Guide me to install ubuntu ... Vista installed already..

[Dhruv11]

*thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=775761&postcount=96

The sceenshot posted in the post by Praka says we have to create 3 partitions ?

Swap
/boot
/

 

[Faun]

or use www.getdeb.net for latest softwares.
BTW T159 is that the only theme for Exaile? Its quite plain.

yup there is not much to do in theme, u can place the controls according to ur preference but no actual theming . May be someone can start making more themes.

There are many new features added though, a new tagging system and few others.


getdeb.net is a nice site to get some nifty softwares

*thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=775761&postcount=96

The sceenshot posted in the post by Praka says we have to create 3 partitions ?

Swap
/boot
/

yup for the best experience

though add a /home too (ur data will be safe)

 

[Rahim]

^ Not required!!
Tell you what you can create /home partition which will be mounted on /home but will be on a different partition. This helps to upgrade to newer versions of the Distro as it keeps all your personal preferences and settings and you dont have to reconfigure your appz again

 

[Dhruv11]

ok so is it not necessary to create that /boot partition ? Btw what does this /boot do ?
Shall i proceed with /and swap ?

 

[Rahim]

/boot has Grub Boot files which is self-explanatory.
Yes Dhruv you can continue with a "/" and a swap. If you want to create "/home" partition then just choose /home as your mount-point in the partition screen in Ubuntu installation.
Otherwise you can continue with 2 partitions.
Creating a separate /home partition has its advantages (Post#103)

 

[Dhruv11]

ok thanks. hmm...One more query ?!
I can only check that ext3 partition for formatting, im unable to check swap partition for format. Is that ok ?

 

[Faun]

ok so is it not necessary to create that /boot partition ? Btw what does this /boot do ?
Shall i proceed with /and swap ?

it has Stage 1 and Stage 2 files
alongwith menu.lst and device.map

*help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/installation-guide/i386/partition-sizing.html

 

[Rahim]

^Ya its ok. Swap is used as buffer. Nothing is stored there. Best of Luck and keep posting your queries.

 

[naveen_reloaded]

is there a way to make the grub or option menu when booting more graphical???

 

[Rahim]

^You can use startupmanager to change the Grub Boot Themes, Default OS, Timeout before the OS. Search in Synaptic. Info
BTW how is your ride with Ubuntu?

 

[shady_inc]

is there a way to make the grub or option menu when booting more graphical???

You can restore back Vista bootloader if you want.But I advise not.Grub is better than Vista bootloader in the sense it supports more OSes and it's easy to add new OS entries to Grub by editing menu.lst

 

[Faun]

is there a way to make the grub or option menu when booting more graphical???

change the colors by editing this line in menu.lst

## Pretty colours
#color cyan/blue white/blue

remove "#" from the second line, it should look like below

## Pretty colours
color cyan/blue white/blue

To open menu.lst use this command in terminal

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

 

[FilledVoid]

If you are adventurous you could always ry GRUB2 . But beware its kind of hard to setup imho.

 

[praka123]

^use a splashimage

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install grub-splashimages

then edit /boot/grub/menu.lst(run "gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst") and add these lines:

splashimage=/boot/grub/splashimages/gnome-debblue.xpm.gz

save and exit.

 

[naveen_reloaded]

can u post a screenshot ^^^ ??

 

[gary4gar]

can u post a screenshot ^^^ ??

navigate to /boot/grub/splashimages/ & check yourself

 

[praka123]

@nevin:it is like a wallpaper with boot options displayed.fedora,mandriva and suse by default have grub with splashimage

 

[Dhruv11]

Alright ! im facing a very strange problem now. I got 3 Ubuntu CDs and none of them is booting sucessfully. Im getting a new error everytime. Only once i got into LIVE mode but when i clicked on INSTALL, installer crashed.

 

[Rahim]

^Check if the CD is free from defects(It has an option when it boots)

 

[naveen_reloaded]

@nevin:it is like a wallpaper with boot options displayed.fedora,mandriva and suse by default have grub with splashimage

thnks bro...