Great – now you have a copy of Feisty!

Ok, so the download is completed, you have an iso of the cd, now what? Well for the users who do know what to do with this file, ignore this bit:

Burning the CD: Now you have an ISO file of the CD, an image of the install cd that is, you can now write that information to a cd, so that you can boot up off of it. All you need to do is grab you favorite cd burning tool, ie nero in windows is my favorite and select to burn an image from file. You just need to find the .iso file you downloaded, pop in a blank cd and let Nero write that information to cd. Once this is complete you are ready to have a look.

The CD of Feisty fawn is bootable and also a Live version – which allows you to boot into Ubuntu linux without having to install. You can have a look around at the system and see its features and the tools that come with the cd, all without having to write anything to your hard drives.

Go on – pop the cd into your cdrom and reboot the pc. You will notice a boot menu, just leave the defaults and hit enter to start the system up. Once the system is up and ready to use, it should look something like this:

So now you are here, have a bit of a play around – have a look at the default tools and applications, use firefox web browser (much better than IE) and surf the web. You may come across a few websites needing plugins, ie Flash and Java, it should be straight forward to install plugins, but if you are not sure, dont bother right now: I will cover this later on in the series.

In my next post…….. Installing the Ubuntu system. A note: if you are going to run Ubuntu alongside a windows machine, as in Dual Booting it, I would recommend a backup of all your important data – JUST IN CASE. I have been down the “loose all your data” route before, not saying I will lead you that way, but you may have a slightly different configuration of hardware than I and it may cause and issue with my steps being followed .