<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi, I have an Acer Aspire One, and I am running Ubuntu 10.10. Since upgrading to this version, I am getting the same problem, I cant use USB sticks and I cant plug in my external dvd rewriter. It gives an error 'unable to mount usb stick, not authorised'. It seems to be a Ubuntu problem, and so far I havent been able to find a fix for it. I want to do a fresh install, but I cant because it wont accept both. On 07/02/11 12:56, gazz wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1297083418.20123.3.camel@fbterm" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="GtkHTML/3.28.3"> <blockquote type="CITE"> On 4 February 2011 21:22, Dianne Reuby <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:pramclub@yahoo.co.uk">pramclub@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote> A friend has asked me to look at her husbands netbook, which is running Linux. He bought it from Tesco two years ago, so I think it probably *is* Ubuntu. His problems are mainly that it doesn't recognise USB devices when they're plugged in, and it downloads updates but doesn't install them. He wants to do more than email and web browsing, which is all he feels he can do at the moment (it has shortcuts on the desktop for email and firefox). If it's two years old, and he hasn't upgraded, will it be pre-Unity? As I've never used a netbook, only Ubuntu on desktops and laptops, will I be able to find my way around it? She thinks his cunning plan is to break it so he can buy a new one, but I don't want to be the one that breaks it! :) TIA Dianne -- <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="CITE"> </blockquote> Doesn't sound like Ubuntu - but the laptop would run a full installation of Ubuntu. Where are you? Is there anyone running installation workshops near you? Paula </blockquote> </body> </html>