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Unfortunately I think Grub is detecting remnants of a previous Ubuntu install and I'm not too sure that synaptic will deal with that issue.

I'm away from my PC for a couple of days but I'll have...

The BIOS is set to boot from sdb. Generally, from cold, I have to boot twice. There are, in fact, two separate issues here

1. The reboot issue ( as described previously)
2. The "Ubuntu, with...

I have two harddisks on my PC. A 1TB disk ( sda) where I keep all my data and a 128Gb SDD (sdb) which has three partions on it . sdb1 is Arch, sdb2 is Puppy Linux and sdb3 is Xubuntu.

I installed...

O2 user, less than 1/2 a mile from my exchange, download speed is usually in the 14-15 meg range.

I have had occasion to talk to their first and second line support ( based in Scotland) and have...

Transmission has the same option ( selective d/l)

@wilee-nilee

I'll try your suggestion later and get back with the result.

I have installed Puppy linux to a directory in /. / is in sda1 on a single hard disk. I have edited /etc/grub.d/40_custom as follows
menuentry "RexBang Linux" {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux...

Under Software Sources have you checked the " Release Update" box for "Normal Releases"?

I'm using a PAYG Voda dongle in the UK. Settings are number *99#, username and password are left blank. apn should show "pp.internet". IIRC if you are using a contract SIM then the apn should just be...

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/tutorials/usb-live-install/

@mrpeachy

that is a very nicely thought out Conky!!

@James

Got it working fine now. Using 0.23 and its brilliant!!

I'll try and manually uninstall then then re-install.

James
I am running a AMD Athlon 64bit twin core processor, 3 gb of RAM, a 1tB Samsung hdd. Video is from a Nvidia GT6600 card.

@James

I am using 10.4. Here are the screenies you asked for
1.Prior to running install.sh

http://ompldr.org/tNnI4Mg
2. Immediately after starting the script
http://ompldr.org/tNnI4NA

@James

Nice job! Only problem for me is uninstalling the app. Trying to uninstall sends my CPU up to 100% and then crashes the machine.

Meierfra's script gives the following output
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010

============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================...

For the past few days I have been experiencing boot issues with Maverick on my desktop. Currently its showing this
Mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: no such file or directory
mounting /sys...

Sorted!! I had to modify the gconf file in /home from "avant-window-manager" back to "gnome-panel"

Thanks for your suggestions.

gives me
gnome-panel: no process found

Looks like that should work. I'm in the middle of an upgrade so I'll wait until that finishes and try your suggestion out.

Ah- thats the other problem- the changes I made also disabled alt-f2 so I can't get a terminal:(

Stupidly I followed this guide to installing Awn- not noticing that the instructions for removing the panels would bork my system. I have tried the recommended fix
but that didn't work.

In the...

AFAIK Lucid Puppy is so-called because its Puppy Linux constructed using the Ubuntu repositories. As such you will probably get a much better response here

Best of luck- Puppy is a really good...

@ Dmizer

1. Hadn't noticed the space between the IP and the parentheses:oops: and you are correct- I did a lousy job of cutting and pasting:)

2.I initially had the whole subnet allowed but...