Starting out from scratch

Todd O'Bryan toddobryan at mac.com
Sat Jun 9 13:17:30 BST 2007


On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 04:44 -0700, Kriste Stromberg wrote:
> We were given a PC that was completely cleaned off. It has no OS, and a
> friend of mine's husband suggested edubuntu. I looked into it, it
> sounded good, and so I ordered a disk. Now, I have the disk and am
> looking at the directions from the web site, and am confused on step 1!
> I want to install the software on this PC that will be a non-internet,
> non-networked, stand-alone machine. Can anyone help me to figure out
> what to do? Do I "Install to hard disk" which installs a terminal
> server? I don't think I need that. Or do I "Install a workstation"?
> Will that be enough information for a stand-alone machine? 
> 
> Kriste Stromberg

Install a workstation.

Although, if it's at all possible, I'd try to connect the machine to the
internet. One of the advantages of Ubuntu and Edubuntu is how easy it is
to get updates and install new programs from the net.

Todd




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