Over the edge

Alright, I installed Ubuntu on my main desktop.

It didn’t take too long, at 10:50 I disabled my secondary drive and external drive, put the Live CD I made awhile back in, booted up the computer. Bout 10 minutes later it was running off the CD and I started the install. I didn’t need to partition the drive before, and I’m not entirely sure I understand what I did in the install here. I need to investigate the partition and file setup Ubuntu uses more.

After a formatting and installing, I rebooted about 10:38 and a couple minutes later I had logged and was downloading updates. My disk was the previous version, so there were lots of updates, bout 11:02 was when it restarted. So… just under an hour to install and be usable. If I counted the time to DL the current version and burn a new CD, not sure if I would have saved any time. Though I’ll probably DL and burn a new iso to have on hand.

I have been able to access my old D drive, but as read only. Same thing for my external. I need to figure out the root deal so I can give myself write access I think. Oh, the drives of course show up as their lables now - Pickled Boar and The Outback respectively.x

I had to add an unsupported driver or something for my Nvidia video card - it started out at 1280×1024 resolution, now I can not only use desktop effects for that kewl window wobble, but I get a max resolution of 1600×1200. Now I need to figure out how to get my second card/monitor working as well.

I did import my bookmarks, installed filezilla and thunderbird, so next step is to import my mail stuff.. I hope. Then search for answers on the drive and video questions. I will also start posting soon about replacement software options. Something to look forward to eh?