[Cialug] annual Ubunutu bust.

[Ralph Kessel]

I reinstalled Ubuntu 12.04 using wabi. It seems to work for now. I'm trying to be careful as to what I install and how install it as the new release is not as friendly to 12 fingered and 1/2 brained people. I'll just work it very slowly. But I will still need more help I'm sure. BTW the gentleman who sold me my laptop told to reinstall an release because he said my machine is so old.  I told him I have an AMD-64 processor and that the release automatically installed it in 64 bit mode. He told me that was a dangerous thing to do. Well it's working although my dvd will not read my iso installation and that is why i took the narrow road of installing with wabi.  I still can't boot  on my old (original Ubuntu disk) but that is another story.  When I hit the grub option for the linux install it spins on 40.166.2901. init 

plymouth -stop prestart process(1570) terminated with status 1.


At that point I reboot and go tthe wubi boot. 


Thanks for the help but I have a pity party with every new install.

Ralph


________________________________
 From: Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] annual Ubunutu bust.
 
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Ralph Kessel <ralphkessel75 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Thanks Matt for your timely response.  This time I'm at the end of my rope.  I believe my problem is the age of my machine.  I tried to install with Wubi and when I tried to boot it only wanted to boot into guest mode with no apps.
> I attempted to reinstall an old release (Ubuntu 10.04) and it wanted to reconfigure my whole may machine and I don't wish to wipe out my windows partition.  As bad as it is--maybe--I'm far more luck than with installing Linux.
> If someone could come to my house in the evening - I have only two classes left on Wednesday night-- I would be more than happy to step through the nightmare.  Or somebody else may volunteer. I assure you will be paid for your time.   If you could get me back to an old release that would be great as my printer stop working once I got into release 11 which is the least of my problems.
> I am fortunate to have to functioning windows machines and there I will stay until somebody is able to help.
> You guys have been most helpful to this old dolt and I do appreciate your help.
>
> Thanks,
> Ralph
>

So you're using Wubi? Do you have any data you want to save? If not,
you can just uninstall wubi from the Windows control panel and then
re-install. It's just a file on your windows partition and wubi tricks
Ubuntu into thinking it's a hard-drive. You don't have to create or
modify any partitions (Windows or otherwise) when using Wubi.


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