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[Andrew Mathenge]

So which version of Ubuntu are you on? 8.04?

That's the version I'm running since 8.10 also clobbered my system
when I tried an update and a subsequent clean install.

Andrew.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Leslie Lewis <lesliel8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had to reformat and reload everything this weekend. I double-booted Vista
> and Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop. Recent updates did something to clobber
> wireless on the Ubuntu side, and Vista had slowed down to glacial speed. I
> tried restoring Vista from the disks I'd dutifully made when I got this
> stupid machine (HP Pavilion with NVIDIA display) but it didn't work. There
> seems to be a fault in my XP disk - the installation goes just a little way
> and the machine turns off. So I switched totally to Ubuntu.
>
> It's been years since I did a fresh install of Ubuntu, and it was amazing.
> Half an hour after I began I had a working machine, although the screen
> resolution wasn't right. After 2 hours of update downloads, a reboot, and
> choosing the two suggested proprietary drivers for video & wireless
> everything worked perfectly. I installed WINE and found that almost
> everything I needed from Windows runs well. So I am a very happy camper with
> a fast, capable laptop.
>
> But I'm not going to switch to 8.10 again.
>
> Leslie
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