[GRLUG] 1st Ubuntu install ever

[Rich Nagel]

I used the Nero Express wizard(v6.0) - the last option was something like "Create CD from iso or file" - I chose that and burned the .iso file to CD.  It booted perfectly from CDRom, so I'm guessing the boot capability was part of the image itself.

Rich

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Kline 
  To: GRLUG general mailing list 
  Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 1:45 PM
  Subject: Re: [GRLUG] 1st Ubuntu install ever


  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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