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Update in case it's useful for anyone.

1. Given up on Rmysql for now, as everything I turned up in searches indicates it's a little problematic for linux.
2. But did successfully connect through...

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I've just installed R for the first time, along with DBI, Rmysql packages - all from package manager (using Kubuntu at the moment).

I can't connect to mysql:



con1...

I'm very sorry, I forgot to post back to thank everyone for their help. In the end I used the "double Vista install" method as XP would not work, even though it was SP2 (my hard disk is PATA).

All...

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thanks for all the replies. I went away and tried again, unfortunately I've been unsuccessful.

Each time I see the BSOD once Set Up has loaded the files and the 'starting windows' message...

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thanks for your help:

Model: ATA TOSHIBA MK5055GS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type ...

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I used gparted to create 60GB free space which I then formatted as ntfs. However,when I go to install XP I get the blue screen of death.

I know the XP installation disc is OK.

The ntfs...

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thanks very much for replying - that did the trick and all working now!

Best wishes

Dave S

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I linked to my tv using an HDMI cable but I only see the desktop background on the TV. Even if I open a window (which I see on my laptop monitor) I still see only the desktop background. I...

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I've installed winff. I've been looking around the web for the best format in which to create videos to put on web pages. I'm slightly confused! As I understand it:
Ogg - the open-source...

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thank you very much - that solved it!

Best wishes

Dave

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I am fumbling around trying to do this for the first time, I have the following code in these two files:

/etc/apache2/sites-available/ioai-local
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>...

I had same problem, after reading

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=767222

I replaced icedtea java with sun java and that solved it.

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when I try to execute the command:

make-googleearth-package --force

I receive a long list of errors, starting with

mv: cannot stat `libssl.so.0.9.8': No such file or directory

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thanks for your reply, hadn't noticed but the issue had been raised in an earlier thread here but not really solved there either.

Dave

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I have upgraded to 10.04. Everything works but unfortunately
in grub the vista loader is shown as sda1 and the windows recovery environment as sda2 - in fact they are the other way around. As...

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many thanks for all your replies. After looking around this and other forums some more, I installed testdisk.

The log reported "Warning: incorrect number of heads/cylinder 240 (NTFS) != 255...

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well, I can see the complete windows directory structure using nautilus and copy files from ntfs into ubuntu, so hopefully it is potentially fixable.

Any suggestions please?

Dave

Thanks for the reply

er, no I didn't defrag - by 'messed up' do you mean 'irretrievably wrecked' by any chance?

Dave

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I just resized my XP hard drive to dual boot with Ubuntu 9.04; Ubuntu starts just fine, but when I select XP from the grub menu I receive a message 'disk read error'

Not sure what to do - I...

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I upgraded to 9.04 and all was well until I installed nvidia driver, now I have no GUI with the log reading "Fatal error: no screen found".

I looked through the threads for info on removing...

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thank you both for answering.

I installed it into my home directory as non-root user and it started but with the message "GCJ has been detected as the current Java virtual machine. Use of...

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I decided to try Eclipse 'Ganymede' so downloaded the archive file and unpacked it. I get the splash screen but it just hangs there, and in the processes list Eclipse is 'sleeping'. So I wonder...

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that's up and running, thank you very much for help!

Best wishes

Dave S

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it starts up the coldfusion server. To start from the command line I do:
cd /opt/coldfusion8/bin
./coldfusion start

Best wishes

Dave S

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is there a way to start my coldfusion service when system starts, please? I thought it might appear in the services list once installed (as it does with a couple of other linux distros) but no...