Re: [Bug 275716] Re: Bug reported when booting & updates do not complete

2008-12-13 Thread John Marlo Grier, Cebu
Yes. Completely accurate. I was able to download it and it did ok. When I received a disk it was super. I placed it on two computers, a gateway laptop and a large fast pc. It refused to download on my small pc with small memory. A memory card will do just fine for it. Next week maybe!John On Fri,

Re: [Bug 275716] Re: Bug reported when booting & updates do not complete

2008-11-14 Thread John Marlo Grier, Cebu
IanW wrote: > Are you able to install Ubuntu 8.10? > > johnsr replied: I am awake now. To contradict my sleepy remarks previously, here is what has happened just now: Yes. Gateway not yet. My little XP SP2 internet computer not yet. But I have a quad XP SP2 machine with decent RAM (1 gig). I

Re: [Bug 275716] Re: Bug reported when booting & updates do not complete

2008-11-13 Thread John Marlo Grier, Cebu
IanW wrote: > Are you able to install Ubuntu 8.10? > > johnsr replied: No. Completely impossible to the best of my knowledge. I have downloaded the newest one. What I had no longer works at all due to a problem with XP. The XP problem has been cleared up. Now I can try to install the newer

Re: [Bug 275716] Re: Bug reported when booting & updates do not complete

2008-10-15 Thread John Marlo Grier, Cebu
Hello! Thanks for responding! Actually somebody reported in full what the problem was. I have a gateway laptop I am resurrecting that was sold to me using XP SP2. After 2 years I now use an exterior 17x19 flat monitor and usb mouse and usb keyboard. The problem I was attempting to describe wa