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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Enlightenment through Ubuntu

I found a great article about installing the Enlightenment window manager on Ubuntu.

Modify your disk paritions with Ubuntu and GParted

  1. First, create your own bootable Ubuntu CD.
  2. Now boot to it.
  3. Select ‘Install or start Ubuntu’ from the odd menu that shows up first.
  4. Now wait. Go brew a cup of tea. You’re booting from CD, so this will be slow.
  5. Now you should be looking at the Ubuntu desktop. If you’re not yet, go get another cup of tea.
  6. Looking at the Ubuntu desktop? Great.
  7. Now, in the upper left corner of the screen, you will see ‘Applications’, ‘Places’ and ‘System’. 4

Create your own Bootable Ubuntu CD

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.

  1. 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.
  2. Download and install [Infra Recorder for Windows][3].