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Ubuntu's Web site for installing Ubuntu on a USB thumb drive. Ubuntu
will walk you through setting up the thumb drive, downloading the
Linux/Ubuntu iso file and installing Ubuntu on this thumb drive.
Once
you have this bootable USB thumbdrive, you put the thumb drive into
your computer and you boot up your computer. One of the first
screens you will see is the BIOS. This BIOS screen will give options
at the bottom of the screen. Look for something like, "F2 for
Setup," at which point you should hit F2. This will give you
access to your CMOS. Now look for boot options and go to that page
and follow the instructions for changing the boot priorities. You'll
want to change thumb drives as a boot option before the hard drive.
Once this is done, hit the key to save and exit. Once this is done,
the computer should find and boot to the Ubunto thumb drive, which
should give you the option to boot off the Ubuntu thumb drive or
install Ubuntu. As you want to maintain your Windows OS, choose the
first option of running Ubuntu off the thumbdrive.
You
will then boot into Ubuntu, leaving Windows intact on your hard
drive. When you are done with Ubuntu, shutdown, remove the thumb
drive and you can then reboot into Windows.
One
item of note during the Ubuntu thumb drive creation – you'll want
"persistance," which means changes such as personal settings –
background, for example – are saved and used again the next time
you reboot into the Ubuntu thumbdrive.
The
literature you will find recommends at least a 4-Gig thumbdrive; I
recommend a 8-Gig and create your Ubuntu thumb drive with at least
2-gig of persistance/Casper space.
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From: daleclift <daleclift@yahoo.com>
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, June 23, 2010 12:10:04 AM
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Ubuntu / Air card help
Hello all. New user here.
I am a real non technical computer user, so be nice lo me.LOL
Anyway, I HATE Microsoft, and have loaded Linux Ubuntu on this computer, and would completely erase windows, except for one problem... I use the computer mainly for online research and e-mail, but I can not get Ubuntu to play well with my Compass air card. It will recognize that I have the card when I plug it into the usb slot, but that is as far as I can go. I need to get it to work so I can dump windows. Can someone give me some simple, easy to do proceedure to get the two to work together?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Dale
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