Definitely do a manual partition. I did a quick install of Ubuntu 9.04 in a VM using VirtualBox. I was able to get a legacy scanner to work on it last night, as there are no drivers for the scanner in Vista or Win7.
Xsane is so cool that it was able to see the scanner (usb) and I was able to scan something my wife wanted to fax. My plan was to scan and email the pdf to myself. Unfortunately last nights Ubuntu updates were taking too long so I canceled midway and I'm left with a system that will require a reinstall. This time I definitely plan to make a root (/) and home (/home) partition to safeguard any data. I attempted a reinstall without formating my /, but that didn't work. I reinstalled grub but that didn't work either. Someone told me there was a kernel update last night which explains much. The document is recoverable (boot livecd image and mount the partition) but wasn't important. It was a pretty fresh install. Good luck! Make a separate /home if you plan to save any data. --Manny On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Jason <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll be single booting since I have several other machines. So I'm not > worried about screwing up and trying over > > As to my exposure/experience with Linux I'm a novice. Dave exposed me to it > years ago but I only dabbled with it. > > > > > On Sep 18, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Randall Whitman <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> I have a 15 inch acer that I'm going to put Linux on. I'm >>> finally fed up with vista and xp that I want to seriously use Linux. >> >> Are you planning to dual-boot or install Linux only? How familiar are you >> with Linux (i don't remember from any previous posts, sorry)? If not >> accustomed to Linux-only, and not planning to dual-boot, it can be a good >> idea to run Linux from one of Live-CD/USB or WUBI-install, until used to >> it. >> >>> I have the ubuntu 9.04 distro. Should I just allow it to run through >>> a standard setup or are there settings that I should be looking for? >> >> We always do manual partitioning (even though that may be the hardest part >> of install process) - at a minimum separate partitions for / (system) >> and /home (data). >> We also routinely add the OpenOffice PPA repository to the Software >> Sources, >> so we get the newest OpenOffice through the Package Manager. >> (Well, we also get rid of libmono and install gThumb.) >> >>> Also opinions should I install the desktop distro or the netbook? >> >> My recommendation is to try LiveCD or LiveUSB of both and see which you >> like better. >> >> /Randall >> >> >> Randall Whitman >> Whizman Software Solutions >> www.whizman.com >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
