Various installations for Week 5

My installations went really well. Installing a gui desktop in my Ubuntu server went perfectly. I pinged a known host and it worked. I installed the desktop. I connected to the internet and when I typed in the URL http://localhost/, a window opened saying "It Works!" I was really happy.

I installed Ubuntu Desktop in a virtual machine by following the YouTube videos. They made it really easy. When I checked the disk, it said I had no errors. That was great, because whenever I copied the ISO image to a disk it came up with errors.

I installed Webmin and it was a piece of cake! These installations went really well for me, which makes up for all of my struggling with the Ubuntu Desktop boot disk. It's really easy when you have step by step instructions.

Tutorials

The tutorials from UA CBT were fairly easy to understand. I did not get everything that he said, but it will make more sense once I try out the commands he talked about. I liked that the videos weren't too long. Plus, he sounded really nice. I watched these tutorials before reading any of the other print tutorials. I liked how he talked about what was in each directory. I also liked how he explained the way files are displayed and what it means. I also liked the find and grep utilities. Those were interesting. I didn't really understand the linking part.

The Learning the Shell lessons were easy to understand. I really like how things are broken down into small lessons. It made me wonder if I should try using a mouse.

The YouTube videos (Part 1: http://youtube.com/watch?v=S30OUYsu2Qo, Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=jEcAD1cMWIY, Part 3: http://youtube.com/watch?v=sNL512ScRfs) for installing the Ubuntu Server were really helpful and easy. The only thing is that in the beginning, it starts with VMware server and I was using VMware Workstation, but that was no big deal. And I didn't have the problem in the end with the kernel issue. Mine restarted fine after the install. It was nice having it playing while I was doing it. It was reassuring to be able to see the same thing happening on my screen as in the videos.