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02-10-2010, 06:00 AM
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Registered: Feb 2010
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already sounds like it'll be fun. (good fun, not bad).
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02-10-2010, 06:17 AM
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Registered: May 2009
Location: australia
Distribution: slackware
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Just in case you are not aware? Netbooks comonly have a hidden windows restore partition - you should use this before installing Ubuntu; if you do want to dual boot with windows.
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02-10-2010, 06:24 AM
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sweet thanks. seems like i'll have a lot to get used to, but i honestly think i'm going to have fun with this switch, and in a good way even.
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02-10-2010, 06:26 AM
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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vigi
Just in case you are not aware? Netbooks comonly have a hidden windows restore partition - you should use this before installing Ubuntu; if you do want to dual boot with windows.
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I think you mean delete it....
If the setup is not going to be dual-boot, just let the Ubuntu installer do the partitioning. |
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02-10-2010, 07:29 AM
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Registered: Sep 2009
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Did you get the CD downloaded yet?
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02-10-2010, 08:13 AM
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almost. had a problem with the dl and it wasn't registering as an ISO file... 3 minutes til it's done dling again.
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02-10-2010, 08:18 AM
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Registered: Sep 2009
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Are you burning it as an image or data CD?
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02-10-2010, 08:29 AM
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alright. now the disk is done, disk is in the external drive, and it sees the external drive... but isn't doing anything about it right now.
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02-10-2010, 08:30 AM
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burning it as an ISO image.
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02-10-2010, 08:33 AM
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Registered: Sep 2009
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So it's not trying to boot from the CD?
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02-10-2010, 08:36 AM
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and in trying to get that to work, i found the "hidden" restore folder for Windows. still going to end up switching to linux though. so now my comp is working again... just need to swap the OS
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02-10-2010, 08:37 AM
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no, it's not automatically booting from the cd, it sees the drive, just isn't reading the cd
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02-10-2010, 08:39 AM
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Registered: Sep 2009
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So the CD drive is an external USB CD drive?
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02-10-2010, 08:41 AM
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correct.
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02-10-2010, 08:45 AM
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Registered: Sep 2009
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Try playing around with the BIOS settings (especially the boot sequence), make it so the CD and/or USB devices come before the hard drive.
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