Comment 83 for bug 249340

Well, as a linux newb, im just confused. Ive only used windows, up until a few months ago.
I've only recently had the time/patience to try and upgrade to v8.04. Needless to say, it froze on "generating locales". As this is my only pc, and the filesystem was corrupt, i could do nothing except format and re-install 7.03 from disc, then upgrade to 7.10. In total i spent 12 hours achieving absolutely nothing, except losing all my media files.
I do want to stick with ubuntu, but im disheartened with it now.

Please help a lil newb like me, before i jump off the bridge, and back onto windows.

Does that workround permenantly solve the problem of, and install, v8.04?

Also, could i just boot kernel 14 and upgrade with the update manager?