[ubuntu-uk] booting the ubuntu restore DVD

[Michael Holloway]

Rowan

For the record, I have just bought a new computer [I7 based ;)] and have
installed Jaunty (which is still in Alpha so I would not recommend it
yet). I have the same network device as you (RTL8111) and it it works
out of the box. If you feel up to it, when Jaunty comes out next month
you can install that.

After using your system recovery CD (and not updating your system) you
just need to download and burn Jaunty to cd, and then put in in while
ubuntu is running. It will pop up a message saying "Do you want to
update?". Problem solved. 

Cheers,
Michael


On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 19:46 +0000, Rowan wrote:
> It turned out to be, press F12 at the POST screen, as it states in the 
> bottom, then select the optical drive when the boot device menu appears. 
> It seems to have worked. To prevent all  this from happening again,  I 
> need to go to System -> Administration -> Software Sources, and uncheck 
> the Update tab. Hopefully it will be OK now. Sometime in the future I 
> may learn to use Updates selectively, or install DKMS, which is clearly 
> not especially easy. If I get it online tomorrow, I shall drop you all 
> an email from it. Thanks for all the advice ...
>