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* Download the [Flight CD 2 Iso](http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/releases/dapper/flight-2/) and install it

After first reboot the root file system is not found on /dev/sda1 (no joy)

* Download the [Browser Appliance](http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/browserapp.html) and install that
* Smooth installation
* Install gedit via System -> Administration -> Synaptic (password is “vmware”)
* sudo gedit /etc/apt/source.list and replace all “breezy” with “dapper”, comment out the backports lines
* run System -> Administration -> Update Manager -> Reload
* Click the Install button and see the updates fly by

[Update]

* move /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak
* move /etc/X11/xorg.conf.Before* to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
* edit the xorg.conf file and comment out the GLCore line
* do a ln -s /usr/bin/Xorg /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
* call /etc/init.d/gdm restart and enter Gnome 2.13.3

[Update 2006-01-06]

As of the latest update, the same error as described above (root file system is not found on /dev/sda1) appears. How can this be fixed?

Just discovered by accident:
In linux, to display the files packed into a zip file, just run the following command:
$ less file.zip

Eben auf 3sat kam ein Beitrag in der Sendung Nano zum Thema Denglisch. Es werden immer mehr englische oder pseudo-englische Worte in der deutschen Sprache verwendet. Sei es im Arbeitsleben oder in der Freizeit.
Besonders stark wird das natürlich im Internet deutlich, das von Haus aus schon viel englischlastiger ist, als der Alltag in Deutschland.
Ganz extreme Beispiele kann man sich mal auf dieser Website anschauen. :-)

A neat feature in Firefox on Linux is the quick way of finding a website of interest to a specific word or phrase.
Just mark a word or phrase in whatever you are reading, open Firefox and middle-/mousewheel-click inside the Firefox window.
The website will be opened, that Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search would find.