Pedricko
August 4th, 2007, 09:45 PM
Hey Ubuntu-ites.
If you saw my last thread, basically I borked up my badly dist-upgraded (breezy-dapper) install. As if having all those dependency problems wasn't bad enough!
Well I've been forced to use the 'family' computer, a Compaq SFF (Pentium 3 800mhz, 128mb RAM, 10gb HDD, Win2k). Now I'm not blasting the compaq - Hell, I had an identical model which was a sturdy little beast, I did however upgrade the fans, ram, hdd and CD drive.
Friday evening I set to work on downloading the Feisty Alt. ISO. A friendly UK ubuntu forums member has sent me a copy, but due to the postal strikes, It is unlikley as to when I will see it. Needless to say, the ISO arrived in record time, which is when I realised.
*Dramatic Pause*
We didn't have any CD-Rs!
Which led to my epic journey of buying cheap CD-Rs. I searched (much to my lady's chagrin) several shops untill, surprsingly, the bare minimum cheapest were still £3.99 for 10. Strangely enough, the cheapest brand was Sony and I got them from HMV, which I would of thought to be the most expensive option.
Fast forward to me arriving home, excited at the prospect of getting my precious linux back, only to be confronted with several errors regarding not reading these discs. Now I know they're new so they can't be faulty, and a quick google revealed several complaints about the CD-RW I was using, some model by MSI which model number escapes me at this point.
Angrily I took apart my personal PC, and swapped out the CDRW drives, a task which was made much harder by whoever put this one together jamming the cables into the back of the MSI. I swapped them out, booted up and to my horror, Nero reported back a 'Power calibration error', which made me think the builder of this unit was right in JAMMING those cables in.
Now, being your typical nerd, I really can't be bothered messing around with that drive again, so I've decided to kick back, download some more linuxy apps (MSN wont run on 2k, its an XP only now, so I downloaded the windows version of Pidgin, the program that original borked my install - Never use Sudo Apt-Get F- Install or whatever that command was) and wait for this cd/till I go back home being able to use my other computer.
Not being bothered to fiddle with a drive = Posting a long, slightly pointless thread instead.
If you saw my last thread, basically I borked up my badly dist-upgraded (breezy-dapper) install. As if having all those dependency problems wasn't bad enough!
Well I've been forced to use the 'family' computer, a Compaq SFF (Pentium 3 800mhz, 128mb RAM, 10gb HDD, Win2k). Now I'm not blasting the compaq - Hell, I had an identical model which was a sturdy little beast, I did however upgrade the fans, ram, hdd and CD drive.
Friday evening I set to work on downloading the Feisty Alt. ISO. A friendly UK ubuntu forums member has sent me a copy, but due to the postal strikes, It is unlikley as to when I will see it. Needless to say, the ISO arrived in record time, which is when I realised.
*Dramatic Pause*
We didn't have any CD-Rs!
Which led to my epic journey of buying cheap CD-Rs. I searched (much to my lady's chagrin) several shops untill, surprsingly, the bare minimum cheapest were still £3.99 for 10. Strangely enough, the cheapest brand was Sony and I got them from HMV, which I would of thought to be the most expensive option.
Fast forward to me arriving home, excited at the prospect of getting my precious linux back, only to be confronted with several errors regarding not reading these discs. Now I know they're new so they can't be faulty, and a quick google revealed several complaints about the CD-RW I was using, some model by MSI which model number escapes me at this point.
Angrily I took apart my personal PC, and swapped out the CDRW drives, a task which was made much harder by whoever put this one together jamming the cables into the back of the MSI. I swapped them out, booted up and to my horror, Nero reported back a 'Power calibration error', which made me think the builder of this unit was right in JAMMING those cables in.
Now, being your typical nerd, I really can't be bothered messing around with that drive again, so I've decided to kick back, download some more linuxy apps (MSN wont run on 2k, its an XP only now, so I downloaded the windows version of Pidgin, the program that original borked my install - Never use Sudo Apt-Get F- Install or whatever that command was) and wait for this cd/till I go back home being able to use my other computer.
Not being bothered to fiddle with a drive = Posting a long, slightly pointless thread instead.