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Posted: September 3, 2010 06:23 am  | |||||
      IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49    | Most of us have run into computer problems at one time or another. Sometimes it is hardware, but most of the time it is software. Either way, often times it means you have trouble - or simply -can not access- the Internet, which makes asking for help or downloading patches and other software troublesome. The solution is a Linux LiveCD. A LiveCD is a CD(or DVD) that you can boot off of. Yup, thats right - A full operating system on a CD! And unless you have a significant amount of experience, trying to make Windows run off a CD is impossible. The main benefit of it being on a CD is that you cannot screw it up. A CD is a read-only disk, so no matter -what- you do to it, when you reboot, everything is back to defaults. This is a downside also - You can't save favorites or use it quite like you would a full computer. However, when your harddisk dies, or Windows won't boot - Its good to be able to simply stick a disk in your drive, boot off that, and have full access to the internet! How do I get one, you ask? Simple. 1. Download a Ubuntu LiveCD from Here. You can either get it as a normal file download, or a torrent. You have two choices: 32-bit and 64-bit. 32-bit will work with all computers*. 64-bit is only for AMD 64 and any multi-core processors, and any Intel processors of Core2 and beyond. If you don't know. get the 32-bit version. 2. Burn the ISO image to a disk. There are many free utilities for doing this, and detailed instructions are shown on that download link. 3. Reboot with the disk in the CD drive. You should be asked if you wish to boot into Ubuntu. If you want to, go ahead and press enter. If you are not asked, you are going to have to manually select the CD to boot off of: When you first start your computer, and it says "Press X to enter setup", press F10, F11 and F12 in sequence. You should get a blue-backgrounded screen that lets you select from several things. One should have CD or DVD in it; that's the one you want to select. Ok, so I've booted into Ubuntu, what do I do? Well, the first thing to remember is that it is NOT Windows. Its similar, but about as similar as OSX is to Windows. You have the equivalent of the start menu in the lower left hand corner, and your typical task bar at the bottom of the screen. What you probably want to do at this point is get Firefox up, so open the Start Menu and type "Firefox". An icon for Firefox should show on the right. Alternatively, click the "all programs" link, and find Firefox in the menu tree. If firefox starts, you should be fine. 90+% of the time, you will have network without having to mess with anything; great. If not... it has to be messed with on a case-by-case basis. Have fun messing with it, and remember that you can always boot up into that disk when your Windows fails. You can also install a copy of Ubuntu to your harddisk if you want, but you don't need to. Hope this helps you guys! -Rob -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link  I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox | ||||
Posted: September 3, 2010 10:07 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: tai-master Group: Ex-Member Posts: 118 Member No.: 2284 Joined: June 5, 2010 Total Events Attended: 50 |
When doesn't windows fail? Everyone should install Ubuntu ^^ Or at least a partial partition should have it =D  --------------------  -Made by Harmony <3 | ||||
Posted: September 6, 2010 11:31 am | |||||
| IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49 |
While you or I may be able to handle it, I can say for certain that a number of us here are -not- up to messing with Linux. Heck, I figure at least half of us wouldn't be able to reinstall Windows without a step-by-step guide! Messing with console commands, alsa vs. pulseaudio, manually installing the graphics driver because the automated tool doesn't work... All things that can be dealt with, given a few hours and a knowledge of Google - provided you know -something- about what you are doing. When you have someone who doesn't know the difference between CPU and RAM, however... Yea. But if you play with this disk and like it, by all means go ahead; it can't hurt. Just be warned that you -will- have to go some googling if you want to figure out how to do more than a few basic things. -Rob -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox | ||||
Posted: September 7, 2010 07:42 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Jouke[WG] Group: Ex-Member Posts: 153 Member No.: 2326 Joined: July 24, 2010 Total Events Attended: 16 | I installed Ubuntu on my previous computer. Didn't want to wait an hour installing so I picked the faster option; Windows 100% deleted. Left me unable to use audio for 3 years (the sound card became supported in 2010). For some reason it crashed quite often too, not sure why. Ubuntu is better, yes. But the people who realize that usually know a whole lot more about computers than the people they recommend it to  Can't really compare a shitty laptop with this 8gb ram desktop but I never really had problems with Windows. If you know a thing or two about computers and have some common sense, viruses shouldn't be an issue either. I think I have a Live CD laying around somewhere, should it be needed  --------------------  | ||||
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