Re: [Hampshire] suse 10.3 and grub not updating

2008-10-14 Thread john
I use SUSE on all my computers. SUSE has installed on all of them with no problem except for one. On this computer there is a problem with the motherboard and which hard disk decides to boot up first. Go into the BIOS and look to see if you modify which IDE port can be booted. If you can

[Hampshire] ?on topic, ?OT? Synaptic/apt/repository problems

2008-10-14 Thread Lisi
i have a problem with Synaptic on a new install of PCLinuxOS MiniMe 2008. Initially both Synaptic worked fine. Then it worked fine most of the time, and I was able to use apt-get when it didn't. I moved it and Synaptic and apt-get started to break down. First I couldn't reload/update - on

Re: [Hampshire] ?on topic, ?OT? Synaptic/apt/repository problems

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 18:48:15 +0100, Lisi wrote: First I couldn't reload/update - on either, saying that the repositories were inaccessible. So of course I couldn't load any software. Please show us what you tried, and what error you received. apt-get should be simplest, if you run:

Re: [Hampshire] Basic kernel question

2008-10-14 Thread Richard Danter
2008/10/13 Rob Malpass [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Forgive the ignorance - I'm a bit tired (young child teething these last few nights). Trying to work out whether I did install a 64 bit kernel on a box I've not played with in months. I've done uname -a and I get 686 as part of the returned string

[Hampshire] Quick question - How easy is it to install Linux on macbook mini?

2008-10-14 Thread Becky Taylor
Hello Everyone, I was considering saving for a mac mini, but if I can't install linux on it I'm out. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere a while back that you can install linux on a mac, but I've been searching the web, and can't find anything much on it. Does anyone know a) How easy it is

Re: [Hampshire] Quick question - How easy is it to install Linux onmacbook mini?

2008-10-14 Thread Becky Taylor
Hi again I meant the mac mini, not the macbook Becky -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] trouble after memory upgrade

2008-10-14 Thread Vic
What are the latencies of the different sticks? I can get that from the Crucial site for the new ones. Don't know if I can tell for the old ones. I suspet this could be the issue...? Very likely. Without seeing the kit in question, one can only guess - but my guess is that the memory timings

Re: [Hampshire] Basic kernel question

2008-10-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
2008/10/14 Richard Danter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/10/13 Rob Malpass [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Forgive the ignorance - I'm a bit tired (young child teething these last few nights). Trying to work out whether I did install a 64 bit kernel on a box I've not played with in months. I've done uname -a

Re: [Hampshire] ?on topic, ?OT? Synaptic/apt/repository problems

2008-10-14 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 18:50:39 Steve Kemp wrote: On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 18:48:15 +0100, Lisi wrote: First I couldn't reload/update - on either, saying that the repositories were inaccessible. So of course I couldn't load any software. Please show us what you tried, and what error

Re: [Hampshire] trouble after memory upgrade

2008-10-14 Thread Victor Churchill
2008/10/13 Paul Stimpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Hi Paul, Does your motherboard accept different RAM types and are the old and new stcks different? Don't know about the mobo's preferences. The new old sticks have the same connector keyslot layout (obviously...) ; they have some visual

Re: [Hampshire] suse 10.3 and grub not updating

2008-10-14 Thread Vic
Are you saying that in the new grub menu.lst is replaced with grub.cfg? On my (WBEL) system, menu.lst is a symlink to grub.conf. They are the same thing... I also had trouble with the naming of drives changing which caused great confusion. Could either of those be your problem? I not sure