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I'm running Precise so maybe no problem. I'll prefer to stick with LTS releases and will install Trusty in my / partition in due course; maybe in 6 months time.

Thanks 3rdalbum.

That looks like a quick way of doing what I want to do.

Mike

Sorry, yes I do have a swap partition as well and thanks for everyones replies.
I've appended the output of sudo fdisk -l with a description of the partitions in ().

My laptop has 3 partitions and I have dual boot XP and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with a separate /home partition. I need a Windows system to run Netflix and two Windows only medical applications.
I know...

Some time ago I was forced/encouraged to change the way I logged into this forum.
I had to logon with SSO.
That took me to a Ubuntu One page to log in.
Is this anything to do with the Ubuntu One...

I have a Desktop in my upstairs study running Ubuntu and connected via wifi to my downstairs Router fixed in my music room.

I've attached my Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 2TB hard-drive to the...

Please tell us
- what version of Ubuntu you are installing
- where you download it from
- what medium (CD/DVD/USB drive, Flash drive, etc) you are booting from to do the install
- if Ubuntu...

I have tried many of the approaches written in this forum but I still cannot get my Canon ip2600 to print.
Help please.

System monitor shows my system details:

Release 12.04 (precise) 32-bit...

Thanks for what is in my opinion the most helpful reply. I'm considering buying a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5 inch Basic SATA Solid State Drive from Amazon at 68.88 UKP. User reviews were very...

Sorry. My wrong statement. Of course you are right to ask. SD card write speed is much slower than HDD to HDD.

I didn't write that I had a bottleneck. I just want to speed up my hardware specially when copying a large file from storage to an SD card.

Graphics card: VGA compatible controller: Intel...

Thank you. Good point. I should have looked myself.

The HDD light comes on
1. for about 3 seconds when loading a complicated 147kB spreadsheet
2 stays on while copying large files (of course?)
...

Sorry if I've mislead. Ubuntu (12.04 Unity 32 bit but I could install 64 bit) on my laptop has not slowed down.
I just want to make the laptop faster by replacing the HDD with a SSD and/or...

My laptop is running Ubuntu 12.04 Unity and I plan to stick with it.
It has 2GB RAM and can take 8GB.
It has a HDD and I am considering replacing the HDD with a SSD.
What hardware do the team...

An associate needs a website set up that will contain many relatively small educational videos that she has created. These are all (flv) flash files.
Please does anyone know how copying of these...

Thanks for your reply. I'm thinking of buying a Bose SoundLink Mini Bluetooth speaker and the adapter would be needed to send music to that box.
However that speaker also has an auxiliary port. So I...

I'm looking for a USB Bluetooth adapter that works out of the box on my Netbook that runs LinuxMint Release 13 (maya) happily with no tweaks needed for sound, wireless and control of screen...