Just a detail. You use the "make bootable disk" option on Nero<br>
when you make the CD?<br>
<br>
-Bob<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/9/05, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:networkman@triton.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">networkman@triton.net</a></b> <
<a href="mailto:networkman@triton.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">networkman@triton.net</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Greets,<br><br>After some encouragement off-list, I decided to go ahead and try the<br>
Unbuntu 5.10 install. I downloaded the .iso and burned it to CD using my<br>Win2k/Nero software. No problems there.<br><br>Install to the target PC seemed to go okay - PC is a AMD Sempron 2400,<br>with onboard video/nic/snd, 256meg ram, 20 Gig HD floppy, and 32x CDrom.
<br>I mostly chose the defaults or offered settings.<br><br>Boot for the first time had the resolution at 1600x1200 - managed to<br>figure out how to reset that after a few minutes(doh!), and then it wanted<br>to do some updates.. like 40meg of them, so I did those and rebooted.
<br><br>Again, started up okay. My whole point of installing Ubuntu was to use<br>the PC for a distributed computing project, so I needed to figure out to<br>download the client, uncompress it, and get it running; this part took me
<br>better than 3 hours to figure out, with incessant cussing along the way.<br><br>However, I did finally figure out a way to get the client file I needed<br>thru Mozilla, get to a command-line so I could "sh" the file, and then get
<br>it started via the GUI. The key word here was "Terminal" - that took<br>forever to figure out.. I was looking for a shell or command prompt, or<br>console.. was tearing my hair out over that.<br><br>Long story short - it's working. It's logged in, the DC project is going,
<br>life is good. Now if my hair will just grow back, I'll be happier. :P<br><br>Rich<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>grlug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:grlug@grandrapids-lug.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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