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[Richard Barmann]

I do not need Windows. Please forget #3.

Do you want the results of sudo lshw -c cpu. I see 32 bit and 64 bit in 
there.


On 08/02/2016 05:08 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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
>
>