FreeDOS/Ubuntu on HP laptops?

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:06:01 +0000
Olafur Arason <olafra at gmail.com> wrote:

> sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a should reconfigure everything.

There's a hidden issue with this, that I discovered -

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a  

insists on your setting a root password. This is OK but means if you ever need to use "rescue" mode you'd better remember your root password, since after setting one, "rescue" will not give you an automatic root prompt any more ;)

> But you can do this on indivitual packages also like like
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r`
> When updating from hoary it is also usefull to do
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade again, this sometimes solves thing
> and doing sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-base
> ubuntu-standard ubuntu-minimal
> just in case.

Agreed.

Peter
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