A small step outside of conformity
An opportunity came to pick up an old laptop for cheap, and I decided to get it as a 'crash box'. Last night, I installed Ubuntu on it.
Getting to the install point was the hard part. After a bit of searching, I found the easiest way to set up a bootable USB stick was to use a convenient utility someone had created, which set up the ISO, added a couple necessary files, and changed the file names as suggested in a couple articles I'd read.
Plug it in, ensure boot sequence had USB at the top. Select install OS rather than just try it out (the hard drive had been wiped by the previous owner), select region for time display, and set up partition (this was the only thing that wasn't obvious how to do, so I think I selected the whole drive).
After that, it just worked. I'd picked a version with a GUI, poked around at a couple things. I'll have to double-check some of the hardware, there may or may not be a wireless card built in. I'm also curious if WINE will be able to let me play some very old games I've had sitting around.
This should be an interesting experience. So far, a good one too.
Getting to the install point was the hard part. After a bit of searching, I found the easiest way to set up a bootable USB stick was to use a convenient utility someone had created, which set up the ISO, added a couple necessary files, and changed the file names as suggested in a couple articles I'd read.
Plug it in, ensure boot sequence had USB at the top. Select install OS rather than just try it out (the hard drive had been wiped by the previous owner), select region for time display, and set up partition (this was the only thing that wasn't obvious how to do, so I think I selected the whole drive).
After that, it just worked. I'd picked a version with a GUI, poked around at a couple things. I'll have to double-check some of the hardware, there may or may not be a wireless card built in. I'm also curious if WINE will be able to let me play some very old games I've had sitting around.
This should be an interesting experience. So far, a good one too.