Re: Burning 8.04-2 Iso Problems.

2009-04-28 Thread chris dinneen
I have fixed this. Turns out there was a broken memory module. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Junin Toiro wrote: > Could always try the alternate disc. I had no problems with that one. > You can do a cli only install then once it's up and running grab the > server kernel. > > -- > Sam Jackson >

Burning 8.04-2 Iso Problems.

2009-04-19 Thread chris dinneen
Hi all, I am trying to install 8.04-2 on my server at home and I have run into some problems in burning/reading the disk. I downloaded the iso from the UWA mirror and checked the Md5 sum which was correct. I then burnt it to a cd at a slow speed (4x). Upon inserting the disk into my machine and

Re: NAS - recommendations please

2008-08-11 Thread chris dinneen
I have tried FreeNAS in the past with some success. I *would* recommend it for beginners as it has a web based GUI that allows you to set up samba, NFS and Apple shares very easily. It also supports nearly all RAID variants ( 0, 1, 5, JBOD, 5+0, 5+1, 0+1, 1+0, etc. ) and a host of other things (the

Re: Ubuntu on Dell laptops here in Aus?

2008-01-18 Thread Chris Dinneen
ok though. > > > --- > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:30:10 +1000, Chris Dinneen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I work in a Physics Department at a University and I helped one of the >> Grad students modify his Eee PC so we could install mathematica (the >> d

Re: Ubuntu on Dell laptops here in Aus?

2008-01-18 Thread Chris Dinneen
I work in a Physics Department at a University and I helped one of the Grad students modify his Eee PC so we could install mathematica (the default partition scheme is less than helpful). As a comparison of speed, our 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium Desktop took 3 times longer to calculate a series of 5