Both of the wget commands return:


Connecting to fr.archive.ubuntu.com|88.191.250.131|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found

Instead of this you can do:

...

In your case it's not necessary to install lilo. Since ubuntu 8.10 is already installed on your HD and supposing you're using common partitions, you can just define in menu.lst of GRUB to point to...

well... Not all Intel HDA are the same.
On my M912 it is ALC269 audio chip - works just fine after tuning volume levels...

Yes. In Konsole type alsamixer and rise the volume ;)
Works flawlessly.