Re: [ubuntu-uk] Off topic - UK vendor cheeplinux?

2010-09-15 Thread Sean Miller
No new products appear to have been added since 12th March. http://www.cheeplinux.com/products_new.php?osCsid=d69e9d0a2d0a72b040628960c8fd8886 Sounds to me like they've gone bust :-( Not the news you want to hear, but in order to strike off a company you need to have been dormant for 6 months, w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Off topic - UK vendor cheeplinux?

2010-09-15 Thread Paul Tansom
** alan c [2010-09-15 22:32]: > About 3 weeks ago I ordered a few items (a couple of legacy logo > Ubuntu mugs and various stickers) from www.cheeplinux.com. I have > purchased from them in the distant past and expected no problem. The > site says that most purchases will be dispatched next da

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Jacob Mansfield
surely I could just put the live CD onto my working ubuntu desktop and do a PXE boot to it On 15 September 2010 19:17, Liam Proven wrote: > On 15 September 2010 15:40, Rowan Berkeley > wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 15:15:24 +0100, Liam Proven > > wrote: > >> On 15 September 2010 14:04, Jaco

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Liam Proven
On 15 September 2010 15:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 15:15:24 +0100, Liam Proven > wrote: >> On 15 September 2010 14:04, Jacob Mansfield >> wrote: >> > I just type where it puts the curser by default, I can type where I >> > like. yes I did try with a USB cd drive and if you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Jim Price
On 15/09/10 16:22, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > I couldn't see the option to install inside windows, anything else I could > try, other than using PXE I have managed to install on a machine which had similar issues to yours by adding an entry to the boot.ini to point to a linux loader (grub4dos I th

[ubuntu-uk] Off topic - UK vendor cheeplinux?

2010-09-15 Thread alan c
About 3 weeks ago I ordered a few items (a couple of legacy logo Ubuntu mugs and various stickers) from www.cheeplinux.com. I have purchased from them in the distant past and expected no problem. The site says that most purchases will be dispatched next day, although this is not item specific.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I couldn't see the option to install inside windows, anything else I could try, other than using PXE On 15 September 2010 15:42, Alan Pope wrote: > On 15 September 2010 15:40, Rowan Berkeley > wrote: > >> Aand *that* is right where I stop trying to offer any help or > >> guidance. HAND. Goo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Alan Pope
On 15 September 2010 15:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote: >> Aand *that* is right where I stop trying to offer any help or >> guidance. HAND. Goodbye. > > Is there something we can do to persuade you to stop contributing to > this list altogether, Liam? If so, please let us know and we shall be > only

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 15:15:24 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > On 15 September 2010 14:04, Jacob Mansfield > wrote: > > I just type where it puts the curser by default, I can type where I > > like. yes I did try with a USB cd drive and if you actualy read my > > posts rather than yelling at my gramm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Glen Mehn
On 15/09/10 14:39, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > I agree, I have tried all of the boot options with both USB memory > stick and cdrom pluged in, still nothing, but I do have ubuntu on it > at the moment > Hi Jacob, I apologise for not realising this sooner-- Matt's pointed out that the bios on you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Liam Proven
On 15 September 2010 14:04, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > I just type where it puts the curser by default, I can type where I like. > yes I did try with a USB cd drive and if you actualy read my posts rather > than yelling at my grammer will know that I did try with a USB memory stick Aand *that*

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I agree, I have tried all of the boot options with both USB memory stick and cdrom pluged in, still nothing, but I do have ubuntu on it at the moment On 15 September 2010 14:07, Matthew Daubney wrote: > > > On 15 September 2010 10:36, Matthew Daubney > > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2010-09-1

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Matthew Daubney
> On 15 September 2010 10:36, Matthew Daubney > wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:53 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > > the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot > > > Did you have a bootable USB stick in at the time? It will o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I just type where it puts the curser by default, I can type where I like. yes I did try with a USB cd drive and if you actualy read my posts rather than yelling at my grammer will know that I did try with a USB memory stick On 15 September 2010 13:51, Liam Proven wrote: > On 15 September 2010 09

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 13:49 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > yep, I used the usb disk creator on my desktop with the nbr image > > On 15 September 2010 10:36, Matthew Daubney > wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:53 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > > the F12 options are PCM

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Liam Proven
On 15 September 2010 09:53, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot Please don't top-quote on this (or any other) mailing list. Your reply should go /under/ the text to which you're responding. You do realise that it won't show options that aren't the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Jacob Mansfield
yep, I used the usb disk creator on my desktop with the nbr image On 15 September 2010 10:36, Matthew Daubney wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:53 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > > the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot > > Did you have a bootable USB stick in at the time?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:53 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot Did you have a bootable USB stick in at the time? It will only show you what it detects (and the standard CDROM/Hard disk thing) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO

2010-09-15 Thread Mary Mooney
On 15 September 2010 10:00, Yorvyk wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:10:46 +0100 > Mark Harrison wrote: > >> > From: Jacob Mansfield >> > of corse you can do it in OO, why the f**k would you want to use M$ >> >> >> Couple of things: >> >> 1: I've not used MS Office for about 5 years now, however t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO

2010-09-15 Thread Yorvyk
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:10:46 +0100 Mark Harrison wrote: > > From: Jacob Mansfield > > of corse you can do it in OO, why the f**k would you want to use M$ > > > Couple of things: > > 1: I've not used MS Office for about 5 years now, however the one time I > needed to was in 2007 for a really c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Jacob Mansfield
the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot On 15 September 2010 08:33, Glen Mehn wrote: > On 15/09/10 07:30, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > >> what's that ment to do >> >> Hi Jacob, > > That should, I assume, bring up the boot menu, which means you should be > able to boot to a USB s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO

2010-09-15 Thread Simon Greenwood
I think you can do it but it would involve setting up the spreadsheet as a data source, which isn't transparent in my experience, but can be done with a bit of head scratching and judicious Googling. s/ On 15 Sep 2010 09:11, "Mark Harrison" wrote: > From: Jacob Mansfield > of corse you can do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO

2010-09-15 Thread Alan Pope
On 15 September 2010 09:10, Mark Harrison wrote: > 1: I've not used MS Office for about 5 years now, however the one time I > needed to was in 2007 for a really complex mailmerge, which is one area > where MSO is still better than OOo :-( > I once made the mistake of saying on a LUG mailing list

[ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO

2010-09-15 Thread Mark Harrison
> From: Jacob Mansfield > of corse you can do it in OO, why the f**k would you want to use M$ Couple of things: 1: I've not used MS Office for about 5 years now, however the one time I needed to was in 2007 for a really complex mailmerge, which is one area where MSO is still better than OOo :-(

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Glen Mehn
On 15/09/10 07:30, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > what's that ment to do > Hi Jacob, That should, I assume, bring up the boot menu, which means you should be able to boot to a USB stick. The thing is, when you run via WUBI, you run in a container on an NTFS filesystem. That may sound like gobbledyg