[HLUG] Herefordshire Digest, Vol 1645, Issue 1

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Dave

Yes this is your registered email address-I didn't have to approve it
first  :-)

Julian
On 14 Nov 2013 13:18, "David Shorthouse" <kungfu at globalnet.co.uk> wrote:

> Not sure if this is my registered email address but you used to be able to
> point the upgrade disc to itself
> This would allow the install sounds like upgrade version though..
>
> Dave
>
> Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >
> >Its not really an answer as I don't use Windows 8, so cant help there too
> >much .
> >
> >But, have you considered installing Linux as your primary os, then
> >(assuming you have enough ram), using VirtualBox to install Windows 8 on
> >top on your Linux? With Virtualbox you can take whole disk snapshots of
> the
> >virtual machine, so you can for example get it set up and before you make
> a
> >major change on your virtualised Windows system, you can snapshot it
> >beforehand, that way its simply to just revert a whole OS install/upgrade
> >if required. The snaphot is just a large file in the linux filesystem, so
> >the snapshots are entirely safe.
> >
> >There are other ways to do this - I use KVM, using virt-manager which has
> >better performance but doesnt have the 3D capabilities that VirtualBox
> has.
> >
> >Otherwise you could use Ghost or Clonezilla to make an image of the disk
> >and then just copy it to another disk. As long as the disk you are
> >transferring it to is bigger than the original disk it works fine.
> >
> >
> >Julian
> >
> >
> >
> >On 13 November 2013 23:48, Sean Parry <sean at seanparry.free-online.co.uk
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Has anyone got any ideas on this?
> >>
> >> I just built a new Windows 8 system today. It came up and ran like a
> >> dream. However it will not load windows 8 onto the new hard drive.
> Without
> >> having an earlier copy of windows on the drive. So it looks as if I
> might
> >> end up having to buy a new copy of windows XP, just to over right it,
> with
> >> Windows 8 in order to get it to load!
> >>
> >> Sean
> >> On 13.11.2013 12:00, herefordshire-request at mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:
> >>
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> >>>    1. Please Miss my pen has stopped working (Steve Horsfield)
> >>>
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> >>> Message: 1
> >>> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:02:18 +0000
> >>> From: Steve Horsfield <horsfield.steve at gmail.com>
> >>> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."
> >>>         <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> >>> Subject: [HLUG] Please Miss my pen has stopped working
> >>> Message-ID:
> >>>         <CAE6ab9g612-2gcWj6YAA=rtT2NJm72BFnNnwvF5s78_v97_ZfQ at mail.
> >>> gmail.com>
> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >>>
> >>> GIMP is glorious and buckshee, but judging from the online forums,
> finding
> >>> that it won't write, won't draw and won't paint for no obvious reason
> is a
> >>> fairly common occurrence. Sometimes it has something to do with its
> >>> multitude of layers and the solution appears to lie in selecting  the
> >>> right
> >>> layer, but my favourite solution to the not writing, not painting, not
> >>> drawing problem is to choose 'All' from the 'Select' menu. So often it
> >>> works, I've no idea why.
> >>>
> >>> Steve Horsfield
> >>>
> >>
> >> I just built a new windows 8 system today. It came up and ran like a
> >> dream. However it will not load windows 8 onto the new hard drive.
> Without
> >> having an earlier copy of windows on the drive. So I it looks as if I
> might
> >> have to buy a new copy of windows XP, just to over right it, with
> Windows 8
> >> in order to get it to load!
> >>
> >>>
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