[HLUG] Herefordshire Digest, Vol 1645, Issue 1

[Pete]

Hi Dave, welcome back - hope you're thriving :)
Pete H@

On 14/11/13 19:42, Julian Robbins wrote:
> 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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>>>>> Today's Topics:
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>>>>>     1. Please Miss my pen has stopped working (Steve Horsfield)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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