Stupid Newbie Disaster

[John W Redelfs]

I didn't realize that I must still be a newbie until last night when I
totally screwed up.  I was trying to install nVidia drivers for my
dual boot system, when my machine seemed to hang during the shutdown of
X-windows.  Instead of waiting a bit longer, like an idiot I did a
Clt-Alt-Delete, and that started a warm reboot.  But now my
X-windows seems to be damaged, and I can't get back onto Breezy
Badger's desktop.  Working from the command line outside of
X-windows, nothing works to get X-windows running again.  As a
last resort, I tried using my new Breezy Badger install disc made from
the ISO I downloaded a few nights ago with the intentions of doing a
reinstall and starting all over again.  But the install won't boot
from the CD anymore, and I keep getting grub back in my face instead of
the install program.  Now what in tarnation should I do?  I
suppose I could apt-get a new X-windows if I wasn't so ignorant about
apt-get and the Debian stuff.  But I don't even know how to do
that.  What is wrong with my Breezy Badger install disk?  I
know my BIOS is set up to boot first from the CD-ROM, secondly from my
floppy drive, and only last of all from the hard drive which is where
my grub is set up in the Master Boot Record.  I had an easier time
installing my first Red Hat installation back in 1995 when I had to set
up my partitions using fdisk without a partitioning program. 
Ubuntu is proving to be a much bigger problem to set up than I imagined
it would be.  The Live CD worked so nicely.  It seems to me
that there needs to be a lot of work done on making video drivers
install more easily with the initial installation or at least
afterwards.  I never had any of these problems setting up my new
Windows XP with the appropriate nVidia drivers.

Sorry for the blast.  I'm just frustrated and feeling stupid.  Back to the newbie forum I guess.

-- 
Your friend and brother,
John W. Redelfs, jredelfs@xxxxxxxxx

-- 
ubuntu-users mailing list
ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users