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Re: The Latest Ubuntu Installer Rocks
« Reply #30 on: July 30, 2011, 07:38:23 pm »
Ubuntu is an Operating System based on Linux.  It modifies your entire computer's core infrastructure, and because of this, it surprised me that you can do other stuff while installing.
It's running a different instance of Ubuntu from the install medium. That's why it works ;)
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Re: The Latest Ubuntu Installer Rocks
« Reply #31 on: July 30, 2011, 07:40:33 pm »
So you can do other stuff while installing an OS? That's cool.

The only way i could run an application while windows was installing, was using an other computer.
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Re: The Latest Ubuntu Installer Rocks
« Reply #32 on: July 31, 2011, 12:25:29 am »
By the way when installing Ubuntu, are there risks of totally messing up your computer when running certain applications in particular that needs a full install?
Well, the installer itself is a full OS, so the programs running on it are fine.
Don't that take heaps of space, though, during install, or is the OS running the programs only running from a CD/DVD or something? ???

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Re: The Latest Ubuntu Installer Rocks
« Reply #33 on: July 31, 2011, 12:27:21 am »
It is only possible, AFAIK, to run the installer from external media.  And the OS doesn't really take that much space, <4GB in total.

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Re: The Latest Ubuntu Installer Rocks
« Reply #34 on: July 31, 2011, 12:27:51 am »
Ah that's good to hear.

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Re: The Latest Ubuntu Installer Rocks
« Reply #35 on: July 31, 2011, 01:39:03 am »
Well yeah that's the point of a Live CD, the entire OS get installed in RAM then it runs from there.

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