Welcome aboard Driver (I wonder how we were cruising without a Driver all this time ). Nice to have u here bro'.
Driver wrote:
I downloaded the Ultimate Edition 2.3 Live/Install DVD and used a program (from Windows OS) to place it on my USB stick and to make it bootable. It worked, sort of.
Use Netbootin for this purpose.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Driver wrote:It seems to automatically log me in as a "Live User." I do not know (as of yet - I've only been playing for a few minutes) if that means that I am a root user or what.
Yes u r with root priviliges cause in LiveDVD mode u can do no harm to your system, almost.
Driver wrote:UE2.3 looks like a great distro from my limited use.
It is
Driver wrote:First, I always set the bottom bar to auto-hide on every computer/OS that I use. But it seems to come on screen and "get stuck" there at times. I can fix it by going to Properties and unclicking Auto-Hide and then reclicking on it. I suspect this is caused somehow by Songbird as it only did it while I was playing with that program, looking in its menus and the like. Is there a way to force the Auto-Hide function of the taskbar(?) to ALWAYS work?
It always works bro'. Report this again after Unetbootin procedure. U can also try hide button setting in panel properties. Its lovely
Driver wrote:Second, when I attempt to shut down it appears to be in the process of doing so - the progress bar gets most of the way filled - but then locks up and I have to hold the power button in for a few seconds. This is annoying but since I'm operating off of the USB stick I suppose it isn't hurting anything.
Yes this is a known issue (infact, not exactly an issue). When it is hung just hit enter and it will properly shutdown.
Driver wrote:Third - and this is my main problem - when I booted again, I had lost my wireless function. I believe this might be because the OS failed to keep the Broadcom driver. It didn't seem to "save" it to either my USB flash drive or my laptop's hard drive. I would like to know how to set up my flash drive so that it will be used for file storage. There is probably over four gigabytes free on it as I only have the UE2.3 "DVD" on it and it's an 8gig model. More evidence that the Broadcom driver is just not getting saved - and another annoyance - is that when I loaded Songbird again it acted like it was the first time I had run it and I had to repoint it to my music folders (on the laptop's "mostly Windows" hard drive).
LiveDVD/CD are running OS from RAM so when u shutdown everything is cleaned from RAM and when u start again it starts afresh.Thats why it is safe.
Believe me bro' u r using the right distro and in the company of very right people.
Enjoy and welcome again...