The main reason for the rewrite was to make it easier and faster to provide links to the photos of the Cemeteries and headstones when I take them. I still hadn’t gotten to all the headstones that I took in Glendale Cemetery in Le Claire, Iowa last summer. I figured out a way to upload the headstones and provide one link to the page of photos. You simply have to check the data file to find the person you are looking for and remember the number. This is much easier for me and much faster access to the photos for the visitor. No months of waiting for me to finally take the time to provide links to each and every photo one at a time.

Another improvement is that I have decided to include both a high resolution photo for printing and a 90 dpi version of each one (cemetery photos only at this time) for viewing. If you have a dial-up connection you can now see the photos of the headstones without the LONG wait for it to load. Photos of all the cemeteries I have photographed are now available. The “Small” Photos are much faster to view and appear the same on the screen except when you zoom in very close. However, they are not as good for printing.

If you find genealogy interesting, please check out my site www.RM-Jones.com and see what I have done. Leave comments and suggestions by using the links on the “Home” page or e-mail me if you have time.

Have a Great Day
Bob Jones

Here are some of the most recent post. I’m sure that you will find them interesting so give them a look. I’m not going to review the articles because I think you will get far more from reading them yourself. I am providing a link to them in case you see something you like. I’m sure his page will have a lot more in the next few days and this will make it easier for you to find these post.

How to: Make the USB Ports Working in VirtualBox using Kubuntu Hardy Heron

My VirtualBox in Kubuntu Hardy Heron

Linux: Highlight Firefox’s Address Bar in One Click

How to: Install Additional/Third Party/Other Fonts in Kubuntu

Ubuntu Flavors

The above post will give you an idea of what Deric has supplied and I want to thank him for making me aware of it. Stop on over at http://ubuntusite.com/ and check it out. I promise you won’t be sorry you took the time to pay him a visit.

That’s all for today. I’ll be back before long with more of the ramblings from a new Linux user.

Have a Great Day.

Bob Jones

The only part of reinstalling Ubuntu that is bad is going through the LONG list of programs and deciding which one to install. I thought I would give APTonCD a try. You can find APTonCD either using “Add/Remove Programs” or Synaptic. I found out that APTonCD is a really great program

When I ran it APTonCD gave me the options of putting the files on 4 CD’s or 1 DVD. I chose the DVD. It then saved an .iso file with all the applications on it. Make sure you remember where it put the file so you can save it to a DVD (or 4 CD’s) later. It put it in my /home so that was easy to find

After it completed building the file and saving it the next question was if I wanted to burn it now. I chose yes so I didn’t really need to know where it was except to move it to my data disk later. Next it wanted to know which program to use to burn the DVD and I chose K3B which is the one I like best and then it jumped into K3B and away we went. Easy.

I transferred all the files that I didn’t want to lose, just in case something went wrong, from /home to my “Data” disk and then I shut the computer down.

I did a new install from the Ubuntu disk without formatting my /home. When I restarted my computer I had it do all the updates to the original install. Next I ran the recover part of APTonCD. All it did was add the DVD to my sources for Synaptic. I launched Synaptic, turned off all the repositories except that DVD. Then I did a “Reload” which only loaded the files on the DVD.

As I was working my way though “selecting” all the files I found that by “selecting” “APTonCD-metapackage” it selected all the files that remained. So just scroll down to “APTonCD-metapackage” and double click it and save yourself some work. When I clicked on “Apply” it installed everything from the DVD. It worked great. In a very short time I had completely rebuilt my Ubuntu / Kubuntu system. Since I didn’t format my /home folder, which was on a separate partition, I didn’t even have to set things up again. Outstanding.

That’s all there is to it. I am now a Very Happy Penguin

That’s all for today. I’ll be back before long with more of the ramblings from a new Linux user.

Have a Great Day.

Bob Jones

Start up Synaptic Package Manager and search for “ntfs” you will find “ntfs-config” in the list.

After you install it you will find it in the “System” menu.

Run it, you will be asked for your password, and you will find two choices.

“Enable write support for internal device”

“Enable write support for external device”

That’s all there is to it. It found my disk, set them up and I am now a Very Happy Penguin

That’s all for today. I’ll be back before long with more of the ramblings from a new Linux user.

Have a Great Day.

Bob Jones

I have finally figured it out. I’m sure that most of you already know this but for those that don’t, like me, here is what you have to do to get Tomboy Notes to work with Kubuntu Hardy Heron.

1. In K Menu (lower left corner of the desktop) locate Tomboy Notes. Mine is in “Utilities” and that is most likely where yours is.
2. Right click on Tomboy Notes and chose “Edit Item”. You won’t see any change because it opens the edit window behind the menu so just move the cursor off to the side so the menu will close.
3. You should now see the KDE Menu Editor with Tomboy Notes edit area on the right side of the screen.
4. In the “Command” text block delete the “–search” and the space preceding it. You should only have the word “tomboy” left.
5. Go to “File” and click “Save” (or just click the “save” icon on the toolbar.
6. When it’s done saving the changes, close the KDE Menu Editor.
7. That’s all there is to it.
8. Go back to your K Menu and run Tomboy Note. It should now load and work fine.

That’s all for today. I’ll be back before long with more of the ramblings from a new Linux user.

Have a Great Day.

Bob Jones

I have been “playing” with Linux off an on for the last two or three years. I put it in, have problems, and take it back out. I don’t like Windows Vista so I am a little more determined this time. I believe that Ubuntu / Kubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” is ready for the average person so I am writing this for the complete beginner. Please remember, there are a lot of ways to do what I am doing here. This is my way. I am a beginner and am making this as much as a record of what worked for me as I am to provide you with information. Please remember, this is what I did to set up my HP Pavilion a1140n computer. It may be a little different for you but probably not much. I wrote this step by step as I was doing the procedures on the computer I was setting up. I hope this helps.

First I think I’ll set up some more of the Preferences. I will be using Ubuntu since that is where I will be installing some of the software from. It doesn’t make any difference actually where I install software from as both Ubuntu and Kubuntu will have access to them. I just like the way that Ubuntu handles the installation of software at this point in the setup process.

1. At this time I won’t be setting up many of the preferences since I don’t plan to use Ubuntu much. I will spend much more time on it later in the Kubuntu desktop. The preferences you setup only apply to the desktop you are using at the time. In other words if you set up everything in Ubuntu the will not be setup in Kubuntu.
2. To start off we go to “System > Preferences > Control Center”. As you seen in part three of this series there are all kinds of settings here. At this time, as an example, I am going to set up the “About Me” preferences so I click on “About Me” right at the top and enter whatever information I want to fill in. While I’m here I will click on the box just to the left of my name at the top of the window and pick out a “face” for my. I like the nice peaceful “Sunset.jpg” so that is what I’ll use. You can use any photo on your computer. Then click “Open” to select the file you want to use. When done click “Close” That’s all there is to it.
3. Have fun setting up your other settings and then we will go on with installing some software.

OK, your back. Let’s set up some software. It is very easy in Ubuntu (and Kubuntu) as long as you use the software they provide. To install software you download from the internet is another story and I’m still trying to figure out how to do that. Not a lot of success so far but really with the selections that Ubuntu provides there is little need for anything else until you are far more comfortable with Linux.

1. OK, let’s go to “Applications > Add/Remove”. I like to do things the way I’m going to lay out but you can do whatever you want. First I make sure that in the “Show” box it says “All available applications”. This gives me access to everything that Ubuntu has to offer for this version.
2. Next I click on “Accessories” in the left panel. And then click on “Popularity” at the top of the right panel. This will sort the items by Popularity. I click it again if I have to in order to get the list with the most popular at the top.
3. Items that have a check mark are already installed so I just scroll down until I find one that isn’t checked. I click anywhere on that item, except in the check box, and read the description in the bottom panel of the screen. When you see something you want installed simply click in the check box.
4. If you select an item and get the message “Enable the installation of unsupported and restricted software” just click enable. This should only happen the first time.
5. Although some of the software you will see listed is for the KDE 4 desktop you can install it. I don’t. I find that some of it requires part of the KDE 4 desktop, which I don’t like, so I don’t take the chance that I will install KDE 4. If it says KDE 4 in the description I don’t install it. Silly probably. You can install it if you want.
6. After I have selected everything in the “Accessories” section that I want, Click on “Apply Changes” and then “Apply”. You may have to enter your password.
7. When it starts installing, after it downloads, I like to click on “Show progress of single files” so I can see if it is waiting for my input. Once in a great while my input may be required.
8. After the installation is complete you can “Add/Remove More Applications” or “Close” if you are done and return to the desktop.
9. I usually only do one section at a time because on earlier versions of Ubuntu I have had it stop working in the middle of a download and I don’t want to lose any more time than I must if that happens.
10. That’s all there is to installing software that is available from Ubuntu. Just continue on down the list and install anything you like.

That’s all for today. I’ll be back before long with more of the ramblings from a new Linux user. I really like Ubuntu and Kubuntu and plan to be using them for many years to come. The transition from Windows to Linux will take a time. I have to find which software I like to use, learn how to use it and then become good enough with it so I can do everything I want. It won’t be an overnight process but it will come. If you are tired of Microsoft Windows give Ubuntu a try. You can even try it without installing it, but that’s another tale for another time

Have a Great Day.

Bob Jones

I have been “playing” with Linux off an on for the last two or three years. I put it in, have problems, and take it back out. I don’t like Windows Vista so I am a little more determined this time. I believe that Ubuntu / Kubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” is ready for the average person so I am writing this for the complete beginner. Please remember, there are a lot of ways to do what I am doing here. This is my way. I am a beginner and am making this as much as a record of what worked for me as I am to provide you with information. Please remember, this is what I did to set up my HP Pavilion a1140n computer. It may be a little different for you but probably not much. I wrote this step by step as I was doing the procedures on the computer I was setting up. I hope this helps.

In the previous post I installed Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron and then set up my network and checked my sound. Now we will get on with some of the other steps to get it running the way I want it. This is my desktop computer (or Box as the Linux folks call it) and it is named Penguin of course. I also have a LapTop that is named LapDancer because she sits on my lap of course. Before I get on to setting up Penguin I want to say that if you are setting up a laptop computer you probably want to install the “Ndiswrapper drivers so your wireless will work. To do that just go to “Applications > Add/Remove” and make sure that when that opens that “All available applications” is in the “Show” box. In the “Search” text box enter “ndis” and then when it gets through working select “Windows Wireless Drivers; Ndiswrapper driver installation tool” and “Apply” to set them up. I won’t go into setting up the wireless at this time but it is pretty straight forward. I may come back to it at some later date.

1. One of the first things I like to install is the Kubuntu desktop since that is what I prefer to use most of the time. This is so simple it hurts . Let’s get on with it. Go to “System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager”. You will have to enter your password. Read the Quick Introduction and click “Close”. Next let’s make sure I have the latest update available so click on “Reload”. After that is done scroll down the list on the left until you find “Meta Packages” and select it. In the right top frame locate “kubuntu-desktop” and select it, click “Mark” and click “Apply” on the tool bar. Now click “Apply” again and the download will begin. This will take a while since there are 227 files to download so sit back with a good book and relax until the installation starts.
2. After the files are all downloaded the installation will begin. Now is the time to make a decision. You can either use the Gnome Desktop Manager (gdm) or the KDE Desktop Manager (kdm). They are both very good and do the same thing only slightly different. Actually what they are is the Log In that you will use when you start the program. Either one will allow you to chose which desktop to use. It doesn’t make a lot of difference which one you use except for one feature. If you ever want to be able to log in as a “Root” user you must use the “gdm” display manager. As far as I know, you can’t log in as “Root” from “kdm” or the KDE Desktop Manager. I know that the experienced Linux users are about to have a heart attack about here. Ubuntu doesn’t want you to log in as a “Root” user for security reasons. However, I have at times had to in order to figure out what I want to do. Your choice. Once the installation starts a window will be displayed giving you a choice. I choose “gdm” you can choose “kdm” if you want. It works just as well. After you select the desktop manager you want to use click “Forward”.
3. At this point I normally click on the small triangle just in front of “Details” so I can see what is going on. Sometimes it appears that an installation is taking a log time when in fact it’s waiting for your input. You will know if it is if you watch the “Details”
4. After the installation is complete the message in the window will indicate “Successfully applied all changes” and you can click “Close”. After Synaptic Package Manager is fully back up close the window.
5. Being the paranoid person that I am I like to restart the computer after installing Kubuntu. It isn’t necessary but it’s just something I do. To restart you can either click on the red square in the upper right corner or use “System > Quit” and then select “Restart”.
6. Something new this time. When the computer is rebooted and you get to the Desktop Manager you will be able to choose which desktop you want to use. In the “gdm” you click on “Options” in the lower left corner. “Kdm” is about the same but slightly different. When the pop up opens you will be able to select “Select Session” which will give you many choices, two of which are “Gnome” (the desktop that Ubuntu uses) or “KDE” which brings you to the KDE desktop that Kubuntu uses. For now I’m going back into “Gnome” so I click on it and then click on “Change Session”.
7. Enter your user name and password and you will be asked if you want to make this your default or just change for this session. I’m going to make it my default for now. I can change it later. In no time you are back in Ubuntu.
8. A couple of more things I want to bring up today. If you want to have Ubuntu or Kubuntu log you in automatically you can do so. Simply go to “System > Preferences > Control Center” then under the “System” heading you will find “Login Window” select that. When the window comes up select the “Security” tab, click “Enable Automatic Login” and in the “User” text block select your user name from the drop down list. Thats all there is to it. Next time you restart your computer you will be taken directly into Ubuntu or Kubuntu whichever is your default.
9. If you want to be able t log in as “Root”, and I don’t recommend it, you have to do a couple more things. While you are in the Login Window Preference “Security” tab also click “Allow local system administrator login”. Now click “Close” to close the window. It’s now time to do the last step so you can log in as the “Root” or “administrator” whichever you want to call it. Go to “Applications > System Tools > Root Terminal”. You may have to enter your password. Now that you are here enter “passwd root”. Notice the first word is passwd not password. After you press “Enter” you will be asked for the new UNIX password. Enter the password you want to use for the “Root” login. No characters will be displayed as you type. Press “Enter” and you will be asked to Retype the new password. If you get the message “password updated successfully” you can type “exit” and you are done.

That’s enough for today. I’ll try to be back tomorrow to tell you about some more of the things I do to set up Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Thanks for stopping by.

Bob Jones

I have been “playing” with Linux off an on for the last two or three years. I put it in, have problems, and take it back out. I don’t like Windows Vista so I am a little more determined this time. I believe that Ubuntu / Kubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” is ready for the average person so I am writing this for the complete beginner. Please remember, there are a lot of ways to do what I am doing here. This is my way. I am a beginner and am making this as much as a record of what worked for me as I am to provide you with information. Please remember, this is what I did to set up my HP Pavilion a1140n computer. It may be a little different for you but probably not much. I wrote this step by step as I was doing the procedures on the computer I was setting up. I hope this helps.

1. OK, I have setup Ubuntu 8.04 and am about to run it the first time. So, first things first. We have to log in.
2. Enter your user name and then your password.
3. You will notice that in Ubuntu the menu bar is at the top of the screen. When I tell you I clicked on (or whatever term I use) “System > Preferences > Screen Resolution” I mean that I went to “System” then to “Preferences” then to “Screen Resolution”. This is the shorthand that I usually use to save time and space.
4. If you have your computer connected to the Internet, and I assume you do, just wait a minute or two and you will see a pop up that says that “Software updates available” and it points to a small orange icon. Click on the icon and in the window that opens click on “Install Updates”. If it doesn’t pop up shortly you can go to “System > Administration > Update Manager” and force it to check for updates. Enter your password and then just sit back and wait while it updates your complete system. Isn’t that just to easy! Ubuntu is GREAT as Tony the Tiger used to say . The Ubuntu download site is pretty busy since the new version has just come out and this may take a while. Today, May 8, 2008, there are 59 updates to install. Ubuntu 8.04 hasn’t been out a month yet. You can see that they are continually working to perfect their software. I highly recommend Ubuntu or Kubuntu, which is Ubuntu with the KDE desktop which I prefer. However, I like to install Ubuntu first and then add Kubuntu since there are a few things I like to do in Ubuntu and I find that it easier to find instructions for Ubuntu than it is for Kubuntu. You can use either to set most things up and they will then both work fine.
5. The first thing I like to do is to set the screen resolution so my poor old eyes can see it. “System > Preferences > Screen Resolution” will do that for you. I use “1024 x 768″ to make it easier to read.
6. Next, since I have a LAN (Local Area Network) with couple of Windows computers attached, I want to set up my network so I can transfer files from one to the other. Samba is the program to install for this. However, in Ubuntu 8.04 it takes a little “tweaking” to get it to work correctly on my computer. If you don’t have a LAN you don’t have to complete this step.
   1. Go to “Applications > Add/Remove” and a notification that “The list of available applications is out of date”. Click on “Reload” and then enter your password.
   2. In the “Show:” box select “All available applications” then I the “Search” box enter “samba”. You will now see a number of applications listed. Select “Samba” and when the pop up ask if you want to “Enable the installation of community maintained software” click “Enable”. Now all you have to do is click “Apply Changes” and then “Apply” and when it’s done click “Close”. This will return you to your desktop.
   3. On my computer, if I click on “System > Administration > Samba” I get a “Crash report”. After a lot of searching the Internet and the Ubuntu help files I found a bug report (number 2258705) that says that this is a know problem and provides the following work around. It says “The work around is to create an empty /ect/libuser.conf” . OK here is how I accomplished that.
      1. First I wanted to be able to get around in the super user mode which can’t be seen in the menu as it is set up. Soooooo, “System > Preferences > Main Menu” is the place to go. In the left side of the window click on “System Tools” and then on the right side of the window click “Root Terminal”. You might as well turn on any other menu items you want to use while you are here. I go down the whole list of all the applications. In the System Preferences menu I also move the “Control Center” and the “Main Menu” to the top of that list by dragging them there. Then click “Close”
      2. Due to the fact that I am new to Linux I often do things the hard way until I learn better. This is one of those times. I don’t know how to create an empty document from the terminal mode. Sooooo, I create it on the desktop and move it to the place I want it to be. I know, this is the wrong way. If you know how to create a file from the terminal please leave a comment and tell me how to do it. To create an empty file on the desktop simply right click on the desktop and chose “Create Document > Empty File” and in this case give it the name “libuser.conf” all in small letters. I now have the file I want to move to “/etc”.
      3. Now you are ready to do a little “tweaking” as I call it. Go to “Applications > System Tools > Root Terminal”. You may have to enter your password. You should see a flashing cursor after a “#” that means you are ready to start “tweaking”. Enter “cd /etc”. Don’t forget the space after the “cd”. This will put you in the “/etc” folder. To move the empty file from your home folder you will have to use your own user name instead of “robert” in the following. Also make sure you have a space after “mv” and after “conf” and the “.” has to be there. It tells where to move the file to and in this case the “.” means to the current folder. Enter “mv /home/robert/Desktop/libuser.conf .”. To make sure that the file has been moved you can enter “dir” which will give you a list of all the folders and files in the folder. Check for “libuser.conf”. It should be there and gone from the desktop when you close the terminal which you do by enter entering “exit”.
      4. Now that you are back to the desktop you can go to “System > Administration > Samba” and it should work fine.
      5. It’s now time to seup Samba. I use a different name for my LAN than what Windows normally sets up so I want Samba to know about that. Click on “Preferences > Server Settings” in under the “Basic” tab enter your LAN (workgroup) name in the “Workgroup” box. Then click on the “Security” tab and in the Guest Account select your user name and click “OK”. Now I’m going back to “Preferences > Samba Users” and setting the password I want to use to access this computer from my other computers. To do this simply enter the password in the text blocks and click “OK”.
      6. Close the “Samba Server Configuration” window and restart your computer. I find that you MUST reboot your computer for the Samba setup to take effect.
      7. The next step is easy. We just have to set up the folders we want the other computers to be able to access. I’m not going to list all the ones I add. I’ll just tell you the procedures to add the “Desktop” and the rest are the same.
      8. However, before we do that we have to do a little more “tweaking” because in Ubuntu 8.04 the “Shared Folders” icon doesn’t get set up during installation. I had to figure out how to make it accessible. Here is what we do. I have already done the research and searched for it and here is what I have found. The file we want is called “shares-admin” and it was installed just no icon set up. It is located at “/usr/bin”. What we have to do is create an icon to that file. To do that I went to “System > Preferences > Main Menu”. On the left side select the menu where you want the icon. I chose “System > Administration”. Now click on “New Item” and enter the name “Shared Folders”. In the “Comment” box you can put what you want, I used “Configure which folders are available for your network neighborhood” which was what was used on other version of Ubuntu. Now click on “Browse” which is to the right of the “Command” text block. On the left side click on “File System” > “usr” > “bin” > “shares-admin” and click “Open”. Now all you have to do is click on “OK” and the icon is where you told it to be put. Before you leave the Main Menu make sure there is a check mark in frount of “Shared Folders”.
      9. Now let’s set up the shared folders. Go to “System > Administration > Shared Folders” and when the window opens click on “Unlock”. You will have to enter your password. I like to go to the “General Properties” tab first and make sure that my “Domain / Workgroup” name is correct. Now back to the “Shard Folders” tab and click “Add”. In the “Path” block find the folder you want to share, in this case I will go to “Desktop” and then I’ll enter a “Comment”. In my case I used “Robert’s Desktop on Penguin” That’s the name of this computer. Cute isn’t it . Now make sure that the “Read only” block is NOT CHECKED if you want to be able to write to it from the other computers on your LAN and click “Share”. Set up the rest of the folders you want to share and then click “Close”.
      10. Time to check if it works. Start up one of the computers on your LAN that are using Windows and log on to your network. Look for the computer you just set up and log in using the name and password you used when setting up Samba. Now try to create a folder on the desktop and see if it works. Mine does so should yours. I created this Blog entry step by step as I set up my computer and the LAN.
7. Now that I have my LAN setup, and that is the hardest thing to do as far as I’m concerned, it’s time to check out the sound. Sometimes I have had a little problem here. To do that go to “System > Preferences > Sound” and click the “Test” buttons. Mine work. Great. Nothing else to do here so I close the window.

That should be enough for the day. I’ll continue on later and create additional post on adding Kubuntu, setting up more of the settings, and as I go along I’ll try to remember to create post on other Linux related items and software that I use. I’ll try to review what I use and get back to you. I am into Geocaching, as you may know from my previous post so I will be looking for software for my GPS which is a Garmin. I’ll let you know what I find. Stop back and see what I’m doing. For now, Thanks for stopping by.

Bob Jones

I have been “playing” with Linux off an on for the last two or three years. I put it in, have problems, and take it back out. I don’t like Windows Vista so I am a little more determined this time. I believe that Ubuntu / Kubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” is ready for the average person so I am writing this for the complete beginner. Please remember, there are a lot of ways to do what I am doing here. This is my way. I am a beginner and am making this as much as a record of what worked for me as I am to provide you with information. Please remember, this is what I did to set up my HP Pavilion a1140n computer. It may be a little different for you but probably not much. I wrote this step by step as I was doing the procedures on the computer I was setting up. I hope this helps.

1. Do not enter the ” ” when you are told to enter information.
2. Download Ubuntu 8.04 at http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . You want the “8.04 LTS Desktop Edition”. You can also buy a CD for a small price if you prefer.
3. You now have to burn a CD and this is different from one burner to another. What you want to remember is you want to “Burn an image” not the normal procedure you would do to copy a file to a CD.
4. Make sure you have as much free space on your hard drive as you can get if you are going to duel boot.
5. Open the CD drive door and then turn off the computer.
6. Insert the Ubuntu 8.04 CD into the drive and close the door.
7. Restart the computer.
8. Select your Language.
9. Select “Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer”.
10. Double click on “Install”.
11. Select your language.
12. Using the map (which is kind of touchy) or the drop down list, select your city.
13. Select your Keyboard layout and test it in the box if you want.
14. The partitioner will now start and it takes a short while so be patient.
15. Now come the part where you have to make a decision. I have had problems in the past trying to get my external drives working the way I want them to. I found that if I used the “Manual” installation instead of the “Guided” I could avoid this problem. The “Guided” is pretty straight forward but the “Manual” is easy if you understand it and since this is the only way that meets my needs this is what I will detail here.
16. Select “Manual” in the “Prepare disk space” window and click “Forward”.
17. Wait while it Scans the disks. I recommend that you set up at least three partitions. One is for the “Root” partition, one for the “Home” partition and the last is the “Swap” partition. This will allow you to keep your data and other files free from the main program area and allow you to protect it if you re-install later. Since I am not going to duel boot I now deleted all partitions on the drive. This won’t be complete until you tell it to so you can undo any decisions up to the time you make the “final” decision to complete the installation.
18. Here you have to do a little calculations. You must know the size of the hard drive you are going to use and how much RAM that you have. Just about everyone will have a different way to do this. This is my way and works for me. I have 2 GB of RAM so I want a “Swap” of two times that amount. I will use “4000″ megabytes for my Swap so I subtracted that from my hard drive size. Then I decided to use about one third of the remaining disk space for the “Root” partition so I will set that to 82000 megabytes and my “Home” to whatever is left.
19. Click on “free space” for the drive you want to use, mine is under device “/dev/sda” then select “New partition table”. In the window that opens select “Primary” then enter the size of the “Root” partition that you want to create. Select “Beginning” . Make sure that “Use as” is set to “Ext 3 journaling file system” and select “/” as the “Mount point” and make sure that the “Format the partition has a check mark in it so the drive will be formatted. Click “OK”.
20. Click on “free space” again and go through the same as above except this case enter the size of the “Home” partition that you want and select a mount point of “/home”.
21. Now it’s time to set up the “Swap” space and it is a little different.
22. Click on “free space” again and this time leave the “New partition size” at whatever it is. Mine is 39999 megabytes. Select “Logical” for the “Type for the new partition” and set the “Use as” to “swap area”. You will not have to set a mount point this time. Click on OK.
23. If you have any other internal disk drives they will be shown on the list. I recommend setting them up now to save a LOT of work later.
    1. Click on your first internal drive. It will have a device name of something like “/dev/sdb1″ and a type of “ntfs” or “fat32″. Make sure you select the partition (with the number at the end) and not the drive which in my case would be “/dev/sdb” (doesn’t have a number at the end).
    2. Select “Edit partition” and in the window that opens don’t change the partition size. Select a “Use as” that is the same as the original “type” on the previous window. Mine is “ntfs”. In the “Mount point” enter the mount point you want to use. I used “/media/Data” since this is going to be my “Data” drive. I like to keep my data on a totally separate drive. This mount point will make the partition easy to access later. IMPORTANT; make sure that the “Format the partition” IS NOT checked if you don’t want to format the drive. Click “OK”.
    3. Repeat for all of you other internal hard drives but make sure to change the name of the partition when entering the mount point. For example you may want to use “/media/Backup” or whatever. Just make sure to start it with “/media/”.
    4. Repeat the procedure for all of your external drives as well.
24. After you have all the drive information completed click forward. The changes won’t be made yet so you don’t have to worry about that.
25. The next window will allow you to put in your full name, the name you want to use to log in (I wouldn’t advise using capital letters for the log in name), a password (don’t forget it) and a name for your computer. Then click “Forward”.
26. WARNING; On this screen you will be shown what is about to happen. Make sure it is what you want. When you click “install” it will complete the installation. Make sure it is correct.-
27. Select to “Restart” the computer when the installation is completed.
28. Remove the CD and press “Enter’.
29. You Ubuntu is installed and will reboot into the Ubuntu system.

That is enough for now. I’m going to post part 2 in a few minutes so check it out also. Thanks for stopping by.

Bob Jones

My wife left Germany in 1961 and hasn’t been back in all this time. Since my wife came to this country some of her nephews and nieces have come for visits at various times over the last 15 years and we all enjoyed ourselves. She had 11 brothers and sisters when she left Germany but some of them have died. A few years ago one of her brothers and his wife came for a visit and we had a great time. One of their daughters, her husband and one of their son’s came along with them. That was the only one of her brothers and sisters she has seen in over 46 years. Well, that is about to change. Three sisters and one brother and two of the sister’s husbands are coming for a three week visit in late June. I’m so excited that we are going to get together at last I can hardly sit down to write this. This is going to truly be an “Adventure” to tell about when they are here. When the other family members came over we were on the road all the time and had a lot of fun. What is going to make it really interesting is the fact that I speak no German and they speak no English. My wife doesn’t speak German except when relation comes so hers is very rusty and it takes a few days to start getting comfortable with it. Then when they leave it takes about three weeks to get the German stopped and get back to all English. All in all I’m looking forward to having a lot of fun. Come on back and read all about it in late June and early July.

Bob Jones