Finally I managed to install Ubuntu in my HP Pavilion dv9000. Usually HP Recovery Disk will not allow you to partition the disk. I was looking for several methods and couldn’t find a method.
Later I got Chanux on Yahoo messenger and found that even Ubuntu OS got an build in Disk Partition tool. Believe me unlike Window’s partition tool, its very straight forward and graphical interface.
So things are fine with Ubuntu but I was missing Utorrent so badly. Utorrent is not supported by Linux OS but you can do some work around and make it work in Ubuntu.
First you’ll need Wine to run uTorrent in your machine. To get wine execute following command in Terminal (Application → Accessories → Terminal).
sudo apt-get install wine
This command will install wine.
Then its time to install uTorrent.
wget http://download.utorrent.com/1.8.1/utorrent.exe
You check the latest version of utorrent in the download page and give the url of the download in above command.
Then it’ll be like installing utorrent on Windows it’ll ask location to install and all.
Whenever you wanna run utorrent double click the shortcut on the desktop or go to Applications → Wine → utorrent.
Have fun 😀
PS: Today onwards I’ll be having a new category “Ubuntu”
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yasith says
you might want to try a torrent client such as deluge. it runs nativity on linux. and it have almost all the features of utorrent(small foot print, similar UI, RSS support…) and more.
IMHO(have to say that i am linux fan boy so… :)) there are better clients than utorrent in *nix world.
take a look at…
http://thekindofme.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/qbittorrent-a-real-altanative-to-utorrrent-for-the-linuxers/
cheers!
Mayooresan says
@Yasith
Thankz for the link 🙂
As I just moved to Linux, still having some addiction to Windows. Hope I can get over very soon 🙂
Umapathy (உமாபதி) says
I have seen many people are migrating to abroad and many people moving to Open source. By the way for my personal resons has anybody tested Virtual Box under Linux. I tried virtual PC from Microsoft Windows where I can run linux from windows (Although I have not tested linux from Virtual PCit but I tested windows 2003 server from windows xp sp3 worked) any one else tried to run windows from Linux. If so please let me know.
Mayooresan says
//I have seen many people are migrating to abroad and many people moving to Open source.//
lol 😀
I hope someone will answer your question. Personally I haven’t tried it yet.
yasi8h says
@Umapathy (உமாபதி)
windowsXP runs much faster on top of linux(with virtualbox/VMware) than running natively! 🙂
virtualbox and VMware both work grate on linux. why not give it a try?