On 05/05/10 15:33, Alan Pope wrote: > On 5 May 2010 15:18, John Stevenson<j...@jr0cket.com> wrote: > >> If you boot of an Ubuntu live CD or USB stick, then you can mount the hard >> drive partition you have your root ( / ) partition on and change the path >> that is your root from the live partition to your hard drive partion using >> chroot. You could then try to continue the install (optionally uninstalling >> wine first). >> >> > Given John is clearly not an advanced user, if you're going to suggest > using tools like chroot, I'd suggest providing a step-by-step guide to > doing it. Handing someone a CD and "use chroot" isn't really going to > be useful to most people. > > I'm thinking tonight I might record a screencast about how to do this > because it gets asked for quite a bit. > > >> Seeing your new comments though, I would advise against doing this yourself >> as you could break your system. >> >> > *boggle* > > Al. > >
BTW, I have to go out, will be back in a couple of hours, sorry about that. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
