Re: [Dorset] Goodies for Reasons Harvest
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 01:03 +, Andrew Morgan wrote: Simon O'Riordan wrote: I've got the HP Mini with Suse, but there is(obviously) no optical drive. How do you put 9.04 onto it? I have done the installation of Ubuntu on my EeePC using a USB CD drive. Usually one connected via a USB ATA adapter. I'm surprised more people don't seem to do this... From memory you press ESC during the BIOS stage to chose the boot drive. -- Andrew. USB ATA Adapter? Where did you get it? Who makes it? How can I get one? Christmas is coming. Peter M. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Goodies for Reasons Harvest
Hi Peter Simon O'Riordan wrote: I've got the HP Mini with Suse, but there is(obviously) no optical drive. How do you put 9.04 onto it? I have done the installation of Ubuntu on my EeePC using a USB CD drive. Usually one connected via a USB ATA adapter. I'm surprised more people don't seem to do this... From memory you press ESC during the BIOS stage to chose the boot drive. USB ATA Adapter? Where did you get it? Who makes it? How can I get one? Christmas is coming. Peter M. eBuyer, Maplin, Farnell, RS Components, they all sell them, prices vary from around 5.00 GBP to 30 GBP depending on precise capabilities etc. Here's an example from eBuyer :- http://www.ebuyer.com/product/136214 Good luck and happy disk copying etc. -- Cheers Peter -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Goodies for Reasons Harvest
Is this not getting a bit over complicated ? I just made a bootable USB thumb drive (or flash drive or whatever they are called now) and plugged it in. Press ESC during BIOS stage and then select device to boot from. I have a bootable drive with Ubuntu loaded and can give it to you. Do you want 9.10 or 9.04 ? On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11:41 +, Peter Merchant wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 01:03 +, Andrew Morgan wrote: Simon O'Riordan wrote: I've got the HP Mini with Suse, but there is(obviously) no optical drive. How do you put 9.04 onto it? I have done the installation of Ubuntu on my EeePC using a USB CD drive. Usually one connected via a USB ATA adapter. I'm surprised more people don't seem to do this... From memory you press ESC during the BIOS stage to chose the boot drive. -- Andrew. USB ATA Adapter? Where did you get it? Who makes it? How can I get one? Christmas is coming. Peter M. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Goodies for Reasons Harvest
I got it working over a week ago. Do try and keep up, Pike.:) - Original Message - From: Dominic Lonsdale lonsdale...@btinternet.com To: Dorset Linux User Group dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [Dorset] Goodies for Reasons Harvest Is this not getting a bit over complicated ? I just made a bootable USB thumb drive (or flash drive or whatever they are called now) and plugged it in. Press ESC during BIOS stage and then select device to boot from. I have a bootable drive with Ubuntu loaded and can give it to you. Do you want 9.10 or 9.04 ? On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11:41 +, Peter Merchant wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 01:03 +, Andrew Morgan wrote: Simon O'Riordan wrote: I've got the HP Mini with Suse, but there is(obviously) no optical drive. How do you put 9.04 onto it? I have done the installation of Ubuntu on my EeePC using a USB CD drive. Usually one connected via a USB ATA adapter. I'm surprised more people don't seem to do this... From memory you press ESC during the BIOS stage to chose the boot drive. -- Andrew. USB ATA Adapter? Where did you get it? Who makes it? How can I get one? Christmas is coming. Peter M. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] One disk or two?
You can split a disk so you can put documents on one partition and system files on another if you so wish. If you insist on using 2, you should be able to specify the second disk (sdb) as /home on install of UBuntu. For revision control I'd use Subversion or Git (there are many GUI front-ends, if you want). Cheers Dan 2009/12/5 Andrew Drapper and...@drapper.com: Hi, Looking to put Ubuntu on a refurbished PC, Should I use a single drive, obviously the easiest, or should I put the os and programmes on one disc docks on another, and if so how do I re-address the file system to the second disk? Oh and while I am on it does anyone have any suggestions for creating a revisions backup of my documents? On Windows I an doing this with syncplicity. Thanks. Andrew Drapper -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset -- Dan Dart _ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] One disk or two?
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:00:08 -, Andrew Drapper and...@drapper.com wrote: Looking to put Ubuntu on a refurbished PC, Should I use a single drive, obviously the easiest, or should I put the os and programmes on one disc docks on another, That is a question only you can answer. From the sounds of it you already know the advantages and disadvantages of both so I'm not sure I can help further. and if so how do I re-address the file system to the second disk? The easy way to do this (if you choose too) would be to set it up at install time. While around the partition manager at install you should ensure that /home is mounted on the second disk. By putting /home on a different disk ALL users 'Documents' directories will be stored on this second disk. It should also sore most if not all user settings on this disk too. It really is as easy as that, much easier than trying to move My Documents around on Windows - something I have had to do several times. Oh and while I am on it does anyone have any suggestions for creating a revisions backup of my documents? On Windows I an doing this with syncplicity. Depending on what features of syncplicity you want too keep - a similar looking (I say looking as I have no experience of syncplicity so can only go by their homepage) would be dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/ Other than that if your goal is revision control you'll find a wealth of RCS software out there all ready to be given a try. -- Using Opera M2: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] One disk or two?
Andrew Drapper wrote: Oh and while I am on it does anyone have any suggestions for creating a revisions backup of my documents? Have a look at rdiff-backup too. Plenty of info on Google. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Xsane and Canon Lide 50 USB scanner
Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Clive, Ubuntu 9.10 installed on new PC and Laptop up-dated, majority is fine but problem with Xsane and my scanner. It worked OK under 9.04 but not on 9.10, any ideas please? Details are: Xsane 0.996 sees scanner as Lide 50 with genesys:libusb:002:003 Gnome 2.28.1 Kernal 2.6.31-15-generic select 'scan', short wait then xsane window(s) grey out approx: 30secs 'Failed to start scanner: Error during device I/O' Could it be the new system doesn't have the same permissions set up as the old, so you, as a normal user, don't have access to the scanner? It may be worth trying sudo scanimage -d genesys:libusb:002:003 --format pnf scan.pnf to see if this may be the problem. I got the idea from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=957822 although I don't know about the wiseness of the rest of the advice. But at least this would be a first step. Cheers, Ralph. Hi Ralp just tried that command but reported: scanimage: sane_start:error during device I/O It does not appear to be powering the scanner, I'm on mains power not battery. Xsane can 'see' the scanner as it gives a choice between webcam or scanner, but then waits, goes grey and reports as originally said above. The log file shows it's connected as: Dec 5 15:56:43 ubuntuclive kernel: [ 310.728121] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 Dec 5 15:56:43 ubuntuclive kernel: [ 310.862430] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Not sure if the above means anything. Going out tonight so can't try anything this evening. Clive -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Xsane and Canon Lide 50 USB scanner
Hi Clive, Ubuntu 9.10 installed on new PC and Laptop up-dated, majority is fine but problem with Xsane and my scanner. It worked OK under 9.04 but not on 9.10, any ideas please? Sounds like https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/485551 Try without xsane. Run scanimage, a non-GUI bit of SANE. SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS=255 scanimage lide50.pnm 2lide50.log It should produce two files. lide50.pnm may be zero bytes long if the scan went badly. Else, it will be a nifty little Portable aNymap image, viewable with something like gnome-open lide50.pnm assuming you're running gnome. Either way, lide50.log will have a lot of internal stuff in it, which may shed some light given study. BTW, you can get a Launchpad account, if you haven't one already, and click the Does this bug also affect you? link that's under the yellow box at the top to vote for its resolution. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/485551/+affectsmetoo Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
