[ubuntu-us-mi] Hello World

[Rebecca Herber]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Rebecca Herber <ramengirl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Please excuse the necromancy but I thought I should tell you a little
>> about myself before I go asking for help.
>>
>> Name: Rebecca "Becky" Herber-haven't been on IRC yet
>>
>> Place: Port Huron
>>
>> Distro: Ubuntu on laptop and dual boot with Windows XP Home on my desktop
>>
>> Ubuntu interests: trying to get it to run on my somewhat outdated
>> laptop, trying to get all my tasks I normally do in Windows running in
>> on Ubuntu
>
> What model?

Its an old HP N5470 from 2000, at least I think that's when my friend
originally purchased it. When he gave it to me last fall, it
overheated constantly, the CDRW/DVD-rom drive worked when it felt like
it, and the battery only held a charge for 10 minutes. I've managed to
clean it out which was full of cat hair, nicotine, and 2 nicely
crisped roaches, find a new recordable media drive for it, and get a
new battery. The BIOS doesn't like the new CDRW/DVD-rom combo drive
and I can't boot from it on startup, I think it might be the eprom
security but I'm done putting anymore money into it. I've managed to
get around it by using the Smart Boot Manager on a floppy disk which
sees the drive with no problem; it also is recognized by the OS with
no problem.

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Becky
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