[ubuntu-uk] comprehensively messed up by updates

[Sean Miller]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Rowan Berkeley
<rowan.berkeley at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I gotta tell you, this is worse than I thought. I set the update manager
> to exclude "proprietary device drivers (restricted)" and allowed it to
> download and install everything else, and it again totally screwed up
> the machine, knocking out among other things the high-resolution
> display, so I had to re-install the whole of ubuntu from the restore
> disc all over again.

I will repeat my previous advice -- forget "restore disc", install
from 8.10 instead.

It's a more recent version of Ubuntu, should detect all your hardware
fine and when 9.04 comes out you will be able to simply let it update.

Why is it that you're so reluctant to do this?

Surely if it fails you can THEN use the "restore disc" method?

But it shouldn't fail... not in my experience...

Sean