[ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot

2011-03-10 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hello, I'm looking at quad booting my laptop (Win 7, Ubuntu (dev), debian(stable) and LFS) and wondered if it was possible to use a shared /boot partition across the 3 linux distros. The main reason for doing so would be so that everything is more tidy, but also to reduce wasted space! Any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot

2011-03-10 Thread Grant Sewell
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:51:04 + Matthew Daubney wrote: Hello, I'm looking at quad booting my laptop (Win 7, Ubuntu (dev), debian(stable) and LFS) and wondered if it was possible to use a shared /boot partition across the 3 linux distros. The main reason for doing so would be so that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot

2011-03-10 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 10/03/11 09:51, Matthew Daubney wrote: Hello, I'm looking at quad booting my laptop (Win 7, Ubuntu (dev), debian(stable) and LFS) and wondered if it was possible to use a shared /boot partition across the 3 linux distros. The main reason for doing so would be so that everything is more tidy,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot

2011-03-10 Thread bodsda
is updated. Bodsda --Original Message-- From: Matthew Daubney Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com To: Ubuntu-Uk ReplyTo: Ubuntu-Uk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot Sent: 10 Mar 2011 09:51 Hello, I'm looking at quad booting my laptop (Win 7, Ubuntu (dev), debian(stable

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot

2011-03-10 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 12:39 +, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: My setup has always been grub on mbr and grub on /boot for each installation. Either way is pretty simple, the only difficulty I can forsee is if you change the kernel on one of the installs that doesn't handle the grub

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice - permissions

2009-05-26 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/5/25 Lucy lucybrid...@gmail.com: 2009/5/20 Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com: If you create more than one user in each installation, you have to create them in the same order so that they get the same UIDs - if you don't, this is the only time you should have to use the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice - permissions

2009-05-25 Thread Lucy
2009/5/20 Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com: If you create more than one user in each installation, you have to create them in the same order so that they get the same UIDs - if you don't, this is the only time you should have to use the chown/chgrp commands, although chown will

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-21 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Sean Miller wrote: Well, I now have a driver. But that evil little icon top right insists on a WPA key when I want to put in a WEP one. It has a dropdown but only one option. I came across this problem and ended up using Wicd instead to fix it. Tom -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-21 Thread Sean Miller
All seems sorted now - thanks for the help. I am so tired I can't remember what I did to fix it, but yesterday evening the wireless popped up and I now have a wonderfully efficient Jaunty Laptop!! *cue fireworks* :-) Thanks Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice - permissions

2009-05-20 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Daubney wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 11:01 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: Should have broadband again today, so going to download an ISO and endeavour to fix my broken Jaunty. Now, a week or so ago somebody said to me that to preserve my data

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice - permissions

2009-05-20 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/5/20 Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net: regarding point B, if you create a new users then won't this cause permission issues,  as say old system has /home/paul and the new install has /home/paul2 the files will still belong to paul, and will need to have ownership changed (chown) and

[ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-19 Thread Sean Miller
Should have broadband again today, so going to download an ISO and endeavour to fix my broken Jaunty. Now, a week or so ago somebody said to me that to preserve my data I simply asked it not to format the partition, which would leave /home intact. Two questions :- a. are there any potential

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-19 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 11:01 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: Should have broadband again today, so going to download an ISO and endeavour to fix my broken Jaunty. Now, a week or so ago somebody said to me that to preserve my data I simply asked it not to format the partition, which would leave

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-19 Thread Sean Miller
Well that all worked okay, now got Jaunty working. But I've lost my wireless. Hmmm... Prior to the re-install it was fine, and I don't remember actually doing anything to make it not so. Is there some default option that's been installed which is preventing it accessing my wireless card? I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-19 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:34 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: Well that all worked okay, now got Jaunty working. But I've lost my wireless. Hmmm... Prior to the re-install it was fine, and I don't remember actually doing anything to make it not so. Is there some default option that's been

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-19 Thread Sean Miller
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: Check in System - Administration - Hardware Drivers, see if there's a driver it wants. I think the bcm  cards need proprietry firmware. I tried that first - it's empty. Not suggesting a thing. Sean --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-19 Thread mac
Sean Miller wrote: snip Prior to the re-install it was fine, and I don't remember actually doing anything to make it not so. Is there some default option that's been installed which is preventing it accessing my wireless card? I recall this is one of those troublesome bcmwotsit ones... I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-19 Thread Sean Miller
What's happened to knetworkmanager these days? Used to be good for picking up wireless things - but doesn't seem to be in the repositories these days. Does it have a different name? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-19 Thread Daniel Rhodes-Mumby
On Tue, 19 May 2009 17:34:26 +0100, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: Well that all worked okay, now got Jaunty working. But I've lost my wireless. Hmmm... Prior to the re-install it was fine, and I don't remember actually doing anything to make it not so. Is there some default

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-19 Thread Sean Miller
Well, I now have a driver. But that evil little icon top right insists on a WPA key when I want to put in a WEP one. It has a dropdown but only one option. And entering the thing on the networks in applications seems to be a complete waste of time - it's just ignored! BAH! Is Ubuntu becoming

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-19 Thread Sean Miller
Hmm... seem to have managed to fool it into letting me online. So now on with wireless on Jaunty laptop... RESULT Thanks for all your help... onward ever onward... Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/