Ubuntu 9.1

[raymond house]

Ok Darcy, I will try that and check out the docs you suggested. Thank you,
Ray

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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