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Could you please provide some configuration informarion, hopefully someone will be able to offer advice based on that.

Hope you get the help you need.

Thank you, that is an excelant idea. I'll have a google lots to see hhow to implement this approach in to script.

Ive writttern a small sctipt automating a truecrypt process, however it relies on /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc maintaining these assignments.

(what happens is a & b are small by todays...

Ive writttern a small sctipt automating a truecrypt process, however it relies on /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc maintaining these assignments.

(what happens is a & b are small by todays...

I have a gigabyte motherboard, speifically (GA-MA790XT-UD4P). I have also purchased a gigabyte SPDIF input bracket for the back of the tower, and connected it to the SPDIF input on the motherboard....

Is cloning a GPT disk different to cloning a MBR disk with dd?

Can a GPT clone be dd'ed to a clean unformatted disk?

You could copy them to network storage with your vm. Then download them to anotyer machine.
Vurtual box has a shared folders option. Allowing you to copy files straight from guest to host.
I also...

In response to a question regarding AMD chipset drivers, AMD provided the following.

"As the chipset drivers for our products are already included in the supported Linux flavours (including Ubuntu...

will installing the gygabyte drivers for the motherboard (if they exist or can be found) allow my to have the functionality of the SPDIF input?

side point: if anyone knows where the linux drivers...

brought this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gigabyte-S-PDIF-IN-Cable-for-P55-P67-H67-12CR1-1SPDIN-0-R-Bracket-/160963598362?pt=UK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL&hash=item257a2d981a

connected it to...

This might be helpfull:
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/05/04/manual-disk-partitioning-guide-for-ubuntu-11-04/

Its not using the alternate ISO as i first segested but by the looks of it will...

Use the alternate ISO and manualy make the SWAP any size you wish.

Is their a configuration on your experimenting software to reduce the number of cpu's assigned to it by 1 so at least the system has some resource available to it?

If it is locking up when using...

Objective: use dd to clone os (multiple partition OS) from one hardisk to another.

Problem: destination disk smaller than origional disk.

Thus far: shrunk main partition down, so i have two...

Problem:

At boot the BIOS screen scrolls through the usual checks then the monitor no longer detects an input, I type my password to decrypt the drive then the monitor displays the login screen. I...

when i installed ubuntu 12.04 (on SSD), i used the alternate ISO to make two primary partitions:

first a /boot partition 300MB
second /encrypted partition (rest of the space on the SSD!)

when...

My office PC is always on 24/7 365 days.
Days I work from home, the desktop is on dawn to dusk.
General web stuff is done on my phone.

So no, I don't leave MY computer on 24/7.

Will reply when I get home, can only do so much on a phone.

Hi, I'm sorry to read that your having so much trouble, I have been in similar situations and can empathise with your predicament.

Hear are a few (hopefully helpful) thoughts:
Use dd to clone...

Job done.
Thanks

No, sorry I don't, but is the Mac software working? I love ubuntu but trying to install on a mac is complicated, so I just ended up running it in virtual box.

If mac is working I'd use that to...

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 using the alternate install image onto an 120GB SSD. during install i created a boot partition and a encrypted partition (Extended) containing the root file system and home...

What a result my TRIM works perfectly

Thank you

I've added a second HDD to my computer with an instance of Ubuntu installed (from a different machine), when i boot my computer i want grub to give me the option of booting into either instance of...

sorry for the duplicate thread, was posting on an iphone via a 3G connection, to be honest the odds were against me!