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Root S-Off help please

Nonsense. Format usb as fat32, flash iso with unetbootin or universal usb installer, boot from usb.

Been doing it that way for years.

Win Vista and up also install nicely from usb.
 
mrawesome22 said:
Nonsense. Format usb as fat32, flash iso with unetbootin or universal usb installer, boot from usb.

Been doing it that way for years.

Win Vista and up also install nicely from usb.
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Now you've made me curious. If I remember to, I'll ask him why he didn't want me to use the USB drive next time I see him.
 
Another possibility is they don't want people using a thumdrive is that the drive may contain files (pictures, music, vids) that will get erased during the formatting of the thumbdrive.

At least on a blank dvd, there is no possibilty of this.
 
ok well I will try to download the file but not certain on my success. My download speeds are minimal to say the least and no wifi to pick up in the area. If and when I get it, I will seek further aid. Thanks to all for the help
 
My thinking is there might be some kind of interference with both the phone and the exploit creating two way traffic over the USB channel. However, the people at Unlimited seem mainly interested in creating a single uniform environment to make their support chores easier. They should be able to eliminate the need for the chmod command and give some instructions on how to start the terminal and navigate to the downloads folder in Ubuntu. But, that would make too much sense.
 
I've booted at least a half dozen times in the past year without a single issue, the hardest part is changing your bios settings to make the USB port the first device to boot from. Don't have to even worry about it anymore, I dual boot Win XP Pro and Win 7 Ultimate from a single partitioned drive and when I need Ubuntu I change the boot priority to one of my other drives and boot directly into Ubuntu. Pretty much have all the bases covered now. :D:cool:
OB
 
colossus3874 said:
ok well I will try to download the file but not certain on my success. My download speeds are minimal to say the least and no wifi to pick up in the area. If and when I get it, I will seek further aid. Thanks to all for the help
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Use the torrent option to dload the iso. If your connection gets interupted, it will pick up right where it left off once your connection is established again.
 
The USB Thumb Drive boot method will work fine. I don't know what they have against it, but I'd be shocked if you didn't have positive results using it. As a matter of fact, any apt-based Linux variant that uses a filesystem structure similar to Ubuntu will work fine. That includes Debian, Mint, and others.

Anyway, to download Ubuntu, I prefer using a torrent. It reduces load on the servers, it's faster, and the integrity is verified as you download.

For people brand new to Linux, while Ubuntu is easy, Mint is easier, better looking, and more "familiar" all around. You can download a torrent for Mint as well.

Once these downloads finish, you may burn them to a CD using a free CD burning program (on Windows, I like CD Burner XP) - 5mb freeware without bloat, and burns files with ease.

If you want to install it to a USB drive, back up the contents of the drive first, and use Universal USB Installer to get the job done. The program is simple to use. Pick the ISO file, tell it where to install to, and tell it to do the job.

The only hiccup you might run into is if your computer is old, you may be told that your CPU doesn't support PAE (Physical Address Extension), which allows it to access memory in a different way than older CPUs (oversimplification). If that happens, you may try Xubuntu.

To boot the CD or the DVD, you will need to go into your computer's BIOS settings (F2, F8, F12, or ESC immediately when you start the computer, usually).

Once inside BIOS, you're looking for "boot priority", or something similar. Use the toggles to change the order to something like:

USB Hard Drive
CD/DVD ROM
Internal Hard Drive
Floppy Disk

Common toggles are page up/page down, plus/minus, and spacebar.

What these settings will do is cause your computer to look for a boot partition on the USB Hard Drive - if it finds one, it boots it. If it doesn't it moves onto the CD/DVD ROM and does the same thing. If nothing is found, it boots the internal hard drive. This all happens in less than 2 seconds, so it's safe and advisable to leave the settings like that once you've set it up that way.
 
i have mint dual booted on my laptop with Windows 8. i hate the new unity Ubuntu is using now. Its too confusing. Rather have a good old fashioned taskbar like mint cinnamon.

I still do everything on this phone through Windows 7 or 8, depending if I am on my desktop or laptop, But its nice knowing I have a backup to do something if I need to :p Surprised there isnt more linux users out there thats attempting all this rooting, etc. If everyone used Linux, We wouldnt have most of these problems. LOL.

Edit: One more thing, I would recommend mentioning that ONLY 32bit Linux will run on a single core machine, And ONLY 64bit will work on a machine witn 2 or more cores. You cannot install a 32bit version of linux on a PC with 2 or more cores. At least it never has worked for me. It always says "This PC isnt supported with this version(or some variation)" before installing or running Linux from a CD/USB.
 
mrawesome22 said:
Number of cores has nothing to do with it.

32bit cpu's will only run 32bit software.

64bit cpu's will run 64bit and 32bit software.
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Well I have never seen a single core 64 bit machine before in my life, Nor have I ever seen a CPU with 2 or more cores that can only be a 32 bit machine.

Either way, From what has happened with me, The computer will not accept the wrong version of linux.
 
gothicnerd1033 said:
Well I have never seen a single core 64 bit machine before in my life, Nor have I ever seen a CPU with 2 or more cores that can only be a 32 bit machine.

Either way, From what has happened with me, The computer will not accept the wrong version of linux.
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Athlon 64 = 64bit, single core cpu.

Intel Core Duo = 32bit, dual core cpu
 
gothicnerd1033 said:
Well I have never seen a single core 64 bit machine before in my life, Nor have I ever seen a CPU with 2 or more cores that can only be a 32 bit machine.

Either way, From what has happened with me, The computer will not accept the wrong version of linux.
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The original AMD Athlon were single core 64 bit cpu's. But you're correct in that wether multi or single core has nothing to do with using a 32 or 64 bit os , the reason for the recent surge in 64 bit os's is because 32 bit can only address 4 gigs of memory space, anything larger requires a 64 bit os.
OB
 
mrawesome22 said:
Athlon 64 = 64bit, single core cpu.

Intel Core Duo = 32bit, dual core cpu
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My desktop is an ancient dell with an intel core duo in it.. With windows 7 64bit installed. :confused: Unless someone changed the chip before I got it, Its working..

I dont know. It doesnt make sense. I coulda swore my laptop is an Athlon too, But it might be a Turion 64. Its pretty old as well. I know though It would ONLY work with 64bit linux when I dual booted it with Windows 8. 32bit would throw an error.

Just thought remanifest should mention to use the correct version needed for your machine, Instead of spending hours downloading the wrong version and wasting a CD. :p
 
OverByter said:
The original AMD Athlon were single core 64 bit cpu's. But you're correct in that wether multi or single core has nothing to do with using a 32 or 64 bit os , the reason for the recent surge in 64 bit os's is because 32 bit can only address 4 gigs of memory space, anything larger requires a 64 bit os.
OB
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Theres ways to get around the 4gb memory limit in 32bit, too. :p Ive done it on a few PCs. Its actually quite easy.
 
gothicnerd1033 said:
My desktop is an ancient dell with an intel core duo in it.. With windows 7 64bit installed. :confused: Unless someone changed the chip before I got it, Its working..

I dont know. It doesnt make sense. I coulda swore my laptop is an Athlon too, But it might be a Turion 64. Its pretty old as well. I know though It would ONLY work with 64bit linux when I dual booted it with Windows 8. 32bit would throw an error.

Just thought remanifest should mention to use the correct version needed for your machine, Instead of spending hours downloading the wrong version and wasting a CD. :p
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The only version supported by unlimited is 32bit. So whether or not your cpu supports 64bit, they want you to dload and run 32bit.

The reason for this is their program is a 32bit program, and 64bit Ubuntu does not include the 64 to 32bit libs in the iso.

It would be as simple as apt-get install ia32-libs in the terminal, but this just adds more confusion for the non-linux user.
 
Uhm hello? Lol there's a Windows Installer for Ubuntu Desktop. Or am I just being dumb and that's something else?
 
mrawesome22 said:
And if it takes hours to dload 900MB from a torrent with thousands of seeders.... you need to dump your isp.
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I have 50mb down and 10 up, So its definitely not a problem for me, But others might only have something like 5 down and 1 up. Just was trying to add caution.

Theres a windows installer, That basically installs linux alongside windows, Creating a dualboot machine, Installing Grub and all that. It starts out in windows and eventually reboots into a seperate installer.
 
HaTrEd360 said:
Uhm hello? Lol there's a Windows Installer for Ubuntu Desktop. Or am I just being dumb and that's something else?
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Yeah, that's a windows executable that allows you to install Ubuntu side by side, you don't need to install Ubuntu, you can boot the download from usb or burning it as a bootable dvd. No files are installed permanently on your computer.
OB
 
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