Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot: XP partiton question

On 13 March 2014 18:55, SuperEngineer wrote: > I also have the original on original disk in remnants of old machine - > still working - as fail safe backup. Might even try running from that > disk in this pooter some day. For now though, it's my safe store. ;) Ah! Well, if you don't mind re-co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot: XP partiton question

On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 13:11 +, Liam Proven wrote: > Secondly, don't try to boot the VM off a disk partition. Image the > disk partition into a file, then use that file as your virtual disk. > Much much safer, and also, when you get the VM configured to use the > virtual emulated hardware, you w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot: XP partiton question

On 12 March 2014 19:42, SuperEngineer wrote: > As an aside [& to continue with the original mail] > I have just finished a build of my own desktop pc [started with a > Zoostorm cheapo and replaced/added/donated some parts from old pc - an > ageing Dell Dimension]. > The original XP partition i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot: XP partiton question

On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 22:51 +, Simon Greenwood wrote: > Here's a method from Virtualbox themselves: > https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows, but from experience > it's > not that easy even when virtualising on the same hardware. > Thanks for the quick reply Simon. I'll give it a try

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot: XP partiton question

On 12 March 2014 19:42, SuperEngineer wrote: > As an aside [& to continue with the original mail] > I have just finished a build of my own desktop pc [started with a > Zoostorm cheapo and replaced/added/donated some parts from old pc - an > ageing Dell Dimension]. > The original XP partition

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot: XP partiton question

As an aside [& to continue with the original mail] I have just finished a build of my own desktop pc [started with a Zoostorm cheapo and replaced/added/donated some parts from old pc - an ageing Dell Dimension]. The original XP partition is now on the my sda as sda1. No surprise, but XP won't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

On 11/03/14 07:08, Neil Greenwood wrote: > > > On 10 March 2014 16:38:47 GMT, Daniel Llewellyn > wrote: > > On 10 March 2014 16:38, Daniel Llewellyn > wrote: > > dpkg -l | grep '^i' > > -- > > dpkg -l (lowercase L) lists all packages tha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

On 11 March 2014 07:08:03 GMT, Neil Greenwood wrote: > > >On 10 March 2014 16:38:47 GMT, Daniel Llewellyn >wrote: >>On 10 March 2014 16:38, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: >> >>> dpkg -l | grep '^i' >>> >>> -- >>> >>> dpkg -l (lowercase L) lists all packages that are installed or >>otherwise >>> know

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

On 10 March 2014 16:38:47 GMT, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: >On 10 March 2014 16:38, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: > >> dpkg -l | grep '^i' >> >> -- >> >> dpkg -l (lowercase L) lists all packages that are installed or >otherwise >> known to the system (such as those packages you've removed but not >purged

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

Thanks for the information, more thanks for the detailed explanation @google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with you! sent from my HTC. On Mar 10, 2014 4:39 PM, "Daniel Llewellyn" wrote: > dpkg -l | grep '^i' > > -- > > dpkg -l (lowercase L) lists all packages that are insta

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

dpkg -l | grep '^i' -- dpkg -l (lowercase L) lists all packages that are installed or otherwise known to the system (such as those packages you've removed but not purged). To filter the list to just installed packages we pipe the output (that's the | character which is shift+\) to grep which chec

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

On 10 March 2014 16:38, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: > dpkg -l | grep '^i' > > -- > > dpkg -l (lowercase L) lists all packages that are installed or otherwise > known to the system (such as those packages you've removed but not purged). > To filter the list to just installed packages we pipe the outpu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

On 9 March 2014 17:04, Nigel Verity wrote: > The big day has arrived. I'm in a position to finish with all this dual-boot > nonsense and give my Dell laptop entirely over to Xubuntu. If I use GParted > to delete the 2 partitions used by Windows 7, and then resize the Linux > partition, it strikes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

On 09/03/14 17:04, Nigel Verity wrote: The big day has arrived. I'm in a position to finish with all this dual-boot nonsense and give my Dell laptop entirely over to Xubuntu. If I use GParted to delete the 2 partitions used by Windows 7, and then resize the Linux partition, it strikes me that G

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/14 17:51, John Oliver wrote: > > On 09/03/14 17:34, Peter Smout wrote: > >> For future reference is there a command to list installed packages? >> the one thing I need to make new installs easy!! >> > I think > http://askubuntu.com/questions

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

On 09/03/14 17:34, Peter Smout wrote: For future reference is there a command to list installed packages? the one thing I need to make new installs easy!! I think http://askubuntu.com/questions/17823/how-to-list-all-installed-packages would be useful to read for that, but I would also do a s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/14 17:14, Jim Price wrote: > On 09/03/14 17:04, Nigel Verity wrote: >> Hi >> >> The big day has arrived. I'm in a position to finish with all >> this dual-boot nonsense and give my Dell laptop entirely over to >> Xubuntu. If I use > GParted >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

On 09/03/14 17:04, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi The big day has arrived. I'm in a position to finish with all this dual-boot > nonsense and give my Dell laptop entirely over to Xubuntu. If I use GParted > to delete the 2 partitions used by Windows 7, and then resize the Linux partition, it strikes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/14 17:04, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > The big day has arrived. I'm in a position to finish with all this > dual-boot nonsense and give my Dell laptop entirely over to Xubuntu. If > I use GParted to delete the 2 partitions used by Windows 7,