<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">TheVeech</b> <<a href="mailto:theveech@gmail.com">theveech@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 23:12 +0100, TheVeech wrote:<br>> > Currently I using Daffy, not Edgy. do you want me to put basero<br>> on<br>> > my compact laptop or on Tiger in the mac mini when it comes? I'm
<br>> not<br>> > sure of the worth of the CD drive on the laptop, it's about 5 or 6<br>> > years old. I have another mac mini a year old running Tiger with a<br>> CD<br>> > drive which does't like ejecting its discs so I use it as little as
<br>> > possible (I use pen drives for backup). Should I buy new discs and<br>> > are there different sorts, if so what should I get and how many?<br>> > Would a pen drive do the job ? Had a look at the forum you
<br>> recommend<br>> > above, reassuring in some ways, daunting in others. At the end of<br>> the<br>> > day, I need to be in serious business with OOo and have no fears<br>> > about a new version if it is a development of the old. Other
<br>> software<br>> > can be added at leisure. Thank you for your help. Robin<br>><br><br>You should be fine with OO.org then.<br><br>You'll have to install Brasero on your Ubuntu installation, unless it's
<br>available on Tiger - I'll look later, but I'm watching Match of the Day<br>at the moment, and I've only just realised that I've already<br>inadvertently sent 2 replies!<br><br>We've got time for you to try writing the disk image on the laptop.
<br>Like I've said, though, if you can burn a disk image with software on<br>your existing Mac, give it a go.<br><br>We could try installing off your pen drive, but I want to keep it<br>simple, so we'll start off with the intention of using a CD. We may
<br>need to play with the BIOS (check wikipedia for definition), but on this<br>I haven't got the slightest idea how Apple machines approach this.<br>Something else to look into.<br><br>Get whatever disks your drive supports. Any CD you can write to should
<br>be okay. Ideally burn 2 copies just in case one fails during the actual<br>install - this has happened with installs I've done in the past with no<br>prior warning whatsoever. Just get as few disks as you can.<br>
<br>The forum thread is a bit daunting in parts, but at least the people on<br>it are reporting success! I might try and get in touch with the people<br>who posted there for their experiences after the weekend, seeing as
<br>though they're using these specific machines.<br><br>Back to partitioning, I'll look further into this and hope people on the<br>list post their thoughts on it, too. Don't forget, though, that it's<br>
your computer, so you're the boss. Just because people might be helping<br>you out, this doesn't mean that you're under any obligation to accept<br>anything you don't want.<br><br>I'd suggest setting the Mac up to use Ubuntu only, and ditch Mac's OS.
<br>The reasoning behind this I've mentioned before. I'd add that my<br>opinion is that you're better off sticking with one OS to avoid<br>confusion and not water down your knowledge across multiple OSes and<br>
applications. Get to know one well, rather than two superficially. You<br>need to consider this choice, and I don't mind whatever you decide.</blockquote><div><br>I am happy to agree with you. Mac Tiger is a decent job but has an annoying way of hiding each of the several different ways of doing something - which is maddening when one's memory isn't what it used to be. Searching in Ubuntu I find intuitively easier and less confusing.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Here's roughly (ignoring 1024) what I'd do with an 80gb disk with, say,
<br>1gb of RAM (RAM we need to confirm since conventional wisdom is to set a<br>Swap partition of double your amount of RAM):<br><br>/ (root)<br>8gb ext3 bootable<br><br>/home<br>70gb ext3<br><br>/swap<br>2gb</blockquote>
<div><br>I can only accept your advice on this (amended for 60gb HDD) <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Finally, don't thank anyone yet. We've yet to do the work. Despite me
<br>nagging you more than you probably deserve, the thing that really<br>impresses me is that you've stuck with Linux.<br><br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br><a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a><br></blockquote></div><br>