[ubuntu-uk] booting the ubuntu restore DVD

[Simon Wears]

The RTL 8111 works out of the box in Intrepid, too (at least it did  
for me).

Simon Wears
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On 6 Mar 2009, at 09:25, Michael Holloway <michael at thedarkwinter.com>  
wrote:

> 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 ...
>>
>
>
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