wow, installing linux is easy

I downloaded a cdrom image of Ubuntu Linux, burned it to cd, booted off of it, and was literally immediately running a fully functional linux box (booted off of the cd) with a little "install" icon on the desktop. While installing I checked my email, chatted, and browsed the web with firefox.

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root@dancer:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 453G 1.9G 428G 1% /