Re: [ubuntu-in] Some help in the USA

2008-07-15 Thread alfred tims
Hi Ramnarayan, My reply gives you another alternative(initially), which is much simpler and will serve your purpose perfectly well, that too in a very short while ! That is, your friend could access his ext3 HD from windows and work on it as well. Here is how you go about it - 1. Download and in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Some help in the USA

2008-07-15 Thread Parthan SR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We tried to search for Linux / LUG at Williams Town but did not get any > usable results. > > *But* if some one can help us find a GNU/Linux friend in or near > Williams Town we will be very grateful. > > help will me much appreciated > I wonder how you missed it if yo

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 8.4.1

2008-07-15 Thread Ramnarayan . K
Thanks a tonne Onkar. And i still won't be ordering any :-) ram On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ah yes, >> >> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:57 PM, alfred tims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

[ubuntu-in] Some help in the USA

2008-07-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi A friend of mine is going to the US - Williams College, Mass. US. He uses Linux but has had help to set everything up - all. His current laptop broke down some months back and since he has been operating of an external Hard Disk formatted to ext3. The university of Williams Town , who are pro

Re: [ubuntu-in] Unable to log in normal Ubuntu account

2008-07-15 Thread tabankg
Thank You very much Friends!!! I must particularly pay thanks to alfred,by whose suggestion I ran the command "sudo chmod 666 /dev/null",on the console screen (in text mode),and after that I could easily log onto my normal Ubuntu-8.04 account as "kgnile",without any hassles. Thank you once

Re: [ubuntu-in] Unable to log in normal Ubuntu account

2008-07-15 Thread tabankg
Sorry Friends!!! I had inadvertently mentioned *ttyS1* instead of *ttyp1*(CONSOLE Screen) in my letter.Please forgive me for this error. I had created a root account in Ubuntu-8.04(GNU/Linux) shell,by "passwd root" command in # while logging in as the root account in text format,by logging in throu

Re: [ubuntu-in] Canonical store delivers?

2008-07-15 Thread Jayanth S
Sorry to TOP Post.. I got the same message the first time.. then I wrote to canonical with a request for explaination and they verified that it was genuine.. Then my orders were successful.. Jayanth On 7/15/08, Vishal Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Has anyone ordered anything off sho

[ubuntu-in] Canonical store delivers?

2008-07-15 Thread Vishal Rao
Hi, Has anyone ordered anything off shop.canonical.com and gotten it successfully delivered to your place in India? A few months ago I tried ordering with my credit card which was accepted but soon cancelled and refunded with a reason given as "possible credit card fraud" :-) This time I plan to

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 8.4.1

2008-07-15 Thread Onkar Shinde
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah yes, > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:57 PM, alfred tims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> " nothing can be built perfect, and shipit cannot possibly throw away >> all the cd'roms burnt after the first release - so that

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 8.4.1

2008-07-15 Thread Ramnarayan . K
Ah yes, On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:57 PM, alfred tims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > " nothing can be built perfect, and shipit cannot possibly throw away > all the cd'roms burnt after the first release - so that they can > provide 'you and me' with totally bugfree ubuntu installation cds " > > ah,