Ubuntu 9.1

[Darcy Casselman]

Hi Raymond,

If you're not using the machine much anyway, I don't think it would
hurt to at least try Karmic Koala.  I've installed it on five
different machines so far, with only one or two minor hiccoughs.

As to your original question, if it's not booting to your CD when you
power on, you may need to configure your BIOS to boot from CD.
There's documentation online on how to do this.  For example,
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD#BIOS%20is%20not%20set%20to%20boot%20from%20CD%20or%20DVD%20drive

BTW, you won't see any speed improvement from getting rid of a
separate Windows partition, but I suppose you would have extra
harddrive space to play with.

Darcy.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:50 PM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ken, I am not proficient. I have been using Ubuntu for less than a year
> but I was looking forward to Karmic Koala in order to use the installation
> to dump Windows and have only it as OS. Right now I have both on this
> machine and I really dont use Windows anymore and I think that things would
> speed up with only one OS. I just dont know enough and I thought that the
> new CD would help in installing just Ubuntu. Thanks for your input Ken,  Ray
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Kenneth Hawkins <kjurkic at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Raymond
>>
>> from posts here and on other *nix forums, if you are not a proficient
>> linux user, it may be better if you DON'T move to 9.10; it has some bugs
>> that are causing issues for many that have made the upgrade. I am currently
>> using 9.10 on a laptop, and I am getting all kinds of weird behaviour
>> vis-a-vis running on battery, power monitoring, sleep mode, etc. Also a few
>> strange graphic artifacts. I can work around these, but they would likely be
>> show-stoppers for beginners.
>>
>>
>> regards
>> Ken
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
>> To: help & resources <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Sent: Thu, November 12, 2009 9:26:40 AM
>> Subject: Ubuntu 9.1
>>
>> Help! I am using 9.04 and I received the 9.1 CD today and I need to know
>> how to install it??  Ray
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