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Re: [ALUG] Linux
by Wayne Stallwood 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 23:18 +0100, Mark and Jenny Myatt wrote: > Hi Wayne -thanks > (and also to Nick Daniels) > > I could not get into the Bios settings at all. Not by f2,f8;f10. After much trial and error I discovered the problem was caused by my Labtec keyboard, even though the bios had legacy enabled. So I changed it for an old spare one. This enabled me to get into my bios and change the sequence so that I can now boot up from a DVD/CD as necessary. I am now trying out a number of live distros but quit a few stall after being partly loaded but I have tried ones that do work. SimplyMepis and Knoppix. Try playing with some of the boot time options with the others, sometimes it is possible to bring up a help screen on the boot prompt that will guide you with these. Look in particular at options to disable acpi and apic. > Just a thought. I run windows 2000 Prof and the NFTS system. I need to have a dual booting system. Reports in the press seem to indicate this can cause a problem with linux software. Is this correct and if so is it possible for the NFTS to be converted back to fat32? > Writing to NTFS is not considered a stable feature in the kernel, not because it doesn't work but because it was a product of reverse engineering the NTFS filesystem. The latest version of Ubuntu (and I think knoppix) both support writing to NTFS volumes..some other distributions will support read only. Conversion back to fat32 is possible with 3rd party tools but not recommended, mainly because it is possible to have conditions in an NTFS filesystem that are not valid in fat32 (files over fat's file size limit, maximum path length etc etc) With either the conversion or writing to NTFS from Ubuntu I would recommend you take a backup of any important data first.

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Linux
by Mark and Jenny Myatt 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

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[Fwd: [IET Anglian Coastal Network] - 3rd May Talk on Linux in Classrooms in Developing Countries]
by Ian bell 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

I thought this might be of interest to ALUGers. Ian

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Re: [ALUG] Laptop/UPS
by J.R. Seago 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 10:49, "Tim Green" <timothy.j.green(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Have you simulated a power cut yet? Indeed I have, and I've found the snag, my monitor runs from a transformer, that has a standard three pin plug, and even though the computer doesn't go down I cant see what's happening enough to shut it off, (I work with/through the GUI). I'll have to find a way round that, but at the moment I'm happy that it will run the computer long enough that the power will come back before it gets shut down involuntarily. -- J.R. Seago GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 http://counter.li.org/ () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Wiki: IRCUsers & Who's Where? pages
by samwise 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hi, Two wiki pages listing ALUG members have evolved - one is a general list of people, whilst the latter is a small list of IRC nicknames -> real names. I think it makes more sense to just add the latter as a column to the former ... anyone any objections? Relatedly, there's a big dump of people at the bottom of the Who's Where? page which has been cut and pasted from the old site. Do we want to keep this or would it be better to expect active users to re-add themselves? I could re-format the entries to the new table, but some seem pretty old ... Anyone want to put their 2p's worth in? Peter.

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dual booting probs
by elc 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Went into terminal and tried suggestion and as many options I could figure - nothing, just got messages like 'invalid device requested' 'selected disk doesn't exist' 'error while parsing number' Does Terminal = Bash shell? or do I have to be somewhere else for the grub console - if so where please. Eric > tried this and got "bash: syntax error near unexpected token 'hd0,6' " > > > > Did I do something wrong? > > > > > You need to be at the grub console not the bash shell > > Type grub and press return to get to the grub console and then follow > Paul's instructions

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dual booting probs
by elc 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

I havn't been able to access this. It was suggested that I get access to the rescue mode from the Ubuntu media, and by typing 'linux rescue'. Trouble is I don't know where this Ubuntu media is. If I run the live cd while in windows I just get options to evaluate various applications, and if I boot up with the live cd it goes straight to install - no prompts to type at. Further help most appreciated. Eric > I must be doing something wrong. > > I booted from the live cd and worked thru "install" to "partition", > > checked "manual" partition, got to desktop, opened terminal, entered > > "grub-install /dev/hda" and got "cannot create directory /boot/grub > > :permission denied". > > > > Do you have any further thoughts/advice please. > > > > > > I think both Paul's suggestion and my one need to be done from the > recovery mode not the installer. How did you get on with the "linux > recovery" thing at the Installation/Live Cd's boot prompt ? > > Regards > Wayne

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Re: [ALUG] Laptop/UPS
by J.R. Seago 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 16:58, Wayne Stallwood <ALUGlist(a)digimatic.co.uk> wrote: > Plugging a monitor in will just reduce runtime on the UPS (and therefore > it's usefulness) and a UPS that doesn't tell a PC to shut down when the > battery is getting too low is only slightly better than no UPS at all > (IMO) It does all sorts of things including ring me up to tell me that its on stand by, ring an alarm, send me an e-mail, I keep on finding new things it does when I should be doing other stuff, i.e. packing, its just that I need to find time to get round to setting up all the other things while I'm preparing to move, I may just wait until I've got there. -- J.R. Seago GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 http://counter.li.org/ () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Software to add information to a map
by Chris G 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

I've only just thought of this idea but being able to do such a thing on a computer would be really, really useful (to me anyway!). What sort of software would be good at drawing routes and adding location information to a scanned map? I guess the gimp could do it but are there any applications more specifically for this sort of thing? Ideally the additions would be in their own layers so one could look at only the 'nice bridleways' or the 'good horse accomodation' additions. It would also be nice to be able to add notes to marked locations. -- Chris Green

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Wiki: NextMeeting macro
by Richard Lewis 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hello ALUG, I'm having a bit of a Poor Work Day today so I've written a macro for the ALUG Wiki which inserts the date of the next social meeting. Use it like this: [[NextMeeting(location[,show_venue])]] where location is either "norwich" or "ipswich" and show_venue is either "yes" or "no" (defaults to "no"). The parameters can be expressed in the keyword style: [[NextMeeting(ipswich,show_venue=yes)]] Right, I really should do some proper work. Cheers, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ JID: ironchicken(a)jabber.earth.li -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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