[GRLUG] 1st Ubuntu install ever

[Bob Kline]

Good to know.  On my version of Nero the correct choice is
"Burn image to CD."   I have the OEM version.  Aother option,
"Make bootable CD," seems suggestive,  but is not the right
choice.


    -Bob


On 12/10/05, Rich Nagel <networkman at triton.net> wrote:
>
> 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 <bob.kline at gmail.com>
> *To:* GRLUG general mailing list <grlug at grandrapids-lug.org>
> *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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