Re: [Dorset] XP on Ubuntu

2010-06-01 Thread Andrew Drapper
Thanks John, I have found a thread about logos in wine, but do not understand much of it. I have copied the most informative bit below. Hi Michael, there is a lng thread on here about Logos and Linux. Here's the main breakdown. Logos 3 is based heavily

Re: [Dorset] XP on Ubuntu

2010-06-01 Thread Simon O'Riordan
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 13:10 +0100, Andrew Drapper wrote: >1. I have in the past had a number of pre-installed pc with XP, but >only restore CD's I can probably find the COA Is there anyway to use these? >2. Do I need a full XP CD? Any ideas on where to get them. Ebay has many >that

Re: [Dorset] XP on Ubuntu

2010-06-01 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 01/06/10 16:52, Terry Coles wrote: > On Tuesday 01 Jun 2010, Andrew Drapper wrote: > >> But I think I am going to have to be a little unfaithful again. I need to >> use a programme that I do not believe will work in wine, (logos 4), so I am >> thinking of runing a virtual XP install using Su

Re: [Dorset] XP on Ubuntu

2010-06-01 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday 01 Jun 2010, Andrew Drapper wrote: > But I think I am going to have to be a little unfaithful again. I need to > use a programme that I do not believe will work in wine, (logos 4), so I am > thinking of runing a virtual XP install using Sun VirtualBox. I have three > questions. Are you

Re: [Dorset] XP on Ubuntu

2010-06-01 Thread Andrew Drapper
Thanks Robert, It looks like all my old disks are ghost CD's I have re-built me PC, the only thing original is the case and the CD/DVD drive. So I feel ok to call myself a hardware constructor. So OME would be fine. Thanks again. Andrew Drapper On 1 June 2010 13:38, Bronsdon wrote: > On T

Re: [Dorset] XP on Ubuntu

2010-06-01 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:10:29 +0100, Andrew Drapper wrote: > 1. I have in the past had a number of pre-installed pc with XP, but > only restore CD's I can probably find the COA Is there anyway to use > these? The likely-hood is these keys are for an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer)

[Dorset] XP on Ubuntu

2010-06-01 Thread Andrew Drapper
Hi, I have been unfaithful to Ubuntu for a time as I have been working mostly on my Mac. oh Mac is nice, but it took a lot of learning as I moved over from Windows, only having dabbled with Ubuntu. That aside, I upgraded from Ubuntu 9 to 10.04 through the update manager, but was not really impres