I plan on using it for web surfing and media mainly. And well to learn
the operating system more also
On Sep 18, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Chris Louden <[email protected]>
wrote:
I highly recommend manually partitioning it once you are a bit more
comfortable with it. Odds are you are going to reinstall several times
to get things right/comfortable. Don't worry about it now. Play around
get familiar with it. Only option you might need to specify with the
install is ACPI. If the installation locks up, try disabling that. If
the install goes right through, then don't worry about ACPI.
Now once you have it install a whole world of options and
customization opens up to you. What are you going to use it for?
Generally stuff.. internet/email? Might want to look at installing
medibuntu, and well... of alot of things.
-Chris
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Manny <[email protected]> wrote:
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
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