Linux Mint VS Fedora Linux VS Windows XP (Which one do I get?)

[MrMcTiller]

Unfortunately I don't run Linux, nor do I have an available SD. You absolutely made sure all of the content from /usr/bin was copied to your SD, right? How did you copy it there?

I used:

cp -R /usr/bin/* /mnt

(After mounting to /mnt)

 

[Joom]

Alright. This sounds like a permissions issue. The tool you used is quite possibly mounting the drive using your user's umask. Provided it directly modifies the fstab, you can open it with a text editor and see what options it set.

 

[MrMcTiller]

Alright. This sounds like a permissions issue. The tool you used is quite possibly mounting the drive using your user's umask. Provided it directly modifies the fstab, you can open it with a text editor and see what options it set.

the "disks" program modifies the fstab. It asked for my password to edit fstab. I looked at fstab afterwards and it had the SD card on it mounting at /usr/bin

 

[Joom]

the "disks" program modifies the fstab. It asked for my password to edit fstab. I looked at fstab afterwards and it had the SD card on it mounting at /usr/bin

What are the options it set in the fstab?

 

[MrMcTiller]

What are the options it set in the fstab?

Here is the whole fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=05603c3f-3147-46c9-92e1-5088b6b1c341 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=5f7711ec-d363-4416-b356-d2c5736db172 none swap sw 0 0
#microSD
UUID=14A520FD16D5492F /usr/bin ntfs nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,noauto 0 0

 

[Joom]

Manually change the options after "ntfs" to the ones from the first line and see if that helps.

 

[MrMcTiller]

Leave the "0"s after the options alone?

 

[Joom]

Leave the "0"s after the options alone?

Change the second one to a 1.

 

[MrMcTiller]

Change the second one to a 1.

What does that do?

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Also, I managed to get my free microSD reader to work. I will see if I can boot from the SD using it.

 

[Joom]

What does that do?

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Also, I managed to get my free microSD reader to work. I will see if I can boot from the SD using it.

That number determines the order of filesystem checks to be performed upon boot. 0 is disabled, 1 is for the first partition to be checked, which should be your root partition, and 2 is for everything after the main partition. In this case, it doesn't really matter if it's a 1 or 2.

 

[MrMcTiller]

That number determines the order of filesystem checks to be performed upon boot. 0 is disabled, 1 is for the first partition to be checked, which should be your root partition, and 2 is for everything after the main partition. In this case, it doesn't really matter if it's a 1 or 2.

I will try both just in case. Or, I might install to my SD. (If it is bootable using my USB reader)

 

[MrMcTiller]

WOW! It works! Now, the SD mounts at startup. I just have a few issues. First of all, it gives me a popup saying that something with the Bluetooth isn't working. (I don't have a Bluetooth card.)

 

[MrMcTiller]

@Joom , I finally figured it out. I reinstalled Ubuntu MATE and I put the swap partition on a different USB drive. Now I have an extra 2.6GB on my normal USB drive. I installed Steam and now I get this error. How do I fix it?

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Removed unworking solution... still need help.

 

[Joom]

You don't seem to have the proper video drivers installed.

 

[MrMcTiller]

You don't seem to have the proper video drivers installed.

How do I fix it?

 

[Joom]

sudo apt-get install fglrx xvba-va-driver libva-glx1 libva-egl1 vainfo

 

[MrMcTiller]

And this will install what exactly?

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Package "fglrx" has no installation candidate.

 

[matpower]

sudo apt-get install fglrx xvba-va-driver libva-glx1 libva-egl1 vainfo

There's no fglrx anymore, sigh, it seems I have to keep pointing that out.

And this will install what exactly?

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Package "fglrx" has no installation candidate.

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri:i386

And if that doesn't work:
find $HOME/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/*/usr/lib/ \( -name "libstdc++.so.6" -o -name "libgpg-error.so.0" -o -name "libxcb.so.1" -o -name "libgcc_s.so.1" \) -exec mv "{}" "{}.bak" \; -print

As seen here.

 

[MrMcTiller]

I already have the latest version apparently.

 

[Joom]

There's no fglrx anymore, sigh, it seems I have to keep pointing that out.

Blame Ubuntu for not having proper documentation.