dual booting

[camdy]

hi guys just wondering is it possible to copy files from xp sp2 to kubuntu 7.04 as i just put it on as the 2nd os or do i still have to burn everything to kubuntu any help would be great

[dibl]

Re: dual booting

Sure, that's the easiest thing of all. Your Konqueror will read the Win XP partition and you can copy files from there to your /home folder, wherever you want. What you can't do is save files from Kubuntu onto the Win XP filesystem, without installing and configuring ntfs-3g.

Of course, you do realize that .exe and special files for Windows programs won't actually run in Linux, right? So, hopefully we're talking documents, media files, and stuff like that, aka "data".

[Qqmike]

Re: dual booting

Yes. What dibl says.

Just a few details to elaborate –

Your word processor documents in Kubuntu will be in .odt; in XP they are .doc, as you know.
Kubuntu can read and save the .doc documents, and it can read and save the .odt documents.
Windows can only read and save its .doc documents.

So, you can bring a .doc into Kubuntu from Windows (copy it from Konqueror in Kubuntu, or put it on a thumb drive in Windows and take it to Kubuntu), Kubuntu will open and read it, you can edit it if you wish, and then you can save it in Kubuntu as a .doc document, as an .odt document, or save one version of both (if you so wish).

Any document you have in Kubuntu in .doc can be taken back to Windows XP (say on a thumb drive) and used in XP (read, saved, edited, etc.).
In Kubuntu, if you have a document in .odt, you may save it as .odt or save it as .doc (in Kubuntu).

Kubuntu is more flexible, sharing, and friendly. As you can see.

[camdy]

Re: dual booting

thanks guys yeah i'm aware some windows programs wont work on linux & the other way round too.i want to put my photo files on here as they look way better than on xp,thinking of slowly using linux more as i already use firefox & thunderbird on xp over EI & outlook.

anyway so whats next after i open up Konqueror?

[dibl]

Re: dual booting

anyway so whats next after i open up Konqueror?

Well, probably the first order of business would be to make some appropriate folders in your home directory -- "Docs", "Pix", "Music", "Porn" .... you get the idea.

It's the same deal as you are used to in Windows -- right-click the empty space, choose "create new folder", give it a name, and you're done.

So, assuming you have created the folder/directory of you dreams, you simply browse over to the partition where your Windows data are, and start grabbing what you want. If you already had your data directory structures in place, then when you open Konqueror you would simply click "Media" and browse to the Windows partition.

Sometimes when I'm planning mass transfers, like you are, I open a second instance of Konqueror, and line it up alongside the first one, so I can drag what I want from the source folder to the target folder. You can try that and see how it works for you.

[camdy]

Re: dual booting

computer says nooo
ok i did think its working i open konqueror & than open storage media i get 2 hdd's icon & a floppy icon when i click on the fisrt hdd it comes up saying hal-storage-fixed-mount-all-options refused uid 1000
this should the xp partition

[rbrown3rd]

Re: dual booting

anyway so whats next after i open up Konqueror?

Well, probably the first order of business would be to make some appropriate folders in your home directory -- "Docs", "Pix", "Music", "Porn" .... you get the idea.

It's the same deal as you are used to in Windows -- right-click the empty space, choose "create new folder", give it a name, and you're done.

So, assuming you have created the folder/directory of you dreams, you simply browse over to the partition where your Windows data are, and start grabbing what you want. If you already had your data directory structures in place, then when you open Konqueror you would simply click "Media" and browse to the Windows partition.

Sometimes when I'm planning mass transfers, like you are, I open a second instance of Konqueror, and line it up alongside the first one, so I can drag what I want from the source folder to the target folder. You can try that and see how it works for you.

I am also a pretty new user of Kubuntu. I am interested in this also as I have a similar dual boot setup. When I open Konqueror I only see my two CD drives and a floppy drive. How do I get the hard drives to show up under media?

[dibl]

Re: dual booting

When I open Konqueror I only see my two CD drives and a floppy drive.

Do you see "Home"? That's important -- that's the "default" place for your data.

Other hard drives will appear IF they are mounted. If you don't see them, try "Kmenu>System Settings>Advanced>Disk & Filesystem", click on the Administrator button, give your password, and then highlight each drive/partition that you want to access, and make sure that it is "enabled". If they don't have mount points, you've got some other issues -- let us know and it's all fixable.

[camdy]

Re: dual booting

ok i'll give it a go & yes i have a hoome icon

http://imagestore.ugbox.net/image/12...1cf6b292e2.jpg

this is on start up i remember the first time it only had ubuntu, kerenal 2.6.0-15-generic & the recovery after it did the update the second ubuntu was there so i would think that this is not write ??

[dibl]

Re: dual booting

i remember the first time it only had ubuntu, kerenal 2.6.0-15-generic & the recovery after it did the update the second ubuntu was there

OK, now I'm confused too .... :P What do you mean "recovery" and/or "second ubuntu"?

When you installed your Kubuntu system, did you partition or format any other hard drive(s) for Linux, or are the other hard drives still NTFS formatted for Windows? Do you have enough space on your /home partition for all the images you want to copy from the Windows side?

[camdy]

Re: dual booting

ok first thing is when i boot up it gives me afew selections at the top it says
ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic (recovery mode)
ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic
ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic (recovery mode)
ubuntu, memtest86*
other operating systems:
microsoft windows xp professional

now the first time after i had installed kubuntu it didn't have the first 2 selections, but after it did the up-date & i rebooted then i got the 2.6.20-16-generic & (recovery mode)

oh i did try it now its say i don't have the permissions so now we're getting closer i did resize the hard drive & before i installed kubuntu i think i was only using about 10% its mostly music

[camdy]

Re: dual booting

xp is now at 108gb & kubuntu is at 209gb

[dibl]

Re: dual booting

OK, I see now -- that's all completely normal. When you updated, the 2.6.20-16 kernel was added to your boot options, in both normal and recovery modes, and the 2.6.20-15 kernel was retained, also in both modes.

So, seeing that you have enough space in you Kubuntu /home directory for all your music and images, I'm back to my prior advice -- your first step is to open your /home directory and make your folders that you want to copy your files into. Have you done that?

If yes, then it sounds like you have been denied permission to something -- what is that something?

[camdy]

Re: dual booting

ok so why doesn't 2.6.20-16- over write 2.6.20-15- instead of having 2 ?

well i did try samething permissions denied could it have something to with a security program on xp ??

[javierrivera]

Re: dual booting

ok so why doesn't 2.6.20-16- over write 2.6.20-15- instead of having 2 ?

It's a kind of a security measure. If the new kernel broke something (that can happen as kernel updates are a very sensible thing), you can still boot your old one.

Javier.