The file you downloaded should be called something like ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso

This is an ISO file or disc image, not a Winrar or Winzip file. You need to burn this ISO to a blank CD or DVD.

For Nero, follow these steps.

Steps to create a CD if you have installed Nero - Burning ROM:

Download the ISO CD image to a folder on your computer.

Insert a blank CD in your CD-RW drive.

Start Nero Burning.

Follow the wizard steps to select Data CD creation.

When the wizard closes, click Burn Image on the File menu.

In the Open dialog box, select the ISO file, and then click Open.

In the wizard, click Burn to write the image to the CD.

You could also refer to the Ubuntu Wiki page.

Follow those guides and you'll be on your way.

Good luck

Actually, if you prefer to use Malay, you could also go to Ubuntu Malaysia. The site and its users mainly use Malay, so might be a better source of help if you're more comfortable with that.

This post has been edited by Cannonfodder: Jan 4 2009, 01:40 PM

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You'll have to compile it manually.

You probably need to append the specific sound card model in the alsa-base file. I don't have a creative card so I don't know the specifics.

Creative is a little tricky as they don't any Linux support aside from poorly written and outdated drivers. They've recently open sourced their Linux drivers so these will eventually get better but in the meantime, it's a crapshoot.

Go over to ubuntuforums.org, there're many threads on how to troubleshoot Creative soundcards. Some work, some don't.

I find GNOME-power-manager to be very unreliable on my computers as fas as sending displays to sleep is concerned. It will work for a few times before completely stopping to work again for the rest of the session.

If you face this issue, you will face it no matter which distribution you use. The GPM is the same as long as you use GNOME. Why don't you give KDE a try, I think you should be able to get 4.2 in Ubuntu backports. I run KDE 4.2 in Fedora and as far as power management is concerned, it's very reliable.

It's consistent on GNOME with virtually any distro I've used of late, as well as in XFCE.

The common denominator for me was GPM.

It may or may not be the cause, but the same computers don't experience the same issue in KDE.

See this.

I'm not sure what's in the Kubuntu repos, 4.1 or 4.2. If it's 4.1, you might want to skip it, it's not the most stable thing you'll use.

http://fedoraproject.org/

You can download the KDE LiveCD, but that uses 4.1 and doesn't include OO.o if that is any concern.

Best to get the DVD, but no LiveCD environment in that for you to test if it works with your hardware.

If you want the most recent snapshot, then you can get them from http://spins.fedoraunity.org/

I would advise that to avoid massive updating.

Or, if you're feeling brave, you can try the Alpha for Fedora 11.

Ubuntu and Mint are so similar that you should choose one or the other, no point in wasting your HDD real estate on both. Just go for Mint, it's basically Ubuntu+.

To install both Ubuntu and Mint, there is an option during partitioning to replace or include existing OS. Choose the one that keeps them, not replaces them. The best would be to partition manually. One partition each for Mint/Ubuntu, one shared /home partition (use different usernames for each), and one small swap partition.

Install one distro's bootloader to the MBR, then install the second distro's bootloader to it's /root. Let each manage their own bootloaders and chainload the second distro from the bootloader in MBR.

Ubuntu uses Network-Manager, Mint uses Wicd. That might be the difference. But I suspect you're using Jaunty, which has a newer kernel and better hardware detection. If that's the case, not an apple-to-apple comparison.

Check that Mint is correctly identifying your wireless extension (wlan0, wifi0, etc) and that this is correctly appended in Wicd's preferences. You might also want to try using the different wireless drivers that Wicd uses. This is all in 'Preferences'.