On Thursday 16 November 2006 18:52, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I know a lot of kubuntu questions appear here. I have submitted my subscription to their list, but so far have not heard anything back. So I pose the question here: No... you should not post Ubuntu questions here. Having said that, I will still try to help you... cause I'm a geek hacker and I love Ubuntu... and I'm currently angry at navell for climbing into bed with M$... but that's another story.
I got some Kubuntu discs a little while ago, and I would like to try them on my XP computer, which presently has a separate HD with Suse 10.0 on it. (I have another computer dedicated at the moment to Suse 9.3.) I will blow off Suse 10.0 and install Kubuntu, but I have questions: No no no... blow off windoze XP and keep both Suse 10 and Ubuntu... then if this silly snafu between navell and M$ doesn't work out... you can drop Suse also.....
First, all the Kubuntu discs have the same stuff on the label-- Version 6.06 LTS, but no sequence number. How do I find disc 1, etc.? (All the disks seem to have a readme file which in each case says "disknum 1".) My Ubuntu "disk" in a DVD... contains the full version of 6.06 LTS and is contained on one (1) disk... very convenient... the Ubuntu folks will mail you a disk, or if you want you can purchase Sam's Ubuntu Unleashed and get the disk in the back cover... I recommend this for Ubuntu newbies because I think Andrew Hudson and Paul Hudson have done an outstanding job with the book... neither here nor there... I am going to assume (perhaps wrongly) that only one of the CDs you have is "bootable"? Having said that... I must admit that I have never seen a CD set for Ubuntu... only the DVD.
Is this safe to do with whatever the Kubuntu installer does? I definitely do not want to lose my XP disc and partition. I have some important information on there, as well as some music from before they shut Napster down. (Stuff that's NOT available on media that's presently in print or for sale anywhere.) No....
Never, and I mean never, experiment with a production or critical system. *never* Having said that... it probably isn't going to hurt you... but remember what I said... *never*. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org