[ubuntu-uk] Dual booting Windows 8.1 woth Ubuntu 13.10

2013-11-06 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Hi! Having problems with this. Machine is Lenovo U410 with UEFI and Intel Rapid Start. Installing 13.04 works fine - sees the Windows OS as per normal and allows installing into the prepared free space. If I try to install 13.10, it doesn't detect Windows 8.1 at all. I'm reluctant to proceed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual booting Windows 8.1 woth Ubuntu 13.10

2013-11-06 Thread Colin Law
On 6 November 2013 11:53, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Having problems with this. Machine is Lenovo U410 with UEFI and Intel Rapid Start. Installing 13.04 works fine - sees the Windows OS as per normal and allows installing into the prepared free space. If I try to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual booting Windows 8.1 woth Ubuntu 13.10

2013-11-06 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/11/2013 12:10, Colin Law wrote: On 6 November 2013 11:53, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Having problems with this. Machine is Lenovo U410 with UEFI and Intel Rapid Start. Installing 13.04 works fine - sees the Windows

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual booting Windows 8.1 woth Ubuntu 13.10

2013-11-06 Thread Dave Morley
On 06/11/13 12:16, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 06/11/2013 12:10, Colin Law wrote: On 6 November 2013 11:53, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Having problems with this. Machine is Lenovo U410 with UEFI and Intel Rapid Start. Installing 13.04 works fine - sees the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual booting Windows 8.1 woth Ubuntu 13.10

2013-11-06 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
On 6 November 2013 12:27, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/11/2013 12:20, Dave Morley wrote: However you could do better diagnosis by logging into the live desktop session and see for example what drives are visible

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual booting Windows 8.1 woth Ubuntu 13.10

2013-11-06 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/11/2013 14:04, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: On 6 November 2013 12:27, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/11/2013 12:20, Dave Morley wrote: However you could do better

[ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-06 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, I have been keen on the idea of the Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu for some time, and finally decided to get together with some folk and do something about it. So we are doing a crowd funding indiegogo thing to raise money to build a cluster of Pi devices that will be tasked with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 1000 commands

2013-11-06 Thread Avi Greenbury
Alan Jenkins wrote: Shell scripts and aliases are the way to go for common commands. What on earth are you using more than a 1000 commands in your history for? I recommend making yourself aliases and scripts for your most used commands which you should be able to discern from your history

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 1000 commands

2013-11-06 Thread Alan Jenkins
There is no problem with keeping a lengthy history per se, just sometimes those commands are often variations on the same thing in which case you may be better off creating scripts and aliases to save yourself time and effort. Always seek quicker and easier ways to do things as it makes your life

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-06 Thread Barry Drake
On 06/11/13 20:12, Alan Bell wrote: I have been keen on the idea of the Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu for some time, and finally decided to get together with some folk and do something about it. So we are doing a crowd funding indiegogo thing to raise money to build a cluster of Pi devices that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-06 Thread Alan Bell
On 06/11/13 20:50, Barry Drake wrote: On 06/11/13 20:12, Alan Bell wrote: I have been keen on the idea of the Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu for some time, and finally decided to get together with some folk and do something about it. So we are doing a crowd funding indiegogo thing to raise money

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-06 Thread Nigel Verity
Alan I'm all for maximising the choice of OS that can be run on a Pi, but your Indigogo pitch doesn't make clear what advantages Ubuntu server with no desktop will bring, compared to the existing Debian derivative which already provides LXDE. The pitch also gives the impression that if it does

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-06 Thread Alan Bell
from the pitch . . . Rasbian is a great operating platform for it, the LXDE desktop is fine, the Wayland demo was brilliant and loads of cool projects are happening based on the Pi. We still want Ubuntu on it though. We are using it in embedded projects, it is also turning up in things like

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-06 Thread Dan Fish
I think another aspect that should not be ignored is the potential roadmap for such arm devices. Admittedly I'm not aware of the Raspberry Pi's future direction, but in general more and more such arm devices seem to be in the offing. The raspberry pi itself has captured a stunningly large

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-06 Thread Andres
I recently heard more about beagle bone in FLOSS weekly. Doesn't beagle bone support ubuntu for a number of years now? Similar price, better hardware and a bit more open source? What makes the pi so special? I thought it was the educational aspect of it. If it is for server, why not beagle bone?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-06 Thread Alan Bell
On 06/11/13 22:19, Dan Fish wrote: I think another aspect that should not be ignored is the potential roadmap for such arm devices. Admittedly I'm not aware of the Raspberry Pi's future direction, but in general more and more such arm devices seem to be in the offing. The raspberry pi itself

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-06 Thread Alan Bell
On 06/11/13 22:26, Andres wrote: I recently heard more about beagle bone in FLOSS weekly. Doesn't beagle bone support ubuntu for a number of years now? Similar price, better hardware and a bit more open source? yes, that is a good platform too. What makes the pi so special? I thought it was

[ubuntu-uk] Printing a photo album without SAAS

2013-11-06 Thread Andres
Hello, I was thinking of doing a photo album and then having it printed at my local reprographics shop. All of it avoiding SAAS and using free libre open source software (floss). How would you go about it? Use something like digikam in combination with scribus? Regards, Andres -- Enviado

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 1000 commands

2013-11-06 Thread Alan Lord
On 06/11/13 20:23, Alan Jenkins wrote: There is no problem with keeping a lengthy history per se, just sometimes those commands are often variations on the same thing in which case you may be better off creating scripts and aliases to save yourself time and effort. Always seek quicker and easier