I'm getting less reluctant all the time! On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 07:36 +0000, Sean Miller wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Rowan Berkeley > <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I gotta tell you, this is worse than I thought. I set the update manager > > to exclude "proprietary device drivers (restricted)" and allowed it to > > download and install everything else, and it again totally screwed up > > the machine, knocking out among other things the high-resolution > > display, so I had to re-install the whole of ubuntu from the restore > > disc all over again. > > I will repeat my previous advice -- forget "restore disc", install > from 8.10 instead. > > It's a more recent version of Ubuntu, should detect all your hardware > fine and when 9.04 comes out you will be able to simply let it update. > > Why is it that you're so reluctant to do this? > > Surely if it fails you can THEN use the "restore disc" method? > > But it shouldn't fail... not in my experience... > > Sean >
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