On 01/05/12 00:10, David Smith wrote:
At the risk of someone having had a similar problem, I'm struggling
to install Ubuntu on my desktop. My netbook accepted Xubuntu
absolutely fine, and I am getting to grips it. My desktop however
won't accept Ubuntu x86.
I have tried with a CDROM and
On May 1, 2012 12:10 AM, David Smith d...@p3computers.com wrote:
At the risk of someone having had a similar problem, I'm struggling to
install Ubuntu on my desktop. My netbook accepted Xubuntu absolutely fine,
and I am getting to grips it. My desktop however won't accept Ubuntu x86.
I have
Figured it out for myself!! Took a guess on it needing the proprietary nvidia
drivers.
With some trial and error, booted to recovery mode, enabled networking, ran the
dpkg fixer (forget the exact name it gave it) which also applied all updates,
dropped into a command prompt, and used
On 01/05/12 21:13, David Smith wrote:
Now without getting drawn in to a huge debate about Unity, I'm going to see how
to disable it tomorrow and have something resembling 10.10. But I want to add
my two cents. You wouldn't use a smartcar to plough a field, You wouldn't use
a tractor for
Hello David and Barry
I'd just say 'give it a try' as well. Unity is actually pretty good with
a keyboard as well. If you have a screen that is 768px or more high then
try pressing and holding the Super/Windows key to see the keyboard
shortcuts.
In the Ubuntu 11.10 release, it took me about
On 01/05/12 21:48, kpb wrote:
I'd just say 'give it a try' as well. Unity is actually pretty good
with a keyboard as well. If you have a screen that is 768px or more
high then try pressing and holding the Super/Windows key to see the
keyboard shortcuts.
Hey thanks! I hadn't discovered that
On 1 May 2012 21:58, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:
On 01/05/12 21:48, kpb wrote:
I'd just say 'give it a try' as well. Unity is actually pretty good with
a keyboard as well. If you have a screen that is 768px or more high then
try pressing and holding the Super/Windows key to
Now without getting drawn in to a huge debate about Unity, I'm going to see
how to disable it tomorrow and have something resembling 10.10. But I want
to add my two cents. You wouldn't use a smartcar to plough a field, You
wouldn't use a tractor for city-driving. What works on a
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On 01/05/12 13:13, David Smith wrote:
What works on a touchscreen portable device does not work on a
desktop. Is the Windows 8 Metro UI going to divide MS users as
much as Unity has divided Ubuntu users?
Have you tried Unity on a touchscreen
On 1 May 2012 21:13, David Smith d...@p3computers.com wrote:
Now without getting drawn in to a huge debate about Unity, I'm going to see
how to disable it tomorrow and have something resembling 10.10. But I want
to add my two cents. You wouldn't use a smartcar to plough a field, You
At the risk of someone having had a similar problem, I'm struggling to install
Ubuntu on my desktop. My netbook accepted Xubuntu absolutely fine, and I am
getting to grips it. My desktop however won't accept Ubuntu x86.
I have tried with a CDROM and unetbootin, with the live CD and with the
On 10 September 2010 12:08, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
On 10.04 Gwibber has suddenly started opening the add account window
spontaneously whether Gwibber is running or not. Anyone else getting this?
Please don't hijack other threads. Start a new message to
ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com if you
Hi
I tried to install from CD on a machine running Windows 7 Enterprise.
I booted from the CD and told the installer to use the entire disk.
However when it came to creating the partitions and formatting them I
got a message that it could not mount the swap space. I tried this a
couple of times
On 10.04 Gwibber has suddenly started opening the add account window
spontaneously whether Gwibber is running or not. Anyone else getting this?
On 10/09/10 11:53, Jon Farmer wrote:
Hi
I tried to install from CD on a machine running Windows 7 Enterprise.
I booted from the CD and told the
That sound like something being able to create an ext3 partition on an NTFS+
partition, but not swap. You might need to size and format the partitions
manually.
s/
On 10 Sep 2010 11:53, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote:
Hi
I tried to install from CD on a machine running Windows 7 Enterprise.
On 10 September 2010 12:18, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
That sound like something being able to create an ext3 partition on an NTFS+
partition, but not swap. You might need to size and format the partitions
manually.
Hi
I tried that, I deleted all partitions and then setup
2008/11/16 Louis Gidney [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[snip]
The pgp is Pretty Good Privacy, it's a way of
encrypting stuff,
I don't need to encrypt anything because there is
nothing confidential on my computer, and I am the
only user. If it's causing trouble, is it possible
to remove it?
Hi
Hi Neil,
Thank you for your email, in which you explain gpg.
Aha! Yes, sounds good to me,
A couple of questions:-
Is it in operation all the time -for example if I make a purchase
online by credit card -or only for detecting authenticity of
downloaded Ubuntu upgrades? Do I need to switch it on
Dear Matthew,
(responses interspersed below)
You wrote:
I'm traveling tomorrow however I'll take a look at this when I reach
my destination if no-one else has leapt in.
Don't let this spoil your weekend.
I am an oldie nowadays, in retirement.
This IS important to me, but not so urgent.
Hi Louis,
Quoting Louis Gidney [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dear Matthew,
(responses interspersed below)
You wrote:
I'm traveling tomorrow however I'll take a look at this when I reach
my destination if no-one else has leapt in.
Don't let this spoil your weekend.
I am an oldie nowadays, in
The following problems were found on your system:
E: Sub-process gpgv returned an error code (2)
W: Signature verification failed
for:/media/cdrecorder/dists/hardy/Release.gpg
If you are installing from a boot CD you have burnt from a fresh download
into a newly formatted partition, it won't know about the old installation
until it looks to configure Grub (I think), so it must be either the CD, or
a hardware issue that is stopping it.
As Lee suggests, the first thing
[ Added later:
I've just thought: I suppose ONE WAY OF ADDRESSING THIS
is to ask the question: How would I install Ubuntu from
the CD if the machine had nothing at all on it? (ie: no
earlier version of Unbuntu; no MS Windows; not even DOS)
but just a new empty 80GB HD (unfortunately formatted
Hi Lou
Yes, the PC should boot from the CD and give you a menu. One option will be
to run ubuntu without installing, next will be to install, then I think
there's a memory test and a disk check option, may be another one or two
options but I can't remember now.
If you don't see the menu, the CD
Louis,
If it's booting from the CD, you should see a pretty Ubuntu logo and a
small menu, something like - Install/try Ubuntu, test this CD, test the
memory in this machine, etc.
If you're not seeing this then, its not booting from the CD. Either the
CD is not right or the BIOS options aren't
Hello,
After losing my Ubuntu 8.04 setup owing one of
my two hard drives failing, I have just started
the process of installing a freshly downloaded
v8.04 which I hope to put in an empty partition
(already formatted ext3) on my remaining 80GB drive.
I'm pretty confident that the CD is sound,
Quoting Louis Gidney [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello,
After losing my Ubuntu 8.04 setup owing one of
my two hard drives failing, I have just started
the process of installing a freshly downloaded
v8.04 which I hope to put in an empty partition
(already formatted ext3) on my remaining 80GB drive.
Replying to : Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
(Greetings from Ardnamurchan Peninsula, Scottish Highlands)
Dear Matthew,
Thank you for your prompt reply to my plea for help.
I've done:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude upgrade
as you suggested.
Something called postgresql-8.1 seems to
Hi Louis,
Quoting Louis Gidney [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Replying to : Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
(Greetings from Ardnamurchan Peninsula, Scottish Highlands)
Dear Matthew,
Thank you for your prompt reply to my plea for help.
I've done:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude upgrade
as you
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:34 +0100, Douglas Campbell wrote:
Dear all Ubuntu users
I am an otherwise happy user working on my PhD. I am trying to download
some packages for the R statistics program but come up with the
following messages:
trying URL
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