Grub Problem

I let a student use one of the lab machines to play with virtualbox, and then it stopped working with a grub error. So, I booted up with PuppyLinux and then try to rerun grub-install. It failed though and I think wiped out a bunch of files on the disk. It is unclear why, but about 1 Gig out of 8 is missing after I rebooted. Since it is close to the release of 9.10, I'm going to wait and try installing that to see if there are performance differences, but I wanted to make a note of this strange behavior.

networking device

ifconfig -a helped

need to check /etc/iftab, but another class is coming in

networking device

imaging problems

I tried reverting one of the machines to an earlier version, but it did not go well, which was strange. I tried to install the 6.06 version of Ubuntu that I had originally installed. It was having all sorts of problems though.

Later when I tried to copy another image back over to put it back to 8.04 for some reason the networking did not work. I checked the configuration a bit but it did not recognize the device at all. So, I'm trying to copy it back again. If not, then I might reinstall from a disk and then sync it up using dpkg --get/set selections.