Re: make information for installing Ubuntu from a USB flash drive easily accessible

2008-04-20 Thread Jerone Young
I think what he means is adding a page that is easily accessible to you know .. the average guys. These are not on any of the offical pages. Would be nice (and probably more environmental friendly) if more users knew that you could use a USB key to install. I personally took the time to do it

Re: make information for installing Ubuntu from a USB flash drive easily accessible

2008-04-20 Thread Onno Benschop
On 20/04/08 15:36, Jerone Young wrote: I think what he means is adding a page that is easily accessible to you know .. the average guys. These are not on any of the offical pages. Would be nice (and probably more environmental friendly) if more users knew that you could use a USB key to

Re: make information for installing Ubuntu from a USB flash drive easily accessible

2008-04-20 Thread Paulus Esterhazy
Alexander van Loon schrieb: Please make information for installing Ubuntu from a USB flash drive easily accessible. I agree that this is important. Installation from USB pen drives has been a curiously neglected installation method, given that it doesn't require a blank cd, or an optical drive

Re: make information for installing Ubuntu from a USB flash drive easily accessible

2008-04-20 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
The page is right here. It just needs to be linked to on the main download page so users know it exists. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 15:55 +0800, Onno Benschop wrote: On 20/04/08 15:36, Jerone Young wrote: I think what he means is adding a

Hardy abnormal disk use on battery

2008-04-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Hi all! I noticed that on Hardy, when (and only when) my laptop is on battery, the hard disk makes a sound every second or so, and never stops, even when no application is running but the desktop. atop reports this is pdflush that is writing something to the disk, but I could not identify why.

Re: Hardy abnormal disk use on battery

2008-04-20 Thread Jerone Young
Hmm..this is a guess...I have a feeling this is the new indexing search (tracker) feature at work (which I personally hate.. but it's a feature somebody is using). In your task bar you should see a magnifying glass (usually orange on the inside). In right click on it to find prefrences. You see a

Re: Hardy abnormal disk use on battery

2008-04-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 20 avril 2008 à 15:11 -0500, Jerone Young wrote: Hmm..this is a guess...I have a feeling this is the new indexing search (tracker) feature at work (which I personally hate.. but it's a feature somebody is using). In your task bar you should see a magnifying glass (usually orange on

Re: make information for installing Ubuntu from a USB flash drive easily accessible

2008-04-20 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
Mackenzie Morgan pisze: The page is right here. It just needs to be linked to on the main download page so users know it exists. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick Then file a bug about it against ubuntu-website -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## #

Re: Hardy abnormal disk use on battery

2008-04-20 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
Milan Bouchet-Valat pisze: Hi all! I noticed that on Hardy, when (and only when) my laptop is on battery, the hard disk makes a sound every second or so, and never stops, even when no application is running but the desktop. atop reports this is pdflush that is writing something to the disk,

Re: Hardy abnormal disk use on battery

2008-04-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 20 avril 2008 à 23:11 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: Do you have laptop mode enabled? My guess is that it might be the (in)famous bug 59695. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 No, it's a fresh install without any tweak. But my guess would rather be that the bug I experience