Ubuntu 12.10, separate drive to Win - manual partitioning, feedback please

2013-02-23 Thread David
Hi, I've googled and read, and again, and as a newbie to partitioning am going to take the plunge and install Ubuntu 12.10 by partitioning manually during install. Please let me know what you think of the following: I have Windows already on sdc, plus a free 500Gb hdd (sdb) for extra storage,

Re: Ubuntu 12.10, separate drive to Win - manual partitioning, feedback please

2013-02-23 Thread bevin_watson
A couple of little thoughts. Are you sure Windows is on sdc?  Windows tends to get pretty upset if it isn't on partition 1, disk 1.30 Gig sounds like a lot for /home, but remember that by defaults all your video, pictures, music and downloads will try and land there.I'm afraid I can't help with

Re: PDF printing problem

2013-02-23 Thread Geoffrey Wilfred Combes
Thanks Jarrod for the advice. I tried another viewing program but the result was precisely the same as I have described. However there is a simple way around the problem which I have used before but which I had forgotten about. It is: Open GIMP and import. From 'Print Image Settings' open the

Re: PDF printing problem

2013-02-23 Thread Jared Norris
On 24 February 2013 14:54, Geoffrey Wilfred Combes gcomb...@bigpond.comwrote: Thanks Jarrod for the advice. I tried another viewing program but the result was precisely the same as I have described. However there is a simple way around the problem which I have used before but which I had

Re: live-CD environment, online banking

2013-02-23 Thread Jared Norris
On 24 February 2013 08:19, David ag...@justemail.net wrote: Hi, is Firefox in the live-CD environment ('try out Ubuntu') equally as secure for online banking as in a normal full installation? Thanks Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com

Fwd: Re: Ubuntu 12.10, separate drive to Win - manual partitioning, feedback please

2013-02-23 Thread David
Thanks Bevin. There's the 2TB drive listed as dev/sdc, then dev/sdc1 listed as 'Windows boot loader', and then dev/sdc2. The 2TB Windows drive was put in the computer first and the 1.5 TB drive for Ubuntu was added later. In Windows disk management the 2TB drive is listed as disk0, then the 500Gb