[Klug-general] Re: Tech Talk

Monsieurle Dan monsieurledan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 21:01:12 BST 2008


Here's a post concluding my Digital Nomad project :
http://monsieurledan.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/digital-nomad-the-conclusion/

monsieurledan

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> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:51:36 +0100
> From: "Blake" <ottawa_can at tiscali.co.uk>
> Subject: [Klug-general] Help
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> Kevin I am interested. I would like to put UBUNTU onto my laptop as a dual
> boot and also onto my desktop. The laptop is on XP and the desktop is
> Vista.
> I do not feel confident about doing this myself. There is also, apparently
> a
> question about the number of disk divisions on the laptop.
>
> Any help would be wonderful.
>
> Blake
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> [mailto:kent-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Kevin Groves
> Sent: 30 March 2008 19:45
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> Seeing I'm just the other side of town I might be able to lend a hand.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:05:43 +0100
> From: George Prowse <cokehabit at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Help
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> Blake wrote:
> > Kevin I am interested. I would like to put UBUNTU onto my laptop as a
> dual
> > boot and also onto my desktop. The laptop is on XP and the desktop is
> Vista.
> > I do not feel confident about doing this myself. There is also,
> apparently a
> > question about the number of disk divisions on the laptop.
> >
> > Any help would be wonderful.
> >
> > Blake
>
> The Ubuntu installation is very easy and required minimal involvement
> and knowledge, It will automatically partition your hard drive leaving
> your Windows partitions intact and duplicate over setting, bookmarks,
> emails and documents to your ubuntu partition if you so wish.
>
> I'd give it a try and ask about any problems you have (if you encounter
> them) after.
>
> George
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:06:24 +0000
> From: "Colin McCarthy" <binarysignal at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Help
> To: "Kent Linux User Group - General Topics" <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> If you do try Blake make sure you backup your important documents first,
> just incase someone does go wrong.
>
> I am sure Kevin will be able to help, as he offered.  It can be nice the
> first time having someone explain the process and whats going on.
>
> Colin
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:05 PM, George Prowse <cokehabit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Blake wrote:
> >
> > > Kevin I am interested. I would like to put UBUNTU onto my laptop as a
> > > dual
> > > boot and also onto my desktop. The laptop is on XP and the desktop is
> > > Vista.
> > > I do not feel confident about doing this myself. There is also,
> > > apparently a
> > > question about the number of disk divisions on the laptop.
> > >
> > > Any help would be wonderful.
> > > Blake
> > >
> >
> > The Ubuntu installation is very easy and required minimal involvement
> and
> > knowledge, It will automatically partition your hard drive leaving your
> > Windows partitions intact and duplicate over setting, bookmarks, emails
> and
> > documents to your ubuntu partition if you so wish.
> >
> > I'd give it a try and ask about any problems you have (if you encounter
> > them) after.
> >
> > George
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> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:11:42 +0100
> From: "Dan Attwood" <danattwood at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Help
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> I was trying to help Blake with this install at the klug meet andactually
> there's a big issue with this install that would make automatic
> partitioning
> a bad idea.
>
> Currently the disk is deviding into two partions that take up the whole
> disk- a C: and D: (as an extended partion) drive and he wished to use the
> free space on the C: drive in order to install ubuntu.
>
> So we fired up QTparted, as it's always easier to do fiddly partitioning
> with a gui. We then shrunk the C: drive giving us some free space.
> Next up was to create a 1 gig swap partion - no problems
> We then went to create our / partion and qtparted refused due to the
> number
> of extended partions.
> To cut a long story short i think the only way we could have done it was
> to
> shrink the c: partion, create a swap partition, grow the exteneded partion
> into the free space, then shrink the D: drive and use the free space for
> the
> / partition.
>
> On the basis he hadn't got a backup there was no way i was going to carve
> his disk up so much as although qtparted is preety damm god there is
> always
> a chance things might go wrong.
>
> the only other option was a wubi instal, but as noone at the meeting had
> an
> experience od wubi we decided that was a bad idea as well.
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> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:52:46 +0100
> From: Kevin Groves <kgroves at ksoft-creative-projects.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] March Dover Meeting Synopsis
> To: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> Yes I was going to ask if any of the presentations can be uploaded as I
> didnt note down the interesting sites Dan mentioned. BTW I've had a look
> at Google Cal and in the US at the moment they are providing text reply
> to add events. Only a matter of time before it hits here I think.
>
> Kev
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> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:56:39 +0100
> From: Kevin Groves <kgroves at ksoft-creative-projects.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Help
> To: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> Yes Blake did mention that to me. I'm just the other side of town so I
> can pop round sometime in the next couple of weeks or so.
>
> Email me Blake off list and we can arrange something. It's quite handy
> having someone around for a problematic first install. If it goes badly
> wrong it could put you off.
>
> Kev,
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:57:51 +0100
> From: Kevin Groves <kgroves at ksoft-creative-projects.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Tech Talk
> To: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> Yes. Didnt get much of a chance to talk but plenty of chances another
> time.
>
> Kev
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