[Dorset] Rebuild checklist

2013-10-24 Thread Peter Merchant
Hi, Does anybody have a checklist for rebuilding their linux installation? It is time to rebuild mine, which is dual boot XP and Kubuntu. I am in the process of backing up my data from the xp partition and my home area at the moment. Next is to make a list of my desired applications in kubu

Re: [Dorset] Rebuild checklist

2013-10-24 Thread Simon P Smith
On 24/10/2013 11:50, Peter Merchant wrote: > > Does anybody have a checklist for rebuilding their linux installation? > It is time to rebuild mine, which is dual boot XP and Kubuntu. > > Not a check list but I always keep a copy of configuration /etc etc. for reference. I also backup and reinstall

Re: [Dorset] Rebuild checklist

2013-10-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > Then I intend to repartition the disk to get rid of XP. Could the current partition layout not be edited to what you want with GNU PartEd running from a live USB distro? You'd still want to back-up beforehand in case it all goes wrong but it would save having to install Kubuntu. Che

Re: [Dorset] Rebuild checklist

2013-10-24 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Peter On 24/10/13 11:50, Peter Merchant wrote: Hi, Does anybody have a checklist for rebuilding their linux installation? It is time to rebuild mine, which is dual boot XP and Kubuntu. I keep a Wiki. I put some of it on the LUG Wiki a while back. Over time, I've found it better to keep s

Re: [Dorset] Rebuild checklist

2013-10-24 Thread Peter Merchant
On 24/10/13 12:12, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, Then I intend to repartition the disk to get rid of XP. Could the current partition layout not be edited to what you want with GNU PartEd running from a live USB distro? You'd still want to back-up beforehand in case it all goes wrong but it

Re: [Dorset] Rebuild checklist

2013-10-24 Thread Simon P Smith
On 24/10/2013 12:41, Peter Merchant wrote: > > > I would let the rebuild take over the entire disk as part of the job, > with a separate partition for /home and /swap You can defer use of the partition by using lvm and adding the XP partition as a new extent when you are done with it :-) BTW for

Re: [Dorset] Rebuild checklist

2013-10-24 Thread Rob Gilbert
Hi & hello Just joined the list so greetings to all. (will post a hello soon, boring you all the my vitals) If you want to backup the whole disk try clonzilla, booting from a CD/DVD you can clone the whole disk to an internal drive/USB HD/SMB share. Is fast and very reliable, only issue I hav

[Dorset] Client Side Scripting of Web Pages

2013-10-24 Thread Terry Coles
Hi All, Can anyone settle a short discussion that came up at work today? None of us write web pages for a living, but someone realised that we didn't really know how a browser knows what script language executable to run when an embedded script encountered. I said that the script tag include

Re: [Dorset] Client Side Scripting of Web Pages

2013-10-24 Thread Adrian Howard
It's basically javascript, unless you say otherwise. "type" was a required attribute until HTML 4. In HTML 5 it's option, and defaults to "text/javascript". Adrian On 24 October 2013 17:22, Terry Coles wrote: > Hi All, > > Can anyone settle a short discussion that came up at work today? > > None

Re: [Dorset] Client Side Scripting of Web Pages

2013-10-24 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 24 Oct 2013 17:31:59 Adrian Howard wrote: > It's basically javascript, unless you say otherwise. "type" was a > required attribute until HTML 4. In HTML 5 it's option, and defaults > to "text/javascript". Thanks. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Ku