7.10 No Brown Desktop

[Karl Larsen]

Jeffrey Tooker wrote:
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> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Tooker
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:31 AM
> To: 'Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions'
> Subject: 7.10 No Brown Desktop
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> I have downloaded Ubunto 7.10. from the internet.  This is not the burn to
> disk version, or at 1 AM the night I loaded it I loaded it straight in.
    It is quite difficult to load from the .iso file on your computer. 
Much easier to put the file on a cd and load it as it is intended.


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    I do not believe you.

>   7.10 is on a seperate HD by itself.  I have since downloaded
> and burned to disk 7.10.  I got the book "The Official Ubunto Book" by
> Benjamin Mako Hill.  Since I have 7.10 installed I went to to chapter three
> page 55 "Using the Ubunto Desktop".  I started my way through chapter three
> with my computer on and logged into 7.10.  First I have no brown desktop.

    No brown deskstop means your not loaded.
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    Stop all this and install the software from the cd as the book says 
to do it. Then the book will work. Good luck :-)

Karl
>  In reading the book it says to boot up the system with the disk in the CD
> drive to install 7.10 from the disk. It does not boot up from the CD.  I
> believe this is in Windows, but the book is not specific. I am trying to
> install the disk version of 7.10 over the presently installed 7.10.  This
> should clear the drive of the existing program and load the new disk version
> of 7.10.  The book also says the system will boot up off of the CD drive.  I
> believe if I can get the Windows portion to bootup off of the CD drive that
> the the installation of the disk version of 7.10 will install. I do not know
> how to get this done.  Help!!!!!
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> Better yet, how does one un install Ubuntu 7.10 from a computer?  Once the
> 7.10 is gone the diskload should work OK.
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