Comments on: Installing Ubuntu the easy way http://www.seandeasy.com/installing-ubuntu-the-easy-way/ .Net and tech related topics Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:46:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Sean http://www.seandeasy.com/installing-ubuntu-the-easy-way/#comment-15224 Sean Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:57:07 +0000 http://www.seandeasy.com/installing-ubuntu-the-easy-way/#comment-15224 Hi, Thanks for stopping by. You can install this on a machine without an internet connection, if you read Step 2 above again it explains how to do it. Answer to Question 1: If you install Ubuntu to your harddrive (using Wubi) then your CD drive will be free and you can load on software using CDs. Answer to Question 2: When I ran Ubuntu using a virtualized environment (both VMware and MS Virtual PC) i ran into some hardware detection issues. Only when I installed Ubuntu on my harddrive did everything work ok. I would say to try the install and you should be able to use the graphical interface and it should be faster as well. If it doesn't work out then the Wubi installer allows you to easily unintall. Let me know if you need more info. - Sean Hi,
Thanks for stopping by. You can install this on a machine without an internet connection, if you read Step 2 above again it explains how to do it.

Answer to Question 1:
If you install Ubuntu to your harddrive (using Wubi) then your CD drive will be free and you can load on software using CDs.

Answer to Question 2:
When I ran Ubuntu using a virtualized environment (both VMware and MS Virtual PC) i ran into some hardware detection issues. Only when I installed Ubuntu on my harddrive did everything work ok. I would say to try the install and you should be able to use the graphical interface and it should be faster as well. If it doesn’t work out then the Wubi installer allows you to easily unintall.

Let me know if you need more info.
- Sean

]]> By: free2useemail http://www.seandeasy.com/installing-ubuntu-the-easy-way/#comment-15208 free2useemail Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:55:16 +0000 http://www.seandeasy.com/installing-ubuntu-the-easy-way/#comment-15208 I am about to try it. I downloaded the Ubuntu installer today, and I got home, and started it up, but it wanted to download Ubuntu. This would be OK, but I don't have internet on my computer. Anyway, I hope this works. I am really getting annoyed with this ISO stuff. Everyone tells me that you have to download this LiveCD with ISO, and IT WILL BOOT RIGHT UP. Well, it has not for me, so I hope this will work better. Question: It will reconise my CDs when running Ubuntu right, because the only way that I can install programs for Ubuntu is by downloading it on another PC and putting it on my flash drive, then installing it to Ubuntu. Question 2: (email me about this) I know for a fact my graphic card will run the special effects, but I have been using VirtualBox program, which is letting me run it from CD, but NO animations, will this be faster and more graphical even thought it is a virtual machine? I am about to try it. I downloaded the Ubuntu installer today, and I got home, and started it up, but it wanted to download Ubuntu. This would be OK, but I don’t have internet on my computer. Anyway, I hope this works. I am really getting annoyed with this ISO stuff. Everyone tells me that you have to download this LiveCD with ISO, and IT WILL BOOT RIGHT UP. Well, it has not for me, so I hope this will work better.

Question: It will reconise my CDs when running Ubuntu right, because the only way that I can install programs for Ubuntu is by downloading it on another PC and putting it on my flash drive, then installing it to Ubuntu.

Question 2: (email me about this) I know for a fact my graphic card will run the special effects, but I have been using VirtualBox program, which is letting me run it from CD, but NO animations, will this be faster and more graphical even thought it is a virtual machine?

]]> By: Sean http://www.seandeasy.com/installing-ubuntu-the-easy-way/#comment-8161 Sean Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:59:51 +0000 http://www.seandeasy.com/installing-ubuntu-the-easy-way/#comment-8161 Hi, Thanks for stopping by. a) Boot into Windows and take a look at the file X:\wubi\boot\grub\menu.lst where X is the drive where you installed it. See if there is anything pointing to the incorrect location. It may have something to do with the fact that you have installed it on a drive other than C. I installed Ubuntu on C and didn't have this problem. b) Ubuntu is gui based. It is really easy to use and a very good user interface. You will enjoy it once you get over the problem. Hope that helps. Hi,

Thanks for stopping by.

a) Boot into Windows and take a look at the file X:\wubi\boot\grub\menu.lst where X is the drive where you installed it. See if there is anything pointing to the incorrect location. It may have something to do with the fact that you have installed it on a drive other than C. I installed Ubuntu on C and didn’t have this problem.

b) Ubuntu is gui based. It is really easy to use and a very good user interface. You will enjoy it once you get over the problem.

Hope that helps.

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