on ubuntu right now and would love some live help here...

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okay so i booted up ubuntu dapper drake from cd and i'm looking around right now and must admit, i'm pretty lost. is this just because booting from disk is just a demo version or is it more that i need to customize it?


and...does ubuntu have it's own boot manager?


sorry i'm kinda lost here right now and would love to get some tips about where to go and what to do as far as getting started. really, i just need some good instructions on how to set up the multi-boot and as much as it hurts my pride to do so, i definately feel a lacking of confidence to where i'd love step by step instruction.

mucho danke.

.....should i have gone with feisty fawn instead?

Sorry I'm no help. I had a live cd and found it would restart my computer for no reason
(I'm think my mouse maybe the problem). And it took a painfully long time to reboot from the cd. So I said the hell with it. I'm just using Cygwin right now for my unix needs.

my mouse and keyboard worked fine (thankfully!) and i didn't have any problems other than it was kinda slow since it had to go back to the disk to run....which really isn't a problem.

Ubunto DOES have it's own boot manager should you install it. I don't know if it will resize NTFS partitions correctly though. There's a program that I use called BootItNG which can boot from CD and do it but you have to know how to use it and I can't provide you with the proper instruction. I'm sure there are guides on the net that use other utilities.

okay...i've gotten to the 7th step of installation and i haven't seen any option for setting up a dual boot....just the migration set up.

they do it automatically, there'll be a menu when you reboot

oh okay...cool.

excuse me while i cry....i did it wrong.

Okay, maybe I shall not try Ubuntu after all, lol.

nah, my problem was in the partitioning step. selected the wrong drive and ended up formatting the whole thing. i'm upset more because i lost 200 gigs of music, movies, and my personal recordings and music work.

sorry to bully you skafather84 - but the morale of the story whenever playing with operating systems, formatting and partitions is to always do a backup.

thank you, captain obvious #35.