Upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04, and loving it

So for the past 2 weeks, I've been trying to get my Ubuntu figured out. The story goes something like this: I had ubuntu 8.10 fully functional on my Leneovo y330 laptop, when suddenly I was welcomed by a black screen just before login. I tried to do whatever I could, short of pulling my hair out, to make things right, but it was adamant not to run on my machine. I posted I dont know how many posts on linuxquestions.org and ubuntuforums.com, but still, nobody had any clue how to make it right. I ended up learning a lot about linux along the way, as well as about my graphics card. Today I came back to IITK. I was adamant on getting my graphical mode back. I thought all that it needed was a quick upgrade of about 330mb. How very wrong I was. I couldn't even set the network settings in the text mode. Seriously man, text mode sucks.

I had given up hope when my friend, Shivam told me about a thing called wubi. It made installing ubuntu so much easier. As I had already backed up my ubuntu data, I decided to go ahead with it. But the gods were still against me. I tried installing 8.10, but there was something wrong with the wubi. At first, I thought wubi was the same for all ubuntu versions. But actually, for every ubuntu version , there's a different wubi. I spent around half an hour trying to install 8.10 using a wubi of 9.04. After that, I downloaded the wubi of 8.10, but it still wont work. Meanwhile, the wubi of 9.04 was showing some network problems, so it wont download 9.04! Bloody ass.



I took one last shot. I tried downloading ubuntu 9.04. I had been putting this off as it was not available on dc, which meant a long and lengthy download. I fell asleep during the download( having given up all hope). When i woke up, I decided to give it a shot, and guess what! It actually DIDNT try to download 9.04 and worked with the current version! What a relief! Finally I had my ubuntu back!