Re: [PLUG] Migrating from WinXP Pro to Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-13 Thread Tim
Regarding your question about running a stripped down default boot, you can achieve this partially by running a non-default window manager that isn't so heavy as Gnome or KDE's defaults. I personally run Debian on my systems (from which Ubuntu is derived) and use fluxbox as my window manager. It

Re: [PLUG] Question on Grub and fixing the MBR

2010-10-13 Thread logical american
Michael: Tomorrow I will follow your guidelines. I reinstalled Ubuntu again from the CD (had to turn off modeset in the boot parameters) and it took. I told Ubuntu that the MBR was on sda which is hd0. When Ubuntu told me to reboot the system, I removed the CD, watched it reboot ---> -->

Re: [PLUG] Migrating from WinXP Pro to Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-13 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:06:56 -0500 Richard Owlett dijo: >I have Ubuntu 10.10 up and running in test mode from a USB drive. > >My first impression is that the default installation suffers from >the same problems as Windows - trying to be "all things to all >people" while NOT supplying some speci