snip
Stick it in, reboot and you may need to invoke the BIOS or some other
boot menu to select the CD to boot from. Many computers ship with the
hard disk being the default boot device, and need to be tweaked to
boot from CD. Others have a menu which can be invoked with a single
keypress at
On 28 May 2010 09:15, Scrase, Eddie escrase...@wentworthlabs.com wrote:
snip
Stick it in, reboot and you may need to invoke the BIOS or some other
boot menu to select the CD to boot from. Many computers ship with the
hard disk being the default boot device, and need to be tweaked to
On 28 May 2010 12:34, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote:
I also like Unetbootln, however if you want to create a peristent version of
Ubuntu ( to store additional files such as your documents, etc) then the
Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator should be used.
I disagree. If you want a persistent
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 12:51 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On 28 May 2010 12:34, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote:
I also like Unetbootln, however if you want to create a peristent version of
Ubuntu ( to store additional files such as your documents, etc) then the
Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator
On 28 May 2010 13:27, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote:
Surely that depends if you also want to use that image as an installer?
I guess. But that wasn't implied from the assertion made.
Cheers,
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On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 13:30 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On 28 May 2010 13:27, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote:
Surely that depends if you also want to use that image as an installer?
I guess. But that wasn't implied from the assertion made.
Cheers,
Al.
I have a 16GB USB stick
On 26 May 2010 16:45, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Reminds me of a relative who phoned me a few years ago and complained
his (Windows) PC wouldn't boot.
What were you doing when you last used it?
Just deleting some files I never use
Like what?
command.com, something like that
Well, now I've got 10.04 installed (whatever my system monitor may
think), and I have also got 10.04 on a Live CD. However, I do not see
how I could run Gparted from the Live CD with my internal hard drive
unmounted, because I installed Gparted on my internal hard drive, and I
imagine it is not
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 12:24 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Well, now I've got 10.04 installed (whatever my system monitor may
think), and I have also got 10.04 on a Live CD. However, I do not see
how I could run Gparted from the Live CD with my internal hard drive
unmounted, because I installed
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 12:24 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Well, now I've got 10.04 installed (whatever my system monitor may
think), and I have also got 10.04 on a Live CD. However, I do not see
how I could run Gparted from the Live CD with my internal hard drive
unmounted, because I installed
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 12:24 +0100, Rowan Berkeley
rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, now I've got 10.04 installed (whatever my system monitor may
think), and I have also got 10.04 on a Live CD. However, I do not
see how I could run Gparted from the Live CD with my internal hard
drive
On 27 May 2010 17:47, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
...
This Live CD sounds like an amazing box of tricks. I shall have to run
it just for an exploratory session. Presumably I can just stick it in,
reboot, and see what happens. Thinking about it, it can't unmount the
internal
On 27 May 2010 17:47, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
This Live CD sounds like an amazing box of tricks.
The Ubuntu Live CD has two main purposes. To allow new users to 'try'
Ubuntu and see if they like what they see, and secondly to install
Ubuntu onto a computer. A side benefit
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk
wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:35 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote:
The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an up to
date system, rather than an out-of-date livecd may be a better idea,
if purely for any
On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk
wrote:
This is an incredibly dangerous idea. When you're mucking around with
partitions it is very, _very_, UNsafe to have the _device_ mounted.
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood
neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney
m...@daubers.co.uk
wrote:
This is an incredibly dangerous idea. When you're
On 26 May 2010 14:46, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
Quite so, but all the program files and associated data are in sda1,
which remains mounted. The only things in the partitions that are being
moved are the swap space and the user files. The swap space could
certainly be
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:46 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood
neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney
m...@daubers.co.uk
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 15:56 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
There are lots of files in your home directory and indeed elsewhere
that get written to (and read from) whilst you're 'doing nothing'.
Really? I had no idea. That certainly makes all the difference. Maybe I
should look for hidden
On 26 May 2010 16:06, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
Really? I had no idea. That certainly makes all the difference. Maybe I
should look for hidden files in my home directory, that might give me
some idea of what they are.
Open nautilus file manager and navigate to your
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 16:23 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
Open nautilus file manager and navigate to your home directory. Press
CTRL+H to show hidden files. You'll notice they all start with a full
stop. I'd recommend not monkeying with any of them :)
Reminds me of a relative who phoned me a few
Ar Mer, 2010-05-26 am 14:46 +0100, ysgrifennodd Rowan Berkeley:
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood
neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney
On 26 May 2010 15:12, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:46 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood
neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Tue,
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 00:17 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
Open nautilus file manager and navigate to your home directory. Press
CTRL+H to show hidden files. You'll notice they all start with a full
stop. I'd recommend not monkeying with any of them :) Cheers, Al.
Too true, upwards of
On 24 May 2010 18:00, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
I got several useful emails full of advice from Linux Emporium about the
various partitions on my internal hard disk. Apparently the unused
partition is there so that the user can install two operating systems
side by
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 08:53 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
You could boot from a live Ubuntu CD and use gparted to:-
Delete sda2 (the unwanted partition).
Move sda3 down (to the left, nearer the start) of the disk
Move sda4 down the disk
Grow sda4 up the disk
Grow sda5 inside sda4 up
On 25 May 2010 10:02, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
ha, well, if there's no risk of imminent fatality, I shall do it at some
point. But why would I want to 'boot from a live Ubuntu CD'?
Because the operation I described requires you to be changing data on
partitions that
On 25 May 2010 10:22, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 25 May 2010 10:02, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
ha, well, if there's no risk of imminent fatality, I shall do it at some
point. But why would I want to 'boot from a live Ubuntu CD'?
Because the operation I
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 10:34 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
At no point did I suggest reinstallation or 'destroying' anything. I'm
merely describing the process of _moving_ partitions around on the
disk, and expanding partitions to allow them to use the newly
available space made by
On 25 May 2010 11:06, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
Ah, right. For some reason I thought you were talking about reinstalling
everything from scratch, from the Live CD. But if I have understood
correctly, I can achieve my purposes without ever having to unmount
sda1, which
On 25 May 2010 11:06, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 10:34 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
At no point did I suggest reinstallation or 'destroying' anything. I'm
merely describing the process of _moving_ partitions around on the
disk, and
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Just to clarify to the OP, when a partition is moved using gparted the
data in the partition is moved with it, so this can be done without
affecting an existing system. It is always wise to ensure backups are
up to
On 25 May 2010 12:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Just to clarify to the OP, when a partition is moved using gparted the
data in the partition is moved with it, so this can be done without
On 25 May 2010 13:06, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
It won't be mounted, when you boot off the live CD nothing on your
hard disk will be mounted. It will not be using the swap there. You
can boot off the live CD with no disk at all, or even one with Windows
on it!
Colin
I
On 25 May 2010 13:14, Andrew Turner acturne...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe the live CD automatically mounts the swap partition on the
hard drive, if one exists, so it will still need to be unmounted if
you want to move it etc. At least, it used to.
This is true, but gparted wont let you
Hang it, I forgot to change the subject line yet again. This is such a
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On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:36 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Hang it, I forgot to change the subject line yet again. This is such a
nuisance.
If you go to the list below you can change the option from digest to all
mail (or something similar)
Then if you set TB or Evo group by threads it'll be a
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:50 +0100, Daniel Drummond
dmdrummo...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning
here. The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an
up to date system, rather than an out-of-date livecd may be a better
idea, if
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 16:11 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:50 +0100, Daniel Drummond
dmdrummo...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning
here. The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an
up to date system,
-uk] Using Gparted
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:50 +0100, Daniel Drummond dmdrummo...@gmail.com
wrote:
Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning
here. The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an
up to date system, rather than an out-of-date livecd may
On Sun, 23 May 2010 at 12:36 Daniel Drummond dmdrummo...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2010 at 12:32, Rowan Berkeley
rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
I can't paste from the terminal.
In the terminal use Ctrl-Shift-C to copy, after making a selection
with the mouse. To paste into the
I got several useful emails full of advice from Linux Emporium about the
various partitions on my internal hard disk. Apparently the unused
partition is there so that the user can install two operating systems
side by side if they so wish. They say I could dispense with this and
add it to my user
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 00:19 +0100, Pallottini Aymeric
paillom...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello Rowan, In GParted when creating the partition just make sure
that you select linux-swap in the format to field. Once you have
your new swap partition created you will need to update 2 files with
the new
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 02:06 +0100, Mary Mooney memoo...@gmail.com
wrote:
Why don't you call LE?
In fact, I did email them. I have another query for them, about the way
they have configured the Lenovo N500: While I was using Gparted to
format the external hard disk, I noticed a block of memory on
On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was. However,
even if it turns out to be genuine idle space that I could bring into
use, merging it with the volume that is configured for user files (now
about
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was.
However, even if it turns out to be genuine idle space that I could
bring into use,
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:32 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was.
However, even if it turns
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was.
However, even if it turns out to be genuine idle space that I could
bring into use,
On 21 May 2010 11:23, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 20 May 2010 14:53, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 20 May 2010 14:30, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
I've sorted it out, by running 'sudo nautilus', navigating to the
disk, and changing the
Why don't you call LE?
On 20 May 2010 12:56, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Hi,
Having copied all the files from my external disk drive into onboard
memory, and checked that they are accessible and function normally, I
have created a new EXT3 file system on the external
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Mary Mooney memoo...@gmail.com wrote:
Why don't you call LE?
We generally encourage bottom-quoting on this list, by the way; your
reply should go *below* the cropped text of the message you're
replying to.
The thing that the OP may not realise is that normally
On 20 May 2010 14:53, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 20 May 2010 14:30, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
I've sorted it out, by running 'sudo nautilus', navigating to the
disk, and changing the permissions to include myself.
Personally I wouldn't do that. I expect a
Hi,
Having copied all the files from my external disk drive into onboard
memory, and checked that they are accessible and function normally, I
have created a new EXT3 file system on the external disk drive. There is
now nothing on the external disk drive except an empty 'Lost and Found'
folder.
On 20 May 2010 12:55, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
Having copied all the files from my external disk drive into onboard
memory, and checked that they are accessible and function normally, I
have created a new EXT3 file system on the external disk drive. There is
On 20/05/10 13:00, Alan Pope wrote:
You pretty much never need to logon as root. You can 'become' root like with:-
sudo -s
Hmmm, when I do this I tend to use
sudo -i
so you don't litter your homedir with root's environment nor vice versa.
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 14:04 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 20 May 2010 12:55, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Hi, Having copied all the files from my external disk drive into
onboard memory, and checked that they are accessible and function
normally, I have
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 05:09 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
whoops, sorry, forgot to change the subject line in previous message.
What version of Ubuntu are you running it's been in since Karmic
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On the Gparted display, all the volumes -- not just on the external hard
drive, but on the laptop's own drives -- are marked with little
keyrings. The menus for doing anything to any of them, such as resizing
etc., are greyed out. What do I need to do gain access to them? Thanks,
Rowan.
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On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 11:38 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On the Gparted display, all the volumes -- not just on the external hard
drive, but on the laptop's own drives -- are marked with little
keyrings. The menus for doing anything to any of them, such as resizing
etc., are greyed out. What
Unmount the usb disk first. You can do that in gparted.
Al.
Sent from my phone. Sorry for top-posting and typos.
On May 19, 2010 11:38 AM, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On the Gparted display, all the volumes -- not just on the external hard
drive, but on the laptop's
On 19 May 2010 11:38, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
On the Gparted display, all the volumes -- not just on the external hard
drive, but on the laptop's own drives -- are marked with little
keyrings. The menus for doing anything to any of them, such as resizing
etc., are
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On 19 May 2010 11:38, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On the Gparted display, all the volumes -- not just on the external
hard drive, but on the laptop's own drives -- are marked with little
I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
menus. Nor of course do I know how to use it. Is there a tutorial
anywhere?
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Hi,
I think it is in:
System -- Administration
otherewise you can run it from a Terminal window using the command:
gksudo gparted
Ciarán
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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Rowan Berkeley
rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
menus. Nor of course do I know how to use it. Is there a tutorial
On 18 May 2010 18:50, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
menus. Nor of course do I know how to use it. Is there a tutorial
anywhere?
On 18 May 2010 18:50, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
menus. Nor of course do I know how to use it. Is there a tutorial
anywhere?
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 19:01 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On 18 May 2010 18:50, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
menus. Nor of course do
On 18/05/10 18:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
menus. Nor of course do I know how to use it. Is there a tutorial
anywhere?
If you installed it from the
I always use the LiveCD - is it OK to use it while Ubuntu is running?
Dianne
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On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 19:19 +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote:
I always use the LiveCD - is it OK to use it while Ubuntu is running?
Dianne
Yes, but you won't be able to unmount the root partition to make any
changes to it.
Daniel
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On 18 May 2010 19:19, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I always use the LiveCD - is it OK to use it while Ubuntu is running?
In this case yes because Rowan is resizing an external USB based
partition rather than the root one.
Cheers,
Al.
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On 18/05/10 19:16, alan c wrote:
On 18/05/10 18:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
If you want to work on your main (system) partition then it must not
be running that is not mounted, that is, use a live CD or live usb
with gparted such as parted magic.
Actually I've found an Ubuntu Live CD works
whoops, sorry, forgot to change the subject line in previous message.
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