Re: [ubuntu-uk] On giving people Ubuntu to try.

2011-06-14 Thread Liam Proven
On 13 June 2011 22:57, Phill Whiteside wrote: > hiyas, > Crikey... a 250MB usb hard drive? Please let me have some more details as > the lowest we can get Lubuntu down to as a full install is 2.7GB on Hard > Disk - I am sure JM would love to have a look at it. > Regards, > Phill. :) I am guessing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] On giving people Ubuntu to try.

2011-06-13 Thread Phill Whiteside
hiyas, Crikey... a 250MB usb hard drive? Please let me have some more details as the lowest we can get Lubuntu down to as a full install is 2.7GB on Hard Disk - I am sure JM would love to have a look at it. Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Martin Houston wrote: > > I have a cou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] On giving people Ubuntu to try.

2011-06-13 Thread Dave Hanson
Martin, I like you enthusiasm. I am planning to distribute a usb based Ubuntu distro to Leeds Met University with an Oracle XE installation on as the admin there don't trust the students to have full admin rights themselves. I shall mention your speed thoughts and report back, it is obviously not

[ubuntu-uk] On giving people Ubuntu to try.

2011-06-13 Thread Martin Houston
I have a couple of old Thinkpad T43s that a friend gave to me thinking that he had killed them with a faulty USB device. A bit of googling and a 'deep reset' restored them both to life much to my friends consternation. I offered them him back but was given permission to keep them :) Neithe