Howto get help for Ubuntu

Here are a few ways to get help in Ubuntu. When you're starting out you'll need it but rest assured it's close at hand.

I start with a little Beryl action: changing the number of sides to your desktop polyhedra.

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[mgs786]

Please show me a video where i can get Beryl

[dsterry]

Well now it's generally Compiz that people install. If I get a vacation I may do one of those.

[jind604]

how do you install the ubuntu on vista??? can you please show that??? i have vista premium 32 bit

[dsterry]

It wouldn't technically be installed on Vista but what you would do is download and burn an iso, then reboot the computer using the cd...might need to hit f12 or something like that to get the cd going but the installer should take you through sensible steps after that. post back if you have any questions.

[gig603]

ok i downloaded ubuntu and when i did it like let me set it up all was good till i restarted my pc when i was done and it let me log in and it just gets stuck on an orange screeeeen!!!

[acaradimos]

im having trouble starting ubuntu it says error 15 cannot find menu.lst i have menu.lst EXACTLY where it looks but it doesnt see it i guess how do i fix this MESSAGE ME

[4funandbiz]

This was real helpful, I will check out what else you got too, thanks.

[mgs786]

Btw i just want all the cool features like i seen in all of those freakin videos i havn'y install ubuntu but im on my way rigth now with Wubi

[Katalyzt]

You could install Vmware(Virtual Machine) on your computer, and that will allow to install Ubuntu on a MS machine. And to do the opposite you would use [Virtual Box] to run an MS OS in/on a Linux machine.

P.S.

Cool video Dsterry! ★★★★★

Katalyzt

[dsterry]

The video you used for response has nothing to do with this one. If you're going to mount a drive, you have to choose a place to mount it to, say: /mnt/windows. So I'm saying go to /mnt and do ls -l at the command line to see if it says drw rw rw. If the mount point doesn't have the rw's and you don't see rw for that drive with you do "mount" at the command line, then you're probably not going to be able to write to it.