[Nottingham] Nottingham Digest, Vol 373, Issue 5

Wed Dec 8 13:57:06 UTC 2010

My experience with the Ubuntu Live CD is that it'll mount & use any existing
swap partition.

HTH,

Dan

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Iain dimmock <iainpfx at gmx.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello
>
> as far as I know live cd runs in RAM, sorry cant be much more help
>
> Iain
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 13:03:30 +0000 (GMT)
> > Von: Barry Allen <barry_a_14 at yahoo.co.uk>
> > An: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Betreff: Re: [Nottingham] Nottingham Digest, Vol 373, Issue 5
>
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I'm starting to think it may be a hardware problem too. Does the live CD
> > create a temp file on the hard disk to use a bit like swap space? I
> noticed
> > my hard disk light was running when I tried to boot from the live CD.
> Could
> > be just checking what hardware is available but noticed it was on during
> > the startup until it shutdown again.
> >
> > I got hold of a copy of the new knoppix 6.4 by buying a linux mag (linux
> > user I think) but no joy same as Ubuntu 8.04. it is a double sided DVD
> and
> > has fedora 14 on the other side so will give it a try too.
> >
> > Thanks for the help Duncan. Will keep you informed.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > --- On Wed, 8/12/10, nottingham-request at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> > >    2. [apache... wave] (Sergiusz Pawlowicz)
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> > > Message: 1
> > > Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:38:06 +0000
> > > From: Duncan Fyfe <djf at star.le.ac.uk>
> > > Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Nottingham Digest, Vol 373, Issue
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> > > To: Notts GNU/Linux Users Group <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> > > Barry Allen wrote:
> > > > Hi Guys,
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for more suggestions and I'll try them as
> > > soon as I can. Only problem now is the PC is "initiating
> > > shutdown" about a minute after it says its starting up. This
> > > happens both when booting from the live CD and the hard
> > > disk.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks to all who have helped out and I'll keep you
> > > informed of my progress once I get my over-sized paper
> > > weight to boot.
> > > >
> > > hmmm, this is beginning to sound like a hardware problem.
> > > It would be worth trying a different distro live CD (eg.
> > > Fedora core 14).
> > > All distros modify the vanilla linux kernel.
> > > Sometimes, if you are
> > > unlucky (and I have been), they do something that goes
> > > horribly wrong
> > > on your hardware.  Since different distros patch the
> > > kernel differently
> > > it is worth trying one to see if that overcomes the
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > Have fun,
> > > Duncan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------------------
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> > > Message: 2
> > > Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:50:59 +0000
> > > From: Sergiusz Pawlowicz <sergiusz at pawlowicz.name>
> > > Subject: [Nottingham] [apache... wave]
> > > To: "Notts GNU/Linux Users Group" <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> > > It's official: Google Wave is now Apache Wave.
> > >
> > > http://mashable.com/2010/12/06/apache-wave/
> > >
> > > S.
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