Category Archives: Building a Computer

Building your own computer.

Installing Ubuntu 9.10

If you’ve installed the Windows operating system before, you’ll find that loading Ubuntu is easier than loading Windows, and it’s quicker.  Plus you’ll never be asked to type in your disk number, and then contact Microsoft to authenticate your software. … Continue reading

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Creating an Ubuntu CD

There are two ways to obtain the Ubuntu operating system.  You can go to the Ubuntu web site at https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ and ask them to send you the lastest distribution on CD.   You are cautioned that although Ubuntu is free, it … Continue reading

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Why Ubuntu?

We’ve built a computer.  We’ve turned it on, went through the bios setup to boot from CD/DVD and then the hard drive.  The next step is to load the operating system.  Before we do that it might be informative to … Continue reading

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Troubleshooting until your up and Running

Well, were back!  That took a good month, well, to be honest in the middle of that my wife and I took a trip to Europe to celebrate our anniversary.   The rest of the time, I’ll call part problems which … Continue reading

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Hardware Troubleshooting

Well, folks sorry for the delay, but we’re having some hardware problems. Just because you get the system to come up and “Post” does not mean that everything is connected and operating properly.  And that is the case here. When … Continue reading

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