[ubuntu-za] Problems with 10.10

[Dr. Johan P. Prinsloo]

Thanks Helge,

I fully agree with you, I should never have done this 10.10. I bought 
this ACER EXTENZA E470 with Windows 7 professional pre-installed, which 
I decided to keep as I might have some use for it in future, but which 
10.10 went and ignored anyway so its gone.

I'll have to rebuild the PC from scratch. I shall rather build the PC 
with Windows 7 (for my daughter's sake coz I'll NEVER use it) and then 
install 10.04 again, because I know it works.

Ubuntu is trying to hard at developing a Windows look and feel, 
something I'm wanting to get as far away from as possible, which is why 
I do not even run KDE or KUBUNTU.

Please note that installing 10.10 with APCI switched off in your BIOS 
will cause it to start up without the Ubuntu GUI, it will only start up 
command promt. You have to have ACPI enabled for the GUI start up.

Thanks Helge, I'll be removing this 10.10 Micro$oft Winblows look and 
feel alike rubbish from my new PC.

Take care

Johan

On 27/11/2010 16:24, Helge Reikeras wrote:
> Hi Johan
>
> If you're having problems with 10.10 (which is very unfortunate, I
> agree!). I propose running the long term support (LTS) release 10.04
> until the next release comes out.
>
> Regards,
> Helge
>
> On 27/11/2010 16:16, Dr. Johan P. Prinsloo wrote:
>    
>> Installing 10.10 is a real nightmare to such an extent that I feel
>> leaving Linux and going back to Microsoft after all these years.
>>
>> Just bought a new PC and the installation is a disaster
>>
>> Try downloading the iso file again and writing a new disk, that helped
>> in my case, but now that its installed there is no GUI and I do not know
>> how to get into my PC. For the first time since 8.04 I built a dual
>> bootable pc having windows 7, which ubuntu simply ignored and seems to
>> have installed over it.
>>
>> I'll try once again doing another install from scratch hoping it will
>> work, but sadly after 5 attempts and almost 24 hours later I doubt it
>> will work.
>>
>> Try another iso and writing it on a new cd.
>>
>> Johan
>>      
>