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I'm about to boot into ubuntu for the first time... :D I'm excited. be right back!
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heh, see you in 15 seconds. :wink:
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I've installed xp at least 50 times from scratch.

Yesterday I installed it again. The disc was XP Sp1. It took me 5 hours to install it, download all the updates and then install base apps: Xp Pro Burner, FF2, Thunderbird, OO, Acrobat, Flash, Shockwave, 7-zip and so forth. Funny thing is that you get all that functionality and more in no more than an hour with Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Mepis family of distro's. So.... why did I bother? Funny I'm still wondering that myself.

Good luck with ubuntu. Post up your questions. I'm a KDE user myself and prefer Kubuntu. But if you have questions about apt or what not post it up. ;)
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I downloaded the PC (Intel x86) desktop CD iso file (http://releases.ubuntu.com/dapper/ first link) and burned the image on a CD, and I made sure my CD drive is first in the boot order, but it still boots into Windows. Shouldn't it just boot from the CD? :?

Feeling kinda stupid...
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Your BIOS boot order is set?

And when you burn to CD, did you "Burn Image" or just copy the ISO to the CD?
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Yeah make sure you didn't mistakenly burn the iso to the disc and actually burned its contents. Stick the CD in the drive in windows... how many files are on it?
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I downloaded the application they recommended... Infra Recorder, then I followed the instructions to burn the image to the CD, and then I reboot, went into bios, checked that CD Drive is first in the boot order, and then it booted into Windows. :? Restarted, and it did it again, so I burned it onto another CD thinking I must have burned it wrong, and same thing happens... :(
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How many files can windows see on the disk?
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none... yea I guess it isn't burning it correctly. Let me try something else...
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:none... yea I guess it isn't burning it correctly. Let me try something else...
Download WinISO (maybe even winrar can do this) and open the ISO for viewing. Don't extract it though since the whole point of burning it from the ISO is that the ISO contains a boot sector ;)
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alright... I am now booted into ubuntu. How sexy is this?? Awesome... that's pretty amazing. Now I get to play around on a new OS! :D
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

NSG: ummm... the latest version is called "edgy eft" - "dapper drake" was the last version :?

Edgy is even slicker - definitely worth checking out!

Also, if you have a compatible graphics chip (I do :D), installation will afford you the opportunity to install and configure compiz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUSn-jBA3CE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YWRJwIIk2I

Makes everyone drool.... I love it!!!! And I can still boot into Windows.. in fact, the edgy install resized my existing windows partition for me, and installed a boot manager.

Cheers,
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If you have dapper drake installed you've still got an almost new version. Edgy only came out relatively recently and the great thing with debian systems is that you can run "apt-get distupgrade" (or is it distupdate?) and get the latest one with all your existing apps installed/upgraded as needed :)
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Well I messed with my install of Ubuntu most of yesterday. Must of installed over 200 packages to get simple things to work (stuff that's out-of-the-box on Windows) like playing mp3's. Took me an hour to install aMSN, and it's quite rubbish. Then I tried my hand at installing GLX and compiz. Rebooted, couldn't load X server. Now I have no interface! I'll have to try reset my configs through the terminal later somehow...
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Yeah, AIGLX can be a pain. I spent a couple hours getting it together, then removed it after only 15mins due to the stuff giving me a headache :p

It does look pretty though.

I use Kopete for MSN (it also does ICQ, Yahoo and AIM) and although it is a KDE based app, it should still work in Gnome (which is what Ubuntu uses) as well. Kubuntu uses KDE.



EDIT: On the note of installing the stuff that is out-of-the-box with windows, that will appear as a bad thing at first, but I can almost guarantee that after a while you will come to appreciate why it is a good thing :) If you don't already, of course. :)
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