[Hampshire] [Fwd: [Leicester] Call for volunteers for the Linux Gazette]

I forward this from the leicester lug: This looks like a worthy cause, hope you find it useful? alan cocks Original Message From: - Thu Jun 4 16:39:15 2009 [snip] From: Steve Brown steve.stevebr...@gmail.com To: Leicester Linux User Group Mailing List

[Hampshire] Install Ubuntu from USB HDD

Hi all I've followed [1] to the letter but not able to boot any of my machines from a portable 80gb USB HDD. Can anyone see where I might have gone wrong please? One area where I'm concerned is presumably the BIOS has to be set to boot from USB - but the only USB options I'm getting on

Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009/6/4 Vic l...@beer.org.uk: I just build everything excetp /boot into LVM these days. It makes life a lot easier when dealing with customers who have completely misunderstood how they're going to use their box... I do that too - because I never know how *I* want to use the box :p Anton --

Re: [Hampshire] Install Ubuntu from USB HDD

2009/6/4 Paul Stimpson p...@stimpsonfamily.co.uk: Hi, Does your machine have an F-key that produces a boot menu? I think it's F12 on my Dell and F9 on our works HPs. I sometimes find devices show up in the boot menu that aren't candidates for autobooting. There is also an option in the