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The CD from Ubuntu arrived this morning and it was the 6.10 version.

However prior to its arrival I had already solved the problem of InfraRecorder not burning the CD properly. By that I mean to ‘unpacking’ the .iso rather than burning the .iso file to CD. The instructions on the web site are wrong or maybe incomplete.

Somewhere from the darkest recesses of my ancient brain I dragged out that Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 will ‘unpack’ and burn an .iso file so I tried that and lo and behold I ended up with a bootable CD.

Booting from the CD takes forever and a couple of days but once Linux was up I felt right at home. It has an Amiga ‘feel’ about it in that there were drop down menus to access the various programmes and the desktop was almost empty. I like that!

It is difficult to assess Linux running from a CD because a CD drive is nowhere near as fast as a hard drive and of course I couldn’t access the Internet, nor my secondary hard drive. The other problem would be with PageStream, a DTP programme, Audio Cleaning Lab and one or two other programmes that I use. There isn’t a version that runs on Linux. Being a different OS to Windows it obviously would not be affected by the hundreds of thousands of ‘nasties’ that can infect the normal PC, which is a plus.

I suppose that I could allocate a spare partition to use to boot up on Linux but in all honesty it would be a bit of a waste of hard drive space.

It was an interesting experiment and worth all the hassle because it brought to my attention that my CD/DVD re-writer was dicky when burning a DVD.
 
jambutty said:
Booting from the CD takes forever and a couple of days but once Linux was up I felt right at home. It has an Amiga ‘feel’ about it in that there were drop down menus to access the various programmes and the desktop was almost empty. I like that!
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Mmm, my laptop will boot from a live CD to a working system in ~4-5 mins tops? was it longer than that?


jambutty said:
It is difficult to assess Linux running from a CD because a CD drive is nowhere near as fast as a hard drive and of course I couldn’t access the Internet, nor my secondary hard drive.
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How do you connect to the net then? I've used ubuntu, Knoppix and Gentoo live Cds over the last couple of months and each time they have automagically setup my wifi card with no problems whatsoever. and access to your second hard disk is built in, you just need to mount it (usually by double clicking the device icon on the desktop)

jambutty said:
The other problem would be with PageStream, a DTP programme, Audio Cleaning Lab and one or two other programmes that I use. There isn’t a version that runs on Linux. Being a different OS to Windows it obviously would not be affected by the hundreds of thousands of ‘nasties’ that can infect the normal PC, which is a plus.
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Pagestream is available for Linux and there is Scibus which is well respected, Audio cleaning lab can be replaced by Gnome Wave Cleaner. You need to get past teh idea of "I want this windows program" and more " I need to do this, what softawre will do it for me"

Linux isn't windows (and thankfully never will be)

jambutty said:
I suppose that I could allocate a spare partition to use to boot up on Linux but in all honesty it would be a bit of a waste of hard drive space.

It was an interesting experiment and worth all the hassle because it brought to my attention that my CD/DVD re-writer was dicky when burning a DVD.
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I actually thought that as an ex Amiga user you would fall into it quite well, ah well, never mind
 
I'm glad it worked for you in the end. It does take a long time to load from CD, especialy if you don't have a large amount of ram.

edit: removed my post 'cause entwisi beat me to it. :p
 
I didn’t actually time it but I guess about 5 minutes is about right. It just seemed like forever and two days. Time only flies when you are enjoying yourself.
How do you connect to the net then?
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Well I get a bit of string and thoroughly wet it and plug one end into the phone socket and the other end into a USB port on my computer. Sadly that doesn’t work so I do it the regular way – phone socket – router – USB port and ran the BT CD to set things up.

Rightly or wrongly I reasoned that as I was booting up on a CD that couldn’t be written to there was no point in setting up an Internet connection and mounting the second hard drive or doing anything else that would require something to be written to the OS. I have no doubt that had I installed Linux to hard drive it would have worked fine.

I will leave Linux on my mental back burner for now and if it comes to pass that my current computer dies on me, rather than going for (apologies for swearing) Vista - I will go down the Linux Road.

In the meantime I’ll stick with what I have.

Thanks for all the help. It is much appreciated.
 
I've just downloaded Ad-aware SE, and have no idea what to do with the objects detected have read the help menu but it says not everything needs to be deleted. But I have no idea what needs to be and what doesnt. Any help??
 
Have already downloaded and done a scan on ad-aware, so still want to know how to use it.
 
been a while since i used it but there shoud be 2 options either qurentine or fix

if you click fix it will display a warning that teh files are going to be deleted

you then click yes and it deletes the bad files

usualy with adaware it will say some of teh operations can not be completed until after a system reboot


run adaware again to be sure it has removed them
 
Lolly after the scan has run click on scan summary and tick the boxes for tracking cookies and mru list then click ok to remove
 
If it is of any use to you Lolly I get rid of everything that AdAware finds and I’ve never suffered any adverse effects and neither has my computer.
 
I agree with jambutty here lolly i get rid of everything it comes up with and ive been ok with it..
 
Lolly said:
Thanks for everyones help. I'm a bit useless at the moment eh??:rolleyes:
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Don’t say that Lolly.

Just because you don’t happen to know something that other people know, it doesn’t make you useless.

I’m sure that you know lots of things that we don’t know.
 
hee hee for my little karma friend ......NOT EVERYTHING NO!!!!! HAHAHA

sorry for thread wander guys but it was unsigned and did relate to this thread lol!!!!!
 
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