Ubuntu Linux

[Karsten Breivik_1]

Btw. I did try Ubuntu. It seemed very nice as a workstation distro.

However, I found it to be a little too light for heavier development or server applications. It took a while with apt-get to install all the extras needed. I ended going back to the massive Fedora releases which arguably contain loads of stuff that most people will never need...

[Alan_152]

Kevin... up above you said you told nero to take the iso and burn a bootable disk. Instead, you should have Nero burn the image to disk.

[Kevin_329]

I think the reason is that the drive is not FAT32. The text said something like "not FAT32, exiting". Does LInux not work on NTFS. I attempted to reformat the drive but windows setup will only allow NTFS. I plugged the drive into a diferent system and it posted but did not how up in windows or disk management.

[Alan_152]

That won't have anything to do with it. If you use the liveCD, it might try to build a swap file on a FAT partition, but if one doesn't exist, it isn't a big deal.

If you are doing an Ubuntu install, fdisk/disk druid/autopartition will nuke whatever is on the hard drive if you let it.

[Alzhy]

Kevin,

Just want to find out if you've hurdled one of the most common problems newbies have with Linux "images" or .iso files. As folks before me had so clearly indicated - you need to have Nero or any disc authoring software you're using to "burn the ISO image" to the CD instead of "getting the ISO file on to a CD that was made bootable". An ISO image file is basically a whole "raw" copy of a CD disc - be it bootable, OS, data, whatever...

And welcome to the world of Ubuntu! In my card - undoubtedly one of the best Linux distributions around. Updates and support is quite excellent I might add.

[Steven E. Protter]

I love Ubuntu, good distribution. good multi media, good hardware support.

The ISO issue can be gotten around by using an NFS install point. This permits on some distributions an install without creating CD's.

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