see I always screw up....

[Lyecdevf]

btw my Irc wont work for some reason.

Yeah, neither did it work for me while I was using Ubuntu. If you ask me it has to be one of the worst distros.

[JuggaloMushroom]

btw my Irc wont work for some reason.

Yeah, neither did it work for me while I was using Ubuntu. If you ask me it has to be one of the worst distros.

nice gif lol sauce? lol just kidding

[Big-E]

umm use xchat.

[JuggaloMushroom]

alright give me a sec to get it

[JuggaloMushroom]

this is fine and dandy I am having problems installing that too lol

[Lyecdevf]

You can install it via the Synaptic thingy. Still I never managed to add any IRC channels to it for what ever reason.

[JuggaloMushroom]

You can install it via the Synaptic thingy. Still I never managed to add any IRC channels to it for what ever reason.

it keeps saying it's not installable it might be cause I don't have the disc in lol
EDIT: nope that's not it

[Big-E]

You need to enable the repositories.

[JuggaloMushroom]

You need to enable the repositories.

DOH!

[bad_brain]

first thing to do when you have enabled the repositories is to get all updates, this might already fix some problems.
I am mostly working in a shell, so I use apt-get directly...
to update the list of available packages in the repositories:

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apt-get update

to update the system:

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apt-get upgrade

if packages make version steps (from 1.x to 2.x for example) it can happen the updates are held back, you see something like "5 packages not updated" then...in this case:

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apt-get dist-upgrade

[JuggaloMushroom]

first thing to do when you have enabled the repositories is to get all updates, this might already fix some problems.
I am mostly working in a shell, so I use apt-get directly...
to update the list of available packages in the repositories:

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apt-get update

to update the system:

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apt-get upgrade

if packages make version steps (from 1.x to 2.x for example) it can happen the updates are held back, you see something like "5 packages not updated" then...in this case:

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apt-get dist-upgrade

nope still at it,nothing that I've tried has worked yet

[bad_brain]

um, what you mean? is the updating process working or is it asking for the CD/DVD? best open a shell (as root user) and:

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cd /
cat etc/apt/sources.list

this displays the content of the sources.list files, that's where the repositories are set.
post the output here so we can see if it is set properly...

[JuggaloMushroom]

um, what you mean? is the updating process working or is it asking for the CD/DVD? best open a shell (as root user) and:

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cd /
cat etc/apt/sources.list

this displays the content of the sources.list files, that's where the repositories are set.
post the output here so we can see if it is set properly...

deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016)]/ gutsy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe multiverse main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe main multiverse restricted #Added by software-properties
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse

[Big-E]

I believe you will need to remove the '#' from the following lines:
Link THIS:

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted


I believe that the drivers you are looking for would be in the restricted repositories as they are proprietary drivers.

[isapiens]

what u mean you cant get xp back? Do you still have it on your hard drive as a partition? if yes then its just a boot loader problem.
IF thats the problem, suck-o had an ultimate boot disk (or smth like that) in the download section. It has bunch of boot loaders and one of them wil work for at least windows.

PS[ i have not read 5 pages of crazy posts so deal with me ]