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In your BIOS, make sure when you are booting that it is checking you CD/DVD drives before your hard drive. I needed to do this and change the boot order so I could preview and also install 11.10.
Don
Wrong newsgroup/list... Ubuntu is two doors down and to the right (seems
to be in the same shared cubicle as Apple lately).
So why are you asking about your Ubuntu issues here on an LO list?
No need. Just look at the:
bottom of the Java options panel:
Location:/usr/lib/jvm/java6-openjdk/jre
and you'll see that it's java6-openjdk.
Hi 
This guide might help
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD
Even though it is written for Ubuntu it is almost identical for other distros as usual 
When you try to boot an Ubuntu Cd it gives you a pop=-up screen with a language selector and 2 buttons
1. Try Ubuntu (this often doesn't work and just hangs the system)
2. Install Ubuntu (has lots of "Back" buttons)
Soi click on the "Install" and then at click on the "Back" buttons until i get back to that screen with the language selector and the 2 options. Now the "Try Ubuntu" button works! I keep forgetting to post a bug-report about it.
Regards from
Tom
Hi
Ouch, i hadn't noticed that it was a screen-resolution issue. I think the easiest option is to try using a virtual machine. Then you can use the iso-file without even needing a physical Cd.m On virtual box when it's higher resolution than my screen is set for i get scroll-bars and only see part of the "desktop real-estate".
Inside the vm then move the mouse arrow to the far left to get the dock and move down to the bottom so it scrolls down and then click on the "Setting" gear-wheel at the bottom. Then "Display" allows you to reset the resolution. I tend to go for 800by600 and then the vm window reduces in size to fit within my screen.
Regards from
Tom
In your BIOS, make sure when you are booting that it is checking you CD/DVD drives before your hard drive. I needed to do this and change the boot order so I could preview and also install 11.10.
It was that way before I went to a dual boot system. It still set for that.
For some reason, when I went to a dual boot system, my laptop's wireless stopped working, and booting from a CD stopped as well. All I get is the GRUB screen to choose between Ubuntu and Vista. With OSs on the system, I do not have more than 15 gig for Ubuntu 10.xx and 30 gig for Vista.
My bios is set for CD/DVD before hard drive booting.
Now all I need to do is find out how to make sure Ubuntu/Kubuntu would boot to my monitors resolution [1368x768] instead of the maximum that the on board nVidia graphics can do [1920x1080]. I may just wait till I get my new monitor, in a few months.
Before I had to make the Vista laptop dual boot, I had no problems with seeing the "live" CD/DVDs. That is how I first chose Ubuntu out of the pack. It was the only one that worked in "live mode" with the old HP laptop's sound card. That was version 9.xx. Hopefully I will get that one back from a loan out soon. Then I can just dump the dual booting on the Vista machine. It is due for a wipe and re-install. Now that I do not use it to store my data on, I can do that with ease.
As for Unity 3D, I think my on board video can handle it, but I will not want to use Unity. After the monitor purchase, I will be buying a GPU video card, ATI 4850 or better. It will be about the same cost as the monitor, but give me GPU computing for my BOINC number crunching and do about 100 times the amount of crunching as my Phenom 9650 quad CPU gives me.
Hi NoOP,
You are correct!!!!!!!
Don
Hi,
All cd's and burners are not created equal. I've had several instances where a live Ubuntu cd would not work on one computer, but worked perfectly on another. If you burned it the computer you are trying to boot it on, it should work. If you have both a burner and a player, try it in both. If it was burned on a different player, please burn one on the computer you are trying to boot from, and then try booting from the burner drive.
Don
Hi
For the last several releases of Ubuntu, ever since the 9.10, i have found that the "Try it" option does NOT work on any machine that i have tried. What does seem to work is to 1st click on install but at one of the first screens there start clicking on the "Back" button until you get back to the screen that offers the "Try it" option. Then "Try it" works without hanging the system.
Regards from
Tom
I recently installed Ubuntu 11.xx on an old IBM server. 11.04 stated that I did not have the resources to run Unity, so it was good. Then when I allowed it to upgrade to 11.10, that version "was able" to use my system's resources to install and use Unity. Also, during that upgrade to 11.10, the system decided that I did not need any of my KDE packages anymore and got rid of them - without even asking me first.
I discovered one major thing. I hate Unity. It will not keep some monitor packages visible in my desktop, like I want/need. I could not even find half of the things I wanted to use that was part of Ubuntu's package.
I did not like the way the system "changed the look and feel" of LibreOffice.
So I went to Linux Mint 11. Works nice, except I cannot get any videos to play correctly - sound OK but no visuals. Looks like I will have to try Kubuntu 11.xx and see how that works.
At least with the IBM server's PCI video card, my monitor can handle the highest resolution of 1152 by 864, though I never have seen that number before.
Thanks friends.
Now I know that I do not want anything to do with Unity. Also the articles currently state GNOME 3 is not ready [by a long shot] for use even thought it was stated that GNOME 3 was available for download and use.
On 11/12/2011 12:04 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
I recently installed Ubuntu 11.xx on an old IBM server. 11.04 stated that I did not have the resources to run Unity, so it was good. Then when I allowed it to upgrade to 11.10, that version "was able" to use my system's resources to install and use Unity. Also, during that upgrade to 11.10, the system decided that I did not need any of my KDE packages anymore and got rid of them - without even asking me first.
I discovered one major thing. I hate Unity. It will not keep some monitor packages visible in my desktop, like I want/need. I could not even find half of the things I wanted to use that was part of Ubuntu's package.
I did not like the way the system "changed the look and feel" of LibreOffice.
So I went to Linux Mint 11. Works nice, except I cannot get any videos to play correctly - sound OK but no visuals. Looks like I will have to try Kubuntu 11.xx and see how that works.
At least with the IBM server's PCI video card, my monitor can handle the highest resolution of 1152 by 864, though I never have seen that number before.
Thanks friends.
Now I know that I do not want anything to do with Unity. Also the articles currently state GNOME 3 is not ready [by a long shot] for use even thought it was stated that GNOME 3 was available for download and use.Check webup8 at http://www.webupd8.org/ for information about installing GNOME 3
On 11/12/2011 11:31 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi
For the last several releases of Ubuntu, ever since the 9.10, i have found that the "Try it" option does NOT work on any machine that i have tried. What does seem to work is to 1st click on install but at one of the first screens there start clicking on the "Back" button until you get back to the screen that offers the "Try it" option. Then "Try it" works without hanging the system.
Regards from
Tom--- On Wed, 19/10/11, Don C. Myers<donmyers@myersfarm.com> wrote:
From: Don C. Myers<donmyers@myersfarm.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wednesday, 19 October, 2011, 17:59Hi,
All cd's and burners are not created equal. I've had several instances where a live Ubuntu cd would not work on one computer, but worked perfectly on another. If you burned it the computer you are trying to boot it on, it should work. If you have both a burner and a player, try it in both. If it was burned on a different player, please burn one on the computer you are trying to boot from, and then try booting from the burner drive.
Don
On 10/19/2011 08:22 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
On 10/18/2011 09:33 PM, Don Myers wrote:
In your BIOS, make sure when you are booting that it is checking you CD/DVD drives before your hard drive. I needed to do this and change the boot order so I could preview and also install 11.10.
It was that way before I went to a dual boot system. It still set for that.
Don
On 10/18/2011 08:18 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
I cannot get a 11.10 CD/DVD to do a "live demo" on a Ubuntu system. My only Windows machine I have working is dual boot and I cannot get it to boot from the CD. It keeps going to GRUB. When I choose Win Vista, it does not boot from the CD then. So I cannot see what 11.10 looks like. Since it wants to boot at 1920 by 1080 [nVidia MoB graphics] and my monitor max out at 1368 by 768, it causes problems.
I still will use GNOME/KDE combo for my desktop and packages.
On 10/18/2011 05:18 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi
I really quite like the 11.10. When i tried the 11.04 i really hated it but the 11.10 is a big improvement. I still prefer traditional menus such as KDE or Gnome or any of the others but i get the feeling Unity is worth getting to know. I like the way the top-taskbar becomes the title-bar when you hover the mouse arrow over it and i really like the way that accessing LibreOffice and Firefox is so easy!
Regards from
Tom
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