On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 13:30 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 28 May 2010 13:27, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> >
> > Surely that depends if you also want to use that image as an installer?
> >
>
> I guess. But that wasn't implied from the assertion made.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
I have a 16GB USB stick with one
On 28 May 2010 13:27, Matthew Daubney wrote:
>
> Surely that depends if you also want to use that image as an installer?
>
I guess. But that wasn't implied from the assertion made.
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On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 12:51 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 28 May 2010 12:34, John Stevenson wrote:
> > I also like Unetbootln, however if you want to create a peristent version of
> > Ubuntu ( to store additional files such as your documents, etc) then the
> > Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator should be
On 28 May 2010 12:34, John Stevenson wrote:
> I also like Unetbootln, however if you want to create a peristent version of
> Ubuntu ( to store additional files such as your documents, etc) then the
> Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator should be used.
>
I disagree. If you want a persistent version of Ubu
On 28 May 2010 09:15, Scrase, Eddie wrote:
>
>
> > Stick it in, reboot and you may need to invoke the BIOS or some other
> > boot menu to select the CD to boot from. Many computers ship with the
> > hard disk being the default boot device, and need to be tweaked to
> > boot from CD. Others have
> Stick it in, reboot and you may need to invoke the BIOS or some other
> boot menu to select the CD to boot from. Many computers ship with the
> hard disk being the default boot device, and need to be tweaked to
> boot from CD. Others have a menu which can be invoked with a single
> keypress at
On 27 May 2010 17:47, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> This Live CD sounds like an amazing box of tricks.
The Ubuntu Live CD has two main purposes. To allow new users to 'try'
Ubuntu and see if they like what they see, and secondly to install
Ubuntu onto a computer. A side benefit of it being a live envir
On 27 May 2010 17:47, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> ...
> This Live CD sounds like an amazing box of tricks. I shall have to run
> it just for an exploratory session. Presumably I can just stick it in,
> reboot, and see what happens. Thinking about it, it can't unmount the
> internal hard disk completel
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 12:24 +0100, Rowan Berkeley
wrote:
> Well, now I've got 10.04 installed (whatever my system monitor may
> think), and I have also got 10.04 on a Live CD. However, I do not
> see how I could run Gparted from the Live CD with my internal hard
> drive unmounted, because I inst
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 12:24 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> Well, now I've got 10.04 installed (whatever my system monitor may
> think), and I have also got 10.04 on a Live CD. However, I do not see
> how I could run Gparted from the Live CD with my internal hard drive
> unmounted, because I install
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 12:24 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> Well, now I've got 10.04 installed (whatever my system monitor may
> think), and I have also got 10.04 on a Live CD. However, I do not see
> how I could run Gparted from the Live CD with my internal hard drive
> unmounted, because I install
Well, now I've got 10.04 installed (whatever my system monitor may
think), and I have also got 10.04 on a Live CD. However, I do not see
how I could run Gparted from the Live CD with my internal hard drive
unmounted, because I installed Gparted on my internal hard drive, and I
imagine it is not pre
On 26 May 2010 16:45, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> Reminds me of a relative who phoned me a few years ago and complained
> his (Windows) PC wouldn't boot.
>
> What were you doing when you last used it?
> "Just deleting some files I never use"
> Like what?
> "command.com, something like that"
> You may ha
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 00:17 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> Open nautilus file manager and navigate to your home directory. Press
> CTRL+H to show hidden files. You'll notice they all start with a full
> stop. I'd recommend not monkeying with any of them :) Cheers, Al.
Too true, upwards of seventy fold
On 26 May 2010 15:12, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:46 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood
>> wrote:
>> > On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley
>> > wrote:
>> > > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney
>> >
>> > > wrot
Ar Mer, 2010-05-26 am 14:46 +0100, ysgrifennodd Rowan Berkeley:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood
> wrote:
> > On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley
> > wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >> This is an incredibly dangerous idea.
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 16:23 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> Open nautilus file manager and navigate to your home directory. Press
> CTRL+H to show hidden files. You'll notice they all start with a full
> stop. I'd recommend not monkeying with any of them :)
Reminds me of a relative who phoned me a few
On 26 May 2010 16:06, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> Really? I had no idea. That certainly makes all the difference. Maybe I
> should look for hidden files in my home directory, that might give me
> some idea of what they are.
Open nautilus file manager and navigate to your home directory. Press
CTRL+H
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 15:56 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> There are lots of files in your home directory and indeed elsewhere
> that get written to (and read from) whilst you're 'doing nothing'.
Really? I had no idea. That certainly makes all the difference. Maybe I
should look for hidden files in my
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:46 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood
> wrote:
> > On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley
> > wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >> This is an incredibly dangerous idea. When yo
On 26 May 2010 14:46, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> Quite so, but all the program files and associated data are in sda1,
> which remains mounted. The only things in the partitions that are being
> moved are the swap space and the user files. The swap space could
> certainly be called on while one was mo
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood
wrote:
> On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney
>
> > wrote:
> >> This is an incredibly dangerous idea. When you're mucking around
> >> with partitions it is very, _very_, UNsafe to h
On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney
> wrote:
>> This is an incredibly dangerous idea. When you're mucking around with
>> partitions it is very, _very_, UNsafe to have the _device_ mounted.
>> Having been building storage systems for the
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney
wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:35 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote:
> > The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an up to
> > date system, rather than an out-of-date livecd may be a better idea,
> > if purely for any bugfixes tha
e: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:50 +0100, Daniel Drummond
wrote:
> Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning
> here. The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an
> up to date system, rather than an out-of-date livecd may be a
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 16:11 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:50 +0100, Daniel Drummond
> wrote:
> > Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning
> > here. The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an
> > up to date system, rather than a
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:50 +0100, Daniel Drummond
wrote:
> Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning
> here. The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an
> up to date system, rather than an out-of-date livecd may be a better
> idea, if purely for any bugf
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:36 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> Hang it, I forgot to change the subject line yet again. This is such a
> nuisance.
>
>
If you go to the list below you can change the option from digest to all
mail (or something similar)
Then if you set TB or Evo group by threads it'll b
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On 25 May 2010 13:14, Andrew Turner wrote:
> I believe the live CD automatically mounts the swap partition on the
> hard drive, if one exists, so it will still need to be unmounted if
> you want to move it etc. At least, it used to.
>
This is true, but gparted wont let you monkey with it whilst
On 25 May 2010 13:06, Colin Law wrote:
> It won't be mounted, when you boot off the live CD nothing on your
> hard disk will be mounted. It will not be using the swap there. You
> can boot off the live CD with no disk at all, or even one with Windows
> on it!
>
> Colin
I believe the live CD au
On 25 May 2010 12:29, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law
> wrote:
>> Just to clarify to the OP, when a partition is moved using gparted the
>> data in the partition is moved with it, so this can be done without
>> affecting an existing system. It is always wise
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law
wrote:
> Just to clarify to the OP, when a partition is moved using gparted the
> data in the partition is moved with it, so this can be done without
> affecting an existing system. It is always wise to ensure backups are
> up to date before embarking
On 25 May 2010 11:06, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 10:34 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
>> At no point did I suggest reinstallation or 'destroying' anything. I'm
>> merely describing the process of _moving_ partitions around on the
>> disk, and expanding partitions to allow them to use
On 25 May 2010 11:06, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> Ah, right. For some reason I thought you were talking about reinstalling
> everything from scratch, from the Live CD. But if I have understood
> correctly, I can achieve my purposes without ever having to unmount
> sda1, which is the boot volume. I can
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 10:34 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> At no point did I suggest reinstallation or 'destroying' anything. I'm
> merely describing the process of _moving_ partitions around on the
> disk, and expanding partitions to allow them to use the newly
> available space made by deleting an un
On 25 May 2010 10:22, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 25 May 2010 10:02, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> ha, well, if there's no risk of imminent fatality, I shall do it at some
>> point. But why would I want to 'boot from a live Ubuntu CD'?
>
> Because the operation I described requires you to be changing data o
On 25 May 2010 10:02, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> ha, well, if there's no risk of imminent fatality, I shall do it at some
> point. But why would I want to 'boot from a live Ubuntu CD'?
Because the operation I described requires you to be changing data on
partitions that cannot be mounted whilst you
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 08:53 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> You could boot from a live Ubuntu CD and use gparted to:-
> Delete sda2 (the unwanted partition).
> Move sda3 down (to the left, nearer the start) of the disk
> Move sda4 down the disk
> Grow sda4 up the disk
> Grow sda5 inside sda4 up the disk
On 24 May 2010 18:00, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> I got several useful emails full of advice from Linux Emporium about the
> various partitions on my internal hard disk. Apparently the unused
> partition is there so that the user can install two operating systems
> side by side if they so wish. They s
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 00:19 +0100, Pallottini Aymeric
wrote:
> Hello Rowan, In GParted when creating the partition just make sure
> that you select linux-swap in the "format to" field. Once you have
> your new swap partition created you will need to update 2 files with
> the new volume UUID. You
I got several useful emails full of advice from Linux Emporium about the
various partitions on my internal hard disk. Apparently the unused
partition is there so that the user can install two operating systems
side by side if they so wish. They say I could dispense with this and
add it to my user s
On Sun, 23 May 2010 at 12:36 Daniel Drummond
wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2010 at 12:32, Rowan Berkeley
wrote:
> > I can't paste from the terminal.
> In the terminal use Ctrl-Shift-C to copy, after making a selection
> with the mouse. To paste into the terminal you can use Ctrl-Shift-V.
> That'll save
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was.
> > However, even if it turns out to be genuine idle space that I could
> > bring into use, merging it with the volume that is conf
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:32 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> > On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley
> > wrote:
> > > boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was.
> > > However, even if it turns out to be genuine idle space that
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was.
> > However, even if it turns out to be genuine idle space that I could
> > bring into use, merging it with the volume that is conf
On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was. However,
> even if it turns out to be genuine idle space that I could bring into
> use, merging it with the volume that is configured for user files (now
> about two-thirds full), as opposed
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 02:06 +0100, Mary Mooney
wrote:
> Why don't you call LE?
In fact, I did email them. I have another query for them, about the way
they have configured the Lenovo N500: While I was using Gparted to
format the external hard disk, I noticed a block of memory on the
internal hard
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Mary Mooney wrote:
> Why don't you call LE?
We generally encourage bottom-quoting on this list, by the way; your
reply should go *below* the cropped text of the message you're
replying to.
The thing that the OP may not realise is that normally there is no
accessi
Why don't you call LE?
On 20 May 2010 12:56, "Rowan Berkeley"
wrote:
Hi,
Having copied all the files from my external disk drive into onboard
memory, and checked that they are accessible and function normally, I
have created a new EXT3 file system on the external disk drive. There is
now nothin
On 21 May 2010 11:23, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On 20 May 2010 14:53, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 20 May 2010 14:30, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
>> > I've sorted it out, by running 'sudo nautilus', navigating to the
>> > disk, and changing the permissions to include myself.
>> Personally I wouldn't do that.
On 20 May 2010 14:53, Alan Pope wrote:
On 20 May 2010 14:30, Rowan Berkeley
wrote:
> > I've sorted it out, by running 'sudo nautilus', navigating to the
> > disk, and changing the permissions to include myself.
> Personally I wouldn't do that. I expect a further mail from you in 6
> months when
On 20 May 2010 14:30, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> I've sorted it out, by running 'sudo nautilus', navigating to the disk,
> and changing the permissions to include myself.
>
Personally I wouldn't do that. I expect a further mail from you in 6
months when something else breaks as a result of running n
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 14:04 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 20 May 2010 12:55, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > Hi, Having copied all the files from my external disk drive into
> > onboard memory, and checked that they are accessible and function
> > normally, I have created a new EXT3 file system on t
On 20/05/10 13:00, Alan Pope wrote:
> You pretty much never need to logon as root. You can 'become' root like with:-
>
> sudo -s
Hmmm, when I do this I tend to use
sudo -i
so you don't litter your homedir with root's environment nor vice versa.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6188826&pos
On 20 May 2010 12:55, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Having copied all the files from my external disk drive into onboard
> memory, and checked that they are accessible and function normally, I
> have created a new EXT3 file system on the external disk drive. There is
> now nothing on the externa
Hi,
Having copied all the files from my external disk drive into onboard
memory, and checked that they are accessible and function normally, I
have created a new EXT3 file system on the external disk drive. There is
now nothing on the external disk drive except an empty 'Lost and Found'
folder. Ho
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law
wrote:
> On 19 May 2010 11:38, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > On the Gparted display, all the volumes -- not just on the external
> > hard drive, but on the laptop's own drives -- are marked with little
> > keyrings. The menus for doing anything to any of
On 19 May 2010 11:38, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On the Gparted display, all the volumes -- not just on the external hard
> drive, but on the laptop's own drives -- are marked with little
> keyrings. The menus for doing anything to any of them, such as resizing
> etc., are greyed out. What do I need
Unmount the usb disk first. You can do that in gparted.
Al.
Sent from my phone. Sorry for top-posting and typos.
On May 19, 2010 11:38 AM, "Rowan Berkeley"
wrote:
On the Gparted display, all the volumes -- not just on the external hard
drive, but on the laptop's own drives -- are marked with
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 11:38 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On the Gparted display, all the volumes -- not just on the external hard
> drive, but on the laptop's own drives -- are marked with little
> keyrings. The menus for doing anything to any of them, such as resizing
> etc., are greyed out. Wha
On the Gparted display, all the volumes -- not just on the external hard
drive, but on the laptop's own drives -- are marked with little
keyrings. The menus for doing anything to any of them, such as resizing
etc., are greyed out. What do I need to do gain access to them? Thanks,
Rowan.
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On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 05:09 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> whoops, sorry, forgot to change the subject line in previous message.
>
>
What version of Ubuntu are you running it's been in since Karmic
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On 18/05/10 19:16, alan c wrote:
> On 18/05/10 18:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> If you want to work on your main (system) partition then it must not
> be running that is not mounted, that is, use a live CD or live usb
> with gparted such as parted magic.
>
Actually I've found an Ubuntu Live CD wo
On 18 May 2010 19:19, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> I always use the LiveCD - is it OK to use it while Ubuntu is running?
>
In this case yes because Rowan is resizing an external USB based
partition rather than the root one.
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On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 19:19 +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> I always use the LiveCD - is it OK to use it while Ubuntu is running?
>
> Dianne
>
Yes, but you won't be able to unmount the root partition to make any
changes to it.
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I always use the LiveCD - is it OK to use it while Ubuntu is running?
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On 18/05/10 18:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
> know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
> menus. Nor of course do I know how to use it. Is there a tutorial
> anywhere?
If you installed it from the re
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 19:01 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 18 May 2010 18:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> > I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
> > know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
> > menus. Nor of course do I know how to use it.
On 18 May 2010 18:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
> know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
> menus. Nor of course do I know how to use it. Is there a tutorial
> anywhere?
>
http://popey.blip.tv/file
On 18 May 2010 18:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
> know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
> menus. Nor of course do I know how to use it. Is there a tutorial
> anywhere?
System -> Administration
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Rowan Berkeley
wrote:
> I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
> know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
> menus. Nor of course do I know how to use it. Is there a tutorial
> anywhere?
Look under Syste
Hi,
I think it is in:
System --> Administration
otherewise you can run it from a Terminal window using the command:
gksudo gparted
Ciarán
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I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
menus. Nor of course do I know how to use it. Is there a tutorial
anywhere?
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