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Chinese Ubuntu. So what happens now?
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Switching gears for a moment, but does anyone have a Linux based alternative to Windows server's image deployment service?

It would be nice to PXE boot installers over the network without have having to buy or pirate win server.
 
Nope, that's an add-on to an existing win server WDS instance on a Windows environment.

I'm looking for a solution where I can have a bunch of installer disc images sitting on an Ubuntu server, with a service that will feed them to any PXE boot requests it receives.
 
Thanks guys, will be trying those out as time allows. Gonna start with FOG first. :D

On the earlier front of UEFI and bootloaders, I've done some research and found that HP's UEFI implementation includes a subroutine that will forcefully revert the efibootmgr settings back to win8 EVERY TIME the win8 bootloader starts. Sure, I can set rEFInd to be default, but once I start win8 I have to tell efibootmgr to make rEFInd the default again. :banghead:
 
Joelgp83 said:
On the earlier front of UEFI and bootloaders, I've done some research and found that HP's UEFI implementation includes a subroutine that will forcefully revert the efibootmgr settings back to win8 EVERY TIME the win8 bootloader starts. Sure, I can set rEFInd to be default, but once I start win8 I have to tell efibootmgr to make rEFInd the default again. :banghead:
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Lord, that's asinine.

You could try using bcdedit from an Administrative command window as described on this page(looking under Installing Manually Using Windows)

Or possibly using the Hijack the Windows Boot Loader trick found here.

If those don't work (I'm betting the first), then you might try a shutdown script in Windows that uses one or an other method to 'fix' your next session to boot rEFInd.
 
Fixed. Had to move to kernel 3.14.17 (3.15.x is broken again for my wifi... good thing I looked that up before going to the latest stable kernel).
 
Broadcom seems like a likely suspect. I think my previous laptop had a Broadcom 43XX card in it. That was just a lot of :banghead:
 
palmtree5 said:
Broadcom seems like a likely suspect. I think my previous laptop had a Broadcom 43XX card in it. That was just a lot of :banghead:
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Really? How old was that laptop, do you recall? My now-somewhere-in-the-garage HP dv6000 laptop, when new, needed some tinkering to get its BCM 43xx card working. I did the ndiswrapper thing to get it to work. However, after wiping its root partition multiple times over the years to install newer versions of Kubuntu, and then Bodhi, that was no longer an issue. Its drivers were in *buntu's 'additional drivers' and worked with no effort on my part.

I recently noticed that my Acer Chromebook, which I installed Kubuntu on, has a Broadcom card, but I didn't even notice which one. It's a non-issue, since its wireless always just worked. :D
 
MoodyBlues said:
Really? How old was that laptop, do you recall? My now-somewhere-in-the-garage HP dv6000 laptop, when new, needed some tinkering to get its BCM 43xx card working. I did the ndiswrapper thing to get it to work. However, after wiping its root partition multiple times over the years to install newer versions of Kubuntu, and then Bodhi, that was no longer an issue. Its drivers were in *buntu's 'additional drivers' and worked with no effort on my part.

I recently noticed that my Acer Chromebook, which I installed Kubuntu on, has a Broadcom card, but I didn't even notice which one. It's a non-issue, since its wireless always just worked. :D
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I got that one in 2011 and stopped using it in like Feb 2013
 
It's that HP gear. It never seemed to play well with anything but Windows ... which doesn't play well to begin with. ;)
 
I've a netbook booting Win7 & lubuntu. If I want to remove Linux completely, can I just reformat the linux partitions or is there a special uninstall process?

I'm looking to sell, hence the need to remove Linux.
 
Hopefully joel will peak in he's more familiar with how to do this. I when still dual booting just used an external disk for my Linux installs so I never had to worry about being in a similar dilemma. The last time I dual booted on the same drive I just deleted all partitions and reinstalled 1 OS. If your getting rid of it that may not be a bad idea anyways. Just to help ensure the removal of any personal info that may have been overlooked especially in the windows registry.
 
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