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[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:57:50 -0400, Richard Barmann wrote:
>#3 adding the Windows XP from my CD

Is it possible for your needs to run Windows as guest in a virtual
machine? If using any Windows, then my recommendation is to install a
64-bit Windows 7. I'm not a Windows expert, so there might be reasons
to avoid Windows 7. However, since this is a Linux mailing list, you
should ask for Windows support on a Windows forum. Perhaps you should
first install Windows and then Linux, since at least I would dislike to
help you to fix your Linux and then two days later, help you to fix it
again, because installing Windows has broken your Linux again. If you
could run Windows as guest on a Linux host, then Windows couldn't break
your Linux installs and continuing to help you right now would make
sense. But again, running Windows in a VM can not replace a "real"
Windows install. If choosing to install it as guest makes sense,
depends to your needs. An advantage would be, that you don't need to
reboot, you could run Linux and Windows at the same time.

You are running a 32-bit Ubuntu. Is your computer really not 64-bit
architecture?

If you shouldn't know, you can find out by running

  sudo lshw -c cpu

Perhaps you first need to install the package  lshw .

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 10:59:52 -0400, Richard Barmann wrote:
>I tried to run the
>
>grep linux /boot/grub/grub.cfg > /tmp/grubcfg.txt
>
>but did not get any action.

You don't see any output, because the output is redirected to a text
file. we don't need grub.cfg anymore, but we need fstab from all of
your Linux installs. IIUC you have 3 Linux installs.

Run

  cat /path/to/sdb7/mount/point/etc/fstab > /tmp/fstab_ubuntu_15_04.txt
  cat /path/to/sdb8/mount/point/etc/fstab > /tmp/fstab_ubuntu_16_04.txt
  cat /path/to/sd??/mount/point/etc/fstab > /tmp/fstab_kubuntu16_04.txt

For the Linux you booted /path/to/sd??/mount/point needs to be dropped.

You will see no output in the terminal, but in the directory /tmp,
there will be the generated files and those files add as attachment to
emails.

I suspect you can automatically mount the partitions with the default
GUI file manager of your *buntu installs, so mounting by command line
isn't required.

Regards,
Ralf