ubuntu blues

[Alfred]

Hi I'm not a World Renown Expert in Ubuntu, but I have installed it on a
few machines in different ways. You need to have the recommended
hardware. 128 MB Ram Minimum. Say a P1, 300 Mhz to something more modern
Intel or AMD 2 Ghz system, with 500 - 1000 Megs Ram. Older Machines you
might use Xbuntu, newer ones Ubuntu works OK in most cases. 5.10 worked
pretty good. 6.06-1 works pretty good. 6.10 works pretty good. You need
about 6 Gigs of Hard Drive, about 1.5 Gigs for the operating system, the
rest for your files. A 20 to 80 Gig Drive would be better. Video Cards,
some ATI, and some Nvidea Cards work well, SiS works better in newer
versions. With the Computer off, and unplugged, the Switch on the Power
Supply is off too. Try to make a list of what hardware you have in those
Towers, Chip Numbers, and names. Hard Drive sizes. Ram sizes. Video Card
details. Check to see that the Memory is properly seated in the slots.
The CPU Fan is Clean, and oiled. The Heat Sink is Clean. That all the
wires to the mother board are properly connected. That the Cables to the
Hard Drive(s) are properly Connected. Then close up the case, and make
sure all the plugs to the Video Card, Sound Card, are properly
connected, and secure. Then plug in the Power Cord, turn on the switch,
on the power supply. Turn on the Monitor, and other Equipment.

 On older versions like 5.10 sometimes you would need to know details
like this, to complete the install. With 6.06-1 LTS installs became much
more automatic. It will ask a few details, and then does the whole
install, while you walk the dog, etc. Come back and it's all done! 

Live CD's allow you to boot from the CD, so you need to go into the
Bios, and set the boot order to Floppy, CD/DVD Drive, Hard Drive, etc.
If there isn't a boot disk in the floppy drive, but you have a live CD
in the CD/DVD Drive, then it will boot from that. To do this you You put
the live CD into the drive, when the Computer is on. Then turn the
Computer off. Then Turn the Computer on again. It then Boots from the
Live CD. When it is finished, there should be an Icon on the screen that
says Install under it.

Click on this Install Icon. Then it begins the process of installing
Ubuntu, on your Computer.
During the install there may be some questions, about your Network,
Questions about some other things, Questions about your Password and
user ID. Write these down in a little book that will be your Linux
Diary. If you forget what these are, then you can look them up. Then it
does the whole install. So the next time you reboot the machine, with
the Live CD out of the Machine, it will boot from the Hard Drive, in
Ubuntu Whatever Version you are using. 

If there are not  little Gremlins Living inside your Machine, most
likely it will boot up without all kinds of Errors now!

There are these Preparations that you need to do, when ever you Install
any kind of Operating System, Linux or Windows XP, or OS/2, etc. When
you do them, the right way, then that minimizes all kinds of Error
Messages.

Alfred!


On Wed, 2007-31-01 at 07:21 -0800, Brian wrote:
> can some experienced ubuntu user help out
> 
> feeling like i been set up here
> 
> everytime i try to install some of this supposed free software, i keep
> getting error message after erro message, and now, i cannot go back to
> windows as i have completely formatted both towers twice and because
> they are both them dell ready made cds, they do not actually install
> naything worthy of win xp...
> 
> so, i am here, trying desperately to maintain a level of sanity, but, no
> help to be found at the ubuntu forums, and so far, cryptic lines about
> vague descriptions.... are i am seeing for how to install softwares...
> 
> if i can just get like three software to install correctly, i can
> actually start using this computer for more than 'help me emails'
> 
> you know the matrix, and the red/blue pills? i took the red pill and now
> where the **** is morpheous and that constuct thingy they stick in the
> back of the head, i need to learn all i can yesterday, never mind
> tomorrow
> 
> yeh, i tried my best to make this not so rantish... how'd i do?
> 
>