On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 07:16 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 21:54 -0500, pjfjacks wrote: > > Just wish I'd taken better notes along the way...it pains me greatly. > > Everything but MIDI was working so well. Totally shameful as the XP system > > hums right along ...this isn't right at all.. > > > > Phil J. > > > > > > > > Eh, I've wiped out my systems a bunch of times, and it's always a lot > > faster to get your settings back the second time. > > phil, you are getting some very poor advice here, i am not sure why. > > system reinstalls are *NOT* the way to solve problems with linux. Hey, I only said a reinstall might be a good idea as Phil had installed Ubuntu (which worked perfectly AFAICT, except the MIDI thing which I think was a config error), then added a Demudi source to his sources.list which I don't think is supposed to work, and which really hosed things (lost the network). So he asked me if a Ubuntu reinstall is the best way to go from here and I said probably. Obviously don't reinstall if you have data you care about! Maybe this was poor advice. However when I was a new Linux user and really hosed things I often found a reinstall was teh quickest and easiest way to get back to square one. I'd actually be quite impressed by any newb who could install a Debian based system correctly the first time. Lee
