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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Ubuntu 10.10 Finally works on my Latitude

After I got home today, and after a considerable time spent cooling down, my C640 finally decided to install Ubuntu Maverick without a hitch.  Well, okay, there was one hitch: After it finished I selected restart, and it hung at this purple page for about 6 minutes.  I finally decided to just do a hard reset.

Yes, it actually works.  I booted in and reset the roo password so I could do some serious moding.  For those of you that don't know how to change the root password:

sudo passwd root

Exactly like that, and yes, I know password is spelled wrong, that's what it requires for some reason.  This will thn prompt you to enter your password, followed by the desired root password, and a confirmation of the latter.

All in all, I am glad to get this OS up and running again, it's a decent build, and offers a lot of great UI choices.

Adios!

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