Ubuntu 10.04
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You can burn it to a dvd-rw, just burn it how you usually do.
For using a USB as a way to install ubuntu then I suggest UNetbootin, worked great on all the times I use it.
Just installed the Netbook edition of Ubunutu for the first time.
2 questions. It keeps asking me about a keyring for my wifi. I created a stupid password because I didn't know what I was doing. Can I change it? or in my search I've seen mention of pam-keyring which will make it so it stops asking me for it. I'm linux nun and haven't a clue what I'm doing.
Also I've installed Minitube and I can search and get a list of videos but nothing ever plays? I just get the text of the video on the right hand side.
EDIT: Sorted the minutube, needed to install the phonon-backend-gsteamer
2 questions. It keeps asking me about a keyring for my wifi. I created a stupid password because I didn't know what I was doing. Can I change it? or in my search I've seen mention of pam-keyring which will make it so it stops asking me for it. I'm linux nun and haven't a clue what I'm doing.
Also I've installed Minitube and I can search and get a list of videos but nothing ever plays? I just get the text of the video on the right hand side.
EDIT: Sorted the minutube, needed to install the phonon-backend-gsteamer
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The keyring is just basically a store to hold all your passwords in without the need to keep entering them.
As for your wifi just to make it easier to connect. Yes you can disable the keyring on startup and use your regular wifi password to connect.
Or you can simply reset it so you can give it a password you know.
http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/07/06/clearing-or-resetting-the-gnome-keyring/
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An easy way to make it store is to right click on your wireless when your connected, go to edit connections, wireless tab and edit the connection. Then in the edit window check "Make available to all users". It should ask you for your admin password and once you've hit apply it should restart your connection. Now when you log in it just connects; no need to enter your password.
Well Ubuntu just made a convert out of me. I have been running XP on my machine which being a dual core really didn't make much sense. Decided to try out Linux as I had heard there had been a lot of progress since I last looked at it, in urm 1998-1999 ish 
Ran the installer through windows, and it almost entirely just worked. OK so I had a bit of trouble with the sound... and after much swearing I have still only half fixed it - it is using the onboard rather than the Xi-Fi at the moment.
That said I am getting a rather sad level of enjoyment in finding out where everything is, at the same time as the functionality I need just being there and working from the start.
Definitely a convert at the moment
Ran the installer through windows, and it almost entirely just worked. OK so I had a bit of trouble with the sound... and after much swearing I have still only half fixed it - it is using the onboard rather than the Xi-Fi at the moment.
That said I am getting a rather sad level of enjoyment in finding out where everything is, at the same time as the functionality I need just being there and working from the start.
Definitely a convert at the moment
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Well Ubuntu just made a convert out of me. I have been running XP on my machine which being a dual core really didn't make much sense. Decided to try out Linux as I had heard there had been a lot of progress since I last looked at it, in urm 1998-1999 ish
Ran the installer through windows, and it almost entirely just worked. OK so I had a bit of trouble with the sound... and after much swearing I have still only half fixed it - it is using the onboard rather than the Xi-Fi at the moment.
That said I am getting a rather sad level of enjoyment in finding out where everything is, at the same time as the functionality I need just being there and working from the start.
Definitely a convert at the moment
Creative X-Fi drivers are dire. Creative are gay, that is my educated opinion ;p
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Did you try imgburner?
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if you look on the ubuntu wiki they have created a brilliant img tool for usb sticks. I used it for my arch install.
Hah, if I'm not the only one who has issues with it then at least I don't feel like quite such a noob. Linux can see that there is a device called a xi-fi, and that it is an audio device... but I couldn't seem to get a driver to load for it so that I could select it as an audio device for Linux to use, let alon make it the default one.
I have much to learn about console commands etc.
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I had an x-fi in 2005-07 when I started on linux, it was a pain. I gave up and sold it. My asus Xonar D2 worked out of the boxsold that now and back to onboard but run it through my amp.
Linux commands are awesome but took me months to get used to it. I don't even think to use the GUI for most things now.
Genius! it appears to have worked.
Trouble is it appears the drive was also part of the problem.
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Genius! it appears to have worked.
Trouble is it appears the drive was also part of the problem.
Hmm, many burners format the disk in a certain way that it can be read by the Windows OS. This effectively ruins the disk in that it isn't a boot disk any more, if that makes sense.
Specialized .iso burners realize that you don't want this formatting and so leave it out.
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I agree with what you are trying to get across here, but I find the usage of the word "gay" to mean an alternative to the word "dire" fairly offensive. Sorry for the OT post.
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I think its pretty clear what I meant. Its the derogatory context that I have a problem with. Maybe its ok where you are from to use the word "gay" to describe something bad, but I find it distasteful on a family forum.
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Thing is, the word has had three different meanings in the past generation. It want from meaning 'happy' to 'homosexual' and now it's turned into a sort of insult. While i agree that it's distasteful i don't think those using it intend to be derogatory of 'gay' people.