Re: [ubuntu-uk] creation of a dual boot desktop from scratch

2007-09-27 Thread Sakjur
You should certanly let the computer use Ubuntu only... all the good things are for Ubuntu, Firefox, GIMP, UrT... :P My teacher don't allow me to write more.. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] creation of a dual boot desktop from scratch

2007-09-27 Thread rosemurgy
Thank-you folks for so many quick replies and the quality of your advice. I'll certainly take it on board. Fi -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] creation of a dual boot desktop from scratch

2007-09-27 Thread Tony Arnold
Fi, On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 20:02 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So now I'd like to put ubuntu onto the desktop and give it to my mum. > She's a complete computing novice but as I'm going to be helping her & > I think she'd be better off learning to use ubuntu than windows. I'd > like to also in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] creation of a dual boot desktop from scratch

2007-09-27 Thread Chris Jones
Hi Adam Bagnall wrote: > In Feisty and later you can get away without the fat32 partition. If you In gutsy (beta is out today) ntfs write support is enabled by default afaik. Cheers, -- Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canonical.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] creation of a dual boot desktop from scratch

2007-09-27 Thread Adam Bagnall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A few months ago my desktop pc died and I replaced it with a cheap > laptop (windows XP) and even cheaper desktop (no OS installed). I > replaced the OS on the laptop with ubuntu 6.10 and it's been great. So > much so that I never got around to doing anything with the des

Re: [ubuntu-uk] creation of a dual boot desktop from scratch

2007-09-27 Thread Alec Wright
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 20:02 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought I'd install XP first (the online tutorials I've found seem > to assume that windows is installed before creating a dual build > machine - which is logical enough as so many are sold with it > pre-installed) and create partions

Re: [ubuntu-uk] creation of a dual boot desktop from scratch

2007-09-27 Thread Matthew Wild
On 9/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A few months ago my desktop pc died and I replaced it with a cheap > laptop (windows XP) and even cheaper desktop (no OS installed). I > replaced the OS on the laptop with ubuntu 6.10 and it's been great. So > much so that I never got aro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] creation of a dual boot desktop from scratch

2007-09-27 Thread gord
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 20:02 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought I'd install XP first (the online tutorials I've found seem > to assume that windows is installed before creating a dual build > machine - which is logical enough as so many are sold with it > pre-installed) and create partions

[ubuntu-uk] creation of a dual boot desktop from scratch

2007-09-27 Thread rosemurgy
A few months ago my desktop pc died and I replaced it with a cheap laptop (windows XP) and even cheaper desktop (no OS installed). I replaced the OS on the laptop with ubuntu 6.10 and it's been great. So much so that I never got around to doing anything with the desktop at all. So now I'd like to