Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10 end of life today

2009-04-18 Thread mac
Philip Wyett wrote: Just an FYI. Ubuntu 7.10 reaches the end of it's support life today. If your still running it - Time to upgrade. :-) Upgraded my wife's Dell Ubuntu laptop from 7.10 to 8.04 last night without a hitch -- reminded me how impressive the Ubuntu distribution upgrade is.

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10 end of life today

2009-04-17 Thread Philip Wyett
Hi all, Just an FYI. Ubuntu 7.10 reaches the end of it's support life today. If your still running it - Time to upgrade. :-) http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.10-eol Regards Phil signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2008-04-29 Thread colum . phillips
Will try that, thanks Colum -Original Message- From: Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:19 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10 type sudo passwd then type in your USER password and then type

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2008-04-29 Thread colum . phillips
Thanks Paul I will give that a go. Regards Colum -Original Message- From: Paul Mellors [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:20 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10 On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 18:18 -0400, [EMAIL

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2008-04-28 Thread colum . phillips
Hi I have just installed and started using 7.10 so far it is very good and easy to use. I am having a problem, I want to login as root so that I can change the permissions on a hard drive. I have set a root password but it refuses to recognise it.? Any help would be gratefully received. I have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2008-04-28 Thread Sean Miller
type sudo passwd then type in your USER password and then type in the root password you want twice should sort it :-) Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2008-04-28 Thread Paul Mellors
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 18:18 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have just installed and started using 7.10 so far it is very good and easy to use. I am having a problem, I want to login as root so that I can change the permissions on a hard drive. I have set a root password but it refuses

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2008-04-28 Thread Philip Newborough
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have just installed and started using 7.10 so far it is very good and easy to use. I am having a problem, I want to login as root so that I can change the permissions on a hard drive. I have set a root password but it refuses

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2007-10-19 Thread Lucy
On 19/10/2007, Andrew Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/2007, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I have used Ubuntu since it started I have never tried it before installing. Please point me to where I can get instructions on how to do this. Norman Strangely I can't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2007-10-19 Thread Lucy
On 19/10/2007, Andrew Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/2007, Lucy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/2007, Andrew Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strangely I can't actually find a whole how to on the Internet. The Ubuntu Full Circle Magazine first issue contains a walkthrough on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2007-10-19 Thread Andrew Barber
On 19/10/2007, Lucy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/2007, Andrew Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/2007, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I have used Ubuntu since it started I have never tried it before installing. Please point me to where I can get instructions on

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2007-10-19 Thread norman
Although I have used Ubuntu since it started I have never tried it before installing. Please point me to where I can get instructions on how to do this. Norman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2007-10-19 Thread Steve Flynn
On 19/10/2007, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I have used Ubuntu since it started I have never tried it before installing. Please point me to where I can get instructions on how to do this. You mean using a Live CD? http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download If that's not what you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2007-10-19 Thread Andrew Barber
On 19/10/2007, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I have used Ubuntu since it started I have never tried it before installing. Please point me to where I can get instructions on how to do this. Norman Strangely I can't actually find a whole how to on the Internet. It is fairly self

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10 server and ebox

2007-10-18 Thread Daniel Lamb
Hi, Does anyone know if 7.10 server comes with ebox as I can not find any mention of it, however I did see it mentioned with regards to the rc before. Cheers, Daniel -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10 server and ebox

2007-10-18 Thread Kris Marsh
On 10/18/07, Daniel Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if 7.10 server comes with ebox as I can not find any mention of it, however I did see it mentioned with regards to the rc before. Cheers, Daniel -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com