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Re: help computer not starting with ubuntu

#1040
From: gary
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:50
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Unruh wrote:
> gary <glralph@tpg.com.au> writes:
> 
>> Hi all I went  to use my computer and it was playing up so i restarted 
>> it and a heap of text comes up and it says to hit control D to  exit and 
>> restart it when i do this it just repeats the same it is very frustrating!
>> I am now using the live session disc and am concerned i will loose all 
>> my stuff that had been saved anyone know a simple way of sorting this 
>> out as I am not a computer expert like some  however I can steer a 
>> truck. The  wife will kill me if her stuff goes to god!
> 
>> Perhaps Ubuntu is to hi tech for a low tech truckie
> 
> Nope, but if you phoned in to the garage to have your truck fixed, would
> you describe the problem in as infinitessimal degree as you have here?

what does infnitessimal mean? I drive a Volvo B12R and if the on board 
display comes up with a heap of text that I don,t understand I can ring 
Volvo (so who do I ring When Ubuntu goes belly up?if you know someone I 
would be to happy to ring them ) Volvo can help me over the phone or 
come out to me failing that i can reset the electrics to limp mode a bit 
like using the live disk so I can get to a work shop
> 
> That "heap of text" is there to provide information. We cannot help without
> some of that information.
will endeavor to get that for you
> By the way, who installed Ubuntu for you? 
>
I did is there a place i can go and get it done in Brisbane?
> Note-- you did remember to make backups didn't you?
whats a hard disk ?I am only a truck driver how do you make back ups 
this thing ain,t got a reverse gear on it? or has it?
> 
> (And yes, I do believe this is a troll.)
not a troll although I am not sure what a troll is  just a illiterate 
doing there best to get there computer sorted and I would appreciate any 
help from you kind people with more knowledge than i have as far as 
computer stuff goes

once again Thanks all
> 
> 
> 
>> Thanks in advance once again Gary
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