David Hardy wrote: > Problem: I scraped the > hard drive (or thought I did) completely in anticipation that she'd want > the Windows os back. [SNIP] > (It would appear to install and then freeze, > and on boot-up the XP boot screen appears, despite my reformatting the > drive.)
Sounds more like you reformatted a partition than wiped the whole drive. > I will now have to either buy another XP license or find some way of > both installing Ubuntu and then finding a wireless card that will work > with it. Feel free to bring it by my shop in the afternoon or early evening and I can take a look at it. I never did get Ubuntu to run right on my Toshiba, but Mandriva (post-2007) works beautifully. (2007 and previous needed kernel option for the SATA bus but worked fine otherwise.) The shop is Just Works, at 419 Amherst St. in Nashua, off exit 8 and right across the street from Building 19. I can hook you up with a copy of Mandriva 2008.1 Free and see if that does anything. (I have licenses for Powerpack 2008.0 for sale if you're interested as well...) As long as I have time (AKA no paying customers ahead in the queue) I'll take a look gratis. (If you *want* to pay me (or buy something), great, but this isn't a commercial offer.) Brian _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/