[Ubuntu Chicago] Fwd: Like to pay for hands-on support

[W. Scott Lockwood III]

Minor correction: CDs from here:
http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs/lucid/

The other is for the DVD. The CD will download a lot faster.

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W. Scott Lockwood III

From: ubuntu-us-chicago-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-us-chicago-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of W. Scott
Lockwood III
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:47 PM
To: 'Rick Hedin'
Cc: ubuntu-us-chicago at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu Chicago] Fwd: Like to pay for hands-on support

No, that will work just fine. Downloadthe iso for 10.04
http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/DVDs/ubuntu/lucid/release/ from there.
Burn it to a CD. Pop it in the CD-ROM or DVD drive, and boot from it. It’s
pretty simple from there, but if you get stuck, call me. 847-579-9753. Not
before 10am, or after 10pm please.

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W. Scott Lockwood III

From: Rick Hedin [mailto:cubsno1 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:17 PM
To: W. Scott Lockwood III
Cc: ubuntu-us-chicago at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu Chicago] Fwd: Like to pay for hands-on support

Hi, Scott. 
 
I just bought this box last weekend.  I have nothing on it that I need to
keep.  My objectives for the box are just to run Ubuntu and Erlang. 
 
The only thing I want to avoid is hardware incompatibilities, that would
leave me with a humming box.  It's a Dell Inspiron 910.  It was sold with
Ubuntu on it.  Do you think I need to worry about driver incompatibilities? 
 
Other than that, I'm very willing to install the latest Ubuntu from
scratch!  How do I do it? 
 
 
                Regards, 
 
                Rick
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:59 PM, W. Scott Lockwood III <scott at guppylog.com>
wrote:
Hey Rick,

 So, it seems you’re not running 9.04 after all. It looks like you are on
8.x. What I would do at this point, is back up any data you have on the
machine that you want to keep, and install the most recent LTS release from
scratch. Let me know if you need help with that.

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W. Scott Lockwood III
From: Rick Hedin [mailto:cubsno1 at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 6:47 PM
To: W. Scott Lockwood III; ubuntu-us-chicago at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu Chicago] Fwd: Like to pay for hands-on support

Hello Scott.  Just getting back to this after a long day at work.
 
Would it be appropriate for me to copy your sources.list file?  I think
that's where the repositories are recorded, and where apt-get gets its
information. 
 
 
               Regards,
 
               Rick
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Rick Hedin <cubsno1 at gmail.com> wrote:
Good morning, Scott.
 
I tried sudo apt-get install erlang.  It said "E: Couldn't find package
erlang." 
 
I think my problem is that my sources.list file doesn't have the right
entries.  When I go to System -> Administration -> Update Manager, it says
"New distribution release '9.04' is available."  (I guess I was inaccurate
that I am already at 9.0.4)  When I click Upgrade, it says "Upgrading to
a no longer supported version."  When I click past that, it says "Extracting
the upgrade failed.  There may be a problem with the network or with the
server."  All my interactions with the internet work great.  There is no
firewall (I'm in my house).  I think it's the server.  Specifically, not
pointing to a valid server.
 
If in the Update Manager, instead of clicking Update, I click Check, it says
"Downloading package information" for a while, then it says "Could not
download all repository indexes."  I think my problem is " . . . ensure the
repository address in the preferences is correct."  It gives me a long list
of complaints, from "Failed to fetch
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid-security/main/binary-i386/P
ackages.gz  404 Not found [IP: 91.189.92.167 80]" through "Failed to fetch
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid-updates/multiverse/source
/Sources.gz  404 Not found [IP: 91.189.92.171 80]" 
I hope this is enough information to enable you to deduce what the problem
is.  I hope your day is productive and pleasant.
 
 
                 Regards,
 
                 Rick



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