I have an Asus G74S running Win7 Pro. If it matters, I have max ram at 16GB and plenty of hard drive space. When I bought the machine, I attempted to install dual boot Ubuntu 12.04. It did not go well, and no boot selector (grub) screen appeared when I tried to reboot.
This is a work machine, so I had to get it up and running. Decided that my install disc must have been bad, so I took a known good CD containing Ubuntu 10.10, installed it along side, and recovered a workable grub from that install.
I didn't mess around with Ubuntu for a while after that, but, at a later date installed 12.10 successfully.
Two weeks ago, while in 12.10, I received a message inviting me to update. I accepted only to be presented with a blank screen upon booting into Ubuntu. Well, it's not blank. The desktop appears displaying two folders, but there is nothing else, no unity bar, no other icons.
I tried some suggestions in terminal, but they did not solve the problem.
Now that 13.04 is out, what I'd really like to do is clean off all previous copies of Ubuntu, regain all that hard disc space, and install one clean copy of Ubuntu 13.04.
. . . except I am not certain just how to go about it, and I cannot risk fowling my Windows install.
Can someone suggest a step by step procedure?
I've booted into the live cd, gone so far in the install process as to look at the partitions and have marked them for deletion (all the Ubuntu paritions). But, I'm not certain what to do next, so I have not clicked the Continue button, have always opted to quite which reverts all my marked partitions back to their original state since I did not write them to disc (a procedure that is not reversible).
I know I cannot hold anyone responsible for whatever advice you give, but would appreciate hearing from someone with more than my casual experiencing with setting up Ubuntu in such a situation.
My Boot Loader (I'm guessing that's grub) is located on SDA_name of HD. So is my Ubuntu 10.04 from which I rescued the machine back when. If I delete that Ubuntu 10.04, will that destroy my grub?
If I delete all the Ubuntu partitions, do I then setup new ones and write the whole revised table to disc then proceed with the install?
Will the install write me a new grub?
All questions to which I have yet to find a clear answer.
Suggestions/advice most appreciated.
Caruso
This is a work machine, so I had to get it up and running. Decided that my install disc must have been bad, so I took a known good CD containing Ubuntu 10.10, installed it along side, and recovered a workable grub from that install.
I didn't mess around with Ubuntu for a while after that, but, at a later date installed 12.10 successfully.
Two weeks ago, while in 12.10, I received a message inviting me to update. I accepted only to be presented with a blank screen upon booting into Ubuntu. Well, it's not blank. The desktop appears displaying two folders, but there is nothing else, no unity bar, no other icons.
I tried some suggestions in terminal, but they did not solve the problem.
Now that 13.04 is out, what I'd really like to do is clean off all previous copies of Ubuntu, regain all that hard disc space, and install one clean copy of Ubuntu 13.04.
. . . except I am not certain just how to go about it, and I cannot risk fowling my Windows install.
Can someone suggest a step by step procedure?
I've booted into the live cd, gone so far in the install process as to look at the partitions and have marked them for deletion (all the Ubuntu paritions). But, I'm not certain what to do next, so I have not clicked the Continue button, have always opted to quite which reverts all my marked partitions back to their original state since I did not write them to disc (a procedure that is not reversible).
I know I cannot hold anyone responsible for whatever advice you give, but would appreciate hearing from someone with more than my casual experiencing with setting up Ubuntu in such a situation.
My Boot Loader (I'm guessing that's grub) is located on SDA_name of HD. So is my Ubuntu 10.04 from which I rescued the machine back when. If I delete that Ubuntu 10.04, will that destroy my grub?
If I delete all the Ubuntu partitions, do I then setup new ones and write the whole revised table to disc then proceed with the install?
Will the install write me a new grub?
All questions to which I have yet to find a clear answer.
Suggestions/advice most appreciated.
Caruso