ibrahim said:
Brother.
I have the Ubuntu LiveCD but don't know how to use.
I also have the installation CD as well.
I want to use the LiveCD but don't know how.
Could you please help.
i browsed through and saw these responses and just felt like it would be really appropriate to fire up the live cd to answer!
have you tried it? how far did you get?
when the puter first boots up with the live cd in place, you'll come to a boot screen. please do read everything that you can get to from there!! true enough; there are gonna be a lot of words and concepts that are gonna look like complete gibberish. but DO believe that you can make sense of them!
just hitting the enter key when that boot screen comes up will get the ball rolling.
however, the purpose of that boot screen is to give you options to configure a few things before you start:
on my computer, since i don't have any PCMCIA devices (laptop stuff, generally), i'll add the boot parameter hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false.
(also, the computers on my lan all have static ip addresses, so i don't need dhcp (dynamic host control protocol). however, many, if not most, ISPs give out dynamic ip addresses. (your provider will tell your computer what it's address is.) if you can fire up the live cd and click the blue globe (firefox) on the top panel and get to the internet, it's all configured for you.)
in this case, at the boot screen, type in "live hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false" (without the quotes) and hit enter.
truthfully, it really doesn't hurt a whole lot to just use the default settings by just pressing enter. turning off stuff, or rather, telling ubuntu not to install stuff just allows more room in ram for running things.
er ... just thought of something: will your computer boot from the CD if there is one in the drive when the computer comes on? that will definitely slow you down if not!
while the computer is booting, press the delete key to get to the BIOS setup. it might be under advanced options, peripheral setup or it could even be simple like boot options; somewhere in there is a page that allows you to set the order of which device the computer will boot from first, second, third and/or fourth.
if that setting is available, make the necessary change and press F10 to exit, being sure to save changes. if that option is not there, or if it does not need to be changed, press esc and do not save changes. be very careful!! while it is possible to recover from BIOS boo-boos, it usually involves opening your computer.