Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Linux Emporium website?

2014-02-14 Thread Pete Smout
@google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with you! sent from my HTC. On Feb 13, 2014 10:47 PM, Peter Maddison ponchorat1...@hotmail.com wrote: Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 22:05:55 + From: sfgreenw...@gmail.com To:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Linux Emporium website?

2014-02-14 Thread Peter Maddison
No need, my address is in the public domain, as seen on System76's website.https://www.system76.com/community/stickers/ (Scroll to the bottom) It is;Peter MaddisonThe BungalowBradley StreetDERBYDE22 1GL I also have a G+ account stating that I am UK's Ubuntu sticker

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Linux Emporium website?

2014-02-14 Thread alan c
On 13/02/14 17:43, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: BTW, it looks like the Linux Emporium website is back up. thanks! Why are they still advertising Ubuntu 11.10 on laptops for heavens sakes? I cannot in conscience link that site to would be Ubuntu novices saying it is a brilliant company (which I

[ubuntu-uk] Some installation pointers please

2014-02-14 Thread David Goldsbrough
My experience of installing Ubuntu is limited to either a full install on a virgin hard-disk or into a Win XP environment. I have been helping a friend recently with problems on their HP 64bit AMD laptop regarding user profiles, corrupt registry and AVG. Long story, short - all is now sorted.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Linux Emporium website?

2014-02-14 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 14/02/14 12:20, alan c wrote: On 13/02/14 17:43, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: BTW, it looks like the Linux Emporium website is back up. thanks! Why are they still advertising Ubuntu 11.10 on laptops for heavens sakes? I cannot in conscience link that site to would be Ubuntu novices

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some installation pointers please

2014-02-14 Thread Liam Proven
I will offer what guidance I can, but you leave a lot of blanks in your account and I cannot -- and dare not -- try to guess. On 14 February 2014 21:04, David Goldsbrough da...@boavon.plus.com wrote: My experience of installing Ubuntu is limited to [...] into a Win XP environment. Does that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some installation pointers please

2014-02-14 Thread Andres
Being a great believer in the adage you mustn't do anything that can't be easily undone and you must always have a credible reversion plan, I would welcome both a forward strategy and some detailed pointers on how I should proceed to achieve a duel-booting machine. I am very interested in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Linux Emporium website?

2014-02-14 Thread Andres
On 14 de febrero de 2014 21:19:59 GMT, Gordon Burgess-Parker gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk wrote: On 14/02/14 12:20, alan c wrote: On 13/02/14 17:43, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: BTW, it looks like the Linux Emporium website is back up. thanks! Why are they still advertising Ubuntu 11.10 on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some installation pointers please

2014-02-14 Thread George DiceGeorge
Im not an expert either! but... First backup everything to an external hard disk- you can do this by dragging from windows explorer. Before trying to install dualboot run gparted, partitioning from maybe system menu on live disk. Hopefully one of the partitions is huge with lots of spare

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some installation pointers please

2014-02-14 Thread Liam Proven
On 14 February 2014 22:02, George DiceGeorge dicegeo...@hotmail.com wrote: Im not an expert either! but... First backup everything to an external hard disk- you can do this by dragging from windows explorer. Before trying to install dualboot run gparted, partitioning from maybe system menu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some installation pointers please

2014-02-14 Thread James Morrissey
Hi David, You appear to have gotten a lot of info already. having chosen for it to install itself alongside Windows. I thought it would simply find the Windows partition and roughly half the available space still left on the drive. [Blink] You let it automatically partition on a machine