Ubuntu hell

[Zoombie]

Af is speaking in third person.

Zoombie feels sorry for AF. Zoombie remembers when his computer refused to boot. Zoombie remebers telling tech savy father, who helped. Zoombie thinks AF might try this approach.

[AF]

AF looks at stepdad who asks him what to do as the tech savvy son

AF looks at his laptop in despair

AF has an diea

AF will go try it out

[Zoombie]

I'm gonna drop the third person stuff now. Jolly good luck on your idea, what what. Cheerio.

[Icebird]

Ubuntu 5.1+ am1772 chipset wifi PCI card == no installed drivers.

AF searches logn and ahrd and finds a driver, and downloads a driver for ubuntu from net on his XP then reboots to ubuntu 5.1.

AF starts following instructions.

At stage 2 of the compile process it gives errors about missing files.

Af realizes he must go get linux headers and stuff in the package manager.

Package manager needs to connect to the internet

AF is back to square 1

i think you can download the file containing the headers from XP and install it on ubuntu

long link
or maybe is it on the CD ?

looks like it :
icebird@base ~ $ ls /mnt/cdrom/pool/main/l/linux-source-2.6.12/linux-headers* -s
5787 /mnt/cdrom/pool/main/l/linux-source-2.6.12/linux-headers-2.6.12-9_2.6.12-9.23_i386.deb
781 /mnt/cdrom/pool/main/l/linux-source-2.6.12/linux-headers-2.6.12-9-386_2.6.12-9.23_i386.deb


to use the packages on the cd, you must uncomment one line in /etc/apt/sources.list (or is it already done by default ?)
remove the # from something like that :
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ breezy main restricted


then you should be able to install linux-headers ..

apt-get install linux-headers

or via synaptic


well i did not test it but that should work

[AF]

Thanks for that, I'll get around to looking for my 5.1 cd.

So if I download them with XP and copy them over I can just install them with synaptic?

[AF]

Ubuntu Upgrade

Wow :) I inserted my freshly downloaded "Hoary Hedgehog" CD, did a md5 check on it (md5sum -cv md5sum.txt) and then did this to upgrade from the previous release (Warty)

apt-cdrom add
apt-get dist-upgrade all

It took about 20 minutes and it *seemed* to work!

A quick look through gogole on upgrading ubuntu from 5.1 to 6.01, perhaps fi I mounted my ubuntu 6 cd iso image to /mnt/iso and then told it to update from there somehow?

Some method similair to what you mentioend above...

[Icebird]

So if I download them with XP and copy them over I can just install them with synaptic?

I think so yes
or maybe dpkg -i x.deb

perhaps fi I mounted my ubuntu 6 cd iso image to /mnt/iso and then told it to update from there somehow?

maybe it would work, well I don't really know

but basically you don't need the cd, apt-get dist-upgrade all is sufficient, you may only have more to download

[AF]

no chance, I cant find my cd.