Here’s the video for your viewing pleasure. I’m listening to the audio version of this right now and it’s brilliant. So, nothing crucial except maybe for some of my geek pride. What did I loose? A lot of free eBooks and all the hand entered metadata that went along with them. Now I’ve got plenty of space and it still dual boots but with the grub boot loader instead of the Windows/wubi combination. So, after feeling completely stupid through dinner I reinstalled Ubuntu off a downloaded. It was gone and it was completely my fault. What' I’d uninstalled was the only Ubuntu installation on the computer. What I’d forgotten was the my Ubuntu installation was wubi-based all along. But the ubuntu directory is now gone since I uninstalled the wubi-based Ubuntu installation. Well, the entry for Ubuntu is pointing to c:\ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr. Well, according to Microsoft I need to repair XP. Let’s search and see if there’s something I can do about this. Please re-install a copy of the above file. Winnt_root\System32\Hal.dll missing or corrupt: Well, I must have forgotten that and it’s taking up 7 gig of my 40 gig hard drive so… uninstalled.Įmpty the recycle bin. This allows you to boot to Ubuntu but it’s still technically a Windows app that you can uninstall without having to deal with boot loaders and partitions. DELICIOUS LIBRARY WORKS WITH CALIBRE INSTALLYou can also install Ubuntu as a Windows application via Wubi. So, off to Add/Remove Programs I went.ĭIVX, uninstalled. The new plan was to uninstall just about everything from XP and strip it down to the smallest possible footprint and then shrink the partition and have Ubuntu take over the rest of that drive and the secondary drive. (All my other computers are 圆4 and the Sony software won’t even install on 圆4 platforms.) I don’t buy much at all from them but they occasionally have free eBooks that I’m interested in so I decided that this was software was worth keeping. Now, I’d pretty much replaced this software with Calibre, but Sony’s software was the only was to access the Sony eBook store. I then started looking at what software was left on the XP side of things and notice that this was the only computer I owned that would still run the Sony Reader software. I then realized that the desktop also had a 120GB secondary drive which I’d completely forgotten about since Ubuntu never saw it. So, I made sure to copy all my documents off the XP side of things onto a backup drive on the network. The plan was to take the single 40GB drive and expand it via something like GParted to overwrite the XP installation. Having finally accomplished this I decided to sit down yesterday and start to move from a dual-boot to a single-boot Ubuntu desktop. Eventually, I accomplished all three of these tasks via ndiswrapper, Calibre, and xSane accordingly. The three main items were using my D-Link DWA-130 WiFi N USB adapter, reading from and writing to my Sony PRS-500 eBook, and run my (15 year-old but still perfectly functional) HP ScanJet 4c SCSI scanner. DELICIOUS LIBRARY WORKS WITH CALIBRE HOW TOI kept XP running on that computer since I’d yet to figure out how to do a bunch of things in Ubuntu that I needed the computer to do. DELICIOUS LIBRARY WORKS WITH CALIBRE FULLFor those of you that saw the Tweet about it, here’s the full story.Ī year or so ago after my new 圆4 monster was up and running I decided to take my old XP desktop with just 512MB of RAM and have it dual boot XP and Ubuntu. I did something totally stupid yesterday afternoon.
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