On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 16:11 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:50 +0100, Daniel Drummond > <dmdrummo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning > > here. The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an > > up to date system, rather than an out-of-date livecd may be a better > > idea, if purely for any bugfixes that may be present in the up to date > > system. Just back up your data before you do it. Worst case scenario > > then is a reinstall, which with Ubuntu takes about 20 mins, during > > which you can choose your partitions to be laid out exactly how you > > want. Then of course you have to configure the system, but if you > > have backed up your home directory (which will store much of the > > configuration), then it's just installing programs and updates. Daniel > > Thank you Daniel :-) In fact, I ought to make myself an up to date Live > CD, anyway. By 'up to date' I suppose I mean 10.4 LTS, though I am still > running 9.10. I have wanted to know for ages, though: when you download > the whole thing from the Ubuntu site and burn it to disk, is what you > are getting the entire 'Live CD', including the ability to run the thing > from the disk and check it out before installing it (or, as we are > discussing, use it as a maintenance platform)? Or does 'Live CD' refer > to some special compilation over and above what you get in the > download? > > A Live CD is a disc which has the ability to run without installation to a computer's media. The standard Ubuntu CD you download from the Ubuntu website http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download is a Live CD, and contains everything it needs to run from the CD, and it includes an installer. The alternate text-based installer cd is not a Live CD, as it's primary task is just as an installation medium.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD for more info. Daniel -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
