automatically switches over to japanese! so you can see why I am frustrated. downloading the browers is okay though....

Another O/t, using Chrome this minute and it is the ONLY browser allowing me to post on WUS !!! figure that out! I use flickr and BBcode and it works great! Had been trying all the other browsers to post on WUS but always got the blank page after sending REPLY!!!

sorry, this should have gone under Peter post on Linux and ubuntu

what might be loaded on the hard drive.
So, if you are getting Japanese, the CD isn't booting. When the computer boots from the CD, the Japanese OS doesn't even get started so there is nothing to do any translation.

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first from computer, then CD....in which case, the computer senses some disk in the CD bay and informs me...like a DVD movie...

Firefox which came installed on the CD. Seems pretty simple so far. Will I lose all my pictures, and business forms, etc. on Windows if I replace Windows with Unbuntu?

Boomtown

how to import them....my eyes are bugged out now! But it is very fast!

then you will see a file tab for 'Import and Backup'

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and rebooted, chose XP and now writing this...quite slow in comparison to ubuntu!!! I like ubuntu so far!!!
Now just have to practise using it and getting it down pat....
Not sure how to install my photoshop....etc...
It uses open office.org as document software ..nice...

I like GIMP better. Once you setup GIMP to look like Photoshop, you'll never go back

If there are any Windows apps you want to use, you can install WINE which will run them in Ubuntu(provided you have installed it in a dual boot setup.

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camera images with usb cable etc etc.....
Once my chosen images are done and uploaded, I am good to go using Ubuntu for the rest of the day haha! thanks for pushing me to try it....and to Jeje for the online download....

that way you will be able to go back to Windows any time you like and you will have access to all your files from Ubuntu. With Open Office, you have complete compatibility to all your MS Office stuff

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Since ubuntu is already installed, can I still set it up to show dual boot choice at the startup?
I had to turn computer off and restart, then choose ubuntu....

if you want to switch, you have to reboot and make your new choice at that time.

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I guess I will still use XP to load my images and use phtoshop and then upload to flickr and photobuckets....then can used Ubuntu to download....

REMEMBER to use CUSTOM PARTITIONING if installing Ubuntu!

The default one could mess with your existing Windows partition, while in custom mode you should be able to keep them both with a boot menu at the start!

Dual core, 500gig harddrive and 1 gig memory. Ubuntu works just fine.

Boomtown

"Puppy" Linux.

Boomtown

when I get my monitor sorted. All is YELLOW. LOL. I'm getting a headache, ugh!

So, to recap, you did not reformat your drive and just ran Ubuntu and installs each time you boot? Or its install and no long needs cd once installed and partitioned/shared OS with XP?
Installing your Photoshop went as usual and normal?
I'm guessing this is like Parallels on a Mac. Dual OS/partitioned.

For Poyman, if I did a fresh install, lets say a new build with Ubuntu, can install and run with a raided system? Just wondering?

will try this later, I need to reconfigure my station to whichever screen I buy.
more things to do. sigh.
Thanks, guys.

it will not install or do anything to your hard drive.

If you want to install it; then you only do that once. If you want to have the computer so you can run/boot either Windows or Ubuntu; then you use the 'custom install'.

Once Ubuntu is installed on the computer, you don't need the CD any longer.

I no longer have Photoshop installed in Ubuntu as I use GIMP. If I want to use Photoshop; all I do is start it up in UBUNTU with the Windows Emulator program(WINE). Ising WINE on marginal computers will make Photoshop or any MS program run a little slower. My machine is fast enough that I don't notice.

GIMP is an open source program that does nearly everything that the full Photoshop package will do but it is free. I have GIMP configured to look and operate almost exactly like Photoshop, so it's dead easy.

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thanks for the info A-S.
I gotta shop for a monitor and then try it out.
Can't surf and work with yellow screen.
I love my watch dials yellow, but this is too much. lol.

have a good one.
Cheers, Dave.