Karl Larsen wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Beartooth wrote:
Well I decided to do it myself and with some help, to wit, if you
can click on details do so. Here is what I did to this point.
I know the non-working Ubuntu is at (hd0,7). So I put the cd-rom in
and rebooted. It started the cd and Ubuntu came up in it's cd-rom
mode. It takes care of Nvidia very well!
So I then said to install. I watched close and when it wanted to
make a partition I said Manual. It showed me all the existing stuff
and there was (hd0,7) so I told it to formate and put it there.
Later it wanted a name which I gave it and password. Then below
that it had a tab saying "Details" so I clicked that. Up came a panel
saying it was going to install Grub in (hd0). I erased that and put in
(hd0,7) and it took off and loaded a bunch of stuff off the internet
and then wanted to reboot. Did that and here I am back on F8 without
doing a thing.
I will put in the F8 grub.conf a chainload for Umbutu and that will
be that. Get used again to apt-get ...
Karl
OK. I put in a device in my F8 grub.config that was exactly:
title Ubunto
root (hd0,7)
Chainloader +1
Now I can boot Ubuntu any time I care to. It takes care of the Nvidia
all by itself and I was able to apt-get install gmfsk and xlog which
takes care of my Ham Radio on the computer things and they work.
There are things which are odd but most are real nice. It needs updating
188 files so will do that when I turn off this computer around 7pm local
and let Ubuntu get up-to-date while I sleep.
Karl
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