Just made sure the bios could see my usb cdrw by pressing delete before the machine boots up, set it as the first boot device and away to go.

While I can see the linux community is working hard to make ubuntu more n00b accessible it’s still not accessible enough, sorry! Call me when the gui can do everything with a double click because no average user wants to learn console commands. I’ve had a duel boot of slackware and xp on my big box pc for 2 years, and more often than not I end up using xp.

If your webbook is only recognising 448Mb of your 1Gb of RAM, then I’d suggest there is probably a hardware issue, as opposed to an OS issue, irrespective of whether it’s Windows or Linux based. I’d be intrigued to know what you were having to tweak as far as the OS goes every few days? I’ve had to tweak nothing since my initial setup of additional repositories that ensure, flash, skype, java, firefox, thunderbird etc are always the latest versions when the updates are applied, of course, I had to enter my WPA password when I initially setup wireless at home, and also when I used it at McDonalds, and motorway services, but hey are not OS tweaks.

If you’re really so desperate to see Vista running on your webbook, why not simply create a Virtual machine, using Virtual Box and install it on that, at least it’ll give you an idea of what it’ll look like.

Cheers

PS. So far I’ve not had to fix, or tweak any settings on my Niece’s webbook either.

Speak as you find … MY ubuntu webbook was a pile of ****, it’s as simple as that.
No amount of updates from the moderators and suggestions to make certain features work as useless if the machine is faulty.
This one is not great, it has started to recognise only 448Mb of the installed 1Gb of RAM … this has only started happening this week, it was fine before.
Apart from this, the webbook with XP is brilliant. It works.
I am happier remarking upon it’s size and convenience rather than what I am having to tweak on the OS every few days.
Vista Basic is very nice, I would like to know if anyone has tried it on the webbook.
If I wanted updates about what a fool I was, and how wonderful ubuntu is I would look elsewhere on these pages where this has already been fully documented.
Thed question remains … vista basic anyone?

After, my niece got her hands on a webbook, ubuntu ofcourse, a friend of hers who has a Windows based version of the webbook, which she has found unreliable, and frustrating to use, has now asked to have Windows replaced by Ubuntu !!

So, as I sit here now, Ubuntu is merrily being installed on what was originally a Windows webbook.

And this request came without any prompting from me at all.

Happy New Year