Ubuntu Live CD

heard of norton ghost? it can backup your whole drive. I use it a lot and I assure you, it backs up EVERYTHING. I don't like symantec but their norton ghost program is an exception. You can back up to image file, restore the whole drive from that same image, or clone one hard drive to another. Can't be without it.

I downloaded the ubuntu Live iso and tried it just now. Not bad. For internet I had to kick-start my ethernet card myself (strange), and when I tried some video capture the preview frame was in black and white (scoff). I liked it's simplicity though. Less cluttered and clearer layout than knoppix and I installed a couple of extra programs from the CD which I've never been able to do before with linux, which proves it is more user friendly. Dissappointing that it couldn't work with my TV card tho, and it also didn't find my firewire port.. Audio CD's also played really slow and the sound was poor. I could probably sort these things out if I could be bothered but I can't. I'm a well trained windows puppy.

What do you use to burn your .iso's? Nero? Alcohol 120? I may be assuming - if so, I apologize, but you can't just copy an ISO to CD, you feed it to a burning program, ususally with the "burn image" command.

CC

for some reason it crashes my dsl modem and only pushing its reset button and booting to windoes makes it work again. every time i boot the cd the modem crashes

also it sees my raid0 as 2 seprate drives so i cannot access any of my info.

Just figured out how to boot from the Koppix download (iso) file (used Nero to create the boot CD). My thanks to those who helped me with that. My primary purpose was to play around with Linux a bit (first look) and to use the partition program that comes with Koppix to resize/remove partitions on the C drive (which worked! although for some reason the drives (CD and 2nd physical HD) after the removed "D" partition have kept their "E" and "F" designations in Windows.

As to Koppix functionality, my brief look has shown that the audio card doesn't work properly (sound volume very low and distorted) and it won't drive the monitor at 800x600. Still however pretty interesting...

Laurie Forbes

Correct an if you don't know how...

Google can be your friend. A "burn iso image" search will give you all the information you need and probably for your software.

If you would like an XP that runs from a CD try searching reatogo. It is great when you OS has a problem and you need to copy files or fix stuff.

Nice, innit?

Glad to have helped ;)

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Google 'wine linux'.

If I'm reading them right, it runs Windoze applicaitions in Linux.

-- W§ mostly in m.s -

As it turns out, Win4 allows win apps to run Concurrently with Linux, not under it...

Richard

That's fine if you want Windows anyway/too. Wine claims to let you run Win applications without even having Windows on the machine. One operating system, free of cost, and at less virus risk is appealing to me. YMMV. I haven't tried it yet so I'm only going by what their page says.

-- W§ mostly in m.s -

Thanks, Winston.

That's more like what I had in mind.

Richard

Or "win4lin"..though I dont think its free. It is supposed to work pretty well

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the s*it out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

It's Christmas in February!

The Ubuntu CD arrived today.

I dropped the Ubuntu Live CD in the drive and - low and behold - It Works!

I'll have some serious playing-with-it-time before I really know what I'm doing, but my first impression is "So Long, Mr. Gates!"

Gunner (if you are still with us), Thanks Bud!

Richard

"Richard Lamb" wrote in message news:nj4Jf.19486$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...

I'll now have to see if I can find a driver to suit my old Roland Plotter.

Tom

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:24:03 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Richard Lamb quickly quoth:

Mine came last month.

Same here; it looks quite interesting. But I can't abandon my Adobe apps just yet so I'm stuck with at least one box carrying Vinders for awhile.

Why don't you like Unca Bill?

Mine won't pick up my U.S. Robotics modem. Doesn't load the comm drivers and has no dialer for my dial up connection. Rig is a Pentium

Gary Pewitt N9ZSV Sturgeon's Law "Ninety per cent of everything is crap"

snipped my ravings...

Hard to put into words...

I guess that means it's mostly emotional rather than logical.

Richard

There are two kinds of modems: Hardware modem = works with Linux Software modem, aka "WinModem", works only with Windows Which do you have?

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Bad news, boobie: the "WinModem" is HARDWARE, too!