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How do I apply new driver when running off of Live CD which requires a restart?

Asked by Jbanicar

Greetings,

I am running a Dell_Inspiration_Gen_2 (2.0GHz Processor), 2.00 GB of RAM, and Geforce 6800 Go Ultra running the Nvidia Driver 7.8.5.1.... I am quite a heavy PC user, and typicly I ALWAYS keep my drivers up to date, however, since this is a Dell laptop, I have never seen an updated video driver for my graphics card, which I think is causing problems.... Because how can the latest version of Ubuntu, which is now being put on Dell laptops, not allow me to enable 3D Effects when I put in the Ubuntu 7.10 Live-CD ????

Issue: When I try to enable the Extra 3D Effects in Appearance, it says that it is unable to enable them, and then proceeds to automatically download the necessary display driver to make this happen. Great! I think, hoping that this will solve my problem, but then after a [successfull] download/install of the driver, it says that I must restart.
Question: How am I able to apply the driver via restarting, if I am running off of the Live-CD? BEcause when I restart, it just asks me to remove the Live-CD so it can complete the restart process which just makes Windows start up afterwards instead... or even if I put the CD back in, it will just reload the Live-CD, and make the entire point of restarting pointless in the first place... since nothing was permanently installed when running off the Live-CD from my previous session.

Basicly, it is impossible for me to use any 3D Effects without Ubuntu recognizing that my video card (listed above) is capable, and why is this a problem? It is only a 2yr old video card, which isn't very old at all in laptop years since it is a closed platform (sort-of). When I had tried Mandriva2008, it allowed me to use their 3D Effects right off their Live-CD, but I want to use Ubuntu because I love the distro FAR better than Mandriva2008.

Question part 2: Could you please tell me if I need to download some new Drivers for my laptop to make Ubuntu 7.10 recognize and work properly off the Live-CD? I would install it onto a partition, but the partitioning program is COMPLICATED to me because I have never messed with partitioning Linux before, and I want to KEEP the 94GBs of used space, and give Ubuntu 7.10 3 GBs of space, but how do I do that exactly?

PLEASE HELP ME! I want to use Ubuntu 7.10 so badly, and for it to actually [work]. Just help me understand and tell me what I need to do to make this happen!!

Thank you for you time & hard work.

Regards,
James

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#1

ubuntu can not include the nvidia 3d drivers required to make your card work on the live cd, rest assured that if you install ubuntu to your hard-drive (not running it off the cd) and then install the required drivers 3d effects will work flawlessly. you can try pressing ctrl+alt+backspace once the drivers are done installing on the live cd but that might force it to restart, i forget.

you can follow this handy screencast (video) which will show you step by step howto install ubuntu and duel boot it with windows here: http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/Installing_Ubuntu_with_Windows_Dual-Boot
its based around an older version than 7.10 but the process (and most importantly the information about partitioning) is basically the same.

or if you don't want to watch a video you can get more information about partitioning here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot

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Jbanicar (pcgcjim) said : 		#2

I watched the video-link that you gave me, and I have a question about partitioning:

Question: If my Windows partition (and all of my information that comprises my computer / media / family pictures / songs / university documents) that I wouldn't want to be affected, is about 92 GBs, how do I slide the bar in the partition program on the installation CD? I am confused on how to use it. I don't want to "Re-size" it into anything smaller, but I would want to give Ubuntu maybe 3 GBs of space, leaving the rest for Windows.... So what size would I leave my Windows partition to do this? How do I read it?

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Best Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#3

if you have say a 50gb windows 'partition', you need to free up space for the ubuntu 'partition' (at least 4gb, if you want to install lots of stuff, more around the 8-10 gb mark), you do this by resizing the windows partition to a smaller ammount (in this case around 40gb). the ubuntu installer is smart and as long as you have enough free space on the windows drive to resize it down (so to resize a 50 gb partition down to 40 gb you would need at least 10gb free space on that windows parition already) you should be fine. its reccomended to defragmentate the windows drive first though.

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Jbanicar (pcgcjim) said : 		#4

Alright, so if I have 92GBs full out of 100, and I resize it from 92GBs down to 88 GBs, and Ubtunu takes up 10 GBs (so that would effectively leave 2 GBs left for Windows right???)... would that be enough for Windows to effectively run and for Ubuntu to run?

Thank you to your helpful responses, we are almost resolved... I just need to make sure that I understand 100% before I mess with my only available PC.

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Jbanicar (pcgcjim) said : 		#5

Thanks Gord Allott, that solved my question.

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Peter Harold (peterharold) said : 		#6

After restart you can apply this. during restart you cant do any thing. its a events you cand do any thing when events are start.
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