Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot

2007-11-28 Thread Keith Gregory
norman wrote: >> Yes, you should be able to set the cd drive as slave and hard drive as >> master. > > Now that's very encouraging but would I still be able to setup Grub as > has been previously indicated? > > Norman > > > There are little gizzmos about that convert an IDE drive to SATA, I h

[ubuntu-uk] Error Message when updating

2007-11-27 Thread Keith Gregory
I install 7.10 on this laptop a few weeks ago and have not touched it since. Tonight on starting up I used Synaptic Package Manager to get the updates and received the following error message; E: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy_main_i18n_Translation-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot

2007-11-27 Thread Keith Gregory
norman wrote: > Sorry to keep labouring the point but, please, to avoid total confusion > which do I make the master, Ubuntu or Windows? > > Norman > > The easiest way is to make windows the master, Ubuntu the slave kfg -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot

2007-11-27 Thread Keith Gregory
Keith Gregory wrote: > norman wrote: > >> Thanks every one for being so helpful I will try things, hopefully, >> tomorrow and will report back. Incidentally, does it matter which drive >> the end of the cable is connected to? >> >> Norman >> >&g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot

2007-11-27 Thread Keith Gregory
norman wrote: > Thanks every one for being so helpful I will try things, hopefully, > tomorrow and will report back. Incidentally, does it matter which drive > the end of the cable is connected to? > > Norman > > Normally The primary drive is on the end, secondary in the middle. Here,s a bit

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot

2007-11-27 Thread Keith Gregory
norman wrote: > < big snip > > > So, things are not as simple as I first thought. The thing is, the hard > drive I am thinking of adding is from my old machine and has Windows XP > already installed on it. Does this make much of a difference to the > advice so far given? > > Norman > > The way