Uninstalling Ubuntu

[Jayson Rowe]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Jeffrey Tooker wrote:

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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Karl Larsen
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 5:03 AM
> To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
> Subject: Re: Uninstalling Ubuntu
>
> Jeffrey Tooker wrote:
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
>> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Keith Clark
>> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:43 PM
>> To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
>> Subject: Re: Uninstalling Ubuntu
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>>>> I am trying to uninstall Ubuntu from my computer.  Ubuntu is loaded on a
>>>> seperate disk, not in a partition.  I have tried using the Ubuntu
>>>> installation disk to load the new Ubuntu over the old.  My Dell (PIII)
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>> To all:
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>> I got 7.10 loaded from disk. Mine worked the one from the book would not
>> boot up.  Got into the Bios.  The boot instructions on the disk and
> another
>> set of instructions I found online did not work for getting into Bios on
> my
>> Dell.  The key for Dell seems to be F2.  Also one needs to hold F2 down
> from
>> the time the machine is powered up.  The machine then goes into Bios
> before
>> the the indications that are supposed to show up, (they never do).  I
> messed
>> up the install by impatience and had to restart a couple of times. 10.7
>> seems to work pretty well now.  I will keep at it.  Thanks to all for your
>> help and patience.
>>
>> Jeffrey Tooker 
>> Paynes Creek Ca.
>>
>> 	Glad you figured out your BIOS. They can be real tricky some times
> and I have not had a Dell. So then the LiveCD worked and you have Ubuntu
> installed on the second hard drive and it works.
>> 
>
>    Now you can relax because after a bunch of updates you will be up to 
> date and using Linux.
>
> Karl>>>
>
> Karl:
>
> I downloaded them last night.  There were 209 updates.  It took a while.
> While downloading I came to the understanding that the CD was the basic load
> to get the system going, then the updates brought the system up to speed.  I
> am begining to understand the way in which Ubuntu is set up.  It will take a
> while.
>
> Jeffrey Tooker 
> Paynes Creek Ca.

Actually the updates do not install any additional packages - they simply 
update the packages installed from the CD to new versions - either to fix 
bugs, provide better stability or are security patches.