@Jason If you are at a prompt. You can still update. To bring up networking (hooked up via ethernet): sudo ifconfig eth0 up sudo dhclient
Then to update: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade This will upgrade you with all the packages. Also what happened to your system, seems different from what Jacy Fan is reporting. Who at least got failsafe X to come up. -- [West Lake] Ubuntu 8.10: System unable to detect optimized graphic resolution. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338598 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs