Installing Ubuntu

[Arda Eden]

You may have written the iso data directly on to the disk as just iso
itself.
The iso file must be written as an image. Check it out please.

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Charlie Kravetz <
cjk at teamcharliesangels.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:44:41 +0200
> "Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu)" <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
>
> > Sean or Mona schreef:
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Pridvi Kandagatla" <pridvik at gmail.com>
> > > To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > > Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 22:14
> > > Subject: Installing Ubuntu
> > >
> > >
> > >> Hello,
> > >> I recently downloaded the iso file of the latest version of Ubuntu
> > >> to install on my laptop. When I put the cd into my laptop, the
> > >> autoplay
> > > feature
> > >> is not working. I am not getting a menu of any sort. I can explore
> > >> the contents of the cd and the autoplay feature is working on
> > >> another computer of mine, which is a desktop. Also, when I try to
> > >> boot from the disk, I am getting an error and I can't boot from
> > >> the CD. What should I do? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > It was a disaster for me.  A terrible disaster.
> > > This bugger is a 1.8 ghz Pentium 4 that I'm running.  But I tried
> > > installing Ubuntu 9.04 and not only did it crawl like molasses but
> > > nothing could be done with it.
> > > Indeed I'm not sure if the menus were supposed to work in a similar
> > > fashion to MS Windoze, but I tried left clicking, right clicking,
> > > double clicking, just waiting to see if they drop on their own -
> > > nothing. A misaligned screen display didn't help much, I suppose.
> > > But after all the hope and hype and buildup and anticipation that I
> > > had subjected myself to -- I was really let down.
> > > I was really hoping it would be my salvation from Windoze. No. It
> > > was useless. So I'm back with Windoze 2000 and the very least I can
> > > say about it is -- well.... it works.
> > >
> > >
> > I suggest installing with the Alternate CD, followed by "sudo aptitude
> > install xubuntu-desktop" to get a lightweight gui, XFCE.
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingXubuntu
> >
>
> Please just download and install Xubuntu. If you install Ubuntu, then
> add Xubuntu-desktop, you still get all the gnome apps that are slowing
> it down.
>
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Arda EDEN
Cumhuriyet University
Faculty of Fine Arts
Department of Music Technology
Sivas/TURKEY
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