[PARTIALLY SOLVED] Installing Ubuntu 13.04 on a Toshiba Satellite C55-A laptop

[Tom H]

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 5 October 2013 22:00, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Couldn't wait.  Downloaded and burned the 13.10 beta.  It boots up to a
>> fully fucntional Unity desktop.  Going to wait for the offical release
>> before attemting to install it.
>
> Don't bother waiting.  Download the Beta and go for it.  It is on late
> beta now and if you install it you will get the updates to bring it up
> to release level as soon as they are available.  I have been running
> on saucy for weeks with very few problems.  Of course a new version is
> always prone to teething troubles for a couple of months, but it will
> still be better that the previous version for you, as that does not
> work for you at all.

I upgraded to 13.10 two weeks ago. Except for the fact that I can't
boot with a 13.10 kernel (I've been too busy even to check launchpad
to see if anyone else has this problem let alone try to single out the
cause), it's running well.