I found a great article about installing the Enlightenment window manager on Ubuntu.
- First, create your own bootable Ubuntu CD.
- Now boot to it.
- Select ‘Install or start Ubuntu’ from the odd menu that shows up first.
- Now wait. Go brew a cup of tea. You’re booting from CD, so this will be slow.
- Now you should be looking at the Ubuntu desktop. If you’re not yet, go get another cup of tea.
- Looking at the Ubuntu desktop? Great.
- Now, in the upper left corner of the screen, you will see ‘Applications’, ‘Places’ and ‘System’.
- Click on ‘System’ and a drop down menu will appear.
- From the System menu, select ‘Administration’. If you’ve done it right, another menu appears.
- From the Administration menu, select ‘Partition Editor’, it’s the seventh item from the top.
- In a few moments, you should see the GParted partition editor window.
I’m not sure where this article should go from here. GParted does some nifty things. Remember to only use it on a drive that does not contain any vital information; because one of the things it can do for you is remove everything on the drive.
- Edward
A bootable Ubuntu CD is a great tool to have. It can let you browse the internet safely from a virus infected Windows ME workstation (is there any other kind?). It can give you quick access to a GUI Partition manager (GParted). And if you’re tired of Windows ME, it can install Ubuntu for you.
So here’s instructions to make your own.
- Download an ISO image of the Ubuntu 7 or the latest version. Don’t worry that you don’t know what an ISO is, we’ll get to that.
Download and install Infra Recorder for Windows. Explanation: Infra Recorder lets you use an ISO image file (.iso) to create a CD with very precise contents. The ISO file contains thousands of files, which will be placed in exactly the right places on the CD. Sure, you could just go download every one of those files by hand and place it in just the right place, but don’t bother. Infra Recorder and the correct .iso file does this for you.
Use Infra Recorder to burn the Ubuntu ISO image to a blank CD. Start with the toolbar button tagged ‘Burn ISO image’, then browse to the .iso file. Then press ‘Ok’ a bunch of times without changing any of the default options.
- The tray will eject automatically when it’s finished.
- Label your Bootable Ubuntu CD.
- Use your bootable Ubuntu CD for fun and profit.
- Enjoy!
- Edward
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