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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2006 17:26 Edited at: 2nd Sep 2006 17:41
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First of all assume that I'm stupid...I'm sure it won't be hard at all.

I am about to download Ubuntu Linux and then burn to CD...

What I need to know...

A good 'for dummies' explanation on installing Linux and partitioning the HD...What I need to watch out for etc.

I have a lot of files that I really don't want to lose, so if there is any chance I may screw up, let me know so I can burn all of those files to disk.

Also, I have about 5gb hard disk left, I'm free it up at the moment and will probaly do a clean up whilst I am watching a movie later. Will that be a pain in anyway? [edit] Make that 10.6 gb.

Cheers dudes.

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Oddmind
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2006 18:33
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your gonna have to cleanslate the whole thing, linux is a picky little priss.

Check google videos on an entire video on how to do what you want.

search "Ubuntu, XP, Partition" or something and it will come up.

good luck man gentoo was a long and dark road for me, of course i had to compile my own kernel and everything but ubuntu is a bit more forgiving.

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Posted: 2nd Sep 2006 18:43
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Ah I see...I'll back everything up and see if my Dad will let me have the boot up disk to wipe my PC clean and partition it, I'll catch him in a good mood for that.

I've come accross stuff for Linux and ATI cards (But was directed at Gentoo), looks pretty useful, meaning I should be able to continue to plot behind everybody's back in Torque in a whole differant OS...

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the_winch
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Backup your important data. You should do this anyway, hard disks don't last forever.

Then read this.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation

By way of demonstration, he emitted a batlike squeak that was indeed bothersome.
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Good luck - we had a bash with Ubuntu on a spare PC (everyone has a spare, right?) and everything worked fine right up until we had to try to install new drivers. *shudders*
It won't boot now

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Quote: "I've come accross stuff for Linux and ATI cards (But was directed at Gentoo)"


hehe you mind redirecting that towards a certain favourite forum dweller of yours that happens to have the e-mail adress krazyjimmy at gmail dot com?

Gentoo is meh biatch.

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Posted: 3rd Sep 2006 01:16
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The ATI working stuff is in a tutorial, here is the link matey;

http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html#1_whyuse

Unfortunately, my Dad won't let me partition my hard as 'technically' its not my computer, as I didn't pay for it...

However, I was planning to buy an external hard drive, because 40gb isn't enough space for me to use up . But would an external hard drive run an OS, or would it be treated like other external media?

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I use Ubuntu as a duel boot on my laptop. It's a great system until you attempt to install software or drivers. Basically to do it you need to go to the command line prompt. If you can, get Red Hat or Fedora, it's not as easy to install initially, but it does at least support rpm's which does make software and hardware drivers much easier, if you can get rpm files.

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Posted: 4th Sep 2006 11:53
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I see cool, thanks, I did get the general feel that some of Ubuntu's drivers are a pain, as I saw someone was saying how difficult it is to install the ATI drivers, so I did look at red hat, I haven't looked at Fedore, but I will.

...However, turns out I am not allowed to partition my hard drive, as my computer not fully mine, however, would it be possible to install Linux onto an external hard drive? Or do they run like other external disks (like memory sticks, CDs, DVDs, floppys)

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