Re: New Ubuntu PC

2011-09-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Colin Campbell c...@shaw.ca To: lilypond-devel@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 5:58 PM Subject: Re: New Ubuntu PC On 11-09-10 10:32 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca To: Phil

Re: New Ubuntu PC

2011-09-10 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca To: Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net Cc: Devel lilypond-devel@gnu.org Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 6:00 PM Subject: Re: New Ubuntu PC On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 05:37:03PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: I've got 2 disks

Re: New Ubuntu PC

2011-09-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 05:32:07PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: I've now followed the instructions for downloading the source and the needed programs from the CG. When I run configure, it says that I need to install fontforge. Is this done with Synaptic, or is it better to use apt, or is there

Re: New Ubuntu PC

2011-09-10 Thread Colin Campbell
On 11-09-10 10:32 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca To: Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net Cc: Devel lilypond-devel@gnu.org Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 6:00 PM Subject: Re: New Ubuntu PC On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 05:37:03PM

Re: New Ubuntu PC

2011-09-10 Thread Peekay Ex
Hello, On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Colin Campbell c...@shaw.ca wrote: VBox also allows you to share folders between the real and virtual machines, but I believe that is only for local folders, not networked Correct. From the VBox help: Shared folders must physically reside on the host

New Ubuntu PC

2011-09-09 Thread Phil Holmes
As I've already discussed with Graham and James, I've just taken delivery of a new PC, and have now loaded Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit onto it. It all seems to be working OK, and it boots in about 10 seconds! I've got 2 disks in it - the main one is a standard SATA drive with the OS on it. The

Re: New Ubuntu PC

2011-09-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 05:37:03PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: I've got 2 disks in it - the main one is a standard SATA drive with the OS on it. The other one is an 80 GByte SSD (solid state disk) that I bought with the intention of using as my data disk, so that compiles, etc., use the fastest