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I guess it's ok, you could do that if you have properly backed up your previous installation...

I would recommend you to use some cloning tool such as clonezilla or similar. Parted magic boot live cd has some tools for cloning, if you are little bit familiar with these softwares.

this is very old post, and am using lucid as a matter of fact but anyway i thank you for posting the solution....

This Thread should be marked Solved now.

first, I am well aware of the date and don't bother point that out.

second the command which you gave here tar -jxvf "nameofthefile.tar.bz2 didn't work because the file was owned by root and not...

will try... post results later...

thanks again ;)

Thank you for your reply Iowan.

Yes, tried that too. Forgot to mention it, but yes. Problem still remains.

thank you gordiontoronto for your reply.

well the router is set by default to be a dhcp host. it always worked like that... and yes I tried set ip manually through ifconfig <interface>...

I have a wireless router HG520s. I have enabled a hidden (nonbroadcast) mode on channel 1 with WEP encryption (64bit / 10 hexadecimal chars). Mac filter is not enabled. Name of ESSID is "homenet",...

as far as i know the only theme pack that covers almost all icons in ubuntu 9.10 is theme by name laga_bluenight or something like that. it's very nice icon pack, try it. you can find it on...

good one, though it's not an available option in ubuntu... i know what u mean but to do a slide show you can make a script which will change your default wallpaper...

just put --exclude="/media" ...in the exclude list, you don't want to backup ntfs partitions or cd/dvd-rom (if theres any) in your backup.

anyway there is a swf-player available in a software channel...

yes there is a swf player, open synaptic and search 'swf' or in terminal


sudo aptitude search swf

it will list you available softwares, i think that one is named swfplayer... anyway there is.

just to remind you, you should first try to 'boot partition' of course first by selecting gnu/linux advance and boot partition and then boot partition which is of course ext4, if you have made it to...

hi, since you're a newbie I won't even try to help you by telling you how could you resolve your problem in a manner that it should be solved.

instead I will tell you that best possible and most...

i meant "a video card with bad reputation" not repository... well xcuse me for not finishing all the words i type

well how does it sound? did you ever made it to put your res to full native res of monitor while in live session?

No!

thats not possible, you just cant see it... upper left corner of your screen, theres Applications - Places - System --------all with their sub menus... you just take a good look again.

you have a bad rep video card... did you tried installing drivers for your video card? maybe that will help...

try this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=740632

that's it buddy, you're stuck with that res and you can't get it better than that because ur using live cd...

get a supergrub cd, is about 4mb, burn it boot it and try to automatically fix your boot linux / windows problem, easy to follow... as for other methods you'll have to more experienced linux user...

Way too good, better --> faster --> reliable --> simple ==> GREAT!!!

I have just downloaded and installed 9.10 and driver installation went easy, sound, graphics, printer, everything, just great....

i would advice you to reinstall i.e repair win xp first and then reinstall grub, by leaving ubuntu installation intact. you can both do fine and there are loads of instruction available throughout...