Re: [ubuntu-uk] Haynes Manual for Ubuntu!

2011-03-10 Thread alan c
On 10/03/11 14:03, John MM wrote: Ok, having looked though this book, I have its amazing. Clear, easy to understand, and it has pictures. The best thing I am liking is the command line stuff, some things I dont know, and its making it easier to understand, so thanks for posting this to the list.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Haynes Manual for Ubuntu!

2011-03-10 Thread John MM
Ok, having looked though this book, I have its amazing. Clear, easy to understand, and it has pictures. The best thing I am liking is the command line stuff, some things I dont know, and its making it easier to understand, so thanks for posting this to the list. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot

2011-03-10 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 12:39 +, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: > My setup has always been grub on mbr and grub on /boot for each > installation. Either way is pretty simple, the only difficulty I can > forsee is if you change the kernel on one of the installs that doesn't > handle the grub inst

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot

2011-03-10 Thread bodsda
My setup has always been grub on mbr and grub on /boot for each installation. Either way is pretty simple, the only difficulty I can forsee is if you change the kernel on one of the installs that doesn't handle the grub install, then you won't be able to boot to the new kernel until grub is upda

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Haynes Manual for Ubuntu!

2011-03-10 Thread John MM
On 08/03/11 20:47, Colin Law wrote: On 8 March 2011 13:01, alan c wrote: I have just purchased a Haynes Manual for Ubuntu! 'Everything you need to get started with Ubuntu Linux' Very neat. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linux-Manual-Mike-Saunders/dp/1844259706/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=12995891

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot

2011-03-10 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 10/03/11 09:51, Matthew Daubney wrote: Hello, I'm looking at quad booting my laptop (Win 7, Ubuntu (dev), debian(stable) and LFS) and wondered if it was possible to use a shared /boot partition across the 3 linux distros. The main reason for doing so would be so that everything is more tidy,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot

2011-03-10 Thread Grant Sewell
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:51:04 + Matthew Daubney wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking at quad booting my laptop (Win 7, Ubuntu (dev), > debian(stable) and LFS) and wondered if it was possible to use a > shared /boot partition across the 3 linux distros. The main reason for > doing so would be so tha

[ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot

2011-03-10 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hello, I'm looking at quad booting my laptop (Win 7, Ubuntu (dev), debian(stable) and LFS) and wondered if it was possible to use a shared /boot partition across the 3 linux distros. The main reason for doing so would be so that everything is more tidy, but also to reduce wasted space! Any advice