There are a lot of book on Ubuntu at Chapters. I went to the section, cracked open a book and started to read it. I learned something promising--you can boot Ubuntu on a CD and it won't touch your harddisk. This lets you try it out and kick the tires a bit. Nice bit of information. It said that you can use the CD in the back of the CDN$35 book or download it off the internet. So I shelved the book and headed home.
Soon I was downloading an Ubuntu .iso file. Sadly, we only have Shaw LiteSpeed so it was a 6 hour download. But soon there was an iso sitting there in my download directory. Now to burn it to a CD-R. I opened the directory of the CD drive and dragged it over. It said something about losing information. Hmmm.... I better not burn anything yet.
Nero? Can't find it.... Nothing on my Windows XP system looks like it will burn a .iso CD image file to a CD even though Windows XP lets you burn files to a CD. OK... To google!
But there is hope! http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
I downloaded Alex Feinman's program and it adds a menu item when you right click a .iso file that lets you burn it to the CD-R. Why is this not included with Windows XP?!?! Anyway, it solved my problem. In a minute or so, I had an Ubuntu CD.
I went to restart and waited to see what happens. Windows shut down and in seconds I saw the word Ubuntu in it's Orange/Yellow/Red color scheme across my screen. A little musical thing played, and then the screen went funny. It was funny for about 5 seconds, but then a desktop appeared. Cool. I found the terminal program and typed 'gcc'. It's there. Nice. I typed 'flex'. It's there too. Very nice. So video works, audio works. But I went to the network stuff in the Admin tools and couldn't get my WiFi connection. There was no list of WiFi points. Oh well. I shut down and went back to Windows.
I went to see how to configure WiFi and didn't quite have enough context to fully understand what I was seeing, but going back to Ubuntu, it became clear. You have to click the little strength bar icon. Then all the available WiFi points came up. I found mine and connected without a hitch. Then I logged into Facebook and it worked perfectly.
Cool. I would like to install this.
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