Weird Question (Sorry, a bit long)

[Danilo Piazzalunga]

Liam Marshall ha scritto:
> How do I tell what version of Ubuntu I am running?

System -> About Ubuntu should tell you. Alternatively, it's shown in
/etc/lsb-release.

> Both the version of 5.1 Breezy and Dapper Flight 5 that I downloaded
> yesterday appear to work, but I have to use linux vga=771 in order to
> run the installation on my laptop.  When I do, things appear to go fine
> until the unmount of installation cd and reboot.  At that point I get a
> message about the xserver failing and would I like to see the output,
> which I do not understand, then it tells me gdm has been disabled and to
> fix it and then reenable x.  I have no idea how to do that

It would be helpful to developers if you could post the X server log
(/var/log/Xorg.0.log) created after the failure.

For example, use w3m to log into your webmail account and send a message
with /var/log/Xorg.0.old attached (works with gmail :).

> I also heard that Dapper allows us to look/see files on a windows
> partition. [...] Right now I use my laptop, with windows,
> network boot into the LTSP wired, and have a partition on my laptop to
> play with linux distros.

Your windows partition should be recognized at install time and the proper
entry should be already present in /etc/fstab. You can add it yourself,
using something like this:

/dev/hda1	/media/windows	ntfs	uid=YOU,nls=utf8	0 0

(substitute YOU with your user name create the mount directory with "sudo
mkdir /media/windows" if it does not exist).

See also https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountingWindowsPartitions
and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomaticallyMountPartitions