mount error(1)

After reinstalling ubuntu 10.04.3, I couldn’t remount to the share drive unless using sudo. I kept getting the error message: mount error(1): Operation not permitted. After a little bit digging, this post solved the problem perfectly!

Reinstalling GRUB

Lots of post mentioned that before. I recently reinstalled Ubuntu and I had three drives in my computer. After installation, I wanted to remove one of the drive since it appears that the system was extremely slow and unstable with all three drives plugged in. I suspect that it was a power problem since I…

Ubuntu installation on nvidia computer

My harddrive died recently and so I reinstalled ubuntu. I got fed up with new release breaking tiny things often. So I tried to stick with LTS this time (10.04 when I wrote this). I have an NVidia  graphic card and dual monitor. I recalled troubles already from my previous experience of installing Ubuntu. I…