hoosemon61
September 28th, 2009, 02:44 AM
Ok, I'm not sure what happened here at all.
I'm going to give you the whole story instead of just the last bit, just in case the earlier stuff helps.
I was running an previous version (Dapper maybe?) on an older machine - celeron, 512 MB Ram - 10GB HDD - slowly but without a problem.
It had a CDRW but nothing that would read DVDs.
I installed an older DVD ROM I had laying around.
It started acting funky, but mostly it would see the DVD but not mount it.
I realize now it might just have been a driver thing, but I thought why not try 9.04 instead?
I also decided to try a larger HDD since I had a few laying around.
I tried installing 3 times on a 20GB drive, and I'm pretty sure the errors I got were telling me the drive is bad.
I then found an 80GB western drive I missed the first time and tried again with that.
Install went fine, only message I got was a warning that it was selecting a lower level graphic mode because I don't have a discrete video board.
Here's the weird part.....
It works fine, but the version of Ubuntu installed is 7.10!!
I checked the CD and it definitely says 9.04.
I checked the repositories in synaptic package manager and they're all trying (and failing) to upgrade from Gutsy repos.
I'm using the machine now, so it works, but how did I get 7.10 from a 9.04 install CD and what should I do?
:confused: Hoosemon
I'm going to give you the whole story instead of just the last bit, just in case the earlier stuff helps.
I was running an previous version (Dapper maybe?) on an older machine - celeron, 512 MB Ram - 10GB HDD - slowly but without a problem.
It had a CDRW but nothing that would read DVDs.
I installed an older DVD ROM I had laying around.
It started acting funky, but mostly it would see the DVD but not mount it.
I realize now it might just have been a driver thing, but I thought why not try 9.04 instead?
I also decided to try a larger HDD since I had a few laying around.
I tried installing 3 times on a 20GB drive, and I'm pretty sure the errors I got were telling me the drive is bad.
I then found an 80GB western drive I missed the first time and tried again with that.
Install went fine, only message I got was a warning that it was selecting a lower level graphic mode because I don't have a discrete video board.
Here's the weird part.....
It works fine, but the version of Ubuntu installed is 7.10!!
I checked the CD and it definitely says 9.04.
I checked the repositories in synaptic package manager and they're all trying (and failing) to upgrade from Gutsy repos.
I'm using the machine now, so it works, but how did I get 7.10 from a 9.04 install CD and what should I do?
:confused: Hoosemon