[ubuntu-uk] FOSS at the Festival Of Thrift

2015-09-20 Thread Barry Titterton
Hi All, This is an open invitation for all members who are in the north east next weekend (26th and 27th) to come along to the Festival of Thrift at Darlington. http://www.festivalofthrift.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USYouXPBttI The festival celebrates recycling and up-cycling so a fr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Twin DVD drives not mounting

2015-09-20 Thread Colin Law
On 20 September 2015 at 13:04, David Goldsbrough wrote: > ... > It was > then I discovered my previous installation had not recognised my twin DVD > drives as I was unable to burn the ISO image after download. If you remove the extra fstab entries and reboot and plug in an already burnt dvd does

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Twin DVD drives not mounting

2015-09-20 Thread Tony Pursell
Hi David I'm not a big expert on these things. Here are a few ideas. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. First of all. I must say that I'm not sure what your problem is. You don't usually need an entry in fstab to mount DVDs. On my PC a pre-recorded CD or DVD just gets mounted autom

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Twin DVD drives not mounting

2015-09-20 Thread peter maddison
Hi David, To find out what drives are connected you should type, in terminal (whichever type you're using) ' *sudo blkid*' and that should come up with something like... pooky2483@pooky2483-Kubuntu-1404-LTS:~$ *sudo blkid* /dev/sda1: UUID="a4cc9e70-36d1-4dcd-ad90-ec5c2aaf4b51" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sd

[ubuntu-uk] Twin DVD drives not mounting

2015-09-20 Thread David Goldsbrough
About 2 months ago I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a win vista machine that was lying a little idle. One reason for this was the large screen attached to it and my failing eyesight at the time. I now know that was a little futile of a reason. My eyesight deteriorated significantly afterwards to the po