[ubuntu-nz] Installing 10.10

[Ru]

I wonder if your the 10.10 CD is faulty if you can see it trying to boot but
it fails and the 5.10 CD works it sounds like you may need to burn a new
copy,
it's not uncommon to get a bad Disc .

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Paul Stockley <paulstockley at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> OK.
>
> The world hates me.
>
> I can boot the 5.10 live disc, but it doesn't support my wide screen.
> Actually, my flat screen complains something about unsuitable input. It
> displays lotsa Ubuntu stuff as the live disc loads, but when (I guess) the
> disc looks for drivers, it paicks a bad one and my screen objects.
>
> So, if I can fix that -- I don't have an old CRT, no -- do I just poke
> around on the desktop's file system until I find etc/passwd and then delete
> that?
>
> P.
> ------------------------------
> From: paulstockley at hotmail.com
>
> To: ubuntu-nz at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 23:06:15 +1200
>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-nz] Installing 10.10
>
> Hello again.
>
> I have pulled out the battery, which has undone all the personalisation in
> the bios, part of which was setting the password.
>
> I thought everyone knew that. Perhaps it works only on older machines?
>
> So, now I have a bios without a password. Yes, I'm sure. I can make and
> save changes to it now.
>
> And I can set it to re-boot from cd-rom, and I can see it try to do that.
>
> And I can interupt its startup and demand CD-ROM, and see it try that.
>
> Both fail and it goes back to the hard drive. I'll try the 5.10 live disc.
>
> P.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 11:56:54 +0100
> From: craig at dubculture.co.nz
> To: ubuntu-nz at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-nz] Installing 10.10
>
>
> On 9 April 2011 11:45, Lord Henson <muppet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> correct lappys dont normally have it most pcs do  but there must be a way
> to do a factory reset just a matter of finding it  google would be my first
> stop.
>
>
> If your "lappy" is a business laptop, such as the hp 6930p for example,
> quite often the "factory reset" procedure is "have a technician come out and
> install a new motherboard, at outside of warranty prices".
>
>
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