displaying and recovering a lost partition

2010-09-18 Thread Glenn Ervin
Hi, I am using Ubuntu 10.04. I am trying to repair my Vista laptop partition, and then I plan on making a dual-boot system. It will not boot, and I cannot access the recovery partition. Also, the display is broken on this laptop, which is why I acquired it. My son used to be able to read the

Installing Ubuntu 10.4 server edition with braille

2010-09-18 Thread Regina Reusser
Hi I want to install Ubuntu 10.4 server edition. After booting I choose braille terminal. My braille display starts but then shows screen not in text mode, even if I set the kernel parameter to vga = normal. It still starts searching the frame buffer after the config of the braille terminal.

Fwd: displaying and recovering a lost partition

2010-09-18 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Sorry this should have gone straight to the list. Forwarded message Glenn http://neosmart.net/downloads/miscellania/Windows%207%2032-bit%20Repair%20Disc.torrent I think that this Windows 7 recovery disc can be used to recover Vista also. Neosmart is a reputable site. But there is also

getting to the desktop

2010-09-18 Thread Glenn Ervin
Hi, I am running Ubuntu on several systems, but on the live CD, it is running on the system I wrote in about with the troubled partitions. Anyway, I am using Orca, and it's Ubuntu 10.04, and I have noticed that with this live CD, I cannot get back to the desktop when I use control + alt + tab