New Install of Zorin OS 6 64-bit - September 2012

INSTALL NOTES:
September 23, 2012

PLAN:  Perform a clean install of Zorin OS 6 64-bit.

1. Backup any important data created while using Zorin OS 6 (previous installation).

2. Do a clean install of Zorin OS 6 64 bit.
   a) get Zorin OS 6 64 bit DVD created June 2012
   b) Partition setup
      1) 20 GB for /root
      2) 8 GB for swap
      3) the remainder of space to be formatted in NTFS to be shared by Windows and Zorin

3. Open terminal.
   a) sudo apt-get update
   b) sudo apt-get upgrade
   c) sudo gedit /etc/default/rcS (change UTC=yes to UTC=no)

4. Perform Updates and Upgrade
   a) Open terminal
      1) sudo apt-get update
      2) sudo apt-get upgrade
   b) Run Update manager.

5. Install and Remove Software
   a) Remove
      1) FreeCell Solitaire
      2) Mahjongg
      3) Mines
      4) Quadraspassel
      5) Sudoku

   b) Add
      1) Armagetron
      2) Audacity
      3) Banshee
      4) dconf Editor
      5) Gnome Paint
      6) gThumb Image Viewer
      7) Gwenview
      8) Handbrake
      9) LibreOffice Base
      10) QMC2
         (a) Add new repository to Synaptic Package Manager
             deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mmbossoni-gmail/emu/ubuntu precise main
         (b) SDLMAME executable file is in /usr/games folder
         (c) ROM path = /home/user/.mame/roms
      11) Record My Desktop
      12) WinFF
      13) XBMC
      14) youtube-dl

6. Install NVIDIA driver
   a) open terminal sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
   b) Change BIOS settings in Video. Switch from onboard to PCIe.
   c) Goto Additional Drivers.
   d) reboot and change BIOS settings in Video. Switch VGA to HDMI.

7. Setup remaining hard drive partition for data files to be shared between Windows 7 and Zorin OS 6.
   a) Windows
      1) use Disk Partition Manager and format to NTFS.
      2) Label as DATA_ZORIN
      3) This was made the U: drive.
   b) Zorin OS 6
      1) Open nautilus and mount drive.
      2) In terminal, type mount. Look for line with disk name.
      3) In terminal, find UUID by typing ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid/
      4) Add to startup
         (a) Find Startup Applications.
         (b) Click Add button.
         (c) Choose a name, paste in command /usr/bin/udisks --mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/<UUID>, enter comment.

      5) In Nautilus, navigate to DATA_ZORIN. Create folders.
         (a) Right click folder and select Make Link.
         (b) Open another Nautilus and open to home.
         (c) Drag the link from DATA_ZORIN and drop in home folder.
         (d) Delete folder (i.e. Documents) in home folder.
         (e) Rename link. (i.e. Like to Documents to Documents)
         (f) change folder icon /usr/share/icons/ZorinOS/scalable/places

      6) In terminal, type sudo gedit /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf
          Edit enabled=True to enabled=False

      7) In terminal, type sudo gedit .config/user-dirs.dirs
          Change paths to match folders in partition
          For example:  Change -->  XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
                            To -->  XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="/media/DATA_ZORIN/Documents"