Yep, that says it all.

I'm taking my (very) old Sony VAIO PCG-FX310 laptop and wiping it clean. I'm gonna put on Ubuntu Server and ColdFusion8 - nothing else. That will get all my work stuff off my PC so I can finally upgrade it to XP - lol, yeah I know . . .

Anyway, I'm very interested to see how CF looks and performs on Ubuntu . . .

Let us know. I'm interested in to know how it runs. You've been using Ubuntu before?

Well, there was some success and lack of success.

The plan was to basically get my old laptop into some functional role - it has sat dormant for almost a year, collecting dust. This was mainly due to it working progressively slower (Windows XP) and because the LCD screen died. I've hooked it up to a monitor switch so I can go back and forth, but the practicality of it being a laptop is far removed.

So, in my excited mindset, I quickly found myself at ubuntu.com staring at the product page - client vs. server. Say that to yourself a dozen times and that might be one fifth of the time I spent staring at the screen, struggling to make a decision. Afterall, (I thought) what could I do with client software on a monitor I couldn't see. So, I downloaded the server software.

The server software installation was brilliant. I wanted to wipe my drive clean and I was hoping to have that option. I was delighted, and the short of it is, the format and installation went over without a hitch. I got toe the happy message - "now that your installation is complete, we just need to reboot one more time".

Yipee. I watch the computer recycle - all the little boot up scripts flying by . . . then a prompt for my username and password - [done] - hit enter and watch a few more scripts flush the screen . . . then . . . a prompt.

A PROMPT! Where is my user interface like the . . . like the . . . the client. NO!! Am I that dumb - apparently. Then I go back to ubuntu.com and search feendishly for a screenshot of the server edition. I come up empty handed and then realize just how naive I (and people in general) can be. In all my excitement I failed to notice the obvious. After installing unbuntu client as an alternate OS at work, I thought for sure this was it.

So, no I am faced with the decision - learn the command prompt interface or install the client. Being a spoiled american (of 100% dutch blood I must add) I will likely install the client (yes for the interface).

As for the client - I love it. I have it installed here at work but I've yet to install anything else - namely ColdFusion - on it yet. Since ColdFusion does install with its own web server (optional) I figure it would be the perfect use of my laptop.

I guess installing the ubuntu server was a little greedy on my part, but before I install the client, I might take a stab at installing coldfusion there to see if I can get it running.

I might sound all over the place here, there is just so much to thin about, so much to do, and so little time to do it.

lol

I tried to install Ubuntu on my 10 year old laptop before realizing it only had 192 MB of RAM; Ubuntu needed 256 MB. Ah well, long live Windows 98

ha - well the server edition installed and ran well - I just have no idea how to use it. Didn't even think about memory for the client edition - greed is often blind I guess.

I think I just need to figure out how to format the drive outside of anything else. Got any good idea on how to format a hard drive without using an OS installation process?

fdisk with a boot disk.

Download any OS boot disk on a floppy or cd. Then type fdisk at the prompt.

http://www.bootdisk.com

where could i get an ubuntu cd?, i wanna get it for my soon-to-be useless laptop, or anyone OS that doesnt take too much RAM, even XP is making it slow.