This week I downloaded, burned, and booted an ISO file for the Ubuntu desktop Live CD. Honestly I had never heard of the concept (at least to my recollection) of a live CD although most of my co-workers had.
The download, check sum and burning all went well as our professor and the online instructions said. When I initially booted up my iMac everything looked good. I got the splash screen and ran the verification to make sure my copy wasn't corrupt. So far no problems. I was pretty jazzed.
The next step was to actually finish the boot and about this time I was asking myself what issues might pop up. I have a wireless mouse and keyboard (blue tooth) and was concerned. Of course my fears came true. I got an initial firmware error and then once the desktop was finished booting up I could do nothing. The mouse and keyboard were dead.
I checked with our instructor Professor Fulton and the Ubuntu user forums and came to the understanding that since I was booting from a live CD there wasn't much I could do. I did go out and pick up a usb keyboard but for the time being I used a secondary laptop (Windows XP) and burned an new bootable disc. (We were instructed to burn a separate disc with the drive that would be booting it as each computer can be quirky when using discs burned on different systems.) This time I had no problems and was able to finally get to the terminal/command line easily.
Now I'm ready to actually run some lines and see how it goes. I'm also going through a massive amount on Linux tutorials. The videos are great (via VTC) but there are times the instructor is a bit quick and thick with the details and completely looses me. I'm not too concerned though because the written (hands-on) tutorials should reinforce the concept and drive home the things I need to learn. I'll write more about that later once I've delved further in...
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