Blackpool Linux User Group

Two separate sessions today.
Tony and Les spent the full two hours trying to figure out why the latest ubuntu would set up mobile broadband on an Acer Aspire netbook and an eePC, netbook, but would not set it up on Tony's laptop, nor could they persuade it to work. Tony decided to wait for the next Linux Mint to appear.

Colin and I spent the two hours attempting to get a small (6gig) external USB drive to boot a copy of Crunchbang Linux, which failed. Then we tried Puppy Linux which also failed but only because we selected the wrong place for the bootloader. During this process, we wiped out the windows 7 bootloader on the machine we were using leaving it unable to boot.

Tried booting from an XP install disk and used "fixmbr", but it didn't!
Tried booting from the windows 7 installation disk and used "repair my computer", but it didn't!
The machine had an Acronis recovery partition which didn't recover it to bootable condition.
Eventually noticed that Acronis 11 has the option to restore the MBR, that fixed it.

At this weeks meeting, we looked at how to get free hosting with php/mysql support.

We then installed Drupal at the host of our choice, and the three members present, Les, Colin, and Tony were assigned admin rights to enable them to practice different aspects of Drupal.

There will be no content added to the site, it is just there to practice configuration and administration.

http://blackpoollug.100webspace.net/drupal/

Mike

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A good meeting this morning Mike, Les Colin and Tony. Colin had a Flash Drive which he wanted to check out, a 128 Gig (yes I do mean Gig) one he had got off e-bay for the princely sum of £40. Unfortunately this was not the bargain we all first thought, as it was not working and no amount of fiddling by Mike or Colin could resolve the issue. Colin also had a brief play at running a live Ubuntu CD in his aging Apple laptop but while it did work after a fashion there was a problem with the video and it was very slow. After this the 4 of us decided to look at using the Drupal web content management software to set up a web site on a free hosting site, there was a problem with the byte host site so Mike set another up on the 100webspace.com site. We looked at getting the site registered and setting up the SQL data base before setting it up with Drupal.

Tony 2010-04-17 22:11 UTC