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#1 Alestance

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 04:35 PM

I'm curious to know how to set up Xubuntu using the ISO file on their site. Mainly because I don't want to go through to much hassle in finding anything I need alone.

I'm not too computer savvy and that'll probably be my downfall in setting this up...


#2 Deepfreeze

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 06:03 PM

You're talking about installing Xubuntu, right? I wouldn't call it simple, but it's not unbearably hard. First off, you're prepared to partition your hard drive, right? That's probably the trickiest part, especially with (X)Ubuntu.

As for the ISO file, it's a CD image. Pretty much any CD burning application should be able to burn it to a CD. I know for a fact that ISO Recorder can do it, and it's a pretty small program, if you'd rather just use that.

Once you get the CD burnt, put (or leave) it in your drive and reboot your computer to boot from it. You might have to mess with your BIOS options (probably something like 'Boot Sequence' or 'Boot from CD') to get it to boot, but it might work already.

Anyhoo, once you've booted from the CD, assuming you don't have anything too out-of-the-ordinary installed in your computer (hardware-wise) Ubuntu should be able to install itself. If you're going to install it, though, be prepared to sacrifice at least about 3 gigs of hard drive space. If that's all you want to give up you won't have much room for Linux programs, but it will be possible to read and write to your Windows partitions, for your videos, music, and whatever else.

Also, don't expect to have a perfectly working distribution from the get-go (and don't give up if you don't). Chances are you'll end up with some combination of: stuck in the console, no accelerated 3D, no sound, no internet, non-working mouse, unreadable Windows partitions, etc. On the bright side, these are all solvable, just be prepared to spend some time doing it.

And of course, should something go wrong, you can always ask.

#3 Alestance

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 06:35 PM

Thats a good start and I don't mind much the loss of 3 gig, thanks you, Deepfreeze!... now I just got to find a blank CD... icon_sweat.gif

Edited by Master_of_Power, 10 July 2007 - 06:38 PM.


#4 Deepfreeze

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 09:30 PM

Oh, one thing I forgot to clarify: 3 GiB will be quite limited for linux. If you want room for games and whatever else you can't download to a windows partition, I'd say give it 10 to be safe. Pretty much anything but linux programs, as they need permissions, which FAT and NTFS filesystems don't support, can be put on your windows once you get r/w access to it.. If you use FAT, no problem. If you use NTFS, it's a little trickier.

Myself, I've got 50 gigs devoted to linux, but use only 12. I also download all my stuff to my linux partition first before moving it elsewhere (it's just simpler), so that accounts for about 5 of those at the moment.

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Posted 11 July 2007 - 06:07 AM

I did the very same (Xubuntu) recently. Here's an overview of my HD:
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david@david-laptop:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              27G  2.3G   23G   9% /
varrun                506M  104K  506M   1% /var/run
varlock               506M     0  506M   0% /var/lock
procbususb            506M  140K  506M   1% /proc/bus/usb
udev                  506M  140K  506M   1% /dev
devshm                506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
lrm                   506M   33M  473M   7% /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/volatile
/dev/sda1              61G   29G   33G  47% /media/sda1
/dev/sda2             4.3G  4.0G  379M  92% /media/sda2


For the non-nerds, I have 27GB devoted to Xubuntu of which, after installing a lot of software, 2.3GB are used. The Windows partition is 61GB big and 29GB are used. (sda2 is a recovery partition and the rest are "virtual").

Summary: 3GB is not much. 10GB I'd think more sensible. It is possible, as I did, to resize the Windows partition first without losing data. For the actual installation I'd recommend you at least have a tech-savvy friend's phone number near you just in case you need some help.

As long as you can get on Pure I'll be happy to help you too.

One last thing: getting sound to work in ZC is a pain in the ... well, even I haven't done it satisfactorily yet.

#6 Alestance

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Posted 11 July 2007 - 12:09 PM

I was planning only planning on having Xubuntu on the machine, as this is my other computer. I'm not sure if thats a good thing or what?

What I was doing was putting Xubuntu on that machine first, to see if I can figure out how to put it on, however, at this rate, it may be forever before I could even attempt it.

Edited by Master_of_Power, 11 July 2007 - 12:11 PM.


#7 Deepfreeze

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Posted 11 July 2007 - 02:52 PM

If you do resize your partition, try to backup your important data first. I had a bad experience once with a very large (465 GiB) FAT partition wherein I lost everything. Luckily, most of it was backed up and the vast majority of the partition was unused. To this day I don't know if it was a bug in GParted or what-all that caused it, but Gparted did mention that one should back up their data first. Still, that only happened one resize, with a very large partition, out of at least 20 that I've done with gparted. So you're generally safe.

And if you've got two computers, even better, because that means if something goes wrong, you can still figure it out with the other one. icon_biggrin.gif


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