Personally I've had no real issues in Gutsy nor the upgrade, but my system
isn't a laptop.
Does the Live CD work no problem? Is the freezing random?
How did a file on your Windows partition get corrupted?
CK
On 10/29/07, vampyre wolf <vampyrewolf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The only reason I have windows in here is for games and the occasional
> time my PCMCIA 802.11g doesn't want to connect through linux. Though I'm
> sure I can find a fix for both in linux.
>
> The install last weekend of 7.10 was from a dvd iso, but that was the time
> that both corrupted my windows/system32 and wouldn't boot. Not sure it'll
> work any better the next time around if the update from 7.04 is still
> freezing my system (though the beta didn't do it oddly enough).
>
> On 10/29/07, Kurtis Peterson <kleedrac@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Very odd ... I'm running 7.10 here at work (update-manager -d from 7.04)
> > and at home (from the beta updated regularely) and I'm having no issues
> > either place ... well ... no issues of consequence. It broke pidgin here at
> > work (as pidgin wasn't in the repos for 7.04 I installed from a .deb and
> > updating broke it badly but I switched to amsn and actually prefer it!) but
> > it certainly hasn't touched the windows installs on either machine! I'd say
> > stick it out with Ubuntu by doing a fresh install of windows (if you need
> > it as I do) and then 7.10 from release cd but that's just my 2 cents ;)
> > Kurtis
> >
> > On 10/29/07, vampyre wolf < vampyrewolf@gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > Just wondering if anyone else has gone to (or at least tried) 7.10yet?
> > >
> > > Ran the beta on my laptop when it was released without a problem.
> > > However, went to install the public release last weekend and my laptop
> > > wouldn't even boot. Went back to 7.04, updated this weekend through
> > > "update-manager -d", and now my system freezes after about an hour or so and
> > > has to be rebooted. Managed to corrupt a file in my windows/system32 when I
> > > first tried the public release of 7.10, had been hoping to use it to
> > > repair that file (since if I reinstall xp pro I have to reinstall linux as
> > > well).
> > >
> > > Anyone have any idea WHY ubuntu 7.10 would be freezing my laptop on
> > > me? Have a feeling I'm just going to install debian 4.0 and say
> > > goodbye to ubuntu (and the windows dual boot).
> > >
> > > Running on a T30 (p4 2.0ghz, 1024mb PC4200 ram, 100gb HD, 16mb vid) if
> > > that makes any difference.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Patrick Haryett
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Rev. Kurtis "Kleedrac" Peterson
> > http://www.kleedrac.com/
> >
> > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
> > depends on the unreasonable man.
> > --George Bernard Shaw
>
>
>
>
> --
> Patrick Haryett
Received on Mon Oct 29 15:35:59 2007
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