Thank you, Jonathan! To sum it al up - I purposely test on an older Dell D600 laptop (don't have the exact specs in front of me at the moment as I'm out in the field - off the top of my head there's 1 GB RAM and a 40 GB hard drive). I do this as I often run across clients with older systems who either can't afford to, or don't wish to buy new systems, but still want to be able to stay connected. So, I offer to install Linux (in most cases, Ubuntu.) I admit - had a momentary lapse in resoning! Don't know why I didn't simply tell the machine to boot from CD! I too have always felt WUBI is somewhat odd, however I have found it useful when asked to test installation CD's with multiple Linux distributions on them (sounds a bit fishy - I know! But I have run across some techies who are trying to create "all-in-one" distrubution disks!) I've been testing disturbutions for a few years now. However, I only recently heard about Lubuntu - I was speaking to a fellow techie and he mentioned it, so of course I was interested! Thanks for all your help and info! Sorry if I wasted any of your time with such a "noob" over sight! On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm>wrote:
> Leo, > > On 05/01/2011 06:15 AM, Leo Allen wrote: > > > I did not do any beta versions, so I am not sure wether wubi worked > > with them or not. > > OK. It looks as though wubi wasn't tested, and so probably doesn't > work. We need to add wubi to the list of things to test for Lubuntu > 11.10, so we don't make the same mistake then that we seem to have made > this time! But that doesn't help you right now. > > > You mention to try as a normal graphical installer - is there a > > particular file I need to point to to begin the installation? > > No. Instead, you would just boot the computer from the Lubuntu CD. Put > the Lubuntu CD in the drive, then reboot the computer. That will > (usually) automatically run the install menu from the CD. Windows (or > any other operating system on your hard disk) never even has a chance to > even start to run, if you do this :) > > If doing that still runs Windows, you might have to press F10 or F12 as > the computer starts up so it will offer a little "boot menu" from which > you can choose to boot from CD. (You can change CMOS settings instead, > but that's a bit more complex to describe). > > > This is being installed on a Windows XP Pro system (as I've found > > with other Linux versions, XP is the most "friendly"). > > OK... Do you want to keep your XP Pro installation and files intact, or > are you planning to wipe it out and replace it with Lubuntu? Or, do you > want to repartition the hard drive so that (for example) half the disk > space is for XP Pro, and half is for Linux? > > Do you have a good up to date backup of the Windows installation and all > your files, somewhere not on that same PC? If not, creating such a > backup is a good idea, as a precaution (against hardware issues or other > accidents, as well as against making mistakes when trying to share the > disk between Windows and Lubuntu). So if you are going to share the PC > between Windows and Lubuntu, it would be wise to take the time to make a > good full backup of the machine as it is now, before you do anything > else. Just in case :) > > Wubi is (in my biased opinion!) a somewhat odd hybrid installation > approach, that installs Linux (Lubuntu, if it worked) into some big > files inside Windows... but that is not the usual way to install any > Linux distribution. > > > I'm anxious to give Lubuntu a try ... > > Good :) > > If you are a newcomer, the safest way is to attempt that first "try" on > an older machine dedicated to that purpose. One you have no files or > programs on that you care about. That way, you *know* you can't > accidentally remove your main working copy of Windows and all the files > in it that you wanted to keep :) > > If you do not have a spare old machine for that sort of "windows-free" > testing, there are several other alternatives. Which one is "best" > depends on your experience level, and the capabilities of the machine > you are trying to "share" between Lubuntu and Windows. On modern PCs > with a few GB of RAM and a multicore CPU, running VirtualBox inside > Windows, and installing Lubuntu as a "virtual machine" under VirtualBox > can work very well, but on older PCs it is impractical. > > > - I tried the much-hyped Kubuntu > > and felt that it is to Linux what Vista is to Windows! > > That sounds as though you have an old-ish PC, or one with limited RAM. > Lubuntu is designed specifically to be useful on such older PCs; > however, it is not necessarily designed to be ultra-easy for beginners > to use on older PCs while also keeping Windows on those same PCs. > > To be able to offer a specific "try Lubuntu *this* way" suggestion for > you, other than "try it out on a dedicated test PC", it would help to > know what sort of PC you are wanting to run Lubuntu on: > > * make and model if it is a well known brand > * CPU type and speed > * how much RAM the machine has > * how big a hard disk it has > * whether you are comfortable repartitioning it to free up some space > dedicated to use by Lubuntu. > > Hoping this helps and doesn't seem *too* complicated! > > Jonathan > -- Leo Allen *A*llen *C*omputer *S*ervices <http://ans.dyndns-web.com/acs.html>
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