
installation
A Quick Review of Arch Linux
Submitted by yoyoned on Sat, 08/23/2008 - 00:41.I switched to Ubuntu after hearing a recording of a local Lug meeting. There were 5-6 people there, and during the introductions, they all said they were using Ubuntu. That got me interested, and after trying it, I swithced from Fedora to Ubuntu. That was just before Dapper was released. Even though I experiment with other distributions, I have used Ubuntu almost exclusively since.
Installing Ubuntu (or other distributuin) without burning a cd.
Submitted by yoyoned on Mon, 07/14/2008 - 02:37.Not that a cd is that expensive, I just don't like the idea of burning a cd I know I'll only use once. Several years ago I learned how to install linux without having to burn a cd. This is useful if you like to distro hop like I do, and also appreciate that testing on real hardware is far better than using a virtual machine. I have used this method for Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu, but I bet it would work with other distributions as well.
The basics are as follows:
