Re: [ubuntu-uk] for the record

2007-12-07 Thread Chris Rowson
Don't forget crossover linux folks, If, at the end of the day, people don't want to use OO then you don't have to use Windows to run Microsoft Office :-) Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] for the record

2007-12-07 Thread alan c
Andrew Jenkins wrote: > norman wrote: >> Some time ago, my wife had a new computer and insisted that she >> wanted Windows instead of Ubuntu. Much of her usage was word >> processing and she found it difficult to get to grips with Open >> Office (I don't know why) or so she said. 30 minutes ago she

Re: [ubuntu-uk] for the record

2007-12-06 Thread Tony Arnold
Andrew, Andrew Loughran wrote: > Andrew Jenkins wrote: >> norman wrote: >> >>> Some time ago, my wife had a new computer and insisted that she wanted >>> Windows instead of Ubuntu. Much of her usage was word processing and she >>> found it difficult to get to grips with Open Office (I don't kno

Re: [ubuntu-uk] for the record

2007-12-06 Thread Rob Beard
Steve Flynn wrote: > On Dec 6, 2007 3:02 PM, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Sounds astonishingly like my mother and her recent experiences with >>> Vista. I'm scheduled to install a flavour of Linux on her machine >>> (dual boot) over Christmas to give her a taster. >> As she already has Vis

Re: [ubuntu-uk] for the record

2007-12-06 Thread Rob Beard
norman wrote: > Some time ago, my wife had a new computer and insisted that she wanted > Windows instead of Ubuntu. Much of her usage was word processing and she > found it difficult to get to grips with Open Office (I don't know why) > or so she said. 30 minutes ago she said to me "D... it! I am f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] for the record

2007-12-06 Thread Andrew Loughran
Andrew Jenkins wrote: > norman wrote: > >> Some time ago, my wife had a new computer and insisted that she wanted >> Windows instead of Ubuntu. Much of her usage was word processing and she >> found it difficult to get to grips with Open Office (I don't know why) >> or so she said. 30 minutes ag

Re: [ubuntu-uk] for the record

2007-12-06 Thread Andrew Jenkins
norman wrote: > Some time ago, my wife had a new computer and insisted that she wanted > Windows instead of Ubuntu. Much of her usage was word processing and she > found it difficult to get to grips with Open Office (I don't know why) > or so she said. 30 minutes ago she said to me "D... it! I am f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] for the record

2007-12-06 Thread norman
> > Install from the Live CD onto a new partition (created with PartEd). > > Grub will detect the existing installation and build and entry into > > the menu for Vista. > > > > That should pretty much be it. > > Addendum - I'll document anything which crops up (and how I fixed it > or not) if you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] for the record

2007-12-06 Thread Steve Flynn
On Dec 6, 2007 3:38 PM, Steve Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 6, 2007 3:02 PM, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Sounds astonishingly like my mother and her recent experiences with > > > Vista. I'm scheduled to install a flavour of Linux on her machine > > > (dual boot) over Chr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] for the record

2007-12-06 Thread Steve Flynn
On Dec 6, 2007 3:02 PM, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sounds astonishingly like my mother and her recent experiences with > > Vista. I'm scheduled to install a flavour of Linux on her machine > > (dual boot) over Christmas to give her a taster. > > As she already has Vista installed on he

Re: [ubuntu-uk] for the record

2007-12-06 Thread norman
> Sounds astonishingly like my mother and her recent experiences with > Vista. I'm scheduled to install a flavour of Linux on her machine > (dual boot) over Christmas to give her a taster. As she already has Vista installed on her machine how do you intend to go about the dual boot? Norman --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] for the record

2007-12-06 Thread Steve Flynn
On Dec 6, 2007 2:17 PM, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some time ago, my wife had a new computer and insisted that she wanted > Windows instead of Ubuntu. Much of her usage was word processing and she > found it difficult to get to grips with Open Office (I don't know why) > or so she said. 30

[ubuntu-uk] for the record

2007-12-06 Thread norman
Some time ago, my wife had a new computer and insisted that she wanted Windows instead of Ubuntu. Much of her usage was word processing and she found it difficult to get to grips with Open Office (I don't know why) or so she said. 30 minutes ago she said to me "D... it! I am fed up with all these b