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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Sorry for the delay in replying hyperbole. The CD mount problem on my laptop has been solved. What I was doing was just loading a CD into the drive and waiting for it to mount. After a few minutes a notice would appear saying that the drive could not be mounted. I also tried to mount from the file browser with the same result. A couple of days ago I decided to try to install the new version of Xubuntu 7.10 on the laptop. I must gave tried approximately six or seven times at least with the install hanging at various stages. Sometimes on the initial load of the live CD, sometimes as far as 55% into the actual install. At this stage of the install I would get a message that the CD Drive may be faulty or need cleaning, the hard drive may be faulty or be overheating, and there was another part of the message suggesting what the fault may be but I'm sorry to say I've forgotten what that was. I tried to get some extra RAM memory for it but my local computer shops don't have "such old memory types" in stock. SO I got myself a lens cleaner and then I put the laptop in the fridge for a few hours tried again and on on the second attempt at an install it managed to complete. So I know have a complete new install of Xubuntu on my old Dell Latitude laptop. Now with Xubuntu my CD drive is fully working and wired and network connections have been recognised and established almost fully automatically with the minimum of configuration from me. I'm most definitely not going to fiddle with the system on the laptop any more as I have the feeling it is drinking in the last chance saloon. I'm going to treat it with kid gloves and not go overboard with simile, metaphor or analogy. :D Now on my desktop I have Ubuntu 7.04 and it is working really well. I have al the eye candy I [i]need[/i] and apart from Photoshop and perhaps Dreamweaver, I have everything I could want to make me a happy camper. I can listen to music, stream internet radio and video, view and do basic editing to my RAW photographs browse like a demon, email etc. But.... My update manager is tempting me to update to Gutsy 7.10 I must say it is very tempting. Apart from Compiz being installed by default I would really like to be able to write to my NTFS partition from Ubuntu in ext3. Having said that I notice there are some people who appear to have problems with the upgrade especially with Compiz - Fusion. So I think I'll take your "willy-nilly" advice ;) and not upgrade just yet. Following the old adage, " If it ain't broke then don't try to fix it". Then over the next few weeks or perhaps months, I'll keep my eyes on the Ubuntu forums for problems and their solutions before [i]"going for the burn"[/i] Anyone here upgraded yet? [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5635] [img]http://www.tao.serveit.org/sigs/tile.gif[/img] [/url] [i]Those who look for monsters should look to it that they do not become monsters. For when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.[/i] Loading...
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