Re: [Dorset] Xsane and Canon Lide 50 USB scanner

2009-12-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Clive, > > > Ubuntu 9.10 installed on new PC and Laptop up-dated, majority is > > > fine but problem with Xsane and my scanner. It worked OK under > > > 9.04 but not on 9.10, any ideas please? Sounds like https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/485551 Try without xsane.

Re: [Dorset] Xsane and Canon Lide 50 USB scanner

2009-12-05 Thread C A Wills
Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Clive, > >> Ubuntu 9.10 installed on new PC and Laptop up-dated, majority is fine >> but problem with Xsane and my scanner. It worked OK under 9.04 but >> not on 9.10, any ideas please? >> >> Details are: >> Xsane 0.996 >> sees scanner as Lide 50 with genesys:libusb:002

Re: [Dorset] One disk or two?

2009-12-05 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
Andrew Drapper wrote: > Oh and while I am on it does anyone have any suggestions for creating a > revisions backup of my documents? > > Have a look at rdiff-backup too. Plenty of info on Google. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Cha

Re: [Dorset] One disk or two?

2009-12-05 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:00:08 -, Andrew Drapper wrote: > Looking to put Ubuntu on a refurbished PC, Should I use a single > drive, obviously the easiest, or should I put the os and programmes on > one disc docks on another, That is a question only you can answer. From the sounds of it you

Re: [Dorset] One disk or two?

2009-12-05 Thread Dan Dart
You can split a disk so you can put documents on one partition and system files on another if you so wish. If you insist on using 2, you should be able to specify the second disk (sdb) as /home on install of UBuntu. For revision control I'd use Subversion or Git (there are many GUI front-ends, if y

[Dorset] One disk or two?

2009-12-05 Thread Andrew Drapper
Hi, Looking to put Ubuntu on a refurbished PC, Should I use a single drive, obviously the easiest, or should I put the os and programmes on one disc docks on another, and if so how do I re-address the file system to the second disk? Oh and while I am on it does anyone have any suggestions for cre

Re: [Dorset] Goodies for Reasons Harvest

2009-12-05 Thread Simon O'Riordan
I got it working over a week ago. Do try and keep up, Pike.:) - Original Message - From: "Dominic Lonsdale" To: "Dorset Linux User Group" Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [Dorset] Goodies for Reasons Harvest > Is this not getting a bit over complicated ? > > I ju

Re: [Dorset] Goodies for Reasons Harvest

2009-12-05 Thread Dominic Lonsdale
Is this not getting a bit over complicated ? I just made a bootable USB thumb drive (or flash drive or whatever they are called now) and plugged it in. Press ESC during BIOS stage and then select device to boot from. I have a bootable drive with Ubuntu loaded and can give it to you. Do you want

Re: [Dorset] Goodies for Reasons Harvest

2009-12-05 Thread Peter Washington
Hi Peter >> Simon O'Riordan wrote: >> > I've got the HP Mini with Suse, but there is(obviously) no optical drive. >> > How do you put 9.04 onto it? >> > >> I have done the installation of Ubuntu on my EeePC using a USB CD drive. >> Usually one connected via a USB <> ATA adapter. I'm surprised more

Re: [Dorset] Goodies for Reasons Harvest

2009-12-05 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 01:03 +, Andrew Morgan wrote: > Simon O'Riordan wrote: > > I've got the HP Mini with Suse, but there is(obviously) no optical drive. > > How do you put 9.04 onto it? > > > I have done the installation of Ubuntu on my EeePC using a USB CD drive. > Usually one connected