Xubuntu 6.06.1 desktop i386

[Don and/or Mila Trombley]

Tee Jay Rosene wrote:
>
> Yeah, it might take a little bit of time. I have an older IBM thinkpad 
> Laptop (that I'm writing on now!) with  4 gig hard drive, 64 Megs of 
> RAM, and A Celeron chip, and it took a couple of hours to install 
> Ubuntu. When I installed Xubuntu on it, if I remember correctly, the 
> installation time was a little shorter, so that's something to look 
> forward to;) Kubuntu, on the other hand, takes centuries to install on 
> legacy software!
> You'll have to type a bunch of information while installing, where you 
> live, time zone, language, etc. and then the installation will just go 
> for a while. About half/three quarters of the way into the 
> installation, you might be prompted to click the screen resolutions 
> you want to include with the installations. Basically Ubuntu will 
> already have detected what your system can support, so you should only 
> have to click enter. Nonetheless, if you leave your machine over 
> night, go to bed, and are super excited to see your new system in the 
> morning, you'll still have to click enter in the morning. At this 
> point you're not that far from rebooting your new machine.
> After that, it's smooth sailing; you'll need to reboot your machine 
> and everything should be a go.
> This is where the fun really begins...Customization, playing around, etc.
>
>         Gee, Thank You very much for pointing me to this one!!!
>         Already I am
>         installing the software (having done the selections. Now comes
>         the fun
>         part (twiddling my thumbs, and .......)
>         The problem of RSDP resurfaced, and I tried to type in the
>         command:
>         ACPI=OFF, not knowing the proper Function Key to press for the
>         command,
>         without any success.Boot= (whatever ) comes up, and when I tried
>         deleting the command after the "=" and gotten as far as ACPI=
>         before
>         being able to type in 'OFF", the system kicked in, and started
>         loading
>         the rest of the software. Now, I assume that this will take
>         all night to
>         install itself onto the HD?
>         Don.
>
9;00 a.m.   Finished the loading, now time to reboot. Hooray! It 
woiked...oh, shoot! forgot the login information. Lesson learned: Write 
down critical information. So, have to start all over again!
BTW: if ever I forget, or, lose the login info, is there any way for me 
to get that info w/o reloading all that stuff, and losing any critical info?
Also, how do I make a floppy reboot disk for emergency?
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