[Cialug] I'm still having problems with my Ubuntu.

[Ralph Kessel]

Yes one more thing --- ugh! I changed the hosts file and Ubuntu 6.01 won't 
let me due Sudo any more. Please help with that. It gives a message about 
not being able to apply gethost.
Thanks
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Kessel" <kesselr1 at mchsi.com>
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] I'm still having problems with my Ubuntu.


> Yes, thanks. I 've reinstalled 5.10 from my CD drive and in the process of 
> updating the to 6.10. It's a painfull process. I'm still trying to 
> understand why I was hosed in the first place. It had to due with my 
> updating releases with apt-get and somehow the system got out of sync and 
> I couldn't access graphics -xwindow . It would just hang when i brought 
> upt the system. But that is water under the bridge.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Todd Walton" <tdwalton at gmail.com>
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 10:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] I'm still having problems with my Ubuntu.
>
>
>> On 3/31/07, Ralph Kessel <kesselr1 at mchsi.com> wrote:
>>> to install an older release, U 5-10, the from my cd, Grub will try to 
>>> bring
>>> up the releases i have currently. It won't bypass GRUB so that I may
>>> reinstall the older release. What am I to do? Thanks,
>>
>> As Nathan said, check that the BIOS boots to the CD before the hard
>> drive, and then boot from the CD and watch.  Does that work?  Have you
>> been able to give that a try yet, Ralph?
>>
>> -todd
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