[ubuntu-za] Need some URGENT help please.

[Dr. Johan P. Prinsloo]

Baie dankie vir jou hulp en inligting Nic

Ek was gister nie in 'n goeie bui oor hierdie 10.10 nie, maar Mark gaan 
sommer die PC vir my oorbou met Win7 en Ubuntu 10.04. Ek moes van beter 
geweet het asom 'n nuwe masjien te bou met 10.10 eerder as 10.04.

Baie dankie vir jou moeite met die CD.

Mooi bly
Johan

On 27/11/2010 16:50, Nic Roets wrote:
> Hello Johan and Ian,
>
> I have 'official' CDs here in Pretoria, if it helps. Call me on 
> 012-361-2884. I'll bring them to you and may be able to give a few 
> pointers while I'm there.
>
> Regards,
> Nic
>
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Dr. Johan P. Prinsloo 
> <biocura at telkomsa.net <mailto:biocura at telkomsa.net>> wrote:
>
>     Installing 10.10 is a real nightmare to such an extent that I feel
>     leaving Linux and going back to Microsoft after all these years.
>
>     Just bought a new PC and the installation is a disaster
>
>     Try downloading the iso file again and writing a new disk, that helped
>     in my case, but now that its installed there is no GUI and I do
>     not know
>     how to get into my PC. For the first time since 8.04 I built a dual
>     bootable pc having windows 7, which ubuntu simply ignored and seems to
>     have installed over it.
>
>     I'll try once again doing another install from scratch hoping it will
>     work, but sadly after 5 attempts and almost 24 hours later I doubt it
>     will work.
>
>     Try another iso and writing it on a new cd.
>
>     Johan
>
>     On 27/11/2010 14:42, Ian Whitfield wrote:
>     > //Hi All
>     >
>     > I need some rather urgent help with a new installation of
>     Kubuntu 10.10
>     >
>     > Background is that I have 3 HDD in my computer. A system drive,
>     a /home
>     > drive (both IDE) and I just re-plugged in a SATA drive that has some
>     > backup data on it. To be safe I backed up ALL data etc in /home to a
>     > brand new external USB SATA HDD before I started.
>     >
>     > I then re-booted the machine with the new 10.10 CD in the drive.
>     When it
>     > got to the 'where to install' part it only seemed to show ONE
>     HDD!! (Why
>     > is this?). As my Second Boot Device in the BIOS is set to be the
>     "System
>     > HDD", (First is the CD Drive), I selected 'Use all of drive' and
>     continued.
>     >
>     > Part way through the installation I noticed that the External
>     HDD light
>     > was flashing so it seems as if the system has taken this to be the
>     > primary drive and overwritten all my Backup Data!! (Again why??)
>     >
>     > After the installation it did a reboot but comes up with...
>     >
>     > error: no such device: (long number)
>     > grub rescue>  _
>     >
>     > So I went back into the BIOS and set First Boot Device as the
>     old System
>     > Disk and switched off the External drive and restarted but I get the
>     > same error!!
>     >
>     > Can I do anything through the 'grub rescue' prompt, or how can I
>     get the
>     > original system, which must still be on the System Disk, to
>     start? That
>     > way I can reclaim my data and try again.
>     >
>     > Thanks for ANY help with this. As I'm only getting feeds from
>     the list
>     > every second day or so could you CC me direct please on
>     > whitfield at federalsaints.net
>     <mailto:whitfield at federalsaints.net>, as this is rather urgent!!
>     >
>     > Thanks guys.
>     > ////
>     >
>     >
>
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