Dual booting

[entwisi]

If you tell us how you normally connect to the net I can proabbly help you.

What ISP?
Modem or Router?
Wired or wireless?

[Tony Ireland]

Thanks
I am with talktalk using a modem not wireless
hope that's enough
tony

[entwisi]

I need to know make/model of modem

I'm assuming its connected to PC via USB?

[Tony Ireland]

speed touch 330 and connected through usb
thanks
tony

[entwisi]

https://launchpad.net/ustouch/


Download this file (the tar.gz) open a terminal,

type the following commands

sudo su - (Enter your password)

cd <where ever you saved the .tar.gz>

gunzip speedtch330.tar.gz
tar -xvf speedtch.330.tar
cd speedtch330
chmod +x *.sh
./speed330.sh

It should prompt you witha few questions and at the end ask you to reboot.

Hopefully you should be online!!!


let me know how you get on.




extract it as root, make teh .sh executable and run it

[Tony Ireland]

Ian thanks all that looks good but I am understanding your explanation up to open a terminal the rest I am afraid to say is nothing I really understand, am I downloading on to a cd from the link you have provided and all of command gunzip etc has that to be typed in and the last bit of your info about extracting root?
sorry
tony

[entwisi]

I'll try and expand.

You are downloading a file which is a compressed archive (download it under windows as you can see your windows drives from within Linux)

Opening a terminal gives you a command line to type instructions into.

sudo su - This switches you to the root user for the rest of this session (saves you using sudo all thetime)

cd This moves you to where you have saved the file. Depending on your install the windows drives may be under /media or /mnt. They may be listed as hdaX or sdaX where X is a number. If you have more than one partition there will be that many folders yo need to just have a look in them to work out which is "C" "D" or where ever you saved the download.

tar -xvf This unpacks the archive creating all directories as required
cd this moves into the folder created in the last step containing all the files for this fix

chmod +x This makes the script execuatble (one of the safety features of Linux is that files are never executable when downloaded)

./speed330.sh this 'runs' the script.

The last line was just a quick way of saying what all the commands did.

If you really struggle if your local I could pop round one day/night or just talk you through it over teh phone.

[Tony Ireland]

Thanks Ian
I think I am getting there, I found out to open a terminal I needed to press alt and f2 then typed sudo su after which it asked for the password when I got to cd and enter we just stayed on that page waiting for me to put something else in should I type gunzip etc in at that stage
after all this will getting a wireless router affect what I am doing I am going to get one to accommodate a laptop being used here
thanks tony

[entwisi]

tony, it will prob be a lot easier to do this over a phone call rather than bits here and there. Let me know whens convienient

Re the router it depends if you have wifi in your pc or will be using ethernet cables

[Tony Ireland]

thanks for trying to help me things have changed here and I have installed a wireless router for a laptop that will be used here, when I opened firefox it connected right away so it saved me asking anymore silly questions
I just need to find notes for a beginner now
thanks very much

[entwisi]

Heh,
Always a good move to understand though, I see you added me on MSN, when you see me online feel free to ask.

You can also look through threads on teh Ubuntu forums

Absolute Beginner Talk - Ubuntu Forums

Or any of teh more technical forums as your knowledge increases.