[ubuntu-nz] Installing 10.10

[Ru]

Happydays :-) i'm glad it's working,

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Paul Stockley <paulstockley at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Yay!
>
> I am writing from a flashy new Ubuntu Firefox.
>
> Although I had quoted the wrong size to you earlier, I re-downloaded Ubuntu
> to be sure (it was exactly the right size) and got InfraRecorder to do the
> disc burn.
>
> Everything this time worked fine, and I'm left wondering whether it was the
> MS disc burner that was the problem.
>
> Thank you every one for offering help.
>
> Paul
> Taranaki.
>
> (And ugh, the web is full of ads without adblockers, a filtering proxy and
> judicious host blocking.)
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 23:43:12 +1200
> From: ru1812 at gmail.com
>
> To: ubuntu-nz at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-nz] Installing 10.10
>
> also I think the full image for Ubuntu-desktop  10.10  is 693.2MB maybe the
> image you downloaded is corrupt
>
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Paul Stockley <paulstockley at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>
> Is there something I have to do to the 691MB .iso that I downloaded from
> Ubuntu to make it installable when I bung it into the CD-Rom?
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> From: paulstockley at hotmail.com
> To: ubuntu-nz at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 23:18:16 +1200
>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-nz] Installing 10.10
>
>
> OK.
>
> The world hates me.
>
> I can boot the 5.10 live disc, but it doesn't support my wide screen.
> Actually, my flat screen complains something about unsuitable input. It
> displays lotsa Ubuntu stuff as the live disc loads, but when (I guess) the
> disc looks for drivers, it paicks a bad one and my screen objects.
>
> So, if I can fix that -- I don't have an old CRT, no -- do I just poke
> around on the desktop's file system until I find etc/passwd and then delete
> that?
>
> P.
> ------------------------------
> From: paulstockley at hotmail.com
> To: ubuntu-nz at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 23:06:15 +1200
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-nz] Installing 10.10
>
> Hello again.
>
> I have pulled out the battery, which has undone all the personalisation in
> the bios, part of which was setting the password.
>
> I thought everyone knew that. Perhaps it works only on older machines?
>
> So, now I have a bios without a password. Yes, I'm sure. I can make and
> save changes to it now.
>
> And I can set it to re-boot from cd-rom, and I can see it try to do that.
>
> And I can interupt its startup and demand CD-ROM, and see it try that.
>
> Both fail and it goes back to the hard drive. I'll try the 5.10 live disc.
>
> P.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 11:56:54 +0100
> From: craig at dubculture.co.nz
> To: ubuntu-nz at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-nz] Installing 10.10
>
>
> On 9 April 2011 11:45, Lord Henson <muppet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> correct lappys dont normally have it most pcs do  but there must be a way
> to do a factory reset just a matter of finding it  google would be my first
> stop.
>
>
> If your "lappy" is a business laptop, such as the hp 6930p for example,
> quite often the "factory reset" procedure is "have a technician come out and
> install a new motherboard, at outside of warranty prices".
>
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