question from brand newbie re booting from Ubuntu 7.04 CD

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, 2007-18-07 at 17:31 -0400, Rod Clay wrote:
> Hello.  I just burned my Ubuntu 7.04 CD yesterday and booted from it to
> begin to check out Ubuntu.  Here's my question:  some things were not
> working, for example, my Firefox browser appeared not to be able to find
> my internet connection.  Are there some facilities that do not work when
> I boot from my Ubuntu 7.04 CD (like my internet connectivity, and maybe
> other things as well, like printers), but which may work just fine
> when/if I install Ubuntu on my harddrive?  Or does the failure of these
> facilities to work when I boot from the CD indicate that there are
> problems with these facilities working in Ubuntu and which therefore are
> likely to be problems when/if I install Ubuntu 7.04 on my harddrive?
> Thanks for your help.

Well, that's a definite maybe :-)

Some things like wireless can take some manual tweaking that the Live CD
can't/won't do.    Similarly fancy video settings can take some manual
work.   

More specifics would help us nail it down better for you.

A system that works perfectly from the live cd is a system  that will be
zero work to install.  The more problems the live cd shows, the more
work installing it will be.   These days most hardware can be make to
work, but sometimes its more work than a beginner would be interested in
doing.

HTH
Brian
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