remove Applications (steve)
>    9. Re: help with Add/Remove Applications (Ranmadhu)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 22:55:07 -0300
> From: Marcelino Quintanilha 
> Subject: Ubuntu to Notebook HP
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Dears Sears,
> 
> I Have a note book HP Pavilion DV6445us with two partitions.
> On the first one partition  is instaled the OS Win XP prof and in the 
> second one partition is instaled Win Vista Home Premiun Portuguese.
> I Would like to install the Ubuntu in another HD USB 2.0 case ext. And 
> boot by setup. In this way the Ubunt? instalation wound not affect the 
> OS's that are instaled. Another way woul be using a third l?gic 
> partition that is used to back up my files.
> 
> Could someone tell me what kind of Ubuntu (in portuguese) I woul have to 
> download and where download the Ubuntu that coul run in my note book?
> The Note book Pavillion 6445 us has the following configuration:
> Microprocessor = AMD Turion 64 x2 - TL-56 1.80 Ghz, 2048 Mb in two 
> memory ram  Dimm dual chanel 1 Gb whith one.
> -NVIDIA Driver=  Ge Force 6150 Go, motherboard= Quanta 30 B7 65.2B.
> 
> I would like to tell you that I hava already tried to install Ubuntu 
> 7.04 to desktops with processors X64 but I did not have succes.
> 
> In the begining of the boot the instalation stop in - "setting the 
> system clock". Or then a scrren without image appear.
> 
> If someone coul help me I will be very glad.
> 
> Thanks for the attemption.
> 
> Best Regards.
> 
> Marcelino Quintanilha - marquinsan at globo.com - Brasil.
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 11:47:18 +0200
> From: Simone Lusenti 
> Subject: Re: how to install TV application on Ubuntu
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,	not for general discussions"
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> TVTime is the best application for that.
> 
> apt-get install tvtime
> 
> On Sun, 4 May 2008 13:46:17 +0800, loody  wrote:
>> Dear all:
>> I want to see Tv on my ubuntu, but I have no idea what packages I can
>> apt-get or where I can find them.
>> Would someone suggest me the package list?
>> appreciate your help,
>> miloody
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 10:05:21 +0800
> From: Ed Greshko 
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu + shutdown
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> tasos sarris wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I would appreciate your help in solving the following problem.
>> As soon as I shutdown the computer, the sysytem shuts itsself down.
>> BUT, if I hit any key, then the system powers itself on!
>> Is the any idea, I could modify the software, so the sysyem will remain
>> down!
> 
> Sounds like a BIOS setting to me....
> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 22:14:38 -0400
> From: Phil Sexton 
> Subject: Re: Upgrade to 8.04
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> Jerry Tucker wrote:
>> If I upgrade to 8.04, will I lose all my settings and desktop 
>> configuration? Thank you for your help, I am rather new to Ubuntu. Jerry T.
> 
> Did you make a separate partition for /home? If so, no if not, yes.
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 10:33:35 +0800
> From: loody 
> Subject: Re: how to install TV application on Ubuntu
> To: smaug42 at gmail.com
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> Dear all:
> appreciate your kind help.
> Actually, I have no idea which application I need and I even have no any
> tuner card yet.
> 
> Below I list what I have, what I need and what my questions are.
> 
> my environment:
> 1. Gnome desktop.
> 2. ubuntu 7.10
> 
> I want to both see analog and digital tv.
> 
> my questions are:
> 1. Which tuner card should I buy?
> 2. Does the tuner card that I can use must support video4linux or it depends
> on the package that I choose?
> 4. Can there any tuner card meet all 3 type of TV you mentioned in the
> previous letter?
> 3.what does " Do you actually want broadcast TV" mean?
> Does that mean I can broadcast my video that is recorded by some packages on
> some channel from my tuner card?
> That sounds cool~~.
> 
> thanks for your detail explanations,
> miloody
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> loody wrote:
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>> I want to see Tv on my ubuntu, but I have no idea what packages I can
>> apt-get or where I can find them.
>> Would someone suggest me the package list?
> 
> sudo apt-get install tvtime
> 
> that's what i use!  if you want to go hardcore then look at mythtv or
> mythbuntu.
> 
> what tuner card do you have?
> 
> - -d
> 
> 
> Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 10:25:15 +0200
> From: Clayton 
> Subject: Re: how to install TV application on Ubuntu
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
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>> I want to see Tv on my ubuntu, but I have no idea what packages I can
>> apt-get or where I can find them.
>> Would someone suggest me the package list?
>> appreciate your help,
> 
> You haven't really given enough information... Do you have a TV tuner
> (USB, PCI card etc) attached/installed?  Do you want to watch TV in a
> small window?  Do you want to build a full blown media center with
> full TV and video management?  Do you use Gnome? KDE?  Do you actually
> want broadcast TV, or just to view AVI/MPG video, or do you want P2P
> Live TV?
> 
> MythTV is nice for setting up your computer as a media center.  I use
> it all the time for watchign DVB-T TV and watching my AVI/MPGs (there
> are also plugins for internet video source like YouTube).
> 
> For just watching TV in a small window.. there are loads of
> applications... KDETV, TVTime, XAWTV, Kaffine, Xine, etc etc, but this
> assumes you have a TV tuner of some sort.
> 
> For P2P TV, it can really depend on what country you are in and if
> Linux is supported... Zattoo for example has a Linux P2P TV client,
> and is available in most of western Europe.  Another is Miro, or
> SopCast.. and dozens of others.
> 
> So... options options.. but you really need to define better exactly
> what it is you're hoping to get.
> 
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 10:41:26 +0800
> From: loody 
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu + shutdown
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> Hi:
> could you please make sure that you are not going to hibernate or suspend
> mode?
> 
> suspend mode will not turn off the power and it just let the system run in
> low power state.
> You can see your cpu fan keeps working.
> 
> hibernate mode will save all your data on DRAM to HD and then power the
> system off.
> 
> If you are not sure whether the problem comes from BIOS, you can enter your
> bios setting page and choose "restore default setting" on your list.
> 
> Sincerely Yours,
> miloody
> 
> 2008/5/5 Ed Greshko :
> 
>> tasos sarris wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I would appreciate your help in solving the following problem.
>>> As soon as I shutdown the computer, the sysytem shuts itsself down.
>>> BUT, if I hit any key, then the system powers itself on!
>>> Is the any idea, I could modify the software, so the sysyem will remain
>>> down!
>>
>> Sounds like a BIOS setting to me....
>>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 19:48:54 -0700
> From: Pastor JW 
> Subject: Re: help with Add/Remove Applications
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> On Friday 02 May 2008 05:16:53 pm Isvel Lopez Lopez wrote:
>> When I install for example "wireshark" using the "Add/Remove Applications",
>> where is the downloaded file, because I want to give it a friend who has no
>> Internet???
> 
> Installed!  When you added the application to your system, what you really 
> told it to do, was install it for you.  You would have had to downloaded and 
> saved the file in order to give it to someone else.  Still it would be better 
> for your friend to just download it for himself and install it directly on 
> his own machine.
> 
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> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 23:01:18 -0400
> From: steve 
> Subject: Re: help with Add/Remove Applications
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> Pastor JW wrote:
> | On Friday 02 May 2008 05:16:53 pm Isvel Lopez Lopez wrote:
> |> When I install for example "wireshark" using the "Add/Remove
> Applications",
> |> where is the downloaded file, because I want to give it a friend who
> has no
> |> Internet???
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/
> 
> you can download specific packages here for your friend.  BUT, your
> going to open up a can of worms with dependencies if they dont have all
> the necessary libraries to run whatever your giving them.  Its going to
> be a whole lot easier for them to spring for a net connection, whats
> dial up go for these days ten dollars a month??, broadband thirty?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 13:05:39 +1000
> From: Ranmadhu 
> Subject: Re: help with Add/Remove Applications
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,	not for general discussions"
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> Isvel Lopez Lopez wrote:
>> When I install for example "wireshark" using the "Add/Remove Applications", 
>> where is the downloaded file, because I want to give it a friend who has no
>> Internet???
>>
>>   
> I believe downloaded packages are stored in /var/cache/apt/archives by 
> default.
> 
> Ranmadhu
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