Re: [ubuntu-uk] React OS- Virtual Box
See http://www.virtlinux.com/ ReactOS is one of the images. Might save you some time :-) Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] React OS- Virtual Box
Cool, that will help Thanks Sean :) On 20/06/2008, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See http://www.virtlinux.com/ ReactOS is one of the images. Might save you some time :-) Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] React OS- Virtual Box
Does anyone know how well this works? I think i tried it ages ago (might have been a different [clone]) but it was very very alpha at the time. I see that further down the page they say they will go into beta for 0.5 (and they are current only 0.3.4), so i doubt that its very stable at all. Javad, please let us/me know how you get on with it :) On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:01 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: Hi, Im just wondering if i will able to run this on virtualbox in Ubuntu? http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html I think this is a replica windows os .so if there are any must have apps that you have to use in windows can now be used in this!!! Thoughts? Regards Javad -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] React OS- Virtual Box
i will post my findings on here later on for everyones benefit On 20/06/2008, Michael Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how well this works? I think i tried it ages ago (might have been a different [clone]) but it was very very alpha at the time. I see that further down the page they say they will go into beta for 0.5 (and they are current only 0.3.4), so i doubt that its very stable at all. Javad, please let us/me know how you get on with it :) On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:01 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: Hi, Im just wondering if i will able to run this on virtualbox in Ubuntu? http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html I think this is a replica windows os .so if there are any must have apps that you have to use in windows can now be used in this!!! Thoughts? Regards Javad -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] How do I know when to reboot after upgrading Ubuntu Server?
On the Hardy desktop, the update notification icon handily tells me when I need to reboot my desktop for the updates to take effect. I also run another machine, a Hardy Server with no GUI. After I have performed apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade on the server, how do I know whether or not I need to reboot please? -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] How do I know when to reboot after upgrading Ubuntu Server?
If you are doing a kernel upgrade you need to reboot. Any other updates don't need a reboot, however you may need to restart the relevant program that has been updated. On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 10:57 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: On the Hardy desktop, the update notification icon handily tells me when I need to reboot my desktop for the updates to take effect. I also run another machine, a Hardy Server with no GUI. After I have performed apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade on the server, how do I know whether or not I need to reboot please? -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
Ted wrote: John Taylor wrote: Andrew Oakley wrote: Ted wrote: John Taylor wrote: Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube In General Settings do you have number of desktops set to 2...I have Horizontal size 4, vert size 1 and number of desktops 2 Correct answer. The geometry of the pivoting (rotating) desktop virtualiser in Compiz is related directly to the number of horizontal sides. In Ubuntu this defaults to 2, which gives you a geometric plane with a front and back. A cube has 4 workspaces (horizontal sides) plus a top cap and bottom cap. An easy way of setting this whilst Compiz is running, is to right-click the Workspace Switcher on your Gnome panel, select Preferences and change the number of Columns (to 4, for a cube; total 6 sides when you include the top cap and bottom cap). There are other possibilities, such as an extruded triangle (3 workspaces), extruded pentangle (5 workspaces), extruded hexagon (6 workspaces) and so forth. I got up to at least 12 workspaces (extruded dodecagon) before I got bored, and both the Intel i965 and Nvidia GeForce2 graphics cards coped fine with that. If there is an upper limit, it must be a pretty silly one. For ease of use, I typically set my number of virtual desktops to the same as the number of workspaces of my cube. In that way, if I ever switch Compiz Fusion off (or it crashes - which rarely happens these days), I still have the same number of desktops. I am entirely uncertain what effect the Rows preference has in the Compiz Workspace Switcher. I can't see that it does anything at all, or at least not with the Compiz Cube. Thanks Chaps, simple when you know how, will play for hours! Regards John John.. The sphere looks good... Where are these round objects can't see them John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] How do I know when to reboot after upgrading Ubuntu Server?
It will come up at the end of the upgrade it should come up with restart now, I usually upgrade my servers with sudo do-release-upgrade. It always comes up with restart at the end. If you have started with with ssh and closed the session you may need to run sudo dpkg --configure -a as some packages will have options which you will need to answer. Then once it is finished reboot the box. Regards, Daniel Andrew Oakley wrote: On the Hardy desktop, the update notification icon handily tells me when I need to reboot my desktop for the updates to take effect. I also run another machine, a Hardy Server with no GUI. After I have performed apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade on the server, how do I know whether or not I need to reboot please? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Migrating between distros
Hi, I have this laptop running Mandriva... in the normal Ubuntu install situation I'd effectively wipe off Mandriva and replace it with the new OS, but is there any alternative? In other words, could I migrate from Mandriva to Hardy without wiping out my webserver, home directories etc. as that is what I'd prefer to do. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Migrating between distros
Are the home directories on a separate partition? If not you could move them to a separate partition or an external hard drive I guess. Regards, Daniel Sean Miller wrote: Hi, I have this laptop running Mandriva... in the normal Ubuntu install situation I'd effectively wipe off Mandriva and replace it with the new OS, but is there any alternative? In other words, could I migrate from Mandriva to Hardy without wiping out my webserver, home directories etc. as that is what I'd prefer to do. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Migrating between distros
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Daniel Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the home directories on a separate partition? If not you could move them to a separate partition or an external hard drive I guess. That's what I'll do if needs must, but I thought I'd ask the question, just in case there's any cunning way to install the OS without wiping out the volatile data Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Migrating between distros
Sean Miller wrote: In other words, could I migrate from Mandriva to Hardy without wiping out my webserver, home directories etc. as that is what I'd prefer to do. Sean If you've got your /home on a separate partition, you can preserve that during the install by choosing not to format it. Ditto for anything else that's in a separate partition (though you do have to be aware that any config files you preserve unaltered may not be right). Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] unwanted information
Before updating to 8.04, when I shut down my computer I had a screen with a bar showing the progress of the process. Now I get screen after screen detailing what is happening followed by a screen with the empty bar slot and nothing else before the computer switches off. Can anyone suggest how I can suppress all the information, which I do not understand and just get the bar showing progress, please. Norman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
John Taylor wrote: Ted wrote: John Taylor wrote: Andrew Oakley wrote: Ted wrote: John Taylor wrote: Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube In General Settings do you have number of desktops set to 2...I have Horizontal size 4, vert size 1 and number of desktops 2 Correct answer. The geometry of the pivoting (rotating) desktop virtualiser in Compiz is related directly to the number of horizontal sides. In Ubuntu this defaults to 2, which gives you a geometric plane with a front and back. A cube has 4 workspaces (horizontal sides) plus a top cap and bottom cap. An easy way of setting this whilst Compiz is running, is to right-click the Workspace Switcher on your Gnome panel, select Preferences and change the number of Columns (to 4, for a cube; total 6 sides when you include the top cap and bottom cap). There are other possibilities, such as an extruded triangle (3 workspaces), extruded pentangle (5 workspaces), extruded hexagon (6 workspaces) and so forth. I got up to at least 12 workspaces (extruded dodecagon) before I got bored, and both the Intel i965 and Nvidia GeForce2 graphics cards coped fine with that. If there is an upper limit, it must be a pretty silly one. For ease of use, I typically set my number of virtual desktops to the same as the number of workspaces of my cube. In that way, if I ever switch Compiz Fusion off (or it crashes - which rarely happens these days), I still have the same number of desktops. I am entirely uncertain what effect the Rows preference has in the Compiz Workspace Switcher. I can't see that it does anything at all, or at least not with the Compiz Cube. Thanks Chaps, simple when you know how, will play for hours! Regards John John.. The sphere looks good... Where are these round objects can't see them John Settings manager cube reflection deformation deformation.. -- Regards Ted Wager High Peak UK Using Sidux Linux -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] React OS- Virtual Box
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i will post my findings on here later on for everyones benefit On 20/06/2008, Michael Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how well this works? I think i tried it ages ago (might have been a different [clone]) but it was very very alpha at the time. I see that further down the page they say they will go into beta for 0.5 (and they are current only 0.3.4), so i doubt that its very stable at all. Javad, please let us/me know how you get on with it :) On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:01 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: Hi, Im just wondering if i will able to run this on virtualbox in Ubuntu? http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html I think this is a replica windows os .so if there are any must have apps that you have to use in windows can now be used in this!!! Thoughts? Regards Javad -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ rOS is actually fairly stable for some apps, but overall, it's not a production OS, and It doesn't really run any software that doesn't run on Wine or native Linux better... The basic idea of rOS is to replace a whole Linux distro running wine, with something that can run Windows apps natively but is freely available, standalone and small. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] React OS- Virtual Box
so theoretically i should be able to run a windows only app on rOS without much fuss? On 20/06/2008, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i will post my findings on here later on for everyones benefit On 20/06/2008, Michael Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how well this works? I think i tried it ages ago (might have been a different [clone]) but it was very very alpha at the time. I see that further down the page they say they will go into beta for 0.5 (and they are current only 0.3.4), so i doubt that its very stable at all. Javad, please let us/me know how you get on with it :) On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:01 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: Hi, Im just wondering if i will able to run this on virtualbox in Ubuntu? http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html I think this is a replica windows os .so if there are any must have apps that you have to use in windows can now be used in this!!! Thoughts? Regards Javad -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ rOS is actually fairly stable for some apps, but overall, it's not a production OS, and It doesn't really run any software that doesn't run on Wine or native Linux better... The basic idea of rOS is to replace a whole Linux distro running wine, with something that can run Windows apps natively but is freely available, standalone and small. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
Ted wrote: John Taylor wrote: Ted wrote: John Taylor wrote: Andrew Oakley wrote: Ted wrote: John Taylor wrote: Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube In General Settings do you have number of desktops set to 2...I have Horizontal size 4, vert size 1 and number of desktops 2 Correct answer. The geometry of the pivoting (rotating) desktop virtualiser in Compiz is related directly to the number of horizontal sides. In Ubuntu this defaults to 2, which gives you a geometric plane with a front and back. A cube has 4 workspaces (horizontal sides) plus a top cap and bottom cap. An easy way of setting this whilst Compiz is running, is to right-click the Workspace Switcher on your Gnome panel, select Preferences and change the number of Columns (to 4, for a cube; total 6 sides when you include the top cap and bottom cap). There are other possibilities, such as an extruded triangle (3 workspaces), extruded pentangle (5 workspaces), extruded hexagon (6 workspaces) and so forth. I got up to at least 12 workspaces (extruded dodecagon) before I got bored, and both the Intel i965 and Nvidia GeForce2 graphics cards coped fine with that. If there is an upper limit, it must be a pretty silly one. For ease of use, I typically set my number of virtual desktops to the same as the number of workspaces of my cube. In that way, if I ever switch Compiz Fusion off (or it crashes - which rarely happens these days), I still have the same number of desktops. I am entirely uncertain what effect the Rows preference has in the Compiz Workspace Switcher. I can't see that it does anything at all, or at least not with the Compiz Cube. Thanks Chaps, simple when you know how, will play for hours! Regards John John.. The sphere looks good... Where are these round objects can't see them John Settings manager cube reflection deformation deformation.. Help have lost control of Seamonkey the top of its header disappears under the top icon bar of screen and I can't shift it in any direction.doesn't happen to any other programme John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
Help The top of SeaMonkey now disappears under the top icon bar of screen and I can't shift it in any direction; nothing else is affected.any ideas? John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] [ADMIN] A polite request
Can everyone please take a second before hitting Send to trim replies. We're getting a lot of mails on the list which contain one or two lines of reply followed by a bazillion lines from the thread. For those of us who download mail over pay-per-byte connections such as 3G, this really matters. Many thanks. Al. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
Hide the top bar is my only suggestion can do that by right clicking on the bar, Properties and Show Hide Buttons... you'll then get nice things at each side that allows you to hide the bar. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
Sean Miller wrote: Hide the top bar is my only suggestion can do that by right clicking on the bar, Properties and Show Hide Buttons... you'll then get nice things at each side that allows you to hide the bar. Sean Many thanks, sanity returns John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
The top of SeaMonkey now disappears under the top icon bar of screen and I can't shift it in any direction; nothing else is affected.any ideas? Hold down the 'alt' key and drag the window down with your left mouse button. Then resize the window to fit just less than the available screen area. Stu __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] React OS- Virtual Box
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 13:12 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: Any app that is stable in wine... _should_... be stable in rOS. I am trying the VMware image as we speak... so far i have had to restart the machine about 5 times. It freezes at the most random times. I have managed to get firefox installed, but nothing else yet... I don't really think its ready for any real use... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] React OS- Virtual Box
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 13:20 +0100, Michael Holloway wrote: I am trying the VMware image as we speak... so far i have had to restart the machine about 5 times. It freezes at the most random times. I have managed to get firefox installed, but nothing else yet... I don't really think its ready for any real use... Haha, and I just got a Blue Screen of Death! Oh how I don't miss those! I feel somewhat dirty using it, when I got to the Firefox download page it detects that I'm using windows! I think that as far as windows compatibility goes, wine is still the best. And they have just released version 1.0 (http://www.winehq.org/) so I imagine that will be in Intrepid. In any case, the version in Hardy is pretty stable, and runs WoW! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
The top of SeaMonkey now disappears under the top icon bar of screen and I can't shift it in any direction; nothing else is affected.any ideas? Hold down the 'alt' key and drag the window down with your left mouse button. Then resize the window to fit just less than the available screen area. Yes, that's a a quick fix, but this bug has been around since Edgy, though it seems to be happening less and less often. I've only seen it happen once under Hardy... Lee -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] React OS- Virtual Box
I think that as far as windows compatibility goes, wine is still the best. And they have just released version 1.0 (http://www.winehq.org/) so I imagine that will be in Intrepid. In any case, the version in Hardy is pretty stable, and runs WoW! If you actually poke around, you will find that the ReactOS team are working quite closely with the Wine team, as they are basing much of their code on that. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] [IMPORTANT] Ubuntu UK Bug Jam?
Hi, You may have seen this [0] announcement from Jono about the upcoming Global Ubuntu Bug Jam, this August 8th through 10th (Friday to Sunday). If you don't know what a Bug Jam is then I suggest you follow the links contained in both Jonos and Daniels [1] messages to the LoCo contacts mailing list. Questions:- 1) Anyone fancy helping run a Bug Jam in the UK? 2) Shall we have more than one at various places around the UK? 3) Suggestions for venues which can accommodate a number of people over that period? 4) If we have enough people does it make sense to have another Jam at the same time/venue - a packaging jam, wiki cleanup jam, documentation jam or launchpad answers jam for example? Suggestions for other jams..? m Jam... http://drool.popey.com/ Quick points:- * Anyone can get involved, you don't need to be a coder. * We don't have any locations in mind at the moment, but will of course start asking around. * Would be good to tie this up with a social meet up on the Friday and/or the Saturday night, given we as a group don't get together too often. Discuss! Cheers, Al. [0] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2008-June/002253.html [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2008-June/002267.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] React OS- Virtual Box
at this point ive installed virtualbox and also emulated what the video
shows in their tutorials section!
But now im getting some error messages. A little scouring on the web shows
its not actually possible to run reactos on virtualbox.someone here might
defer???
I get this error
The VirtualBox kernel driver is not accessible to the current user. Make
sure that the user has write permissions for /dev/vboxdrv by adding them to
the vboxusers groups. You will need to logout for the change to take
effect..
VBox status code: -1909 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE).
Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4193-b909-22330f64ec45}
Any ideas please?
2008/6/20 Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I think that as far as windows compatibility goes, wine is still the
best. And they have just released version 1.0 (http://www.winehq.org/)
so I imagine that will be in Intrepid.
In any case, the version in Hardy is pretty stable, and runs WoW!
If you actually poke around, you will find that the ReactOS team are
working quite closely with the Wine team, as they are basing much of
their code on that.
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Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Registered in England
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] React OS- Virtual Box
Javad Ayaz wrote: at this point ive installed virtualbox and also emulated what the video shows in their tutorials section! But now im getting some error messages. A little scouring on the web shows its not actually possible to run reactos on virtualbox.someone here might defer??? snip You need to go into Users and Computers (click System, Administration, Users and Groups if you're running Gnome). Click the Unlock button and enter your password (if you're running Hardy, otherwise you should be asked for your password before Users and Groups opens). Click Manage Groups. Select the vboxusers group from the list and select properites. Another box should appear with a list of users. Click the tick box by your user name and then click OK. Click Close and the Close again. Now log off and log back in or restart your PC. You should then be able to run Virtual Box. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] React OS- Virtual Box
indeed i was able to. it logs in...I see some code running up the screen. when this happens the little hard drive and cd icons blink ...showing activityAnd then nothing i get a blank screen. I would like to point out that i have the iso file of live cd of reactos on my desktop and running it from there!!! Can someone give me some pointers? Regards Javad 2008/6/20 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Javad Ayaz wrote: at this point ive installed virtualbox and also emulated what the video shows in their tutorials section! But now im getting some error messages. A little scouring on the web shows its not actually possible to run reactos on virtualbox.someone here might defer??? snip You need to go into Users and Computers (click System, Administration, Users and Groups if you're running Gnome). Click the Unlock button and enter your password (if you're running Hardy, otherwise you should be asked for your password before Users and Groups opens). Click Manage Groups. Select the vboxusers group from the list and select properites. Another box should appear with a list of users. Click the tick box by your user name and then click OK. Click Close and the Close again. Now log off and log back in or restart your PC. You should then be able to run Virtual Box. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [IMPORTANT] Ubuntu UK Bug Jam?
Alan Pope wrote: Hi, You may have seen this [0] announcement from Jono about the upcoming Global Ubuntu Bug Jam, this August 8th through 10th (Friday to Sunday). If you don't know what a Bug Jam is then I suggest you follow the links contained in both Jonos and Daniels [1] messages to the LoCo contacts mailing list. Questions:- 1) Anyone fancy helping run a Bug Jam in the UK? yes 2) Shall we have more than one at various places around the UK? yes; I'm tired of arguments over where an event should be. So, London yes, and wherever else there are people to make it happen. 3) Suggestions for venues which can accommodate a number of people over that period? Will put my thinking cap on, but first we need an idea of numbers, and necessary facilities 4) If we have enough people does it make sense to have another Jam at the same time/venue - a packaging jam, wiki cleanup jam, documentation jam or launchpad answers jam for example? Suggestions for other jams..? Marmalade. John -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Migrating between distros
Sean Miller wrote: I have this laptop running Mandriva... in the normal Ubuntu install situation I'd effectively wipe off Mandriva and replace it with the new OS, but is there any alternative? In other words, could I migrate from Mandriva to Hardy without wiping out my webserver, home directories etc. as that is what I'd prefer to do. I assume, that you have default installation of Mandriva. In that case you have 3 partitions - system, home and swap. Mandriva keeps his webserver things under the /var/www (in system partition). So do next: backup the /var/www to the /home partition. In case that you run any databases, make their dump also to the /home partition. If yo want to keep your users make sure that you backup four files from /etc - group, gshadow, passwd and shadow. Install new OS and make sure, that you reformat your system partition but don't touch your home. On installation show that you have system, swap and home partitions (point to the right partitions). When istallation complete restore your /var/www and modify those four files under /etc (any text editor will do). Notify: Real users on Mandriva starts from 500 but on (K)Ubuntu (commonly on Debian) from 1000. Mandriva webserver user:group is apache:apache but on (K)Ubuntu (commonly on Debian) it is www-data:www-data. So you have to correct your users/permissions in those four files and/or on filesystem. -- With best regards HillarP -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Copying files from a reiser3 partition to LVM problem
Hi there, I have a frustrating issue. I have three disks in my Ubuntu 8.04 home server configured as follows: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 7.8G 2.5G 5.1G 33% / /dev/sdc1 466G 436G 31G 94% /var/lib/backuppc_old /dev/mapper/backupvg-backuplv 531G 531G 20K 100% /var/lib/backuppc mount /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/sdc1 on /var/lib/backuppc_old type reiserfs (rw) /dev/mapper/backupvg-backuplv on /var/lib/backuppc type xfs (rw) I am trying to copy all files from /var/lib/backuppc_old to /var/lib/backuppc. When I copy the files, the /var/lib/backuppc partition always fills up although it is 100GB bigger. I don't understand why. /var/lib/backuppc_old is resierfs 3.6.19 set at defaults when created. /var/lib/backuppc is an LVM partition and I have tried creating ext3, reiser3 and xfs on the logical volume - but they all fill up before the copy is complete. Can anyone explain what's going on? I've spent hours and hours and hours on this problem. Thanks, Mark. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Copying files from a reiser3 partition to LVM problem
Mark Allison wrote: Hi there, I have a frustrating issue. snip I am trying to copy all files from /var/lib/backuppc_old to /var/lib/backuppc. When I copy the files, the /var/lib/backuppc partition always fills up although it is 100GB bigger. I don't understand why. /var/lib/backuppc_old is resierfs 3.6.19 set at defaults when created. /var/lib/backuppc is an LVM partition and I have tried creating ext3, reiser3 and xfs on the logical volume - but they all fill up before the copy is complete. Can anyone explain what's going on? I've spent hours and hours and hours on this problem. I had this a couple of years back on a Linux backup server which I used to copy PC backups to. Turns out it was because it was full of little files they took up lots of room. Not sure if you have lots of smaller files on your disc that could be doing this. Could you try tarring everything into one big tar file to see if it does the same thing? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] React OS- Virtual Box
Javad Ayaz wrote: indeed i was able to. That's a start :-) it logs in...I see some code running up the screen. when this happens the little hard drive and cd icons blink ...showing activityAnd then nothing i get a blank screen. Does it come up with any messages to say it's loading ReactOS? I would like to point out that i have the iso file of live cd of reactos on my desktop and running it from there!!! Can someone give me some pointers? It might not be booting from CD, it could be set to something silly like boot from first virtual hard disk. Technically it has it's own BIOS and act's as, well a PC. You could try going into the virtual BIOS (can't remember if VirtualBox has a BIOS or not - I believe it does). Try the DEL key, F2 or F12 when the Inno logo appears. When you get into the BIOS try setting CD as the first boot device. Sorry I can't suggest more, I haven't got VirtualBox installed at the moment or a ReactOS LiveCD handy. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Sir Alan Sugar: it's too late for Linux
Something of an, er, interesting comment beginning 7:11 on this video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7462104.stm The rest of the video is pretty boring, including the preceding section on 'Is Microsoft a monopoly?'. -- All the best, Josh Blacker -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] How do I know when to reboot after upgrading Ubuntu Server?
After I have performed apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade on the server, how do I know whether or not I need to reboot please? I believe you can check for the presence of /var/run/reboot-required. It will be there after kernel upgrades, for example. Cheers, JT -- ---+ James Tait, BSc|xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer and Free Software advocate | VoIP: +44 (0)870 490 2407 ---+ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
