Installing Ubuntu

[Sean or Mona]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Faizan Kazi" <faizan.s.kazi at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 13:30
Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu


> btw... the menus DO work like do in windows. menu interactiveness over the
> years has not changed... left click on a menu and it should drop down...
> like the "File" menu in most windows programs.
>
> So i am rather surprised when you say you had all these problems.
>
> and another thing occurred to me... when you boot up off the ubuntu live
> cd/dvd you should run a "cd integrity check" to make sure all the data you
> burned to disk was correctly copied/downloaded. it could be your disc is
> corrupted (could even have scratches on it) that may be messing with
> functionality. :s

Is THAT was was assumed of me?
No I didn't use a live CD.  I formatted the whole hard drive and started
from an empty drive.
I downloaded the .iso file from one of the sites and burned a CD from it.
Same with the Edubuntu counterpart which was a little trickier to find and -
I never got to use it.