Thank you Neil. On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:06 PM, NEIL <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes. You can use a Linux Live CD to do this or a USB flash drive. > You'd just need to make sure that you switch your BIOS to boot off of it. > > In addition to doing what they suggested, you could try to figure out > what is going wrong with the configuration and try to fix it, but it > could be more trouble than wiping it out and starting over. > > Neil > > > On 10/16/2015 2:46 PM, Genaro Hernandez wrote: > > Hi. I would appreciate it if someone could help me with my issue. It's my > > only laptop and I really need it for my schoolwork. > > > > *The issue* is that something went wrong with my Ubuntu 14.04 because at > > the GUI login, I enter my password, it looks like it accepts it, then it > > says something went wrong, and finally returns me to the login. > > > > *I tried to* login with the shell but my password is not accepted. > > > > *Someone suggested* I do this: > > > > "boot into a live cd/dvd/usb and you'll have a working ubuntu desktop. > use > > the file manager to mount the internal drive (it'll just be named by > size, > > like "60GB drive") and copy off what you need. then reinstall like > normal" > > > > Can someone tell me if that is good advice? If so, can you provide me > with > > more relevant information (e.g. links to any web pages/videos)? You can > let > > me know if I should just do some online searches myself. I did find this > > link on how to create a bootable usb stick on Ubuntu: > > http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu. > > > > Thank you for all of your help. > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
