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[Chris Rossini]

Ahh Pieter, you're in for it now...better start drawing up some fee schedules. 

[Nogg3r5]

Pieter, im fomulating a list of questions for you, if ya dont mind. I really wanna use Ubuntu, but a few things are holding me back. Im gonna hold fire until I have some clearer ideas though

Hey wait a minute, I was the one who had all the questions!

Yeah well, u inspired me!

[El Guru (Al)]

Pieter, im fomulating a list of questions for you, if ya dont mind. I really wanna use Ubuntu, but a few things are holding me back. Im gonna hold fire until I have some clearer ideas though

Hey wait a minute, I was the one who had all the questions!

Yeah well, u inspired me!

Should I be worried?

[Nogg3r5]

lol praps. I just tried the restricted drivers manager. Im trying to get my graphics card working at full res. Im only using the Live CD atm. The problem is, that Ubuntu wants to restart to install the drivers. Obv, if i restart, the drivers are lost as its a live CD.

N e one have n e ideas? I thought maybe restarting the X-Server might do it, but it didnt seem to work.

[Pieter]

My guess is that this is something on kernel level, and therefore this driver requires you to reboot your system in order to make it work.

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Note: first this was part of my post, but then I remembered that Nogg3r5 was still waiting on a new hard disk to arrive. Or something like that. Anyways, I wouldn't want to delete that part of my post though because I think some people will find this information useful.

What's stopping you from installing Ubuntu on your hard disk, by the way? You can remove it from your system at any time by following these directions:

1. Deleting the Ubuntu partition from your hard disk using partitioning software that can boot from CD. Don't run the tool off of your hard drive, I've heard that that's dangerous.
2. Boot from your Windows CD and start the recovery console.
3. When being asked for the admin password, leave it empty if you don't know it. That will work in most cases.
4. Enter the commands fixmbr and fixboot.
5. Reboot. The Ubuntu boot menu should be gone now.

[Nogg3r5]

My guess is that this is something on kernel level, and therefore this driver requires you to reboot your system in order to make it work.

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Note: first this was part of my post, but then I remembered that Nogg3r5 was still waiting on a new hard disk to arrive. Or something like that. Anyways, I wouldn't want to delete that part of my post though because I think some people will find this information useful.

What's stopping you from installing Ubuntu on your hard disk, by the way? You can remove it from your system at any time by following these directions:

1. Deleting the Ubuntu partition from your hard disk using partitioning software that can boot from CD. Don't run the tool off of your hard drive, I've heard that that's dangerous.
2. Boot from your Windows CD and start the recovery console.
3. When being asked for the admin password, leave it empty if you don't know it. That will work in most cases.
4. Enter the commands fixmbr and fixboot.
5. Reboot. The Ubuntu boot menu should be gone now.

Sounds good. However, I think ill try Wubi first. Its a little easier to uninstall.

[Pieter]

Alright, but keep in mind that
a) this install method is not supported by the Ubuntu team
b) this installer is still in beta
c) you won't be able to access your Linux partition on Windows

[Ryan Wagner]

I would be a little skeptical myself using Wubi just because I wouldn't want anything happening to my Windows partition. Who knows, it could crash everything so you might want to make sure all of your important data is backed up.

[Pieter]

@Ryan: I think that Wubi will only copy some files to your hard disk and alter your Windows bootloader configuration. It won't mess with your partition table. It's like as if a Firefox installer would mess up your partition table. It makes no sense.

[Nogg3r5]

Im pretty happy with wubi, although the initla beta wouldnt boot. Apparently the new version is more stable.

Basically, it just tells/lets the boot loader boot from the Ubuntu ISO file. It keeps everything contained so its easy to uninstall.

Alright, but keep in mind that
a) this install method is not supported by the Ubuntu team
b) this installer is still in beta
c) you won't be able to access your Linux partition on Windows

a) There's seperae support on the Wubi site, but its still just Ubuntu.
b) Beta schmeter, I have no fear
c) This is annoying, but its just for testing.

Basically, I just wanna see if the graphics card drivers work, then I wanna test Beagle[ /url]and [url=http://banshee-project.org/]Banshee

[El Guru (Al)]

@PDecker, thanks for the link to CDBurnerXP Pro, much better burner program that what I had been using.