[GRLUG] 1st Ubuntu install ever

[Bob Kline]

Just a detail.  You use the "make bootable disk" option on Nero
when you make the CD?

   -Bob


On 12/9/05, networkman at triton.net <networkman at triton.net> wrote:
>
> Greets,
>
> After some encouragement off-list, I decided to go ahead and try the
> Unbuntu 5.10 install.  I downloaded the .iso and burned it to CD using my
> Win2k/Nero software. No problems there.
>
> Install to the target PC seemed to go okay - PC is a AMD Sempron 2400,
> with onboard video/nic/snd, 256meg ram, 20 Gig HD floppy, and 32x CDrom.
> I mostly chose the defaults or offered settings.
>
> Boot for the first time had the resolution at 1600x1200 - managed to
> figure out how to reset that after a few minutes(doh!), and then it wanted
> to do some updates.. like 40meg of them, so I did those and rebooted.
>
> Again, started up okay.  My whole point of installing Ubuntu was to use
> the PC for a distributed computing project, so I needed to figure out to
> download the client, uncompress it, and get it running; this part took me
> better than 3 hours to figure out, with incessant cussing along the way.
>
> However, I did finally figure out a way to get the client file I needed
> thru Mozilla, get to a command-line so I could "sh" the file, and then get
>
> it started via the GUI.  The key word here was "Terminal" - that took
> forever to figure out.. I was looking for a shell or command prompt, or
> console.. was tearing my hair out over that.
>
> Long story short - it's working.  It's logged in, the DC project is going,
>
> life is good.  Now if my hair will just grow back, I'll be happier. :P
>
> Rich
>
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