Making the switch

[bulb66]

Hi All,

I have been using Xubuntu in a dual boot for a little while now and found it to be much better than XP, as such i would like to make the switch over to it completely.

But i would like some help with getting a few things working first, firstly printing i haven't been able to get me Lexmark X1160 printer working, i don't really understand this Cup's thingy. If there is an alternative i would be willing to give it ago. i would like to be able to use the scanner part of the printer if possible.

And i would like to be able to use my Nokia N80 via bluetooth, in the same way as i can with Nokia suite, i.e. sending text messages, downloading pictures taken with the phone.

and lastly i currently have Linux running on a dual boot of my HD, what is the best was to get rid of XP and have only Xubuntu.

Thank you for any help you can give.

James

 

[gumbald]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=49714

That any good for the printers?

http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/20...r-why-linux-users-shouldnt-be-early-adopters/

That was just a general search for "n80 ubuntu", seems as though there's lots of different theories, have a play about and see if you can get any success

If you want to get rid of XP, it should be just a case of deleting your NTFS partitions, although that could be just untidy. The cleanest way is just to do an Xubuntu reinstall

 

[Una]

Assuming you are using grub as your bootloader, best way to remove xp would be to boot into linux then just delete the partition. You could then either create a new ext3 partition (or whatever fs you want) and then mount that somewhere. For a final tidy up remove the bootloader entry to windows in /boot/grub/menu.lst