Arse. Ubuntu Linux, dodgy installs and Windoze

[matgb]

Right, paulatpingu persuaded me to finally install Ubuntu. It's nice and shiny. Unfortunately, it corrupted my windows install, and won't make a dial up connection.

So that's a formatted hard drive and another start again. Fortunately my data partition remains, so I've got all my stuff. Unfortunately, bookmarksbackup was backing up into the wrong folder, so my last bookmarks are from October. I just spent ages sorting them all out as well. Feck.

If anyone out there knows how to tell a Linux distro, specifically Ubuntu 5.10, how to connect via my USB modem, greatfully received. In the meantime, I'm going on a trawl to get my favoured sites back. Oh, um, wait, I've been linking to most of them anyway. Just the webcomics then...

Oh, last two days, I've been getting a 'busy' tone a bit too often when I try to dial, so I may be forced offline at times :-(

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[dainul.livejournal.com]

Just having a chat with Steve here, as he mentionned that he has Ubuntu and Windoze dual boot on his PC, laptop and so forth, and apparently there was a problem with an older kernel whereby it would screw up access to the windows installation unless you gave it a couple of commands when installing. He doesn't think it should apply to 5.10, though, and suggests a quick trip to the forums to see what people have been discussing.

Not a great deal of help, I know.

[dainul.livejournal.com]

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html

probably not your problem.