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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Installing Ubuntu To Single User Account? Post 302104468 by Calum on Thursday 25th of January 2007 08:45:40 AM
Old 01-25-2007
yes, that's how it works. a live CD will enable you to boot the whole OS off a CD, but this has several obvious limitations. i would recommend that you shove your windows partition down a few gigabytes in size, create new partitions for your ubuntu (probably just one for your / and a swap partition as well) and you can dual boot, using a boot manager such as grub. Ubuntu has a disk partitioning tool as part of the installation process, and also automatically installs and configures grub for you. i think you should try to get a simple installation guide for ubuntu, print it out, and just go through the installation process from an ubuntu CD. back up your stuff on the computer first, just in case, though you shouldn't have any problems.

by the way, no linux systems are unix systems. they are, in fact, GNU systems. GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix, and GNU is a term meant to describe an alternative OS, that is not Unix, which is Free and Open Source (which Unix is not). GNU systems are also (more or less) source code compatible (but not binary compatible) with Unix systems, since they use a lot of the same software design principles. (is that right? correct me if i'm wrong somebody, i know this is a touchy issue for some).
 

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what-patch

WHAT-PATCH(1)						      General Commands Manual						     WHAT-PATCH(1)

NAME

       what-patch - detect which patch system a Debian package uses

SYNOPSIS

       what-patch [options]

DESCRIPTION

       what-patch examines the debian/rules file to determine which patch system the Debian package is using.

       what-patch should be run from the root directory of the Debian source package.

OPTIONS

       Listed below are the command line options for what-patch:

       -h, --help
	      Display a help message and exit.

       -v     Enable verbose mode.  This will include the listing of any files modified outside or the debian/ directory and report any additional
	      details about the patch system if available.

AUTHORS

       what-patch was written by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>, Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>, and  Daniel  Hahler  <ubuntu@thequod.de>,
       among others.  This manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies <jpds@ubuntu.com>.

       Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.

SEE ALSO

       The Ubuntu MOTU team has some documentation about patch systems at the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems

       cdbs-edit-patch(1), dbs-edit-patch(1), dpatch-edit-patch(1)

DEBIAN
								 Debian Utilities						     WHAT-PATCH(1)
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