I noticed that the desktop ICON for my 40GB Hard Disk disappeared after the last round of Hardy updates. Would any of you know how to get it back? Call it simplistic, but being a former Windows user, It was very easy for me to migrate my Windows files over to Linux. When I use the terminal (which I suck at) I see that my disk is properly mounted. I can not see the files under "computer" in Places either. Any help would be appreciated!  Thanks...

    I am new to Ubuntu, and was successful in loading UBuntu 7.10 onto an old PIII.  The only problem was getting my sound card to work.  Being a good old Soundblaster 16, I figured there would be no sweat. So far I've been wrong.Using "SoundTroubleshooting" document from the Ubuntu site, I had no succes with "modprobe", so I went to the next step and decided to reinstall the linux-sound-base, etc.  So I used terminal and typed away:"sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils"The document warned that this might remove gdm and ubuntu-desktop as well.  Sure enough it did, but the document indicated no problem, just use:"sudo apt-get install gdm ubuntu-desktop"No luck!   I took a look at  "/etc/apt/sources.list" and only the CD source was not marked as a comment.  I used "sudo nano" to change the "source.list" to list all "deb" lines and put my Ubuntu disk into the drive.  I then used "apt-get install" again for "gdm" and "ubuntu-desktop".  No luck.  The computer does not seem to be trying to access the CD drive and I get the following message:

I had Ubuntu 6.0 , Ubuntu 7.10, and Windows XP Home Edition on my Laptop's HD which  is a 80 HD. My HD was partition in this way (Ubuntu 6.0 “37GB”, Ubuntu 7.10 “4GB”, Windows C drive “12 GB”, Windows D drive “11 GB”).  I had managed to delete Ubuntu 6.0 with the Ubuntu 7.10’s partition software.   This is the question. How to up the space on the other O.S. since Ubnutu 6.0 is gone know?  I don’t have enough space to function in the way I need to operate.  I want to give have of the space to ubuntu and the other to window. Please Help Thank you.

I have given myself and my group all the permissions available...not a good idea, but what else to do?????       Downloaded a tar.gz file to /home/az/downloads.  Command ./configure did not work as the bash considered the attempt as an command to drill down to a sub-folder.Tried, in the terminal,   sudo aptitude install build-essentials, w/o success; also tried with apt-get, still none.Moved to folder with the file, typed ./configure  -- no more success than before.Tried to move, copy, or set up a link to the file to /usr/src where I had successfully created a sub-folder, downloads,  but could not do much as I am not the owner of src.  So, no joy!   All this in the hope of converting the tar.gz to a deb file using the alien command.I am enjoying this attempt to escape the clutches of Big Bad Blue, but  XP, might, in the end, present the only sanctuary from my failures. 

GREETINGS FROM AN EMBARRASSED NEWBIE,WHILE I CAN DRILL DOWN FROM HOME -> AZ -> DOWNLOADS  USING THE FILESYSTEM AND ALSO WITH  GNOME COMMANDER FROM äs@linux:~, IN THE TERMINAL I CANNOT DRILL FURTHER THAN HOMEI AM A NEWBIE TO UBUNTU, PERHAPS I HAVE BEEN ATTACKED BY SO MANY YEARS WITH THE BIG BAD BLUE OS.  IN ANY CASE, I KNOW THAT THE cd COMMAND SHOULD ALLOW ME TO DRILL DOWN THROUGH THE FOLDER LAYERS.  COMMAND PWD GIVES ME    /HOME/AZWHERE OH WHERE DID I GO WRONG.ANY HELP WOULD BE MOST APPRECIATED.ARIEH ZIMMERMAN

Hello I need help, when I click on AWN it like starts but the it just stays blank.as if  it never started. It blinks and then nothing happens. Can someone help?John

Hi folks, I hope someone out there is able to help me with my problem ;)Since yesterday i am not really able to boot into my Kubuntu any more.During the booting, at mounting the HD i think he quits with the errormsg "Unable to resolve UUID="...." exit status 8The UUID he can resolve is the partition that is mounted as home, i changed the fstab to prevent him from mouting it, now i come to the logonscreen but after logging on i get the errormsg "could not start kstartupconfig, check your installation"On the home partition i tryed to do a fsck which was quited with an errormessage telling me that he can't read the superblock...Any hints?Thnx in advance.

I ran Ubuntu off a disc last night. Worked perfectly. (UBUNTU FTW! LINUX ROCKS!)
Then today I gave a friend the disc I originally burn't as I knew it worked and wasn't a bad burn. And so I tried ten minutes ago to use my duplicate disc. After loading Linux presents me with a huge cross-hatched colourful screen and freezes. The screen looks different each boot.
So I thought it must have been a bad burn, and so burn't another in Windows. Same error over and over again.
I've tried the safe graphics mode as well, but it just freezes.

My hard-drive is NTFS 74.5 GB, I'm running XP pro SP2, a Pentium 4 2.8 GHZ processor and I think half a gig of ram. I do not have a graphics card.
Also note, as the title says, I'm running it off the cd, not installing it.

I'm inexperienced when installing operating systems and installed Ubuntu over Windows xp and inadvertedly formatted my hard disk drive and lost all my files. Does anyone know of any way to recover my files?

I must warn everyone, i have had ubuntu for 1 week or so, and i have been fiddling with java for about 3 days.  Heres the problem:  I have configured APT to get the extra repos. and even have access to downloading any java/program/whatever i want.  I have installed what feels like EVERYTHING that has the word java in it with no success on running java on firefox.  I've tried sun-java 5, sun java 6, j2re SE, icedtea... everything, with no success at viewing streaming quotes, spades, or mahjong online.  Is it something i must do to firefox?  If i goto about:plugins i get to see that GCJ Web Browser Plugin (using IcedTea) 1.4 is installed, but no dice with anything.  I am so sick of dealing with what seems like such a petty issue, can someone please help me out...

Hey all,I'm sure you've all heard this many times previously, but I am very new to Ubuntu and have so far been unsuccessful in trying to make my dial-up modem work.I'm running a dual-boot with Ubuntu 7.10 64-bit version and windows XP. The dial-up works fine with XP, so I will be able to download any necessary updates. I have already been to www.linmodems.org and have tried following the instructions listed there, but just end up becoming more confused than I was to begin with. I have run the scan modem and I have a Lucent/Agere/LSI Mars or Apollo DSP chipset. I'm not sure if I should list anymore details, but let me know if anymore information is needed.I'm also having problems with my wireless card, but as I don't have a broadband connection yet, that can wait until a later time.Any help would be much appreciative!Jarred

Hello, I have just recently installed Ubuntu on my Gateway MX6959 laptop I love this OS but I'm having a problem, my wireless connection doesn't seem to want to connect for very long. I understand that Intel Pro Set Wireless drivers aren't very well compatable with Ubuntu as of yet. I'm hoping someone could give me instructions on how to overcome this problem.I understand I need to download a new driver made specifically for this, but I don't know where or how to install a new driver on Ubuntu. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You

OH NO! i have too much music, and now my disk space is full and i can't even LOG ON to my computer. this is bad. very bad. help.thanks! eek!

I've tried installing Ubuntu 7.1 (both from a Live CD and from a "text" based CD)--in both cases, the system does not boot up and I get a blank screen and none of the keys are active. The computer is a Dell X200 (800MHz) machine.  I know nothing about computers and am strictly a user.  I would appreciate any guidance--please don;t be afraid to treat me like a three year old.Thanks,Matt

I just installed Gutsy Gibbon on my Toshiba Satellite 1800 laptop using a burnt cd and everything seemed to work out well. After installation was finished, my computer instructed me to take out the disk and press enter. When I did, it promptly shut off and stayed off. I started the computer up again and it told me that the OS was missing, and would not boot from disk. I told it to boot from the cd, which brought me to the ubuntu boot up menu. I selected install ubuntu and for my first few attempts. it did the normal loading things like checking drivers and what not, then asked me to remove the disk. Then it shut down again.The last time I repeated this process, I was given a lovely blue error screen with crazy dancing sticks. Needless to say I shut the computer down. Now I have tried once more and am successfully running from the live CD, but Still have not accomplished installing Ubuntu so I can load it without the CD.