Linux Ubuntu

When you boot from the install CD, indicate which partition you want Ubuntu installed on.

Do you mean, install Ubuntu and not enter the BIOS? To install Ubuntu using a CD, you need to enter the BIOS, setting the CD drive as the first boot. Otherwise, the computer will still boot off the hard-drive and ignore Ubuntu on the CD drive. If you meant, install Ubuntu without removing your Windows operating system? Then you need to set up a dual-boot between Windows and Ubuntu. Search the internet for fuller instructions on creating a dual-boot. If you simply want to try using Ubuntu without making any changes to the OS already on the hard-drive, either use the CD containing Ubuntu as an ISO file, known as a Live CD. Or, look up WUBI on the internet. Wubi will allow you to download and use Ubuntu as you would any other Windows file - without making any changes to the hard-drive.

Windows 98 will detect that a card has been plugged in. Whether or not it can USE it depends on whether the card has Windows 98 drivers available, and if you have installed them correctly. Most wireless A, B, and G cards have Windows 98 drivers, but very few N cards do.

Any scanners that are supported by SANE ("Scanner Access Now Easy") will work in Ubuntu. Note that you will need to add yourself to the "scanners" groupand log out and back in. A link in the "Related links" section below will show a list of supported models of scanner by manufacturer.

lpr printfile

It is assumed that the default printer is Printer1, so you don't have to specify it.

It will "use" as much as you can give it. For a desktop installation, you will need at least 128 MB of RAM.

P.S. Ubuntu 5.10 is long obsolete. There is absolutely no reason to use it other than historical curiosity.

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YES data can be recovered from a zerofilled hard drive but it is extremely difficult and costly process. To recover data from it one has to use a special equipment that has the ability to detect What new zeros have been put on the magnetic plates of hard drive. The process involoves detecting and separtating older magnetic field from the newer one. Let me explain it by an example: Consider a piece of data: 10110101 When you will zero fill the data will become 00000000 As the drive is formated all ones are converted to zeros. In this process new zeros replace the older ones but the older zeros remain "in place". This causes magnetic fields of slightly diffrent intensities on the surface of the disk i.e., the magnetic field of older zeros is of lesser intensity then that of the newer zeros. This change can be read by special equipment under special conditions . This is how FBI recovers data from a ZERO-FILLED hard drive. Hoping this will answer your question. Awais Rauf.

This is a well-known issue. It is caused by aggresive power management settings on certain computers. Below is a link to the bug report and solution (basically a script that runs hdparm -B 256 /dev/sda).

WAV is a file format. There is no difference between a WAV file on Ubuntu and a WAV file on Windows.

a. cat and grep

b. tr

Printers in the x5400 series are unsupported by any version of Linux, and will probably remain so, due to Lexmark's refusal to provide Linux drivers for their printers.

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Yes. The main purpose of the Netbook version is to provide an interface more suited to the device's small screen and hard drive. The desktop version of Ubuntu can be installed on a netbook with enough space, but the interface may appear too small to use comfortably (too small icons and menus).

There should be a Pitvi Video editor in sound & video.

Yes - in the process of installing Ubuntu. If you want to format and nothing else, take a look at GParted (google).

Yes, Windows 7 will overwrite the partition used by Ubuntu. In dual-booting, were two operating systems share the hard-drive (in separate partitions), you have a choice of either OS on boot-up. The recommended method is to install Windows first, then Ubuntu. Otherwise, if Windows is installed second it greedily takes over automatically at boot-up.

install windows first and then install linux, there should be a partitioner in the live cd. or just use wubi

Depends on what you're using the Linux computer for (server vs desktop) however, just updating whenever it tells you to should keep you relatively secure.

To update from 9.04 to 10.04, you can either use the update manager or burn a cd. Since 12.04 LTS is out though, I would burn a cd and install that.

No, has iptable already enable in kernel.

In my opinion, Ubuntu is more user friendly than Windows. Other open source users may consider their chosen OS as being the best: Linux Mint, Puppy, Kubuntu, and so on - the list of distributions (distros) on offer is very long.

Run (from a terminal):

sudo apt-get install gcc build-essential

This depends on what desktop environment is running. The Unity desktop uses the Compiz window manager. Unity 2D uses Metacity.

Partitions should be removed using a partition manager.

If you have a Ubuntu live CD, then you can run partition editor from there. If you don't, then you should install a partition editor in your main operating system.