Ubuntu

[lilb990]

Hey was just wondering if anyone here booted over to Ubuntu ? I'm doing it at the moment and was wondering if there were any key things i shouldn't do, watch out, for or simply don't touch.

[Zorchenhimer]

If you don't know what it does, don't touch. 
Other than that, there isn't really anything I can thing of off the top of my head.

[lilb990]

Oh ok cool lol

[KnacK]

If you just want to play, get a Ubuntu live cd and just share a folder on your hdd somewhere so that Ubuntu has access.  This way nothing gets installed and if you dont like it you just reboot your pc without the live cd in.

[lilb990]

But i don't like XP so i'd rather boot over to Ubuntu.

[Cameron]

That requires partitioning you hard drive so there is an empty slot for ubuntu.  You would also have to partition a swap in there as well.  Then you install to the big partition you made, and grub should automatically install itself and then you have a boot loader that NORMALLY has Linux and XP.  Unless you like me with multiple harddiscs in the computer with different operating systems installed on each, if i recall correctly Grub doesn't pick up operating systems on different harddiscs, so you have to add them youself which is a PITA.

Btw, if your gonna do it, backup XP.  I should've done that when I installed, my XP got frizzled.

[KI3S]

Make sure you back up those files! Zorch helped me with mine. This video helped me with dual booting if you want to do that instead.


http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/how-to-install-ubuntu-9-04-dual-boot-with-windows-xp/17230626

[Justinph5]

Have you used Ubuntu? Sounds like you really haven't used it that much or at all to not know what not to touch or what not to do... You really should just use a Live CD until you know if you like it at all, or until you learn what you're doing on it.

[lilb990]

Im downloading the iso at the moment and than using Infra Recorder to write the Image files over i'd rather just do that than wait 6-10 weeks on this piece of excrement comp.