I know just enough to really screw up my machine...

[Gary Ball]

Hi Christopher.

I tried that but it either kept giving me errors or it would ask for  
the install cd (which is a dvd) and it wouldn't recognize my Atapi  
dvd drive.
I messed around for awhile, but eventually re-installed Ubuntu from  
CD, then Studio form the terminal.
Luckily there wasn't any crucial data I needed on my machine. I  
would've gone nuts if I had tunes & media to rescue!

Thanks for all you help. It makes me see the need to get a much  
better understanding of unix!

Regards,

Gary Ball


home.cogeco.ca/~gball



On 20-Mar-08, at 12:43 PM, Christopher Stamper wrote:

> Can you just re-install the ubuntu-desktop package from the terminal?
>
> Something like sudo apt-get install ubunu-desktop?
>
> BTW, to switch to vterm do ctrl+alt+f1 or alt+f1
>
> (Not sure of the command, I never use apt-get)
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Gary Ball <gball at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> While Getting the ALSA drivers from a *fresh* kernel to get my CMI  
> sound card to work with JACK,
> I guess I blew out my gdm ubuntu-desktop (which I heard may  
> happen), bet when re-installing the desktop in terminal, it choked  
> & had to be re-booted. It will not allow me to install as root or  
> as a user, the only thing it will let me do is re-install Ubuntu 7.10!
> I can see my shared folders from my Mac, but that's it.
> any suggestions before I go that route?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary Ball
>
>
> home.cogeco.ca/~gball
>
>
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