Re: [ubuntu-uk] Error report not working

2012-05-12 Thread scoundrel50a
Had another crash today, and went through the crash process, but in the crash box that appears you hit the submit button, it just stops, so I used the command ubuntu-bug colord which seemed to work, as I managed to enter the crash in launchpad, but I am now getting crashes of different things

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mounting NFS shares permanently

2012-05-12 Thread mac
On 12/05/2012 00:08, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: I don't have the same setup, but perhaps my notes can help... Thanks for going to the trouble of making suggestions about this problem. It's good of you to spend time on it. Does your NAS only support NFSv3? I doubt the NFS version is the

[ubuntu-uk] Precisely as a child...

2012-05-12 Thread Bill Baker
Some comparisons... I decided to have a 2nd computer child - I called it Precise [my first (Lucid) has grown up left home - though still has a room in my house (or hard disk as some call it)]. Many said it was too early but I went ahead. The child was premature -the specialists said it was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Precisely as a child...

2012-05-12 Thread Isabell Long
On 12 May 2012, at 11:07, Bill Baker boo...@gmail.com wrote: Some comparisons... The style and creativity made me smile a lot. Brilliantly expressed. :-) Isabell. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mounting NFS shares permanently

2012-05-12 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:52:10AM BST, mac wrote: But the problem is not that I'm locked out of the shares: rather it's that 'mount.nfs' appears to think that rpc.statd is not running (which can't depend on what's in hosts.deny/allow, can it???). I'd start with blank hosts.{allow,deny} to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mounting NFS shares permanently

2012-05-12 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-05-12 10:52, mac wrote: Does your NAS only support NFSv3? I doubt the NFS version is the issue: I've got four 10.04 systems mounting these same NFS shares at startup perfectly correctly. I asked that because the Ubuntu Setup guide I linked to refers to NFSv4. If you follow that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Precisely as a child...

2012-05-12 Thread Bill Baker
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 11:26 +0100, Isabell Long wrote: On 12 May 2012, at 11:07, Bill Baker boo...@gmail.com wrote: Some comparisons... The style and creativity made me smile a lot. Brilliantly expressed. :-) Isabell. Isabell, Thank you. Much appreciated. It took some time to get

[ubuntu-uk] dual boot problem

2012-05-12 Thread Norman Silverstone
I have a new PC with two HDDs and I am trying to install Windows and Ubuntu on one of the drives keeping the other for data and so on. In the past I have dual booted many machines without any difficulty but this is the first time I have tried with a machine with 2 drives and there are problems.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot problem

2012-05-12 Thread Barry Drake
On 12/05/12 17:38, Norman Silverstone wrote: I have a new PC with two HDDs and I am trying to install Windows and Ubuntu on one of the drives keeping the other for data and so on. In the past I have dual booted many machines without any difficulty but this is the first time I have tried with a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot problem

2012-05-12 Thread Andy Braben
On 12 May 2012 18:39, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote: I have a new PC with two HDDs and I am trying to install Windows and Ubuntu on one of the drives keeping the other for data and so on. In the past I have dual booted many machines without any difficulty but this is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot problem

2012-05-12 Thread Norman Silverstone
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 18:47 +0100, Andy Braben wrote: On 12 May 2012 18:39, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote: I have a new PC with two HDDs and I am trying to install Windows and Ubuntu on one of the drives keeping the other for data and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot problem

2012-05-12 Thread Andy Braben
On 12 May 2012 19:42, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote: On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 18:47 +0100, Andy Braben wrote: On 12 May 2012 18:39, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote: I have a new PC with two HDDs and I am trying to install Windows and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot problem

2012-05-12 Thread Barry Drake
On 12/05/12 18:39, Norman Silverstone wrote: Barry, I would be most grateful if you could point me in the right direction. I know that one of the options is to do something else. I have looked at that where the drives are listed but I am uncertain what to do thereafter. Norman Got a lot to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot problem

2012-05-12 Thread alan c
On 12/05/12 21:04, Norman Silverstone wrote: big snip Andy, all I know is that if there is one drive and the installer is instructed to install along side Windows, then the installer partitions the drive accordingly and gets on with the