Re: [Scottish] Kubuntu Install help.....?

2007-03-05 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
babaguy wrote: Hello again - I've e-mailed the Scribbler, but many hands might make light work so. I finally was able to download and successfully burn the kubuntu ISO CD as recommended by Scribbler (took 5 CD's but, hey!) I put it into the Linux box and booted- and hit enter when

[Scottish] Kubuntu Install help.....?

2007-03-05 Thread babaguy
Hello again - I've e-mailed the Scribbler, but many hands might make light work so. I finally was able to download and successfully burn the kubuntu ISO CD as recommended by Scribbler (took 5 CD's but, hey!) I put it into the Linux box and booted- and hit enter when it asked me ("I

Re: [Scottish] FAO

2007-03-05 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 13:13:48 -0500 (EST) "babaguy"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William, When the downloads of updates were ready to install, > Synaptic (in the "FM") told me to be sure to tick the box which tells > the machine to overwrite or replace the older files with the new ones > - I verifie

Re: [Scottish] FAO

2007-03-05 Thread babaguy
William, When the downloads of updates were ready to install, Synaptic (in the "FM") told me to be sure to tick the box which tells the machine to overwrite or replace the older files with the new ones - I verified that the correct Synaptic boxes were checked and the machine then took about hal

Re: [Scottish] FAO

2007-03-05 Thread William Anderson
babaguy wrote: > Thanks J.R. ! I *think* the system has updated itself to Edgy > [snip] It could only have done that if you'd commanded it to do so, after changing the repository settings in the update manager, synaptic or /etc/apt/sources.list - it definitely won't have done that magically :)

Re: [Scottish] Re: time spent on Linux stuff...

2007-03-05 Thread William Anderson
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