7:10:09 PM Reid: What does the screen look like now?
7:10:57 PM Reid: Should be a list of partitions, perhaps with some indicative text on top of it
7:10:59 PM Roby: There's a bar with yellow pink and blue markers, an option to create a New Partition Table... and a Boot loader section
7:11:22 PM Reid: Okay, is there a list of partitions? Like one that says /dev/sda1 and its size out next to it?
7:11:27 PM Roby: yes
7:11:39 PM Reid: Excellent. You should be able to right click that and hit 'resize' or something similar.
7:11:46 PM Roby: which one?
7:11:51 PM Reid: /dev/sda1
7:11:58 PM Reid: The text in the listing
7:12:11 PM Roby: there's:
7:12:30 PM Roby: dev/sda
dev/sda1
dev/sda2
dev/sda4
7:13:20 PM Reid: O_O
7:13:21 PM Reid: Really?
7:13:24 PM Roby: yes
7:13:58 PM Reid: Interesting. What is the partition type of each?
7:14:03 PM Reid: /dev/sda should have no type
7:14:13 PM Roby: correct
7:14:21 PM Roby: and the others are ntfs
7:14:27 PM Reid: So you have multiple windows partitions?
7:14:34 PM Roby: Apparent;y
7:14:48 PM Roby: I read something about that
7:15:47 PM Roby: Can't find it now x[
7:15:56 PM Reid: Well, hm.
7:16:07 PM Reid: Perhaps you should just go back and use the 'install LM next to' option.
7:16:12 PM Reid: I'm not sure about that multiple partition thing
7:16:18 PM Reid: I mean you can resize them all and make room for a LM partition if you want
7:17:26 PM Roby: can I adjust it later?
7:17:44 PM Reid: definitely
7:17:46 PM Reid:
7:18:00 PM Reid: Only two FS types can't be shrunk.. and they're something weird like uhh.. IBM and JFS or something
7:18:23 PM Reid: LM uses ext4 though
7:19:14 PM Roby: yeah
7:19:42 PM Roby: it's allowing me to apply partition space with the "next to" option
7:19:48 PM Roby: how much should I allocate?
7:20:10 PM Reid: ~120GiB
7:20:59 PM Roby: "use entire partition" or "Install Now"?
7:21:12 PM Reid: Uh, those two options don't go together
7:21:27 PM Reid: What does it mean by 'use entire partition'?
7:30:32 PM Reid: Hello?
7:31:29 PM Roby: one sec I'm uploading a screenshot for you
7:31:31 PM Roby: sorry
7:35:16 PM Roby: Ahh the file size for the picture is too big x[
7:35:25 PM Reid: xD
7:35:40 PM Reid:
http://tinypic.com/7:39:38 PM Roby:
http://i52.tinypic.com/9fw87q.png7:40:53 PM Reid: Uh.
7:41:52 PM Reid: Install now, I suppose?
7:43:33 PM Roby: We'll see what happens then
7:43:36 PM Roby: x]
7:45:39 PM Roby: log in automatically, require password to log in or encrypt my home folder?
7:45:49 PM Reid: require password to log in
7:45:55 PM Reid: unless you don't want a password
7:45:56 PM Reid: lol
7:46:01 PM Roby: x]
7:46:03 PM Reid: up to you
7:46:11 PM Reid: if you're paranoid use the third option
7:46:23 PM Reid: if you're less paranoid but still don't like people on your computer without access on your comp use the second
7:46:26 PM Reid: if you don't care at all use the first
7:46:38 PM Reid: I use the second.
8:19:26 PM Roby: Is the boot page supposes to be a bunch of text options?
8:19:37 PM Reid: Yes
8:19:39 PM Reid: Pick the 'Linux Mint' one
8:20:12 PM Roby: Which one of the windows options would I select if I wanted windows?
8:20:13 PM Roby: I have 3
8:20:20 PM Roby: 2 Windows 7 and one Vista
8:20:39 PM Roby: And it seems a little slow opening things up
8:20:59 PM Reid: O_O
8:21:13 PM Reid: You apparently have some old installations on your HD
8:21:13 PM Reid: xD
8:21:33 PM Roby: I didn't set up my computer so I don't know exactly what was added
8:21:37 PM Roby: x[
8:21:50 PM Reid: xD
8:21:58 PM Reid: If you want to prettify your GRUB, let me know.
8:22:05 PM Roby: GRUB?
8:22:10 PM Reid: bootloader
8:22:13 PM Reid: your boot options
8:22:15 PM Roby: ahh
8:22:17 PM Roby: yes
8:22:19 PM Roby: I would like that
8:22:20 PM Roby:
8:22:25 PM Reid: fantastic. are you on LM right now?
8:22:40 PM Roby: Yes. Does it take long? I'm heading out very shortly
8:22:49 PM Reid: Not in particular. 5-20 minute.
8:22:50 PM Reid: *minutes
8:23:01 PM Roby: alright
8:23:10 PM Roby: I'll try to go as fast as possibe
8:23:12 PM Reid: Okay, open up the terminal.
8:23:17 PM Reid: test #1. :r
8:23:24 PM Roby: ok
8:23:31 PM Reid: in the terminal type:
8:23:45 PM Reid: sudo apt-get install burg burg-common burg-emu burg-pc bug-themes burg-themes-common
8:23:47 PM Reid: or copy/paste it
8:25:43 PM Roby: ok
8:25:44 PM Roby: hit enter?
8:25:48 PM Reid: yes
8:26:06 PM Roby: am I setting a password here?
8:26:20 PM Reid: no
8:26:21 PM Reid: entering yours
8:26:21 PM Roby: [sudo] password for rob:
8:26:30 PM Reid: there will be no visual feedback for security
8:27:00 PM Roby: ok
8:27:07 PM Roby: last line is
8:27:23 PM Roby: rob@rob-Satellite-L650 ~ $
8:27:24 PM Reid: just so you know, copy is Ctrl+Shift+C and paste is Ctrl+Shift+
8:27:26 PM Reid: v
8:27:36 PM Roby: I'm on msn on my mac at the moment
8:27:46 PM Roby: oh.
8:27:54 PM Roby: it says unable to locate all of that stuff
8:28:12 PM Reid: grr
8:28:37 PM Reid: okay, do this then..
8:29:38 PM Reid: sudo echo 'deb
http://ppa.launchpad.net/bean123ch/burg/ubuntu maverick main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo echo 'deb-src
http://ppa.launchpad.net/bean123ch/burg/ubuntu maverick main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 55708F1EE06803C5
sudo gpg --export --armor 55708F1EE06803C5 | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install burg
8:29:50 PM Reid: Well
8:29:53 PM Reid:
http://code.google.com/p/burg/wiki/InstallUbuntu8:29:55 PM Reid: There's how to install
8:30:24 PM Roby: x]
8:30:32 PM Reid:
http://pastebin.com/4uqBFLuH8:30:33 PM Roby: I'll have to take a look at it all later, I have to go now
8:30:35 PM Roby: thanks though
8:30:37 PM Reid: Alright. Bye.
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11:22:01 AM Roby: Just copy and past that paste bin link into my console?
11:22:08 AM Reid: yep.
11:22:45 AM Reid: you can copy and paste several lines at once btw
11:22:50 AM Reid: and remember, it's ctrl+shift+v to paste
11:23:10 AM Reid: ctrl+c has its own purpose (sends sigterm/sigkill to processes)
11:23:17 AM Reid: so they use shift in there
11:23:27 AM Reid: and ctrl+v is used to write control sequences usually
11:24:09 AM Roby: so ctrl+shift+c is copy?
11:24:22 AM Reid: For the terminal yes
11:24:27 AM Reid: For any other program it's your generic ctrl+c
11:24:30 AM Roby: Oh I see
11:24:46 AM Roby: and for everything else it's ctrl+v to paste too?
11:24:50 AM Reid: In the terminal you hit ctrl+c if you want to stop a process from running
11:24:51 AM Reid: Yeah
11:24:53 AM Roby: ok
11:25:02 AM Reid: Another except is vim. But I don't think you'll be using vim any time soon.
11:25:22 AM Roby: x]
11:25:27 AM Roby: LM is so fast!
11:25:31 AM Reid:
11:25:34 AM Roby: Even my internet is faster with it
11:25:41 AM Roby: pages load in one second
11:25:54 AM Reid: That's because your browser has more resources with which to work.
11:26:08 AM Reid: Or it could be because your other OS was trying to use IPv6 and failing, which LM doesn't do
11:26:24 AM Reid: Anyways. If you copy/paste those lines, you should have to enter your password, then it will go along and do a bunch of stuff.
11:27:35 AM Roby: Yes
11:27:43 AM Roby: it created a bunch of stuff
11:27:46 AM Roby: what did that do
11:27:56 AM Reid: Okay
11:28:11 AM Reid: The first two commands added the repository to download burg from (it's a new bootloader from the people who made GRUB that's superior)
11:28:25 AM Reid: The second two commands added the public key to authenticate that the repo was real and secure
11:28:42 AM Reid: The fifth command updated your package lists because you added a new repo
11:28:45 AM Reid: The sixth command installed burg
11:29:03 AM Reid: Normally installing software is not this complicated by any means, but in this case burg is not in the repos already
11:29:22 AM Reid: Usually if you want some software, you can just open up the menu and go to software manager or package manager
11:29:52 AM Reid: In Linux distros, there are "repositories" of software associated with the distro. So, any time you want some software, you just use a program to download the program from the repositories.
11:30:17 AM Reid: And since those programs in the repos are tested for that distro... it's virtually guaranteed to work
11:30:25 AM Reid: And there's no worry about viruses, malware, etc, because everything is screened.
11:30:29 AM Roby: one of the lines say: gpg: WARNING: options in `/home/rob/.gnupg/gpg.conf' are not yet active during this run
11:30:38 AM Reid: Eh, just ignore it.
11:30:39 AM Roby: COOL!
11:30:41 AM Roby: ok
11:30:53 AM Reid: Warnings can be ignored (for the most part). Errors are the important part.
11:30:55 AM Reid: Did it install burg?
11:31:03 AM Roby: what should it have said
11:31:06 AM Reid: Uhh
11:31:18 AM Reid: I'm not sure. Something about running a mandb
11:31:18 AM Reid:
11:31:42 AM Reid: Assuming that the last command (sudo apt-get install burg) actually ran
11:31:48 AM Reid: Usually you have to press enter on the last command
11:32:11 AM Reid: Like when I try to install burg, it tells me this:
11:32:13 AM Reid: [~] % sudo apt-get install burg
[sudo] password for reid:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
burg is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
11:32:33 AM Reid: So, it should say there's an amount that was newly installed.
11:32:59 AM Roby: Total number process: 1
importws: 1 (RSA:1)
11:33:02 AM Roby: are the last lines
11:33:10 AM Reid: Ah.
11:33:10 AM Roby: *imported
11:33:19 AM Reid: Did the last two commands run? It doesn't look like they did.
11:33:53 AM Reid: try running lines 5 and 6 again
11:34:00 AM Reid: if they already ran it doesn't matter
11:34:08 AM Reid: but you can run them again. it won't yell at you.
11:34:30 AM Roby: I accidentally pressed ctrl+v :|
11:34:42 AM Reid: press esc
11:34:49 AM Roby: I closed the terminal
11:34:55 AM Reid: ah, well.
11:35:00 AM Reid: open it up again and run the last two commands.
11:35:23 AM Reid: ctrl+v is used to insert command sequences.. like you press ctrl+v ctrl+m to insert the ctrl+m character
11:35:24 AM Roby: it did something with packages
11:35:31 AM Reid: I should hope so.
11:35:38 AM Reid: package = a piece of software
11:35:39 AM Roby: right after I pressed ctrl+shift+v
11:35:43 AM Roby: I didn't hit enter
11:35:54 AM Reid: It probably ran the apt-get update command
11:36:04 AM Reid: When you paste multiple lines of commands, it runs all the ones except the last one, usually.
11:36:11 AM Reid: Did it run the last command?
11:36:21 AM Roby: no
11:36:34 AM Reid: Then run that one.
11:36:50 AM Roby: Unable to locate package burg
11:37:09 AM Roby: * E:
Unable to locate package burg
11:37:43 AM Reid: mmm
11:37:50 AM Reid: type this in the terminal:
11:37:54 AM Reid: gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
11:38:16 AM Reid: go to the end of the file
11:38:54 AM Reid: the following two lines should be on their own line:
11:38:56 AM Reid: deb
http://ppa.launchpad.net/bean123ch/burg/ubuntu maverick main
deb-src
http://ppa.launchpad.net/bean123ch/burg/ubuntu maverick main
11:38:59 AM Reid: They probably aren't
11:40:01 AM Roby: the lines on their own are #deb
http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu maverick-getdeb apps
11:40:07 AM Roby: and #deb
http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu maverick-getdeb games
11:40:24 AM Reid: pastebin it
11:41:41 AM Roby: updated the last pastebin
http://pastebin.com/4uqBFLuH11:42:03 AM Reid: err?
11:42:12 AM Roby: actually wait
11:42:18 AM Reid: that's the paste I gave you.
11:42:27 AM Reid: if that's in your /etc/apt/sources.list then we have a problem!
11:42:29 AM Roby:
http://pastebin.com/bFYJg0AJ11:42:44 AM Reid: ah, okay, no wonder it didn't work
11:43:59 AM Reid:
http://pastebin.com/eN7SdzGg11:44:02 AM Reid: There, copy that into your gedit window and save it and close it
11:45:00 AM Reid: then once you've closed gedit, type this in your terminal:
sudo -i
apt-get update && apt-get install burg
11:45:10 AM Reid: you should type sudo -i first
11:45:14 AM Reid: then you can copy/paste if you want
11:45:28 AM Reid: but sudo -i upgrades your terminal to root privileges temporarily so we don't have to keep typing "sudo"
11:45:39 AM Reid: sudo = superuser do
11:46:09 AM Roby: sudo -i and then enter and then the other stuff?
11:46:13 AM Reid: mhm
11:47:41 AM Roby: Additional disk space will be used, do I want to continue?
11:47:47 AM Reid: yes.
11:47:53 AM Reid: what dependencies did it say it was going to install?
11:48:22 AM Reid: are any of them burg-themes?
11:48:26 AM Reid: if not we'll install that one in a minute
11:48:59 AM Roby: hold on it said something about err: the signature could not be verified because the public key is not availiable
11:49:09 AM Reid: meh, ignore it
11:49:14 AM Reid: or press 'y' to continue or whatever it wants you to do
11:49:24 AM Reid: that repo is clean -- I've used it before
11:49:27 AM Reid: so I am not that concerned
11:49:34 AM Roby: and its asking me to install without verification
11:49:39 AM Reid: we'll fix it in a minute though so you don't keep getting that message
11:49:47 AM Reid: yeah, just go ahead and install
11:49:50 AM Reid: holy deja vu
11:50:02 AM Roby: x]
11:50:15 AM Reid: typically speaking anything on the repos is considered clean
11:50:23 AM Reid: it's just angry because it wants to be paranoid, which is good in most cases
11:50:31 AM Roby: haha
11:50:50 AM Roby: now I have a blue screen that says package configuration
11:50:58 AM Reid: oh? how nifty!
11:51:02 AM Reid: what's it asking?
11:51:30 AM Reid: it's going to install burg for you automatically. that's nice of it.
11:52:04 AM Roby: The followng Linux command line was extracted from /etc/default/grub or the `kopt' parameter in GRUB LEgacy's menu.lst. Please verify that it is correct and modify it if necessar
11:52:04 AM Reid: Is it asking for a disk to install to?
11:52:10 AM Roby: Linus command line:
11:52:13 AM Roby: *LINUX
11:52:15 AM Reid:
11:52:28 AM Reid: bash?
11:52:30 AM Reid: sh?
11:52:39 AM Roby: ?
11:52:49 AM Reid: Does it not give anything in that field?
11:53:02 AM Reid: Well, regardless, just leave it alone for now
11:53:15 AM Reid: It's extracted it from your old GRUB config, so whatever is in that field is what your setting is now, which is fine.
11:53:26 AM Roby: it's empty
11:53:34 AM Reid: Ah. Just hit okay then.
11:53:58 AM Roby: says my default command line is quiet splash
11:54:09 AM Reid: --quiet --splash?
11:54:16 AM Roby: quiet splasj
11:54:18 AM Roby: *splash
11:54:23 AM Reid: Ah. Well, that's fine enough then.
11:55:03 AM Reid: What does the next screen say?
11:55:32 AM Roby: the grub-pc package is being updated.....
11:55:39 AM Reid: How generic.
11:56:12 AM Roby: it's saying it wants me to decide which devices I'd like grub-install to be automatically run for
11:56:42 AM Roby: now it's at a screen that says
11:56:50 AM Roby: GRUB install devices:
11:56:57 AM Roby: [ ] /dev/sda
11:57:01 AM Reid: Pick that one.
11:57:12 AM Reid: /dev/sda = your hard drive
11:57:13 AM Roby: do I have to type something between those brackets?
11:57:20 AM Reid: No, you press enter over it I believe
11:57:25 AM Reid: It's like a checkbox or something
11:57:29 AM Roby: ahhh
11:58:59 AM Reid: Did you get it to check?
11:59:12 AM Reid: I seem to remember having some difficulty with one of these steps and getting to enter
11:59:30 AM Roby: last line is Setting up burg (a lot of numbers here+maverick) ...
11:59:40 AM Reid: Excellent.
11:59:40 AM Roby: and then
11:59:55 AM Roby: rob-Satellite-L650 ~ #
12:00:02 PM Reid: Yay. Tis installed.
12:00:08 PM Reid: Now we get to edit options.
12:00:10 PM Roby: =]
12:01:37 PM Reid: Okay.
12:01:46 PM Reid: How long do you want burg to give you to select an operating system before it selects one automatically?
12:01:50 PM Reid: Mine is 5 seconds, which is usually good enough
12:02:26 PM Reid: Oh, and type in your terminal now:
12:02:28 PM Reid: gedit /etc/default/burg
12:02:37 PM Reid: That's where we'll be editing some options
12:03:31 PM Roby: I'd say 10 seconds to be safe
12:03:34 PM Roby: and done
12:03:53 PM Reid: okay, near the top of the file is a line that says
12:03:54 PM Reid: GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
12:03:56 PM Reid: Change that 5 to a 10
12:04:23 PM Reid: Next, what does it say next to GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR?
12:04:59 PM Roby: `lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
12:05:09 PM Reid: Yuck.
12:05:25 PM Reid: change it to this:
12:05:26 PM Reid: GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`cat /etc/issue | sed 's/Julia.*/Julia/' 2> /dev/null`
12:05:32 PM Reid: Much better.
12:06:09 PM Reid: Next off, what's your resolution? Do you know offhand?
12:07:12 PM Roby:
12:07:15 PM Roby: save?
12:07:17 PM Roby: I don't
12:07:25 PM Reid: Well to look good you need to know it.
12:07:43 PM Roby: I will google it, one sec
12:07:45 PM Reid: one sec let me find the name of the program
12:08:12 PM Reid: ah, there it is
12:08:23 PM Reid: Go to the "start" menu and go to control panel
12:08:26 PM Reid: Then under '
12:08:33 PM Reid: under 'hardware' click on 'monitors'
12:08:59 PM Reid: Andddd from there you'll have to find your resolution because I have different drivers enabled that don't let me use that tool
12:09:24 PM Roby: 1366 x 768 (16:9)
12:09:32 PM Reid: excellent
12:09:47 PM Reid: at the very bottom of your file, make these two new lines:
12:10:01 PM Reid: GRUB_GFXMODE=1366x768
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1366x768x32
12:10:02 PM Roby: on their own?
12:10:04 PM Reid: yeah
12:10:30 PM Reid: make sure they're on their own line and not on the line of anything else
12:10:40 PM Reid: then save and close the file
12:11:30 PM Roby: done
12:11:34 PM Reid: alright
12:11:42 PM Reid: now in the terminal type update-burg
12:11:53 PM Reid: last line should say 'done'
12:12:38 PM Reid: then we get to actually preview what it will look like
12:12:42 PM Reid: the default theme if I recall is quite ugly
12:12:45 PM Reid: but luckily you can change it
12:12:53 PM Reid: actually before we do that
12:12:56 PM Reid: type this in your terminal:
12:13:06 PM Reid: apt-get install burg-themes
12:13:15 PM Reid: you may already have it installed, I dunno
12:13:23 PM Roby: /usr/sbin/burg-probe: error: cannot stat `boot/burg/locale'.
No path or device is specified.
Try `/usr/sbin/burg-probe --help' for more information
12:13:50 PM Reid: um, okay. strange.
12:14:24 PM Reid: Okay, type this instead:
12:14:31 PM Reid: burg-install /dev/sda
12:14:57 PM Roby: Installation finished. No error reported.
12:15:04 PM Reid: excellent
12:15:07 PM Reid: one sec
12:15:31 PM Reid: now type update-burg
12:15:54 PM Roby: done
12:15:55 PM Reid: and then type:
apt-get install burg-themes
12:15:57 PM Roby:
12:16:16 PM Reid: You may already have that installed. I'm not sure if it's listed as a dependency of burg or not.
12:16:25 PM Reid: I guess I could check.
12:16:34 PM Reid: Ah, it is. Okay.
12:16:48 PM Roby: burg themes is already the newest version
12:17:02 PM Reid: Now we are going to use the "emulator" to get a sneak peek of how burg will look when you start up your computer
12:17:10 PM Reid: as I said before, it's rather ugly if you use the default theme
12:17:32 PM Reid: also be warned, a window pretty much the size of your screen will appear when you do this command, so you'll have to move it around
12:17:52 PM Reid: When this window comes up, you can press "t" to select a new theme.
12:17:57 PM Reid: So press t and select the theme "radiance"
12:18:25 PM Reid: then press f5 and close the window
12:18:27 PM Reid: so type in the terminal:
burg-emu
12:18:38 PM Reid: You can move it around to see what I'm saying still
12:19:24 PM Roby: there's 2 linux icons and 3 windows icons
12:19:34 PM Reid: indeed
12:20:32 PM Reid: Okay, did you change the theme?
12:21:04 PM Roby: yes
12:21:30 PM Reid: Okay, use the arrow keys to move over to the second linux icon
12:21:35 PM Reid: press f once you're over it and it should disappear
12:21:54 PM Roby: the black and whie one?
12:22:03 PM Roby: nevermind
12:22:10 PM Reid: Eh?
12:22:14 PM Roby: done
12:22:19 PM Reid: Did it disappear?
12:22:21 PM Roby: yes
12:22:25 PM Reid: Excellent.
12:22:32 PM Reid: This is called "folding" where icons are folded together
12:22:47 PM Reid: Move over to the second windows icon and press f, then move over to the third and press f again
12:23:01 PM Roby: the other linux icon came back
12:23:22 PM Reid: O_O
12:23:28 PM Reid: One second.
12:24:46 PM Reid: Okay, press f over the second linux icon again
12:24:51 PM Reid: The three windows icons worry me because you have some old partitions there that shouldn't be ther.
12:24:52 PM Reid: *there
12:25:03 PM Reid: The next time you boot you'll have to figure out which of those is the real one.
12:26:52 PM Reid: actually one sec
12:26:55 PM Reid: there's apparently a program to make this somewhat easier
12:29:38 PM Reid: how nifty!
12:29:51 PM Reid: close the burg-emu window and paste these lines into your terminal:
12:30:02 PM Reid: add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
apt-get update
apt-get install grub-customizer
grub-customizer
12:30:13 PM Reid: make sure that emote copies correctly...
12:31:23 PM Reid: And when that comes up, say 'yes' to if you want to configure burg instead of grub2
12:31:26 PM Reid: this is a nifty program! I like it
12:31:32 PM Reid: makes life much easier
12:32:16 PM Roby: can you pastebin that? I'm on my mac for msn
12:32:21 PM Reid: sure
12:32:30 PM Roby: thanks :]
12:32:58 PM Reid:
http://pastebin.com/7UhacJfG12:34:15 PM Roby: it asked if I wanted to continue and then after I said 'y', the lne reads: Abort.
12:34:36 PM Reid: Under what command?
12:35:00 PM Roby: apt- get install grub-customizer
12:35:07 PM Roby: *apt-get
12:35:17 PM Reid: try it again, I guess...
12:36:13 PM Roby: ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
12:36:26 PM Roby: and then rob-Satellite-L65 ~ #
12:36:46 PM Reid: excellent, now type grub-customizer
12:36:56 PM Reid: it should ask if you want to configure burg instead of grub2 -- say yes
12:37:11 PM Roby: ok
12:37:23 PM Roby: a menu popped
12:37:26 PM Roby: up
12:37:31 PM Reid: mhm
12:37:38 PM Reid: there you can re-order and uncheck entries you don't want to show
12:37:39 PM Reid:

12:37:57 PM Roby: I'm not sure which ones I need to have enabled
12:38:24 PM Reid: well, the recovery mode ones can be unchecked
12:38:28 PM Reid: or recovery mode one
12:38:36 PM Reid: now as for which windows one, I agree -- I don't know either
12:39:06 PM Reid: You'll just have to start up your computer some time and test each windows one and remember which one of the three it is
12:39:08 PM Reid:
12:39:17 PM Roby: Alright
12:39:39 PM Roby: that's it/
12:39:41 PM Roby: *?
12:39:46 PM Reid: click save and then close
12:39:58 PM Reid: that menu is just helpful because it lets you fine tune which ones you want
12:40:04 PM Reid: instead of trying to guess at folding
12:40:21 PM Reid: now once you've done that type burg-emu again and see if everything's to your liking
12:40:34 PM Roby: Yes
12:40:45 PM Reid: then close burg-emu and press ctrl+d in your terminal
12:40:48 PM Roby: Which OS will it select automattically?
12:40:55 PM Roby: after 10 seconds
12:40:56 PM Reid: whichever one it's on when you start up burg-emu
12:41:01 PM Roby: ahh
12:41:23 PM Roby: k
12:41:43 PM Reid: any time in the future when you want to update your burg, you can type "sudo grub-customizer" in a terminal and change the settings
12:41:50 PM Reid: it has convenient options like timeout, etc
12:41:54 PM Reid: and which one is default
12:42:20 PM Roby: awwesome
12:42:22 PM Roby: thank you
12:42:32 PM Reid: so just press ctrl+d to get out of sudo -i
12:42:37 PM Reid: then press ctrl+d again to close the terminal
12:42:52 PM Reid: ctrl+d is the 'EOL' character, which usually signals a program to stop if it's asking for your input
12:44:12 PM Reid: or just type exit
12:44:12 PM Reid: if you want to be bland.
12:44:14 PM Reid: ctrl+d is cooler though :r
12:44:51 PM Reid: it should be noted that most of linux is not this complicated
12:45:05 PM Reid: at least not in daily use
12:48:18 PM Roby:
12:48:22 PM Roby: I really like it so far
12:48:55 PM Reid: It is fun.
12:48:57 PM Reid: Have you enabled compiz?
12:49:09 PM Roby: no?
12:50:15 PM Reid: ah. it has special effects.
12:50:26 PM Roby: what is it for?
12:50:33 PM Reid: ..special effects
12:50:36 PM Reid: sad isn't it? xD
12:50:52 PM Reid: but anyways, under control center, try the simple compiz-config settings manager
12:50:56 PM Reid: not sure how much your gpu will run
12:50:59 PM Reid: you may not like the effects though
12:51:12 PM Reid: some people prefer a clean desktop but I like to show off to everyone who uses my computer. :#
12:51:22 PM Reid: like right now I have a raindrop effect going on my screen
12:52:24 PM Roby: I'll play around with it later, I'm about to shower and then head out
12:52:30 PM Reid: same here. xD
12:52:34 PM Reid: Have a nice day.