Wondogenet - the first Ubuntu Install

Today was a brilliant day. I always look forward to working at Wondogenet as the staff here are especially motivated. I was excited to find out how things had gone over the past year. I was very impressed for several reasons. The more important ones:

• The computers had been well used and they were both still working. So much so that the health officer complained (in the nicest possible manner) that she had trouble getting staff out of the computer room. :D
• There was a local 'IT guy' who had installed WinXP on one of the computers resulting in a Win2K - WinXP dual boot. How much does one have to love Windows to actually have a Win2K/WinXP dual boot?! But, he had managed to retain the e-library in the process. Cooool!!!

However, as expected the entire e-library directory structure was a mess. None of the shortcuts worked any longer and finding any content was a chore in spite of the fact that it was all still there on the HDD. The staff were keen to retain WinXP and I therefore decided to do a clean install of Ubuntu on the other PC. As I mentioned earlier, these PCs were several years old.