<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Having just got my machine dual booting again my disks have been rattling<br>
around for hours and hours and I have to ask if Beagle's crawler ever stops<br>
or if it crawls for ever?????????????????????. Seem to have stopped it from<br>
crawling the web, me mail etc but the disk still rattles on.</blockquote><div><br>Beagle is a daemon, so it never stops unless you stop it manually. <br><br>The problem is not beagle being a daemon, the problem is that it takes more and more memory (last time for me it was taking more than 500 MB), I suppose because of a bug. <br>
<br>My advice: do not use beagle until the bug is corrected. Close it, close it also from the task bar and it should not start again, unless you have it in ~/.kde/Autostart<br><br>You have at least two more alternatives: tracker and recoll. I prefer the latter, but I have both running.<br>
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Out of interest it seems wubi is the only installer that can cope with xp not<br>
on disc 0. </blockquote><div><br>Well, I do not like Ubuntu but here I have to tell you "please be understanding". The natural way is to install a Linux distro inside another partition or inside a Virtual Machine. Wubi is a good idea for Windows users that are scared of doing something wrong when trying Linux for the first time. Wubi is a very young project, so please be understanding and submit the bugs you encounter. A different thing is that some bugs you encounter in Wubi are also inside the "usual" Ubuntu, which would not be so improbable :-D<br>
<br>By the way, installers can cope with XP not on disc 0. I mean all the classical installers, the boot CDs :-) <br></div></div><br>