Stupid Newbie Disaster

[Tony]

"John W Redelfs" <jredelfs at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:d0d0b04c0511181317i2b85f56do466b8e4c002de8e2 at mail.gmail.com...
I didn't realize that I must still be a newbie until last night when I
totally screwed up. I was trying to install nVidia drivers for my dual boot
system, when my machine seemed to hang during the shutdown of X-windows.
Instead of waiting a bit longer, like an idiot I did a Clt-Alt-Delete, and
that started a warm reboot. But now my X-windows seems to be damaged, and I
can't get back onto Breezy Badger's desktop. Working from the command line
outside of X-windows, nothing works to get X-windows running again. As a
last resort, I tried using my new Breezy Badger install disc made from the
ISO I downloaded a few nights ago with the intentions of doing a reinstall
and starting all over again. But the install won't boot from the CD anymore,
and I keep getting grub back in my face instead of the install program. Now
what in tarnation should I do? I suppose I could apt-get a new X-windows if
I wasn't so ignorant about apt-get and the Debian stuff. But I don't even
know how to do that. What is wrong with my Breezy Badger install disk? I
know my BIOS is set up to boot first from the CD-ROM, secondly from my
floppy drive, and only last of all from the hard drive which is where my
grub is set up in the Master Boot Record. I had an easier time installing my
first Red Hat installation back in 1995 when I had to set up my partitions
using fdisk without a partitioning program. Ubuntu is proving to be a much
bigger problem to set up than I imagined it would be. The Live CD worked so
nicely. It seems to me that there needs to be a lot of work done on making
video drivers install more easily with the initial installation or at least
afterwards. I never had any of these problems setting up my new Windows XP
with the appropriate nVidia drivers.

Sorry for the blast. I'm just frustrated and feeling stupid. Back to the
newbie forum I guess.

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Not sure if it will help you but I screwed up my Gnome but got it working 
again by using sudo apt-get gnome-core