03-13-2014
I'm having a problem installing Ubuntu over Linux mint. I was using mint and it just froze. So I held power button to turn off the computer. Turned it back on and it won't boot past the LM symbol. So I'm trying to install Ubuntu over it and erase mint but it won't let me. It says the hdd is mounted as /CDROM so I can't edit any files. Any ideas or ideas I can try? Can I make a bootable sun then boot from that, unmount the hdd, then format the hdd then reinstall Ubuntu? If do how do I do that? I tried unmounting it and it didn't work but I'm not very fluent with terminal commands and such.
When I ran diag on the boot up I did see a couple failures- media manager and something about a modem or network.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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germinate-pkg-diff
GERMINATE-PKG-DIFF(1) Ubuntu General Commands Manual GERMINATE-PKG-DIFF(1)
NAME
germinate-pkg-diff -- compare seeds against currently installed packages
SYNOPSIS
germinate-pkg-diff [-l file] [-m {i|r|d}] [-a arch] [seeds]
DESCRIPTION
germinate-pkg-diff compares the expansion of a list of seed packages against the set of packages installed on the current system. When con-
structing seeds for a software distribution, it can be used to iteratively find packages installed on developers' systems that should be
included in the seeds.
A list of seeds against which to compare may be supplied as non-option arguments. Seeds from which they inherit will be added automatically.
The default is 'desktop'.
OPTIONS
-l, --list file
Read the list of currently installed packages from file. The default is to read the output of dpkg --get-selections, and any supplied
file should be in the same format.
-m, --mode {i|r|d}
Set the output mode as follows:
i Show the dpkg selections needed to install just these seeds. List unseeded but installed files as ``deinstall'', and seeded but
uninstalled files as ``install''.
r List unseeded but installed files as ``install'', and seeded but uninstalled files as ``deinstall''.
d Show the differences between the packages specified by the seeds and the list of installed packages, in a somewhat diff-like for-
mat.
-S, --seed-source source,...
Fetch seeds from the specified sources. The default is http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/seeds/.
-s, --seed-dist dist
Fetch seeds for distribution dist. The default is ubuntu.precise.
-d, --dist dist,...
Operate on the specified distributions. The default is precise. Listing multiple distributions may be useful, for example, when exam-
ining both a released distribution and its security updates.
-a, --arch arch
Operate on architecture arch. The default is i386.
BUGS
--mode r is useless as dpkg --set-selections input.
AUTHORS
Lamont Jones <lamont@ubuntu.com>
Colin Watson <cjwatson@canonical.com>
germinate-pkg-diff is copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Canonical Ltd. See the GNU General Public License version 2 or later for
copying conditions. A copy of the GNU General Public License is available in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
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