Re: [Hampshire] What would you do, faced with the following advice re Ubuntu

2010-09-27 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 17:42:57 +0100 (+0100), Lisi wrote: [snip] > Incidentally, so far, the course is a little disappointing. The first week's > work is actually wrong in some of its facts. E.g., Ubuntu shadows Debian > Stable's six monthly release, and is released about a month after it. I

Re: [Hampshire] What would you do, faced with the following advice re Ubuntu

2010-09-27 Thread john
Hi All I have several computers which I play with. I have one which has no problems working with Ubuntu 10.04. I have two second hand laptops which fell over trying to install 10.04. I have another laptop which 10.04 worked on with no problem. Compared to 8.04 10.04 is slow on my eeepc, So

Re: [Hampshire] What would you do, faced with the following advice re Ubuntu

2010-09-27 Thread Jan Henkins
Hello Lisi, On 27/09/10 09:22, WESEMEYER STEPHEN wrote: Hm... I guess the LiveCD worked but once you install it falls over? If your PC is capable of booting from a USB stick, I'd try creating a bootable USB stick and run the installer from that. At least that would rule out dodgy DVDs/DVD dr

Re: [Hampshire] What would you do, faced with the following advice re Ubuntu

2010-09-27 Thread WESEMEYER STEPHEN
Hi Lisi, On 27 September 2010 08:53, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 25 September 2010 18:27:52 Steve Wesemeyer wrote: > > It might be more productive if you shared your "failures" with 10.04 in > > case someone on the list can come up with a solution. > > I took you at your word, Steve. I am 25% th

Re: [Hampshire] What would you do, faced with the following advice re Ubuntu

2010-09-27 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 25 September 2010 18:27:52 Steve Wesemeyer wrote: > It might be more productive if you shared your "failures" with 10.04 in > case someone on the list can come up with a solution. I took you at your word, Steve. I am 25% through installing 10.04 from a CD supplied by Canonical. (I t