[Novalug] Last question before re-installing Lucid

cmhowe@patriot.net cmhowe@patriot.net
Thu Jun 3 23:06:55 EDT 2010


> Does booting from the live CD connect to the Internet okay? If not, then
> the
> trouble is not with the install...
Kevin,

I recalled that I would be offered the choice of doing a live DVD session
or an install. In other words, I could go either way. So I was off to the
races. Here is the result.

I was successful the first time in connecting to the internet. That tells
me to install and, barring something like you, Kevin, telling me to go
ahead, I will do so tomorrow.

With trepidation. The monitor, an hp 6009m, is giving me problems that I
have had before. The picture is slightly larger than the screen surface.
No matter what I try, I am unable to make controls along the bottom of the
screen set things right. I can improve the overall appearance by fiddling
with them, but nothing like what Scott Wells (name may be wrong) was able
to do at the installfest in DC at the Sunlight Foundation.

The other problem is that I haven't mentally consolidated how to connect.
I did so the first time I tried, after much futzing, but was unable to
repeat the process the second time. So expect a lot of questions over the
next few days.

Charlie

>
> On Jun 1, 2010 12:54 AM, <cmhowe@patriot.net> wrote:
>
> List,
>
> Thanks to answers by Nino, Greg and Kevin, I think I am ready to
> re-install. Her is my final question.
>
> What do I do to be sure it ignores what makes it the mess that it is? As I
> said, the main thing that goes wrong is that it doesn't behave as it
> should when it connecxts to the internet. Specifically: When I boot but
> don't connect, I get wallpaper. Fine. When I tell it to connect, i.e.,
> open Firefox and show me Slashdot, it takes its time and maybe won't
> connect at all. Same for my other sites. Nobody has volunteered a
> diagnosis (no surprise; I didn't expect anyone to try), so reinstall.
>
> Presumably when I boot with a Lucid DVD in the DVD/CD-ROM drive, the
> installation process sees partitions it is ok with. Will it say to itself,
> ignore what is in all of them; I'm going to install what I please? I think
> I could force it to install everything new by changing a partition size?
> Is that what I should do?
>
> The following ought to work. If things get screwed up, I could buy a new
> hard disk and install on that. I could wipe the one I have clean and do
> what? If I put it in an external case that connects using USB 3.0, the
> connection would be fast enough? Would that be feasible?
>
> Comments welcome, but I don't expect any.
>
> Charlie the Perpetual Newbie
>
>
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