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[Tom <question76099@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #76099 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/76099

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Now use "sudo gedit" to edit the menu.lst and change this part

"
howmany=2
color cyan/blue white/blue

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda5
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,5)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

## ## End Default Options ##
howmany=2
colour cyan/blue white/blue
title Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic root=UUID=232d9e4c-48f8-474d-83c5-a559530a9679 ro quiet splash access=v3
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic
quiet
"

and edit that until you end up with this

"
howmany=2
color cyan/blue white/blue

## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic root=UUID=232d9e4c-48f8-474d-83c5-a559530a9679 ro quiet splash access=v3
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic
quiet
"

This time you should notice that you don't get the machine complaining about the sudo command with a "unresolved host" error.  Hopefully ;)
Godo luck from
Tom :)

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