OT windas XP m/c updated self now won;t boot into windows.... hellup '<(

[Jim K]

Aye but for 11 odd quid & available tomorrow....

Cheers

Jim K

[george - dicegeorge]

or put the old disk in a usb enclosure thing like

i'm using ubuntustudio on powerful machines and xubuntu on older ones- they use the same xfce desktop so there's less to learn!

12.04 LTS versions, as theyre stable and longly supported [george]

[Jim K]

mmm well mostly good - got the "dodgy" IDE drive connected up with a £7 cable jobby and voila all files rescued and onto USB Drive - phew.

Next chkdsk'd the IDE & faults were found (allocation tables I think), so chkdsk/f & said repaired.

IDE drive back into old unit, for fun, expecting Win XP to now promptly repair itself (now a new machine has been ordered)..... but no, still won;t/can;t copy files from E:\i386 ...? The Win XP install CD is now in a different optical drive from this first happening and I've inspected the surface visually and I can;t see much if any blemishes at all....

Just hooked up another optical drive to the EEE (with said bloody handy £7 USB/IDE cable) and I can copy the "uncopyable" file to the hard drive without incident.... WTF??

Cheers Jim K

[Adam Funk]

But it's in active development? AIUI, GNOME Classic has stopped now, but ICBW.

Ahem, you might have issues with any OS then.

[The Natural Philosopher]

yes. that's why its called 'maya'

indeed.

[Steve Walker]

Neater than the usb cable/adaptor. Want one... :o)

[Jim K]

Mmm looked at they, but cable allows any ide sata drive type device to be lashed on...

Jim K

[John Rumm]

Can you copy them to the old HD, then point the install at that when it falls over? Or is it falling over too early in the sequence to be able3 to prompt for a new location?

[Jim K]

it puts up the "standard" Windas GUI file/directory combo dialog box thingy and asks for new location - so yes

I'll try copying the whole i386 directory contents onto the HDD and give it a whirl - but the pub is calling!!

Cheers Jim K

[Adam Funk]

Sounds interesting, thanks. I'll take a look.

[John Rumm]

If needs be, just copy the whole CD to the HDD, and restart the install using the hdd copy as the install source rather than the CD (much quicker install as well)

[Jethro_uk]

I got fed up with trying to get my 12.04 Ubuntu usable (for me). It's not just the desktop. There seems to have been some heavy-duty development in the security model. Not sure what, but it broke all the PolKit mods I had made, and I just couldn't fix them. I log in remotely (using NX) and that makes some actions impossible, unless you change the PolKit setup, which is hours of googling, and effort (if you google, you'll catch a post where I detailed how I fixed it, to some acclaim).

Anyway, for what I want, it seems a fresh install of Debian, with XFCE is perfect. Unlike Ubunutu, which could be a little flaky with the WiFi, this install has been rock-solid for over a month now. My last major task is to get the UPS stuff working properly ... I can't get the shutdown sequence to work :(

[The Natural Philosopher]

yessrs if you stray off the 'newbie' area debian tends to be a stable place to start buiding and Xfce is good enough.

I use debian on the servers, mint on the desktop. All the custom stuff is on the servers..:-)