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Stephanie Dejoode
However this is not correct: Suspend Bitlocker before starting the Ubuntu installation and you will avoid the lengthy procedure of decrypting and re-encrypting the disk (which spoils your SSD/NVMe as well).
The EFI partition that comes with preinstalled Windows is rather small. Users who know the caveats of creating their own partition are smart enough to do it without this mentioned directly. Users who know a bit about partitioning but do not understand the full consequences should no tbe urged to forge ahead. Also, adding warnings about this-and-that for the borderline users does not belong here. It is better leave the instructions as simple as possible.
my experience doing this on one drive is that Windows tends to just take over the boot manager when you alter your device encryption configuration (as in, decrypt device then install ubuntu on dual boot then re-encrypt which requires you to set BIOS to load the windows boot manager first) - windows just goes ahead and removes your boot manager when you do that
I have just upgraded win10 to win11 and had the same issue as one commenter, that bitlocker was not activated but still blocking the install from a USB stick. I activated it, deactivated, and had to resart the computer twice.
THen I checked in Disk Manager and it was indeed no longer encrypted by BitLocker. I could then restart for the 5th time or so, and the install Ubuntu 20.0 from USB stick worked.
Hi.
My windows desktop died so I am assembling a new one.
Using Ubuntu, I can still access the dead computers drives, I would like to copy my old Brave user profile-setup to the new Ubuntu and windows machines.
Can I just copy a profile from one install to another and where is-are the profile(s) stored?
Regaeds.
Things have changed... There used to be an IFS driver that could read Linux Partitions (primarily for EXT3 at the time) IFS by the way means Installable FileSystem - which may have began in MS-DOS 4 (I previously thought it was an element from OS2 that remained in Windows), there were some interesting things you could do with IFS, like create a RAM Drive, and assign it a drive letter. (these days imdisk is probably a better way of doing that) Along with EXT2IFS (and later ext2fsd) was the ability to access Linux Swap Partitions from within windows. So all you needed to do was use the small drive manager utility that came with the filesystem driver to assign a drive letter to the Swap Partition and tell windows to use that for the I think it was the swapfile.sys file, etc... Nowerdays Windows10 since the Anniversary update require Signed Drivers and most IFS drivers currently do not function at least for me, which, sadly, robs me of access to my EXT2 and HFS+ partition data from within Windows. So the answer has essentially become no longer. But for older Versions (such as Win7 or XP) it's quite plausible to do by the method I stated here.
I am trying to move all my Cygwin scripts over to the Linux subsystem,but I don't fancy recreating every file, then having to copy and past using bash, then reformatting then using Dos2unix (very long winded).
copying directly into the Linux subsystem from Windows is not supported, according to discussion on other tickets. There is a directory under AppData somewhere (I forget where) that appears to contain the files for the WSL filesystem. But if you put new files there, or modify existing files there, your changes are not reflected correctly inside WSL.
My best guess is that Linux needs to store different metadata (and more caching information, etc, since its disk-buffering model is also different) about its files than Windows does, and that this is currently implemented by storing the master copy of the structure of the Linux filesystem in a database of some sort, and just using the Windows filesystem as a convenient BLOB-store for that database.
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding your question, but your ubuntu bash (top right window) should have access to your Windows-based disks under /mnt. For example, on my machine /mnt/c/Users/Scott/Desktop is my Windows desktop and I can read/write files there from vi for ex. I don't believe the opposite is true just yet. That is, I don't think you can explore into your bash world from Windows explorer.
For example If you are working on a project in d:/projects/web-project, you can create a symlink at location /var/www/web-project and all the files you change in windows will be readily available to be accessed in Linux Bash.
I had a similar need to copy files between WSL and win10. I ended up enabling sshd on the Ubuntu-installation so I could ssh into Linux from win10. Then I use winscp to copy files back and forth. Not optimal, but I don't copy files very frequently. I tried to find the post I used to enable sshd but can't locate it.
Thanks @bellenot
I did install Xming on windows. But it seems I am not able to link it somehow. I simply downloaded Xming and installed the app and it changed nothing. Do I need to run some command on ubuntu terminal after that?
What does ROOT say when you do [] new TBrowser? does it give any error message?
A sanity check: are you actually running Xming? Its icon should be present in the Windows task bar (on the right side, near the clock).
Also, try adding only this line to .bashrc (instead of the 3 you have):
So if you want to make new app windows open in the center of the screen in Ubuntu you can. You just need to make use of a system setting not exposed in the standard GUI (though you can access a GUI toggle for it if you install the GNOME Tweaks tool).
Hi, I was trying to install Ubuntu Linux on Windows but it gives me an error that the program requires me to enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux.I am not able to do this. I tried to follow instructions from -us/windows/wsl/install-win10?redirectedfrom=MSDN, but it gives me an error. I do not think my admin allows me to do this.I submitted a ticket to NIH Help desk to see if they can help me with this, but I was wondering if anyone else found this issue.
As it turns out, admin privileges are needed to install the Ubuntu Linux on Windows. Many people are having this issue on their PC. We are working with CBIIT and NCI-Frederick to resolve this. You will be contacted by them in the next couple of days and they will help you complete the install.Thanks,Amy
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I tried all possibilities to get Linux/Ubuntu running on a Windows machine. Running in a virtual machine: too slow; using Cygwin, well, not really Ubuntu, still in Windows. Dual booting, yes interesting possibility but you have to reboot if you want to switch. Since the latest update on Windows10 there is a new solution. Windows creates the possibility to install a Linux layer. More: -media.blogspot.nl/2016/09/does-ubuntu-shines-through-windows.html
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