Comments on: Keystroke guide to a factory reinstall

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:23:52 +0000

looks great, well done!

By: linuxyeti

linuxyeti — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:20:50 +0000

Hi Alan

Ignore that last post, sussed it out. Well, hopefully it’s not too bad for my first article.

Cheers

By: linuxyeti

linuxyeti — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:45:47 +0000

Hi Alan

Not being overly familiar with wordpress, I can’t seem to find an option to create new blog entries/articles

Cheers

Tony

By: linuxyeti

linuxyeti — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:08:10 +0000

Hi Alan

Ok, thanks for that, I’ll have a go at creating it as a main topic.

I might try and add a couple of screenshots as well, so it may be a little later today.

Cheers

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:32:16 +0000

ok, you are now an author , which I think means you can post blog items and publish them yourself. Let me know if you get stuck.

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:28:05 +0000

not gone, just waiting moderation because it included a link. Should be there now. Tell you what, now you have registered I will upgrade you and you can repost the instructions as a main topic.

By: linuxyeti

linuxyeti — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:48:57 +0000

I put some note down on installing OpenOffice3, and they’ve gone??

Cheers

By: James

James — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:34:46 +0000

I have just re-installed Ubuntu 8.10 on a new 250G Hitachi (PC World brown box) using the advise and replies in this thread.
Many thanks all.
I used the “Safe Graphics” method.
On the way – because the OEM method did not work I suspected my USB DVD device may have been faulty so tried successfully to install Debian but had some problems with the display due to incompetence. Similarly with SUSE.

I think I will stick with this far a while now.
I have Ubuntu 8.10 on a desktop as well btw.

James

By: mike robertson

mike robertson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:41:13 +0000

mike@ubuntu:~$ wget http://webbookblog.com/buildscript.sh
–2008-12-10 22:38:26– http://webbookblog.com/buildscript.sh
Resolving webbookblog.com… 84.12.94.124
Connecting to webbookblog.com|84.12.94.124|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 3741 (3.7K) [text/x-sh]
Saving to: `buildscript.sh.3′

100%[======================================>] 3,741 –.-K/s in 0.09s

2008-12-10 22:38:27 (42.2 KB/s) – `buildscript.sh.3′ saved [3741/3741]

mike@ubuntu:~$ chmod +x buildscript.sh
mike@ubuntu:~$ sudo ./buildscript.sh
[sudo] password for mike:
This program will update the Webbook’s software to contain
the Elonex branding, 3G dialler and other additional software
packages. You will need to enter your password for this update to
to be successful. Please type “yes” to continue or “no” to
cancel this operation.
yes
Thank you. Your Webbook will now be updated.
# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wellington-team/ubuntu hardy main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wellington-team/ubuntu hardy main is already in /etc/apt/sources.list, moving on…
Updating the Software Repository’s Database …
lsof: WARNING: can’t stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/mike/.gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
Reading package lists… Done
Database updated successfully.
Installing new packages …
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package elonex-config
The install has failed. Exit Code: 100
looks like something went wrong, you could try running the script again, or post a comment describing the problem at webbookblog.com
mike@ubuntu:~$

By: mike robertson

mike robertson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:25:24 +0000

hi got a webbook xp ive put Ubuntu 8.10 try to do the wget bit at the top of this page and i get E: couldnt find package elonex-config
the install has failde .Exit code 100

any ideas please
mike robertson