Well flattery will get you everywhere. I don't have much Linux experience actually, mostly windows stuff. Suppose I was expecting this issue had a quick solution as power saving should be a big thing for us all these days. Thanks for the tip though, that shows me how to modify the startup process. O...

Thanks for the reply. Yes, the disk contains the OS. I have two disks in a RAID array. I wanted my system to be low power and so minimised disks. Doh. I think that this issue would also be very relevant to those with their OS on a flash drive. From my experience of embedded systems you want to avoid...

Hi, I have configured Ubuntu to power down disks when idle. This works except every hour or so the disks power up. I have not investigated this yet. I have now installed Samba and Webmin. I cannot get my disks to idle at all now. Webmin's miniserv.pl writes to /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf every 20 seco...

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
I am afraid that this is a case of not having RTFM
Somehow I missed installing Gnome, guess that explains the console.
Learnt a lot about VNC configurations though!

Hi, I followed the instruction at: http://www.havetheknowhow.com/Configure-the-server/Install-VNC.html everything is as it should, I get the "New ... desktop is ...." message etc. When I connect from the PC VNC just brings up the console which I can already do with Putty..... Looking at th...